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El Palo Alto, circa 2004. El Palo Alto (Spanish: 'the tall stick' [1]) is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) located on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area. The namesake of the city and a historical landmark, El Palo Alto is 1083–1084 years old and stands 110 feet (34 m) tall.
The tree from which Palo Alto takes its name, El Palo Alto, stands on the banks of the creek. In 1857, the United States Coast Survey (USCS) identified 1,142 acres (462 ha) of tidal marsh at the mouth of the creek. There were also two large [63-and-118-acre (25 and 48 ha)] willow groves adjacent to the tidal marsh associated with high ...
Palo Alto is named after El Palo Alto, a historic 110 ft tall (34 m) California Redwood on the banks of the San Francisquito Creek, sighted and named by the Portolá expedition in 1769. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Ohlone lived on the San Francisco peninsula; in particular, the Puichon Ohlone lived in the Palo Alto area.
Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on Route 82 (El Camino Real) at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California.It is on the campus of Stanford University although the university only owns the land and not the actual buildings or stores.
It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. [3] It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley". [4] In the 1930s, Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in the area instead of leaving California, and develop a high-tech region. [5]
[7] [8] The museum was originally located at 275 Alma St., Palo Alto (9/1990 through 11/1994). From 1995 through 1998 the museum occupied a former BMW dealership at 3401 El Camino Real in Palo Alto. The current location on Homer Ave., in Palo Alto, was opened to the public in 1998. [9]
The "Tree" is representative of El Palo Alto, the tree which appears on both the official seal of the University and the municipal seal of Palo Alto, Stanford's nearby city. From 1930 until 1972, Stanford's sports teams had been known as the Indians and during the period from 1951 to 1972, Prince Lightfoot (portrayed by Timm Williams, a member ...
East Palo Alto and Palo Alto share both telephone area codes and postal ZIP codes. In 1990, 43% of East Palo Alto's residents were African Americans, which was the result of redlining practices and racial deed restrictions in Palo Alto, [7] while 34% were Latinos. [8] As of 2020, African Americans were 11%, while Latinos are about 66%. [9]