Pictures of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley

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This page contains pictures of "historical" buildings of Silicon Valley. Pictures of people and machines are here: Computer History Museum and Digibarn Computer Museum.

Silicon Valley from Villa Montalvo

My map of the Bay Area

Buck's Cafe in Woodside where Paypal was formed: 3062 Woodside Road, Woodside

Alpine Inn in Portola Valley, one of the few surviving buildings of the era when Stanford was built (3915 Alpine Rd & Arastradero)

3000 Sand Hill Rd, headquarters of the venture-capital community

3000 Sand Hill Rd

Kleiners etc

Stanford: Old Union

Stanford: Bookstore

Stanford: Old Union

Stanford: Clock and Hoover tower

Stanford: Meier Library

Stanford: Green Library

Stanford: Meier Library

Stanford

Stanford: Quadrangle

Stanford: Tresidder

Stanford: Knoll

Stanford: on Mayfield

HP Garage, where William Hewlett and David Packard started HP (367 Addison Avenue, Palo Alto)

HP Garage

Fairchild building, the site where Robert Noyce and others co-invented the integrated circuit (844 E Charleston Rd, Palo Alto

Fairchild building in Palo Alto

Xerox PARC (3333 Coyote Hill Road Palo Alto)

Xerox PARC

SRI Intl (333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park)

SRI Intl

The Oasis on El Camino Real in Palo Alto, a popular hang-out place for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs

The Oasis on El Camino Real

FTC building, the first Silicon Valley high-tech startup (913 Emerson & Channing, Palo Alto)

FTC building at 913 Emerson & Channing, Palo Alto

Fischer Labs (1505 Byron St, Palo Alto)

SUNcity on Willow Rd (1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park)

SUNcity on Willow Rd

NASA Ames (Moffett Blvd/NASA Parkway, Mountain View)

NASA Ames

Google's campus, formerly Silicon Graphics campus (2400 Bayshore Parkway, Mountain View)

Google's campus

Computer History Museum (1401 North Shoreline Boulevard, Mountain View)

DEC PDP1 (Computer History Museum)

Babbage's Difference Engine 1 (Computer History Museum)

Babbage's Differential Engine 2 (Computer History Museum)

Babbage (Computer History Museum)

Ken Thompson and Richie (Computer History Museum)

John Atanasoff (Computer History Museum)

Vannevar Bush (Computer History Museum)

Jay Forrester (Computer History Museum)

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in 1976 (Computer History Museum)

Commodore 64 (Computer History Museum)

Shakey the Robot from SRI (Computer History Museum)

Robert Everett (Computer History Museum)

Federico Faggin and Ted Hoff (Computer History Museum)

Lee Deforest (Computer History Museum)

Philo Farnsworth (Computer History Museum)

SUN's founders (Computer History Museum)

Stanford's first workstation (Computer History Museum)

Doug Engelbart (Computer History Museum)

Andreeessen and others of Netscape (Computer History Museum)

Robert Noyce (Computer History Museum)

William Shockley (Computer History Museum)

Alan Kay (Computer History Museum)

Bob Metcalfe (Computer History Museum)

Xerox Alto (Computer History Museum)

The Varian brothers (Computer History Museum)

Original Variant building in San Carlos (Computer History Museum)

Jeff Hawkins (Computer History Museum)

IBM 1311 (Computer History Museum)

The hangars at NASA Ames

NASA Ames Research Center

Netscape's original offices (466 Ellis, Mountain View), in the HP campus

Netscape at 466 Ellis, Mountain View, in the HP campus

Netscape's first building (501 E.Middlefield, Mountain View)

Netscape at 501 E.Middlefield, Mountain View

Yahoo (701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale)

Yahoo

Lockheed Martin at Moffett Field

Cisco campus on Tasman Dr

Former 3Com building on Betsy Ross

Former Synoptics buildings on Great America Pkwy @ Mission College Blvd

Santa Clara

The historical Intel offices in Santa Clara (1970): 2200 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara

Intel on Mission College Blvd

Intel 4004

Intel IN-10 memory board (1972)

Intel 8088

IBM PC of 1981

Robert Noyce

Gordon Moore

Moffett Field

Steve Jobs' garage

HP Labs

Washington St in San Carlos, where Varian's labs where

Oracle

Crossroads, Foster City

Salesforce, Foster City

The place where Google was born (232 Santa Margarita)

The place where Excite was born (3958 Sutherland Drive)

The original Intel office (365 East Middlefield Road & Whisman, Mountain View)

Intel's original building

Apple's Infinity Loop

eBay's campus

IBM Almaden Labs in San Jose

IBM's original Western Labs on Notre Dame St

The site where the old Garden City Bank Building stood (1909), where Charles Herrold established the first radio broadcasting station in the world, southwest corner of First and San Fernando Sts, San Jose

Site of Garden City Bank Building

Fry's electronic superstore

Stevens Creek Blvd & DeAnza Blvd in Cupertino, the "Crossroads"

The site of the Olivetti Advanced Technology Centers, one of the first outposts of European manufacturers: 10430 DeAnza Blvd, Cupertino

Stevens Creek Blvd & DeAnza Blvd in Cupertino, the "Crossroads"

Apple's first office (1976): 20863 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

Synopsis

Symantec's origina building: 306 Potrero, Sunnyvale

The site of the Byte Store on El Camino in Mountain View

The Byte Shop on El Camino in Mountain View

The site of the first offices of Vmware, 42 Encina Ave, Palo Alto, behind the Town and Country shopping center

SLAC

Facebook's original building at 156 University Ave in Palo Alto

The building where Teknowledge was

The Varsity theater on University Avenue, Palo Alto

Another center for venture capitalists, Middlefield & University

VMware was founded here, at Coleman Pl in Menlo Park

Philo Farnsworth's laboratory (1927), where television was invented (202 Green Street & Sansome, San Francisco)

Cute house near where the Stanford A.I. Lab (SAIL) used to be: 1600 Arastradero Rd (now just stables)

Tesla's factory at 3500 Deer Creek, Palo Alto

Khosla Ventures: 3000 Sand Hill Road, Building 3, Suite 190, Menlo Park

Tesla's store: 300 El Camino Real, Menlo Park

Affymetrix (1992): 3420 Central Expressway, Santa Clara

Yahoo's original building: 3400 Central Expressway. Santa Clara

Bloom Energy at 1252 Orleans Drive, Sunnyvale

Complete Genomics at 2071 Stierlin Court, Mountain View

Actel on Stierlin Court, Mountain View

Xora on Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View

Codexis at 200 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City

The old Ampex sign still standing off 101 near Woodside Rd (Broadway & Douglas St, Redwood City), but the new headquarter was at 934 Charter St. Redwood City

Ampex

Old Ampex location, now Midpoint Technology Park in Redwood City

Ferrari in Redwood City, the largest Ferrari dealer in California

The SLAC auditorium where the Homebrew Club used to meet

Ampex: 934 Charter St, Redwood CIty

Ampex' first building: 1313 Laurel St, San Carlos

Exelixis in South San Francisco

Cytokinetics in South San Francisco

Genentech's campus in South San Francisco

The wall of Genentech's original building in South San Francisco

Genentech's campus in South San Francisco

South San Francisco's industrial area

Actuate

Foster City's Bridgepoint Technology Park

Applied Biosystems in Foster City

Computer Shack in Hayward, one of the first computer stores

Mt Diablo near Walnut Creek

The Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek

South Hall, UC Berkeley campus

UC Berkeley campus: the place between the Campanile and LeConte Hall (in the picture) where the original radiation laboratory used to be located. Lawrence taught in room 329 of LeConte Hall

Evans Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, where the BSD Unix was developed and "vi" invented

Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Alfred Peet's first coffee shop on the corner of Walnut and Vine Streets in Berkeley

UC Berkeley campus

Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Lawrence Berkeley Labs: The 88-Inch Cyclotron of 1962

Lawrence Berkeley Labs with the Bevatron of 1954 in the foreground

Lawrence Berkeley Labs: Advanced Light Source

Lawrence Berkeley Labs

LBL museum: the sculpture evokes the 184-Inch Cyclotron of 1946

LBL museum

Berkeley campus and Bay

Berkeley campus and LBL

Berkeley campus, LBL and Bay

Lawrence Berkeley Labs

Glam Media (right building) in Brisbane

Xojet in Brisbane

Hitachi in Brisbane

Hotmail, 1290 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale

Atari, 2962 Scott Blvd, Santa Clara

Synaptics on Scott Blvd, Santa Clara

Solyndra, 47700 Kato Road, Fremont

Pioneer Hotel in Woodside

Cofinity/Paypal's first office: 349 University Ave, Palo Alto

Stanford's "Engineering Corner" (1902)

Solyndra, 47700 Kato Road, Fremont

165 University Avenue, Palo Alto, that was both Google's first office and Paypal's second office

165 University Avenue, Palo Alto

Solyndra

Marvel in Santa Clara

Stanford: Ginzton Lab (laser research)

Stanford University

Building 50 in the Stanford quadrangle where the Physics Dept was located in the 1890s

Building 50 in the Stanford quadrangle where the Physics Dept was located in the 1890s, next to the Memorial Church

Cisco's first building: 1525 Obrien building, Menlo Park

The area where the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) used to be, now Portola Pastures: 1600 Arastradero Road, Portola Valley

Shockley's laboratory: 391 San Antonio Rd, Palo Alto

SUN's first building: 2310 Walsh Ave, Santa Clara

SUN's headquarters in the western campus of the Agnews Development Center: end of Palm Drive, Santa Clara

Netflix's first building: 5617 Scotts Valley Dr #140

The Palo Alto Research Laboratories of Lockheed Missiles & Space Company (LMSC): 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto

The location of Hewlett-Packard's first offices (1942): 395 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto (the building at 481 Page Mill Rd mentioned on HP's website was just a larger garage)