Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/102
Appearance
1913
![Hearst Castle detail, with faience tiles from California Faience](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Hearst_Castle_Casa_Grande.jpg/70px-Hearst_Castle_Casa_Grande.jpg)
- Chauncey Thomas opens The Tile Shop on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley to make and sell faience tiles (Hearst Castle tower, decorated with tiles from California Faience, pictured)
- Dewing Park in Contra Costa County is renamed Saranap after the local inter-urban commuter rail system developer's mother, Sara Napthaly
- John Swett, former Superintendent of the San Francisco Public Schools, and "Father of the California public school", dies