Former Location of Frazer's Dry Goods
This store was badly damaged by the 1906 earthq...
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Site of Controversial Victor Arnautoff Murals
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Roth Buildin...
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Location of Painted
The KKK came to Palo Alto in the 1920s and trie...
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Former Location of Dinah's Shack
Dinah's Shack is one of Palo Alto's most famous...
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Channing House
Channing House was an experimental change in ho...
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Former Barron/Wallis Mansion Location
There has long been lingering antipathy between...
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Former Location of Animal Shelter
The Palo Alto Humane Society built a shelter he...
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Former Location of Greer Grounds, the Site for Many Circuses
There was a time when there was no bigger event...
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Elinor Cogswell Park
Cogswell Park is named after longtime Palo Alto...
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Former Location of Co-Op
The Co-op supermarkets in Palo Alto are still r...
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Fomer Location of Peninsula Creamery Plant
The great days of milkmen were symbolized in Pa...
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Go Mama! Statue

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Former Location of The Tangent
The Top of the Tangent was a coffeehouse/club o...
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Former Location of Playtown
This where the unfortunate death of 3 year old ...
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Former Location of S. Christian of Copenhagen
The site of the glasswear and imports store whe...
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Location of Mural Mini-Scandal in 1932
When the Palo Alto Medical Foundation opened he...
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Former Location of Downtown Woolworth's
Woolworth's was the great American five and dim...
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The Nuthouse
Antonio's Nuthouse is a local institution, alth...
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Town & Country Village
Town & Country Village was one of the area's fi...
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Proposed Superblock Site (1971)
Palo Alto's downtown would be a lot different t...
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The Rrrun Statue
This odd statue of a car on legs is somewhat ty...
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Bell's Books
Bell's Books, the longtime independent book sel...
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Oregon Expressway
One of Palo Alto's great political battles came...
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Site of Albert Hopkins Beating
Palo Alto had its Rodney King moment in 2003 wi...
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Steve Jobs' House
There was some controversy over the apricot orc...
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Proposed Location for Original PAMF Hospital
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation wanted to buil...
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Formerly Cubberley High School (1956-1978)
The closing of Cubberley High School was one of...
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College Terrace
This small neighborhood was terrorized in 1979 ...
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Palo Alto City Hall
Palo Alto most recent city hall has been the si...
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College Terrace Library
As the smallest of the Palo Alto branch librari...
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Land Swapped for the Winter Lodge
When Palo Alto's Winter Lodge was set to close ...
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The Winter Lodge
The only permanent outdoor skating rink west of...
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Alma Plaza
The debate over abandoned Alma Plaza --- and th...
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Former Location of Palo Alto Furniture Company & JC Penney
The 300 University Avenue building was recently...
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Site Where Leland Stanford Greeted Mayfield Residents
Mayfield, now South Palo Alto, was a city befor...
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The John Adams Squire House
When local preservationists saved the stately o...
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Edgewood Plaza
Edgewood Plaza lies abandoned at the entry to P...
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Wesley United Methodist Church
Wesley Methodist was originally founded in old ...
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Site of Vladimir Pokhilko Double Muder-Suicide (1998)
The horrible events at the house of Vladimir Po...
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Blue Chalk Cafe
Despite the lack of hard liquor in Palo Alto as...
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Eichler Home Neighborhood
The homes of Joseph Eichler have become histori...
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Abandoned Sea Scout Building
The old Sea Scout building built by Birge Clark...
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Location of "Power Line Plane Crash" (1949)
The most spectacular plane crash in Palo Alto's...
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Junior Museum & Zoo
The Junior Musuem was one of the country's firs...
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The Children's Theatre
The Children's Theatre has had a long and stori...
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Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club
For some Palo Alto old-timers, the Lawn Bowls C...
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Former Location of the Foreign Friends Statue
This statue given to Palo Alto by a sister city...
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Location of Herbert Kay Murder (1997)
The 1997 murder of NASA scientist Bert Kay shoc...
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Lytton Plaza
Lytton Plaza was the main gathering place durin...
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Greg Brown Mural: Aliens Climbing Stairs to Milkman
Greg Brown's "Palo Alto Pedestrians" are all ov...
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Stanford Theatre
In Palo Alto, there is still a place to see the...
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Casa Real Apartments (Home to
Princess Stephanie, one of Hitler's allies, hid...
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The Palo Alto Office Center (525 University)
The modernist style that brought America buildi...
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The Williams House
What to do when a city is offered a beautiful p...
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The HP Garage
Hewlett-Packard, one of the richest companies i...
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Christmas Tree Lane (Fulton Street)
The tradition at Christmas Tree Lane each holid...
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Varian Associates Headquarters
Varian Associates was the first company to set ...
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Stanford Shopping Center
Palo Alto's Stanford Shopping Center has come a...
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The Medico-Dental Building
This downtown building was one of Birge Clark's...
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The Children's Library
This was the nation's first freestanding Childr...
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Former Location of Indian Bowl
Palo Alto has always had a place to take the ki...
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The Bol Park Donkeys
Did you know the model for Shrek's donkey frien...
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Chaucer Street Bridge
The 1998 Floods caused a near citizen revolt in...
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Digital DNA
The beauty of civic art can be in the eye of th...
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Emek Beracha
Leading Jewish Orthodox church that backed the ...
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Former Site of Palo Alto Yacht Harbor
The 1980 and 1985 city elections over the Palo ...
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Former Palo Alto City Hall (1952-1970), Currently Art Center
The building on Newell Road that now houses the...
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The Former AME Zion Church
Palo Alto's Black history is captured in the fr...
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Childhood Home of William Shockley
William Shockley was one of the most important ...
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Former Site of the Palo Alto Drive-In
In another era, every town had its drive-in mov...
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Former Location of the "Hotel de Zink" Shelter
During the Great Depression, the "Hotel de Zink...
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Celebration of Japanese Surrender
During World War II, Palo Altans fought hard on...
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BPO Elks Lodge #1471
The long history of the Palo Alto Elks displays...
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Formerly Lucky's and Albertsons Grocery Store

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Location that took the worst of the 1998 floods
The 1998 flooding of Palo Alto would cause $28 ...
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959 waverley street
This is the childhood home of Nobel Prize winne...
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The Palo Alto Creamery
Palo Alto's most famous spot to get a milkshake...
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Location of Original Co-Op
The Co-op is a fondly remembered co-operative g...
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The Hotel Cabaña: Vegas Comes to Palo Alto
Palo Alto's Cabana Hotel hosted a stay by the B...
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El Palo Alto
El Palo Alto is over 1,000 years old and the sy...
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Former Location of Bergmann
Palo Alto lost one of its old-style department ...
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Former Location of Paris Theatre
A porn theatre in Downtown Palo Alto. Yup, duri...
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Former Palo Alto Times Building
This is the building where one of California's ...
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Former African-American Neighborhood
Despite the entrance of many African-Americans ...
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Peninsula Creamery Dairy Store
Home of the original Peninsula Cremary operatio...
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Palo Alto University Avenue Train Station
Streamline Moderne was a sub-style of Art Deco ...
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The Roth Building
Palo Alto's Dr. Russel Lee was a revolutionary ...
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Former Location of Anna Zschokke's First House
Anna Zschokke's was Palo Alto's first resident....
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Palo Alto Downtown Post Office
When the nation's Postmaster General saw the bl...
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The Hotel President
Palo Alto's old downtown hotel could not surviv...
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