Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/PKGT541JDC1.DTL&type=art

On January 4, 2004 The San Francisco Chronicle published a timeline of Buddhist influence in San Francisco. The timeline highlights events such as the opening of the first Buddhist temple in San Francisco Chinatown in 1853 and Jack Kerouac's 1954 discovery of Dwight Goddard's "A Buddhist Bible" in the San Jose Library.