The nearest BART station to the University of California, Berkeley is Downtown Berkeley, which is served by trains running to and from Richmond. The campus is a block east of the station. Read more...
Shake Shack first opened in 2001 in Madison Square Park, New York City, operating initially from a hot dog cart over three summers. The permanent Shake Shack kiosk restaurant opened in the park on June 12, 2004. Read more...
The giant electrical wall outlet, plug and cord sculpture is on the side of the PG&E substation on 1st Street and D Street in Petaluma. When the 1920s building was refurbished in 2015, the utility company commissioned Joel Jones of Basal Ganglia Studio to design the sculptural installation for the outside wall which was made from steel and fiberglass by Read more...
The Facebook sign with the iconic thumbs up symbol is located outside the company’s headquarters at 1 Hacker Way in Menlo Park. On the reverse is the original sign of Sun Microsystems, who substantially vacated the site in 2010. Read more...
American journalist and author David Halberstam died, aged 73, in a car crash at the intersection of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road in Menlo Park, California, on April 23rd, 2007. Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was a passenger in a car that turned left against a red light into the path of another car, and died at the scene from Read more...
Buck’s restaurant is at Woodside Road and Cañada Road in Woodside, California, about a mile from Exit 25 of I-280 that runs between San Francisco and San Jose. The eccentric diner is a Silicon Valley mainstay with many VC deals reportedly sealed at its tables. Read more...
The Seattle Seahawks NFL football team plays its home games at Lumen Field (formerly CenturyLink Field) in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood. The stadium has been the home field of the Seahawks since it opened in 2002 and it is shared with the Seattle Sounders FC MLS soccer team. Lumen Field is considered one of the loudest stadiums in the NFL, having Read more...
Petaluma was branded The World’s Egg Basket during the first half of the 20th century when it was arguably the center of California’s poultry industry. Peaking in the mid 1940s, the region’s poultry ranches produced over 600 million eggs annually. The industry developed here in part due to climate and proximity to river and rail links, but the main catalyst Read more...
Nike does not offer public tours of its campus and world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. Access to the campus and running trails is restricted to Nike employees and other authorized persons only. Read more...
Shea Stadium was located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York City, on the site of what is now parking for Citi Field, the home field of the New York Mets baseball team. Demolition of Shea Stadium started in October 2008 and the locations of its home plate, pitcher’s plate, and bases are marked in the parking lot. Read more...
The last registered prisoner at Alcatraz was Frank Clay Weatherman, who arrived on December 14, 1962. He was also the last of the final prisoners to board the boat leaving Alcatraz Island when the prison closed on March 21, 1963. Read more...
Facebook’s first office in Palo Alto was at 471 Emerson Street in Downtown North. Then still called The Facebook, the company moved here in January 2005 from the house in Los Altos where the early Facebook team lived and worked. On the wall outside the front door is a sign in the style of Facebook’s familiar thumbs up symbol that Read more...
The wooden garage where, in 1938, Dave Packard and Bill Hewlett worked on the first electronic products for what would become their Hewlett-Packard business, is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. As it is in a residential neighborhood, the HP Garage is not open for public tours but it is possible to view and photograph the property and Read more...
The LA Galaxy MLS soccer team plays its home games at the Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly called the Home Depot Center and the StubHub Center) in Carson, California, 15 miles south of Los Angeles. The stadium is part of a multi-sports complex located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Read more...
The Los Angeles River begins at the confluence of Bell Creek and Arroyo Calabasas (also known as Calabasas Creek) at Owensmouth Avenue and Bassett Street in Canoga Park, Los Angeles. Read more...