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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook lives on Webster Street in Palo Alto, California. Read more...

The City of Palo Alto prohibits smoking in public places, including workplaces, bars, restaurants, stores, and theaters. The ban extends to all commercial areas, including publicly-owned sidewalks, alleys, parking areas, and service areas such as taxi and bus stops, in the city’s commercial zones, including downtown Palo Alto, California Avenue business district, Town and County Shopping Center, and Stanford Shopping Read more...

The city of Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County, California. Palo Alto is the sixth most populous city in the County of Santa Clara and is in supervisorial District 5. Read more...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lives on Edgewood Drive in Palo Alto, California. 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...

James Franco was born at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California on April 19, 1978. Read more...

SLAC stands for Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the original name of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Stanford University operates SLAC for the U.S. Department of Energy DOE Office of Science and it adopted its current name in 2008 when it shifted from a focus on particle physics to a broader research program including Read more...

Stanford University is nicknamed The Farm because it was founded by Leland and Jane Stanford on the land of their Palo Alto stock farm. When the Stanfords’ only child, Leland Stanford Junior, died of typhoid fever at the age 15 years in 1884, they established the university in his memory. The Founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords was issued Read more...

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...

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...

KZSU is Stanford University’s radio station, broadcasting to the campus and wider Bay Area on 90.1 MHz FM and streaming online. The station broadcasts a mix of music, sports, news and public affairs programming, including live sports coverage of Stanford games and simulcasts of Palo Alto City Council meetings. Owned by the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, KZSU is Read more...

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...

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...

Stanford University’s Hoover Tower is 285 feet (or 87 meters) tall. Read more...

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...

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...

The Dish at Stanford University is a steerable radio telescope used for satellite calibrations, spacecraft command and telemetry, and radio astronomy measurements. Measuring approximately 150 feet (or 46 meters) in diameter, the steel and aluminum parabolic antenna was built in the early 1960s by the Stanford Research Institute with funding from the US Air Force to probe the scattering properties Read more...

James Franco’s childhood home is on Ramona Street in Palo Alto, California. Read more...

Jeremy Lin’s childhood home was on Louis Road in Palo Alto, California. Read more...

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...