Carpet cleaning in Palo Alto
- manny Credit wikipedia
- May 17, 2016
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The city of Palo Alto, CA, is located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara Valley, on the San Francisco Peninsula. Palo Alto, CA bordered by: East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. Palo Alto, CA got its name from a stand of redwood trees called El Palo Alto, meaning Tall Tree in Spanish on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek. One of these trees can still be found by the railroad trestle near Alma Street. Palo Alto, CA has a population of approximately 65,000 very wealthy residents.
The city of Palo Alto, CA is 25.8 square miles in size, but until 1927 the land was originally occupied by two towns, Palo Alto, CA to the north, and Mayfield (now referred to as South Palo Alto) in the south. Mayfield was originally the larger of the two towns, but because of its relationship with alcohol (at one time Mayfield had at least 12 saloons), it developed a poor reputation and to restore that, it agreed to be annexed by Palo Alto, CA.
Palo Alto, CA is well-known for its proximity to Stanford University, founded by Leland Stanford in honor of his son, who died of typhoid at the age of 15. Stanford originally wanted to put the university in Mayfield, but one of his requirements was that the town no longer allow alcohol. Mayfield refused, so Stanford developed the university just to the north, in Palo Alto, CA.
It was in the city of Palo Alto, CA, where David Packard and William Hewlett began the Hewlett-Pakard company, in the garage at 367 Addison Avenue. Their first product was an audio oscillator, Walt Disney Studios purchased several of these to test and certify sound systems in movie theaters. While established as a museum, and an historic landmark, the H-P garage in Palo Alto, CA .
