A Historical Tour of Silicon Valley - Slide ShowFor an archeology of the high-tech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area(or, better, a tour of organizations that contributed to the high-tech industry of the Bay Area) An appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley" World News | Politics | History | Editor | Correspondence (Copyright © 2009 Piero Scaruffi) |
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See this page for the full collection of Silicon Valley pictures.
If you would like to donate historical pictures, contact me. The pictures below were mostly taken in 2010 and therefore do not reflect how the buildings originally looked like. Map of the Bay Area SIlicon Valley
Berkeley's South Hall, the oldest extant building on campus (1873) Stanford's building 50, where the Physics Dept was (1891), next to the Memorial Church in the "quadrangle" Alpine Inn, one of the few surviving buildings of the era when Stanford was built: 3915 Alpine Rd & Arastradero, Portola Valley, CA 94028 Stanford's "Engineering Corner", where Fred Terman used to work (1902) The current tower is certainly a lot taller than the original building, but this is the site where in 1909 Charles Herrold established the first radio broadcasting station in the world: Fairmont Tower, 50 W. San Fernando St & First St, San Jose The site of the laboratory and factory of Federal Telegraph Company (1911), where Lee de Forest worked: 913 Emerson St & Channing Ave, Palo Alto Philo Farnsworth's laboratory (1927), where television was invented: 202 Green Street & Sansome, San Francisco Fisher Research Laboratories (1931) was based in this house: 1505 Byron St, Palo Alto Hewlett-Packard's garage (1937), where William Hewlett and David Packard started their business: 367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto U.C. Berkeley campus and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab The location of Hewlett-Packard's first building (1942): 395 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto Ampex's original building (1944): 1313 Laurel St., San Carlos The street where Varian (1948) was started: Washington St, Sam Carlos IBM's Western Lab (1952), where the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) was built: 99 Notre Dame Street, San Jose Shockley's Laboratory (1956): 391 San Antonio Road, Mountain View IBM Almaden Research Center (1986): 650 Harry Rd, San Jose NASA Ames (1958): Moffett Blvd./NASA Parkway, Mountain View Fairchild (1959), the site where Robert Noyce and others co-invented the integrated circuit: 844 E Charleston Rd, Palo Alto The building that became the corporate headquarters when HP moved to the Stanford Industrial Park (1960) and then HP Labs (1966): 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto The Palo Alto Research Laboratories of Lockheed Missiles & Space Company (LMSC): 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto The area where the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) used to be, now Portola Pastures: 1600 Arastradero Road, Portola Valley The building where Intel started (1968): 365 East Middlefield Road & Whisman, Mountain View The Intel 4004 (Intel Museum) The building where Alza was founded (1968) and where Teknowledge was located (1982): 525 University Avenue, Palo Alto Stanford Research Institute (1969): 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA Alfred Peet's first coffee shop on the corner of Walnut and Vine Streets in Berkeley Venture capital's headquarters in Menlo Park (1969): 3000 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, where Genentech's first office (1975) was located and where countless start-ups were funded: 2750 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park Xerox PARC (1970): 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto Four Phase Systems started out in a former dentist's office (1969): 991 Commercial St, Palo Alto Four Phase Systems' first offices (1970): 10420 North Tantau Drive, Cupertino The location of Alza's first building, now Sonsini's office (1971): 950 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto The building where Atari started (1972): 2962 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara Olivetti Advanced Technology Centers (1972), one of the first outposts of European manufacturers: 10430 DeAnza Blvd, Cupertino Byte Shop (1975), the first computer store that sold the first Apple I: 1063 West El Camino Real, Mountain View (courtesy Paul Terrell)
The auditorium of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Lab, where the Homebrew Club used to meet (1975): 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park William Millard's Computer Shack store (1976), the beginning of retail chain Computerland: 22634 Foothill Blvd, Hayward Steve Jobs' garage where Apple was started (1976): 2066 Crist Dr, Los Altos Apple's first office (1976): 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino The former location of Four Phase (10700 N. De Anza Boulevard, Cupertino), now Apple's Infinite Loop: DeAnza Blvd and 280 freeway, Cupertino Genentech, the wall where building 1 used to stand (1976): 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco Evans Hall in the Berkeley campus, where Bill Joy invented "vi" and assembled the BSD (1976) The Omex/Precision Instruments building where Oracle started out as Software Development Laboratories (1977): 2323 Owen Street, Santa Clara Xerox Alto (Computer History Museum) The original building of 3Com (1979): 5403 Betsy Ross Dr, Santa Clara IBM PC of 1981 (Computer History Museum) Applied Biosystems (1981): 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City SUN's first building (1982): 2310 Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara The first Symantec building (1982): 306 Potrero, Sunnyvale Cisco's first building (1984): 1525 O'Brien Dr, Menlo Park The twin buildings of Synoptics (1984): 4401 Great America Parkway & Mission College, Santa Clara Oracle's campus (1989): 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores Google's founding place (1998): 232 Santa Margarita, Menlo Park Google's first offices (1998), later Confinity/Paypal's second office (2000), and formerly Logitech's office: 165 University Avenue, Palo Alto Affymetrix (1992): 3420 Central Expressway, Santa Clara Vmware's "garage" (1998): 2 Coleman Place, Menlo Park Excite's garage (1994): 3958 Sutherland Drive, Palo Alto The first Netscape offices were inside this HP campus (1995): 466 Ellis Street, Mountain View. Fry's Electronics, the first electronic superstore: 1177 Kern Ave, Sunnyvale The first Netscape building (1995): 501 E. Middlefield Rd. Mountain View The first Yahoo building (1995): 3400 Central Expressway. Santa Clara Yahoo's early screenshot Yahoo's campus: 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale Craigslist (1995): 1381 9th Ave, San Francisco The first Hotmail buildings (1996): 1290 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale Netflix (1997): 5617 Scotts Valley Drive, Suite 140, Scotts Valley Scaruffi.com's screenshot of late 1990s Google's early screenshot Google's campus, formerly Silicon Graphics campus (1981): 2400 Bayshore Parkway, Mountain View SUN's headquarters (1997) in the western campus of the Agnews Development Center: end of Palm Drive, Santa Clara eBay (1998): 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose Confinity/Paypal's first office (2000): 349 University Avenue, Palo Alto Joint Genome Institute: 2800 Mitchell Drive Walnut Creek Bloom Energy (2001): 1252 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale Wikipedia's screenshot (2010) Codexis (2002); 200 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City Glam Media (2003); 8000 Marina Blvd, Brisbane Tesla (2003): 3500 Deer Creek, Palo Alto A Tesla model Khosla Ventures (2004): 3000 Sand Hill Road, Building 3, Suite 190, Menlo Park - next door to the suite where Relational Software, later renamed Oracle, was located (1981): Suite 180 Amazon's Lab 126 (2004): 20450 Stevens Creek Blvd & DeAnza, Cupertino Facebook's original building (2004): 156 University Ave, Palo Alto Facebook's first webpage House where Zuckerberg lived in Palo Alto Facebook's screenshot Solyndra (2005): 47700 Kato Road, Fremont Letterman Digital Arts Center (2005) in the Presidio YouTube (2005): 71 E 3rd Ave, Second Floor, San Mateo Y Combinator (2005): 320 Pioneer Way, Mountain View FORTHCOMING Complete Genomics (2006): 2071 Stierlin Court, Mountain View Twitter (2006): 795 Folsom, San Francisco Peter Norvig of Google lecturing at Singularity University Peter Norvig of Google lecturing at Singularity University Ferrari in Redwood City, the largest Ferrari dealer in California: 2750 El Camino Real, Redwood City Computer History Museum, formerly the headquarters of Silicon Graphics: 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View An appendix to my book "A History of Silicon Valley" World News | Politics | History | Editor | Correspondence |