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  • Where are Google’s headquarters?

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    Google’s global headquarters are located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California. Known as the Googleplex, Google first leased office space on the corporate campus in 2003 from Silicon Graphics, Inc. before purchasing the buildings in 2006. Read more...
  • Where is Shirley Temple buried?

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    Former child actress and US diplomat Shirley Temple Black was interred in the Adobe Creek Mausoleum at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Alto. She died on February 10th, 2014 aged 85 years old. Read more...
  • Can you bring drinks into Shoreline Amphitheatre?

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    Guests may take water into Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View provided it is in a single factory-sealed plastic bottle no bigger than one gallon (or 4 liters), but alcohol or any other beverage is not permitted. Entry with empty aluminium or plastic water bottles is allowed, which can be filled at water refill stations by the main restrooms. Glass containers Read more...
  • Is there a McLaren dealership in San Francisco?

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    McLaren San Francisco is actually located in Palo Alto at El Camino Real and Arastradero Road, some 35 miles south of San Francisco. The dealership offers new and used car sales and service facilities. Read more...
  • Does Google own Moffett Field?

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    Google does not own Moffett Field. The site, between Mountain View and Sunnyvale, is on federal property controlled by NASA. In 2014, Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures LLC entered into a 60-year lease on a 1,000 acre portion of the NASA Ames Research Center site that includes Moffett Federal Air Base, the three large aircraft hangars, and golf course. The corporation Read more...
  • Where is the Facebook House in Los Altos?

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    After spending the summer of 2004 at a rented house in Palo Alto, the early Facebook team decamped to a new rented property on Westbrook Avenue in Los Altos, California. Dubbed Casa Facebook, the company was based here from September 2004 to January 2005, during the period that site reached 1 million users for the first time and was still Read more...
  • Where is the Facebook House in Palo Alto?

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    During the summer of 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook co-founders rented 819 La Jennifer Way in Palo Alto as their first base in Silicon Valley. A small team of coders worked here on development of the early site, and while there, Facebook raised its first external investment. This period was a central storyline in the movie The Social Network. Read more...
  • Where did Jeremy Lin grow up?

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    Jeremy Lin’s childhood home was on Louis Road in Palo Alto, California. Read more...
  • Where are Tesla’s headquarters?

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    The corporate headquarters of electric carmaker and renewable energy technology company Tesla are located on Deer Creek Road on the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, California. In addition to Tesla’s corporate offices, the site houses engineering and research staff and a powertrain manufacturing facility. Tesla relocated here in 2009 from its previous headquarters in San Carlos. The complex was Read more...
  • Where did James Franco grow up?

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    James Franco’s childhood home is on Ramona Street in Palo Alto, California. Read more...
  • Where is the Nikola Tesla statue in Palo Alto?

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    A bronze statue of Nikola Tesla stands on Birch Avenue in Palo Alto at the intersection with Sheridan Avenue. The statue of the Serbian-American engineer and inventor was sculpted by Terry Guyer following a crowdfunding campaign and was unveiled December 7th, 2013. The statue serves as a free public wi-fi hotspot and also contains a time capsule to be opened Read more...
  • What is the castellated tower on Old Page Mill Road?

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    Frenchman’s Tower on Old Page Mill Road in Palo Alto is a doorless red brick folly built in 1875 by Frenchman Paulin Caperon, also known as Peter Coutts. Now empty, with windows bricked-up after years of vandalism, the tower reportedly once housed his library on the first floor and a water tank on the second floor for irrigation. The land is now Read more...
  • Is the Gamble Garden open to the public?

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    Yes, The Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden in Old Palo Alto is free and open to the public every day during daylight hours. The historic house and 2.5-acre garden, located on Waverley Street and Churchill Avenue were owned by Elizabeth Gamble, granddaughter of the co-founder of Procter & Gamble. On her death in 1981, aged ninety two, the property was bequeathed Read more...
  • What sports does Stanford have?

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    Stanford University has the following varsity sports teams, which compete as the Stanford Cardinal: Women's Sports Men's Sports Basketball Baseball Beach volleyball Basketball Cross country Cross country Golf Football Gymnastics Golf Lacrosse Gymnastics Rowing Soccer Soccer Swimming & diving Softball Tennis Swimming & diving Track and field Tennis Water polo Track and field Volleyball Water polo From the end of Read more...
  • Why is Stanford called the Cardinal?

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    Stanford University’s athletic teams are named the Cardinal after the teams’ main color, cardinal red. Reference to the Cardinal started around Stanford football team’s victory over Cal in the first Big Game on March 19th, 1892. Later, Stanford adopted the name Indians in 1930 along with a depiction of a native American as a mascot, often in stylized cartoon form. Read more...
  • Where was Super Bowl 1985 played?

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    The 1984 season Super Bowl XIX was played at Stanford Stadium, on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California on January 20th, 1985 between the Miami Dolphins and the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers won, defeating the Dolphins 38-16, and 49ers quarterback Joe Montana was named Super Bowl MVP. Read more...
  • How tall is the Hoover Tower?

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    Stanford University’s Hoover Tower is 285 feet (or 87 meters) tall. Read more...
  • Can you go up the Hoover Tower?

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    Stanford University’s Hoover Tower observation platform is open to the public, as are the exhibits of US President Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou Henry Hoover in the tower lobby. An elevator carries visitors to the 14th floor, where there is a 48-bell carillon and the observation platform with 360-degree views out over the Stanford campus. Except during academic holidays, Read more...
  • Why did Stanford change the name of Serra Mall?

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    Stanford University renamed Serra Mall to Jane Stanford Way in October 2019, in recognition of the harmful impacts on Native Americans of the California mission system established by the street’s namesake, the 18th century Roman Catholic missionary Father Junipero Serra. Changing the name of the pedestrian and bicycle mall was symbolic because it is also the official address of Stanford Read more...
  • Are all Stanford dorms coed?

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    All of Stanford’s residence halls are co-ed. In some houses, men and women live on separate floors, while in others they are on the same floor, and there are some houses that offer both options. Roth is a self-operated house on the Row and is the only all-female, non-Greek house on the Stanford campus. Read more...
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