Rinconada & Old Palo Alto
Around Rinconada Park and the quiet streets of Old Palo Alto are some of the city’s best-loved public places: the Palo Alto Art Center, the Junior Museum and Zoo, and the Gamble Garden on Waverley Street.
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The Palo Alto Art Center, at 1313 Newell Road beside Rinconada Park, opened in 1971 in the 1953 building that had been the city hall. It offers free exhibitions and classes for all ages. (Wikipedia)
The Junior Museum and Zoo was founded in 1934 by Josephine O’Hara in the basement of an elementary school. Rebuilt at Rinconada Park for $33 million, it reopened on November 12, 2021, with more than 50 animal species. (Wikipedia, City of Palo Alto)
Elizabeth Gamble lived all her life in her family’s house at 1431 Waverley Street and left it and its gardens to the city in 1981. Since 1985 it has been a public garden, free and open every day. (Gamble Garden)
Each autumn the Art Center lawn fills with more than 10,000 handmade glass pumpkins for the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch. (City of Palo Alto)
Palo Alto magic: Redwoods, oak hills and a town by the bay
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