Baja Fresh

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The Food Closet
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New York Pizza

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Location of Color of Palo Alto Project

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Palo Alto Police Headquarters
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Greg Brown Mural: Robbers

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The Cardinal Hotel

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300 Hamilton Building

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Public Restroom
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Wells Fargo

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AT&T Building

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All Saints Episcopal Church
Current church built in 1968). Church has occu...
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Site of Controversial Victor Arnautoff Murals
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Roth Buildin...
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Former Barron/Wallis Mansion Location
There has long been lingering antipathy between...
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Lucie Stern Community Center

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Buena Vista Mobile Home Park

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Former Location of pool that was used by firefighters fighting the Barron Mansion fire on 11/29/36
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The Apple Store

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Bullock's Department Store (1972-1984)

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Former Location of Reed and McCauley Mart (1940s)

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Stanford/Palo Alto Playing Fields

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Long's Drugs

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Town & Country Village
Town & Country Village was one of the area's fi...
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Village Cheese House
A Palo Alto institution known for making outsta...
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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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Rrrun Statue
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St. Albert the Great Church

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800 High Street

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La Morenita Mexican Restaurant

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Former Location of The Art Experience

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Proposed Location for Original PAMF Hospital
The Palo Alto Medical Foundation wanted to buil...
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Peninsula Creamery

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Formerly Cubberley High School (1956-1978)
The closing of Cubberley High School was one of...
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Former Location of Catalleja School and Miss Harker's School

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Former Location of Ice Skating Rink

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Scott's Seafood

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Oregon Expressway Underpass
In the Flood of 1998, one driver nearly drowned...
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Moffett Circle
This circular street was severely impacted by t...
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Small Shops

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Palo Alto Airport

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Bol Park

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Hobee's Restaurant

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Former Location of Arco Gas Station
Site of proposed condos in 1984 that were rejec...
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Palo Alto/East Palo Alto Border

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Palo Alto Senior High School

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Alma Plaza
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Alma Plaza
The debate over abandoned Alma Plaza --- and th...
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United Studios of Self Defense Karate

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Former Location of the "A Street Gang"
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Whole Foods Market

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Former Location of the Peninsula Hospital (1910-1931)

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Former Location of Palo Alto Fire Department (1903-1907)

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Restoration Hardware

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7/11

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The Aquarius Theatre

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Trinity Lutheran Church

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Starbucks

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California Pizza Kitchen

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Palo Alto Sports Shop and Toys
Founded in 1930
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Chico's

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Former Location of Safeway

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Go Mama! Statue
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Johnson Park Gardens

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Starbucks
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Formerly Liddicoat's Supermarket (1921-1977)
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The Downing House

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Bistro Maxine
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Five and Ten

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Glass Slipper Inn

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Ananda Church
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Former Location of Crandall's Bike Shop (Early 20th Century)

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Former Location of Keeble Art Supplies (1930s)

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Formerly Phelps Terkel Store (1940s)

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Formerly Thurlow's Smoke Shop (1940s)

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Facebook

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The Kee House
Built in 1889, it is the oldest house in Colleg...
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Former Location of the Delta Tau Delta House (1897-1976)

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The Slonaker House

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Henry M. Gunn High School (Built in 1964)

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Former Location of Hackett Pontiac dealership

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Subway Restaurant

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Como Esta? Mexican Restaurant

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Southwood Apartments

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Jordan Middle School

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Former Location of Mills the Florist

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Formerly Cash and Carry Grocers

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Former Location of Varsity Market

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First Congregational Church

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Hage's Music Shop (1940s)

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Z Gallerie
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Former Location of J.C. Penny's
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Ramona Plaza

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Former Location of Earle and Co. Food Market (1912-1933)

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Former location of Hong Kong Flower Lounge

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Coupa Cafe
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Mac's Smoke Shop

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The Children's Library
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The Sunbonnet House (Built in 1899)

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The $88,000 Traffic Circle
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Former Location of Pacific Art League (1921-1950s)

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Bryant Avenue at Lincoln

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The Barbee House
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Site Where Leland Stanford Greeted Mayfield Residents
Mayfield, now South Palo Alto, was a city befor...
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Mollie Stone's (Formerly Palo Alto Co-Op)
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The Fish Market
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25 Churchill (PAUSD Central Office)
The school district's main offices are headquar...
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Domino's Pizza

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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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Duveneck Elementary School
Duveneck was the only school seriously affected...
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Wesley United Methodist Church
Wesley Methodist was originally founded in old ...
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Original Location of Palo Alto Airport

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Pizza My Heart
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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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Miyake Sushi/Fraternal Hall
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Tower Well
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Greg Brown Mural: Ailing Polar Bear
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Bloomingdale's
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Location of Tree Planted to Honor Policeman Ted Brassinga
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Sand Hill Road (Site of the controversial Sand Hill Road Extension)
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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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Shell Gas Station

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Site of the David Lui Murder (1994)
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Pedestrian Footbridge

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Palo Alto Recycling Center

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Tom Casey Field (Home of the Palo Alto Oaks)

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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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Hotel Cabana
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Former Home of the short-lived "V Street Gang" in the mid-1990s

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Site of SRI Protest on May 16th, 1969
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Rinconada Children's Pool
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Rinconada Adult Pool

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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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The Gamble Gardens
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Rose Garden at the Gamble Gardens

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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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Greg Brown Mural: Boy Fishing
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390 Lytton Avenue
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Greg Brown Mural: Crashing Alien
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Eleanor Cogswell Park

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Cornish & Carey
Major building development firm. Scott Carey i...
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The Barker Hotel
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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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Bryant Street (This section would have become part of the Superblock complex)
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Addison Elementary School

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The Palo Alto Office Center (525 University)
The modernist style that brought America buildi...
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Former Location of Playtown Amusement Park at Town & Country
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Castalleja Girls School

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The Kathleen Norris House
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St. Ann's Chapel
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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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Stratford School

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Greer Skate Park

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Greer Park

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Former Location of Channing Market (1900-1981)

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The Channing House

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Borders Books (Formerly the Varsity Theatre)
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A9.Com

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Palo Alto Main Community Garden

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Eleanor Pardee Park
Local park used a lot by the surrounding commun...
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Comerica Bank (Formerly University Bank)
The owner of the University Bank used to give o...
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Palo Alto Daily News Headquarters

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Sushi Tomo

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Former Location of University Creamery

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Gelato Classico

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Downtown Library

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Former Location of the First Southern Baptist Church (Burned down 12/13/60)
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Bank of America

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Palo Alto Bimmer

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Palo Alto Art Center

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Palo Alto Fire Station 3

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Walter Hays Elementary School

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Longs Drugs

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Peninsula Hardware

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Safeway

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Stanford Electric Works

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Palo Alto Little League

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Challenger School

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Hoover Elementary School

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Piazza's Fine Foods

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Charleston Center

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Cubberly Community Center

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Tofu House

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Happy Donuts

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Compadres

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U.S. Post Office Location

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Andale Mexican Restaurant

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El Camino Park

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Palo Alto Duck Pond

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Macy's Mens Store

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Tai Pan

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The Prolific Oven

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Longs Drugs (Formerly Woolworth's)

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Lavanda

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Palo Alto Bowl
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Former Location of Indian Bowl
Palo Alto has always had a place to take the ki...
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Greg Brown Mural: Spiro Agnew Pushing Alien in Stroller
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Former Location of Cafe Betolla

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Alain Pinel Realtors

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Formerly Bob's Donuts

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Jacquie's Sew and Sew

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Former Location of the London Tea House and the Celtic Shop

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The Bol Park Donkeys
Did you know the model for Shrek's donkey frien...
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Sehbali Cafe & Hookah Shop

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Lytton Roasting

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California Avenue Train Station

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California Park Apartments

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Hotel California

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Noah's Bagels

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Palo Alto Dental Group

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College Terrace Library

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Chaucer Street Bridge
The 1998 Floods caused a near citizen revolt in...
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Greater Bay Trust

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Johnson Park Slide

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Formerly Liddicoat's Food Court (1977-1993)

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Harvard Street in College Terrace
A house on Harvard Street was used by an underc...
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College Terrace Rapist Scare in 1979-1980
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University Cafe
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Centennial Walk

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Formerly Burger King

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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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Site of the worst hit area in the 1998 Flood
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Former Site of Palo Alto Yacht Harbor
The 1980 and 1985 city elections over the Palo ...
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Ming's Chinese Restaurant

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Cafe 220

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Ramona Plaza Courtyard

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Site of "Chapel in the Sky" in 1941 and 1946
Erected on the overpass at University Avenue at...
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Former Location of Carnegie Public Library

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Formerly Carolyn Kelsey Clothing store (1940s)

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Former Location of 1940s Palo Alto Co-Op Market

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Purity Market (Opened in 1941)

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The Medico-Dental Building

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Formerly Parkinson Lumber & Hardware Company (Late 1890s)

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Formerly Nortree Hall (1892-1923)
Site of first town government
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Former Location of City Water Tower (Early 20th Century)

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Former Location of the Original Palo Alto Library
At this location inside Simkins Stationary Stor...
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Formerly Location of Terman Park Library (1985-Early 2000s)

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Fraternal Hall (Built in 1898)
Early 20th Century meeting hall
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Hostess House (Now MacArthur Park Restaurant)
Original Palo Alto Community Center and later v...
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Pacific Art League

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Palo Alto Red Cross

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Palo Alto YMCA

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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 Ruth Stern House
Designed by Birge Clark
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Birge Clark Designed Houses
Clark designed all the house on Coleridge Avenu...
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Laning Chateau (Built in 1927)
Built by William Staller
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Palo Alto Central Condominiums

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Former Location of Palo Alto High School

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The Dunker House
Built by Birge Clark
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Former Location of Palo Alto

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Spangenberg Theatre

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Gunn Gymnasium

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Former Location of Bernthal Model T Ford Dealer (1920's)

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The Former AME Zion Church
Palo Alto's Black history is captured in the fr...
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Original location of Wesley Church (1873-1903)
At the time it was known as Mayfield Methodist ...
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Second Location of Wesley Church (1904-1959)

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Approximate Location of the Spot Where Palo Alto Firefighters refused to go past during Barron Mansion Fire in 1936

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Former Location of A and W Rootbeer Stand

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7-11

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Round Table Pizza

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Midtown Realty

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Midtown Poetry Wall

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Walgreens

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Palo Alto Cafe

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Baskin Robbins

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The UPS Store

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Score! Learning Center

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Mike's Cafe

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Best Video

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Winter Lodge

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Century Store

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Fandango Pizza

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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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Palo Alto Electrical Plant

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Formerly Kiki's Candy Bar Restaurant

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Downtown Farmer's Market

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Location for the First Mrs. Field's Chocolate Chippery (1977)

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Holiday Cleaners

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Jordan Middle School

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Former Location of F.W. Woolworth's

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Former Location of Wiedeman's Men's Clothing Store (1906-1994)
Known for years as Wideman's. In this location...
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Original Location of Greg Brown Mural: Robbers

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Palo Alto Office Center Plaza

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North County Courthouse (1962-present)

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Former Location of Ramona Hotel and Ramona Building

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Former Location of Hay Baker Jeweler (1940s)

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Former Location of Hill and Yard Photographs (1890s)

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Former Location of Dixit's India Store (1940s)

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Former City Hall Location

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Condos

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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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Continental Salt and Chemical Company
In 1926, this area was home to the Continental ...
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644 Emerson

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Morgan Oyster Company
In 1926 the Palo Alto tidal marshlands and wate...
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Entrance to California Avenue

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Former Site of El Cumbre nightclub, now Hollywood Video

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Former site of El Rancho Motel, now Quality Inn

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Fry's Electronics

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Blockbuster Video (Formerly All-American Market)

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Starbucks

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