Palo Alto, California "Palo Alto"
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Palo Alto, California City of Palo Alto Downtown Palo Alto in 2005 Downtown Palo Alto in 2005 Flag of Palo Alto, California Flag Official seal of Palo Alto, California Official logo of Palo Alto, California Palo Alto, California is positioned in the US Palo Alto, California - Palo Alto, California Named for El Palo Alto Palo Alto (/ p lo lto / pal-oh al-toh; Spanish: [ palo alto]; from palo, literally "stick", colloquially "tree", and alto "tall"; meaning: "tall tree") is a charter town/city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.
The town/city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park.
It is titled after a coast redwood tree called El Palo Alto.
Palo Alto was established by Leland Stanford Sr.
As of the 2010 census, the city's total resident populace is 64,403. Palo Alto is one of the most expensive metros/cities in the United States and its inhabitants are amongst the highest educated in the country. The recorded history of Palo Alto dates back to 1769, when Gaspar de Portola noted an Ohlone settlement.
The town/city got its name from a tall coast redwood tree, titled El Palo Alto, which still stands on the east bank of San Francisquito Creek near its intersection with El Camino Real. A plaque there recounts the story of the Portola expedition, a 63-man, 200-horse expedition from San Diego to Monterey from November 7 11, 1769.
Portola descended from Sweeney Ridge southeast down San Andreas Creek to Laguna Creek (now Crystal Springs Reservoirs) and the Filoli estate, and thence to the San Francisquito Creek watershed, ultimately camping at El Palo Alto from November 6 11, 1769.
To the south of the Sotos, the brothers Secundino and Teodoro Robles in 1849 bought Rancho Rincon de San Francisquito from Jose Pena, the 1841 grantee. The grant extended from San Francisquito Creek, Alpine Road and Bishop Lane behind Stanford Shopping Center and golf course, then south along the Santa Cruz Foothills between Junipero Serra & Hwy 280 to the intersection of Matadero Creek/ Hillview /Miranda & then SW near the intersection of Page Mill and Arastradero Rd.
That's the Robles Rancho, about 80% of Palo Alto and Stanford University.
In 1880, Secundino Robles, father to twenty-nine children, still lived just south of Palo Alto, near the locale of the present-day San Antonio Shopping Center in Mountain View.
Many of the Spanish names in the Palo Alto region represent the small-town heritage, descriptive terms and former residents.
Pena Court, Miranda Avenue, which was essentially Foothill Expwy, was the married name of Juana Briones and the name occurs in Courts and Avenues and other street names in Palo Alto and Mountain View in the quadrant where she owned vast areas between Stanford University, Grant Road in Mountain View and west of El Camino.
University Avenue at the Circle with train steaming toward El Palo Alto, 1894 The township of Mayfield was formed in 1855, in what is now southern Palo Alto.
Leland Stanford started buying territory in the region in 1876 for a horse farm, called the Palo Alto Stock Farm.
This led him to drive the formation of Palo Alto as a Temperance Town in 1894 with the help of his friend Timothy Hopkins of the Southern Pacific Railroad who bought 740 acres (3.0 km2) of private territory in 1887 for the new townsite.
The Hopkins Tract, bounded by El Camino Real, San Francisquito Creek, Boyce, Channing, Melville, and Hopkins Avenues, and Embarcadero Road, was proclaimed a small-town Heritage District amid Palo's Alto Centennial in 1994.
Stanford set up his university, Stanford University, and a train stop (on University Avenue) by his new town.
With Stanford's support, saloon days faded and Palo Alto interval to the size of Mayfield.
On July 2, 1925, Palo Alto voters allowed the annexation of Mayfield and the two communities were officially merged on July 6, 1925.
This saga explains why Palo Alto has two downtown areas: one along University Avenue and one along California Avenue.
We have watched Mayfield expanded from a small hamlet, when Palo Alto was nothing more than a hayfield, to her present size and it is with a feeling of sorrow that we contemplate the fact that there are those who would sell or give the town/city away.
Many of Stanford University's first faculty members settled in the Professorville neighborhood of Palo Alto.
The Palo Alto Chinese School is the earliest in the entire Bay Area.
Palo Alto, California is also home to a long standing baseball tradition- The Palo Alto Oaks.
The Palo Alto Oaks are a collegiate, summer baseball club that have been in the Bay Area since 1950, 8 years longer than the San Francisco Giants.
The Oaks have a rich history inside the Palo Alto community. Palo Alto is crossed by a several creeks that flow north to San Francisco Bay, Adobe Creek on its easterly boundary, San Francisquito Creek on its boundary, and Matadero Creek in between the other two.
Guinda Street in Palo Alto Palo Alto has a number of momentous natural surroundings, including estuarine, riparian, and oak forest.
Palo Alto is in the south-eastern section of the San Francisco Peninsula.
It is bordered to the north by East Palo Alto, to the east by Mountain View, to the southeast and south by Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, to the southwest by Portola Valley, and to the west by Stanford and Menlo Park.
Typical of the San Francisco Bay Area, Palo Alto has a Mediterranean climate with cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers.
Due to the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west, there is a "rain shadow" in Palo Alto, resulting in an average annual rainfall of only 15.32 inches (389 mm).
Measurable snow flurry is very rare in Palo Alto, but 1.5 inches (38 mm) fell on January 21, 1962. Climate data for Palo Alto (1981 2010 normals) Palo Alto was incorporated in 1894, and in 1909 created, by municipal charter, a small-town government consisting of a fifteen-member City Council, with responsibilities for various governmental functions delegated to appointed committees.
According to one study, in 2015 the city's effective property tax rate of 0.42% was the lowest of the California metros/cities included in the study. In the California State Legislature, Palo Alto is in the 13th Senate District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill, and in the 24th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Marc Berman. In the United States House of Representatives, Palo Alto is in California's 18th congressional district, represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Palo Alto had a populace of 64,403.
The ethnic makeup of Palo Alto was 41,359 (64.2%) White, 17,461 (27.1%) Asian, 1,197 (1.9%) African American, 121 (0.2%) Native American, 142 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 1,426 (2.2%) from other competitions, and 2,697 (4.2%) from two or more competitions.
Palo Alto, north of Oregon Expressway, is filled with older homes, including Craftsman and California Colonials, some of which date back to the 1890s but most of which were assembled in the first four decades of the 20th century.
While the town/city contains homes that now cost anywhere from $800,000 to well in excess of $40 million, much of Palo Alto's housing stock is in the style of California mid-century middle-class suburbia.
It has highly rated enhance schools (see: Gunn High School and Palo Alto High School), a high character of life, various parks and open space reserves, and a vibrant downtown area.
The median home sale price for all of Palo Alto was more than $1.3 million in 2006[not in citation given] and $1,363,000 in July 2009. Palo Alto rates in as the 5th most expensive town/city in the United States, with an average home revenue price of $1,677,000 as of 2007. In 2010, Palo Alto ranked as the 2nd most expensive town/city in the United States, with a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home listing for $1.48 million on average. A major driver of housing market values in Palo Alto is the political climate that is restricting new evolution in a town/city with a large jobs-to-housing imbalance and some of the most attractive jobs in the country.
In addition, Palo Alto schools test at some of the highest levels in the Bay Area.
Palo Alto is by some measures the most expensive college town in the United States. A majority of Stanford students live on campus. Palo Alto serves as a central economic focal point of the Silicon Valley, and is home to more than 7,000 businesses employing more than 98,000 citizens . Many prominent technology firms reside in the Stanford Research Park on Page Mill Road, while close-by Sand Hill Road in the adjoining town/city of Menlo Park is a notable core of venture capitalists.
Well-known companies and research facilities headquartered in Palo Alto include: Palo Alto Medical Foundation Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Other notable companies with momentous presences in Palo Alto include: Genencor (based in Palo Alto) Identity - Mind Global (based in Palo Alto) Rave Wireless (founded in Palo Alto) Many close-by Silicon Valley companies, no longer primarily in Palo Alto, were once headquartered and experienced primary growth in Palo Alto, including Google (now in Mountain View), Facebook (now in Menlo Park), and Pay - Pal (now in San Jose). Palo Alto's retail and restaurant trade includes Stanford Shopping Center, an upscale open air shopping center established in 1955, and downtown Palo Alto, centered on University Avenue. Palo Alto is the locale of the first street-level Apple Store, the first Apple mini store, the first West Coast Whole Foods Market store, and the first Victoria's Secret. 4 Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System 3,900 9 Palo Alto Medical Foundation 2,200 Unlike encircling communities, the City of Palo Alto provides electric and gas service inside town/city limits, with the minor exception of a non-urban portion of the town/city in the hills west of Interstate 280, past the Country Club, which does not receive gas from the City.
Palo Alto is a member of a joint powers authority (the Northern California Power Agency), which cooperatively generates electricity for government power providers such as the City of Santa Clara, the City of Redding, and the Port of Oakland.
A small-town oddity is a series of joint poles; those major conductor cross arms are marked PGE and CPA (City of Palo Alto) to identify each utility's side of the shared cross arms.
Palo Alto has an ongoing improve debate about the town/city providing fiber optic connectivity to all residences.
Previously the cable fitness was directed by a cooperative called Palo Alto Cable Coop.
The former Regional Bell Operating Company in Palo Alto was Pacific Telephone, now called AT&T Inc., and previously called SBC and Pacific Bell.
One of the earliest central office facilities switching Palo Alto calls is the historic Davenport central office (CO) at 529 Bryant Street.
The building was sold and is now the home of the Palo Alto Internet Exchange.
It was called Davenport after the exchange name at the introduction of dial telephone service in Palo Alto.
From 1950s to 1980s, the bulk of Palo Alto calls were switched on Number 5 Crossbar systems.
During the drought of the early 1990s, Palo Alto working water waste patrol officers to enforce water saving regulations.
Palo Alto City Hall, as seen in 2004.
In an arrangement predating countywide paramedic service, Palo Alto Fire operates two paramedic ambulances which are theoretically shared with county EMS assets.
The Palo Alto Fire Department is presently the only fire department in Santa Clara County that routinely transports patients.
Palo Alto Fire also provides service to the Stanford University campus.
The Palo Alto Unified School District provides enhance education for most of Palo Alto.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Palo Alto has a student-teacher ratio of 14.9, much lower than some encircling communities.
The 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month; the meetings are open to the enhance and town/city cast live on Channel 28 which is directed by the Mid-peninsula Community Media Center in Palo Alto which is affiliated with the Alliance for Community Media.
Palo Alto students attend one of two high schools, Gunn High School or Palo Alto High School.
The Los Altos School District and Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District furnish enhance education for the Monroe neighborhood portion of Palo Alto off El Camino Real south of Adobe Creek.
Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School a K-8 Jewish day school; school's name changed from Mid-Peninsula Jewish Community Day School (MPJCDS) International School of the Peninsula a Nursery-8 bilingual immersion school with two Palo Alto campuses.
Palo Alto Montessori School an accredited preschool which has been educating 2- to 5-year-olds since 1977.
St Elizabeth Seton Catholic School a Catholic school for preschool through eighth undertaking positioned in Palo Alto though mostly serving low-income kids living in East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Menlo Park. Grossman Academy Japanese Language School ( Gurosuman Akademi), a Japanese weekend educational program, holds its classes in Cubberly Community Center in Palo Alto. Even though the classes are held in Palo Alto, the school office is in Fremont. Palo Alto Chinese School earliest Chinese school in Bay Area The Palo Alto City Library has five chapters, with a total of 265,000 items in their collections. The library's mission is to enable citizens to explore library resources to enrich their lives with knowledge, information, and appreciatement.
For Palo Alto library card holders, the chief library web page also offers links to major source databases with collections of magazine, newspaper, and other print articles.
The Palo Alto City Library is also a member of the Northern California Digital Library, which allows card holders to browse and download the digital resources made available.
Library cards are freely available for California residents. The Mitchell Park Library, the biggest one in Palo Alto, was under assembly beginning in 2010, but reopened in December 2014. The Palo Alto Daily Post prints six days a week.
Palo Alto Daily News, a unit of the San Jose Mercury News, prints 5 days a week.
Palo Alto Weekly is presented Fridays.
Palo Alto Times, a daily journal served Palo Alto and neighboring metros/cities beginning in 1894.
The transmitter is in East Palo Alto near the approach to Dumbarton Bridge with power of 5,000 watts daytime and 145 watts eveningtime.
Among other programs, Palo Alto Institute runs a unique film festival, the Palo Alto International Film Festival, that focuses on the ways in which new technologies influence and are influenced by creative revolution in media.
The movie Palo Alto (2007) was filmed in the town and many landmarks can be seen in the background but the plot could be centered in any lesser town or city.
Palo Alto is served by two primary freeways, Highway 101, and Interstate 280, and is traversed by the Peninsula's chief north-south boulevard, El Camino Real (SR 82).
There are no parking meters in Palo Alto, and all municipal parking lots and multi-level parking structures are no-charge (limited to two or three hours any weekday 8am 5pm).
Downtown Palo Alto has recently added many new lots to fill the overflow of vehicles.
Palo Alto is served by Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (KPAO), one of the busiest single-runway general aviation airports in the country.
It is used by many daily commuters who fly (usually in private single-engine airplane ) from their homes in the Central Valley to work in the Palo Alto area.
Caltrain has two regular stops in Palo Alto, one at University Avenue (local and express) and the other at California Avenue (local only). A third, the Stanford station, positioned beside Alma Street at Embarcadero Road, is used to furnish special services for occasional sports affairs (generally football) at Stanford Stadium.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) provides major bus service through Palo Alto with service to the south bay and Silicon Valley.
The Stanford University Free Shuttle (Marguerite) provides a supplementary bus service to and from the campus, and the Palo Alto Free Shuttle (Crosstown and Embarcadero), which circulates incessantly, and provides service to primary points in Palo Alto, including the chief library, downtown, the Municipal Golf Course, the Caltrain University Ave.
Cycling is a prominent mode of transit in Palo Alto.
Since 2003, Palo Alto has received a Bicycle Friendly Community status of "Gold" from the League of American Bicyclists.
Bike Arcs-Lytton Plaza on University Avenue-Palo Alto, CA 2014-05-18 21-24 Bike Arc at Palo Alto Circle Palo Alto pioneered the bicycle boulevard concept in the early 1980s, enhancing residentiary Bryant Street to before itize it for cyclists by removing stop signs, providing special traffic signals, and installing traffic diverters, and a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over Matadero Creek.
El Camino Real, Alma Street, and Embarcadero and Middlefield roads, all identified as "high before ities" for adding bicycle lanes to advancement safety by the 2003 Palo Alto Bicycle Transportation Plan, still contain no provisions for cyclists.
The Palo Alto Police Department decided to stop using tasers to detain bicyclists after a 2012 incident in which a 16-year-old boy, who had bicycled through a stop sign, was injured after police officers pursued him, fired a taser at him and suddenly braked their patrol car in front of him, causing the boy to crash. Conditions for walking are excellent in Palo Alto except for crossing high-volume arterial streets such as El Camino Real and Oregon Expressway.
Palo Alto's street grid is well-connected with several dead-end streets, especially in the city's older northern neighborhoods.
Palo Alto has six sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: In 1989, Palo Alto received t of a large, whimsical wooden sculpture called Foreign Friends (Fjarran Vanner) of a man, woman, dog and bird sitting on a park bench from Linkoping.
Palo Alto Circle (University & Alma)-102 University Ave--Designed by Joseph Bellomo Architects 2014-05-19 16-38 Palo Alto Community House Palo Alto Art Center Palo Alto Airport, off Embarcadero East, is surrounded by various flying schools, and is a convenient bay region locale to learn flying.
Palo Alto Foothills Park Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve Palo Alto University Palo Alto Farmers Market University Avenue (Downtown Palo Alto) Palo Alto Varsity Theater James Franco, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, artist, author, was born in Palo Alto Neva Gerber, silent screen actress, moved to Palo Alto after she married San Francisco petroleum geologist Edward F.
Charles Haid, actor and director, Hill Street Blues, Palo Alto High alumnus Teri Hatcher, actress known for Desperate Housewives and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, was born in Palo Alto Amy Irving, actress known for Crossing Delancey and Yentl was born in Palo Alto Ugly Kid Joe, modern band; members Whitfield Crane and Klaus Eichstadt interval up in Palo Alto, as did producer Eric Valentine The Kingston Trio, a folk group formed in Palo Alto while its members were enrolled at Stanford University and close-by Menlo College William Hewlett, deceased co-founder of technology business Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto Steve Jobs, deceased co-founder of Apple Inc.; lived in Palo Alto 1980 2011; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto David Packard, deceased co-founder of technology business Hewlett-Packard; buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto Brian Kobilka, Nobel laureate in chemistry, lives in Palo ALto Robert Spinrad (1932 2009), computer pioneer as director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Matt Biondi, swimmer, won a total of 11 Olympic medals (8 gold), born in Palo Alto Katie Hoff, Olympic swimmer, Palo Alto native Dana Kirk, Olympic swimmer, coaches for Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics Tara Kirk, swam with Palo Alto Stanford Aquatics, Olympic swimmer, American record holder in 100 and 200-yard (180 m) breaststroke Francie Larrieu-Smith, long-distance runner, first female athlete to make five Olympic teams, born in Palo Alto Jeremy Lin, basketball player for the NBA's Brooklyn Nets, alumnus of Palo Alto High School Dan Petry, pitcher for 1984 World Series champion Detroit Tigers, born in Palo Alto Pop Warner (early football player & coach) head coach 8 universities including Stanford University (1924 1932), lived and died Palo Alto died (83) September 7, 1954 resided 251 Madrono Ave.
Palo Alto was the first town/city in California to participate in a class action lawsuit against primary batteries producers, and presently serves as a representative for various metros/cities and enhance entities athwart the state.
They were alleged to have fixed prices of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are generally used in laptops, smartphones and GPS devices, and Palo Alto has purchased a lot of such devices.
Palo Alto's case will be merged with many the rest brought against the batteries producers in the U.S.
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