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HP Garage — The house and garage at 367 Addison Avenue where David Packard and Bill Hewlett set up shop in 1938: California Historical Landmark No. 976, on the National Register of Historic Places since 2007. It can be seen from the sidewalk, not toured. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Bryant Street Bicycle Boulevard — The city says Bryant Street was the first bicycle boulevard in the United States; it is named for former vice-mayor and bike advocate Ellen Fletcher. Source: paloalto.gov
Stanford Shopping Center — An open-air shopping center on Stanford University land, in the city of Palo Alto. Its first store opened in September 1955 and it was completed in 1956. Source: en.wikipedia.org
Baylands Nature Interpretive Center — A city nature center at 2775 Embarcadero Road with a boardwalk over the salt marsh. Weekends. Source: paloalto.gov
Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo — A science museum and small zoo at 1451 Middlefield Road with more than 60 species. Tuesday to Sunday. Source: paloaltozoo.org
Coupa Cafe, Ramona Street — Nancy Coupal opened the Venezuelan-style cafe at 538 Ramona Street in 2004; it marked its 20th anniversary in March 2024. Source: mv-voice.com
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Town promotion booklet, about 1903 · Palo Alto: The Town of Leland Stanford Junior University · 1903
PALO ALTO, the town of Stanford University, is the one spot in California that no visitor can afford to miss seeing.
Source ↗Palo Alto Board of Trade
Town promotion booklet, about 1903 · Palo Alto: The Town of Leland Stanford Junior University · 1903
The name of the town is derived from the lone redwood tree, the “Palo Alto” (high tree) that stands near the town.
Source ↗O. L. Elliott and O. V. Eaton
Authors of Stanford University and Thereabouts, 1896, on cycling around Palo Alto · Stanford University and Thereabouts · 1896
The whole region is the paradise of wheelmen.
Source ↗Eugene T. Sawyer
Author of the 1922 History of Santa Clara County · History of Santa Clara County, California · 1922
Palo Alto, nineteen miles northwest of San Jose, is a city of homes.
Source ↗David Starr Jordan
First president of Stanford University, recalling 1891 in The Days of a Man (1922) · The Days of a Man, Volume 1 · 1922
When we came, a great wheatfield stretched away to the north, with only a little farmhouse and an old barn in sight.
Source ↗The Mayfield News
Mayfield’s newspaper, writing its own obituary after the 1925 vote to join Palo Alto (as quoted by Wikipedia) · Mayfield, California · 1925
We have watched Mayfield grow from a small hamlet, when Palo Alto was nothing more than a hayfield, to her present size
Source ↗Fray Pedro Font
Spanish diarist, as quoted by Matt Bowling on paloaltohistory.org · El Palo Alto: Rooted in History
I beheld in the distance a tree of immense stature rising above the plain of oaks like a grand tower
Source ↗California State Department of Parks and Recreation
California Historical Landmark No. 976 plaque at 367 Addison Avenue · California Historical Landmark #976: Birthplace of Silicon Valley · 1989
This garage is the birthplace of the world’s first high-technology region, “Silicon Valley.”
Source ↗Frederick Terman
Stanford engineering dean, as quoted by Matt Bowling on paloaltohistory.org · Stanford Research Park: The Engine of Silicon Valley
When we set out to create a community of technical scholars in Silicon Valley, there wasn’t much here, and the rest of the world looked awfully big. Now a lot of the rest of the world is here.
Source ↗Birge Clark
Palo Alto architect, as quoted by Matt Bowling on paloaltohistory.org · Birge Clark: Palo Alto’s In-House Designer
You know they say a doctor buries his mistakes, and a lawyer’s mistakes go to prison. All an architect has to do to avoid his mistakes is drive around the block.
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