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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.

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 X-ray science, chemistry, materials sciences, and astrophysics.

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.

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 owned by Stanford University, and a nearby plaque reads: Built by Peter Coutts as part of irrigation system begun in 1875. Declared County and State “Point of Interest” – 1969

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 previously a manufacturing facility occupied by Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies.

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.

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.

Tolls are paid in the westbound direction on Dumbarton Bridge between Fremont and Menlo Park. This follows the convention for all the area’s state-owned bridges that traffic headed towards the San Francisco peninsula pays a toll.

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.

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 assumed responsibility for operating and maintaining the site and agreed to renovate and improve the site’s distinctive hangar buildings. Google is using the facilities to support its research and development and technology innovation activities.

Foothills Park is only open to Palo Alto residents and their accompanied guests, and City of Palo Alto employees. Proof of residency must be produced upon entry and when requested by an official in the park. A government-issued photo ID is required along with acceptable proof of residential address. A California driver license is ideal as it confirms both identity and address. Commercial addresses and addresses outside of Palo Alto city limits are not acceptable, including East Palo Alto, Stanford, Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. The residency requirement dates back to the sale of the land to the City of Palo Alto in 1959 by Doctor Russel Lee, founder of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic, with a condition that it be preserved as open space. When Palo Alto’s proposal that the neighboring communities of Portola Valley and Los Altos Hills contribute towards the purchase was rejected, they imposed a residents-only policy when the park was opened in 1965. In one exception to the rule, non-Palo Alto residents may hike into Foothills Park from Pearson Arastradero Preserve or Los Trancos Open Space Preserve as part of the Bay to Ridge Trail.

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 known as Thefacebook. Mark Zuckerberg lived here during this time, along with Dustin Moskovitz, Sean Parker and other early Facebook employees. It was from here that Facebook moved into its first office in Palo Alto.

Former professional baseball player Barry Bonds’ childhood home is on Lyndhurst Avenue in San Carlos, California.

Tom Brady’s childhood home was on Portola Drive in San Mateo, California.

The 2015 season Super Bowl 50 was played at Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, California on February 7th, 2016 between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers. The Broncos won, defeating the Panthers 24–10, and Denver linebacker Von Miller was named Super Bowl MVP. As the 50th Super Bowl, the league named it Super Bowl 50 instead of Super Bowl L, breaking the tradition of numbering games with Roman numerals. Coldplay headlined the halftime show with special guest performers Beyoncé and Bruno Mars.

The San Francisco 49ers NFL football team plays its home games at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It has been the team’s home venue since 2014 having previously been based at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

The Intel Museum is located within Intel’s headquarters at 2200 Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara, California, near the Montague Expressway exit off Highway 101. Admission is free and it is open weekdays and Saturdays except holidays.

Tesla offers weekday guided tours of its Fremont factory to confirmed current owners of Tesla cars, and up to three guests. Tours last approximately 60 minutes and it is recommended that bookings are made some 3 to 5 weeks in advance. Bookings can be made by emailing FactoryTours@tesla.com and the registered owner’s name and car VIN will be required to confirm ownership.

YouTube was originally based on the Second Floor of 71 East 3rd Avenue in San Mateo, California, before it moved to new offices in San Bruno in 2008.

The Flintstone House is located on Berryessa Way in the town of Hillsborough, California. The cartoon-like appearance of the domed house, led to it gaining the popular nickname after The Flintstones animated TV sitcom from the 1960s. The distinctive house, constructed in 1976 to a design by architect William Nicholson, is visible from the Doran Memorial Bridge on I-280 where it crosses San Mateo Creek.