NASA Ames. Tour of NASA's wind tunnels. NASA Ames. Silicon Valley places that Paul Graham didn’t cover. Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, covered a bunch of places to “see Silicon Valley.”
Good start, but he missed a bunch of places. Here’s my list: 1. IBM’s New Almaden research lab. This is where the hard drive was invented. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Anyway, thanks to Paul for getting me to list a few of my favorite places to take out-of-town friends who visit the area. What about you, do you have a favorite place to show off to new visitors? Peralta Adobe. The History of San Jose, California San Jose, CA, is a very old city, founded in 1777.
Before white people came to this area, the Ohlone (Oh LONE ee) Indians lived here, along the Guadalupe (gwad uh LOOP ay) River. They were peaceful Indians who lived in huts made from grasses. Peralta adobe. Almaden Quicksilver County Park. Almaden Quicksilver county park. Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corporation. 6450 Via Del Oro San Jose, CA. Mount Umunhum. Mount Umunhum (Ohlone, meaning resting place of the hummingbird)[3] is the fourth-highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California (after Loma Prieta, Crystal Peak, and Mt.
Chual). The mountain is situated in Santa Clara County, southeast of Los Gatos and south of South San Jose. The peak is sometimes referred to as "Mount Um" by locals.[4] It is a well-known landmark in the bay area which can be recognized in Santa Clara Valley by the five-story concrete radar tower building, known locally as "the cube"[5] or "the box", that sits atop the summit. The tower construction began in 1960 and completed in 1962. It supported an 85.5-ton General Electric model AN/FPS-24 long range search radar antenna "sail" used to detect incoming hostile aircraft during the Cold War. Mount Umunhum is dusted with snow a few times a year. The summit is closed to the public due to hazardous materials and unsafe partially demolished structures of the former Air Force station.[7] References[edit]
Mount Umunhum. Winchester Mystery House™ in San Jose, California, Winchester house. SmugMugs. A fun afternoon with SmugMug's founders. Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Lomita Drive at Museum Way Stanford, CA 94305-5060. Intel Museum. 2200 Mission College Boulevard Santa Clara. The Company Store. 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014. Buck's of Woodside. Buck's is the Earthlinked mother ship for the New Jerusalem.
Years ago there were some religious people and some religious denominations who were very upset with NASA, the space program. They decided that the space program must be a sham because the Apollo astronauts circled the moon and then landed on it but did not report that they had found the New Jerusalem. Since we can never see the backside of the moon from earth, they were sure that was the location of the New Jerusalem. These denominations were so fundamental in their word for word literal interpretation of the Bible that they were convinced that the New Jerusalem had to be up there in the sky somewhere waiting to come down and the Moon is the logical place. So if you walk into Buck's it is just a cheap ticket to paradise.
Silicon Valley's power lunch place: Bucks. 3062 Woodside Road Woodside, CA 94062. History: HP's Garage. 367 Addison Avenue palo alto. Classic ScobleShow » Blog Archive » Visiting “Birthplace of Silicon Valley:” HP Garage during BarCampBlock. <p>Your browser does not support JavaScript.
This media can be viewed at <a href=" I’ve lived in Silicon Valley most of my life and, while I’ve been to the HP Garage several times, I’ve never gotten to actually visit it. HP was gracious enough to open the garage for me and a few of my friends who have added me as a Facebook friend and we visit the garage where Anna Mancini, HP’s Corporate Archivist, gives us a talk about the role this little garage played in the tech industry’s development.
The South Bay Historical Railroad Society. The South Bay Historical Railroad Society (SBHRS) was incorporated in 1985 to preserve the local area railroad heritage while running a working museum to benefit the community.
Our members are volunteers and work on the renovation and preservation of the Santa Clara Railroad Depot, the Santa Clara Tower and the two maintenance-of-way buildings. A large and varied collection of historic railroad artifacts are on display in the Edward Peterman Museum of Railroad History located in the Depot. This now includes the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation business car #184 which was loaned to us and placed on our siding on June 26, 2009.
Within the Depot are two operational HO and N scale model railroad layout displays depicting various railroad eras and operations venues. Constant work by our members on these layouts provide an ever changing panorama, giving our visitors and members a better understanding of the different aspects of model railroading. Sbhrs, santa clara, ca - Google Maps. Santa Clara Interlocking Tower. PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) Xerox PARC. IBM Research. IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, "Innovative Places" Silicon Valley.