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title: Palo Alto, California

text: include: Many nearby Silicon Valley companies, no longer primarily in Palo Alto, were once headquartered and experienced major growth in Palo Alto, including Google (now in Mountain View), Facebook (now in Menlo Park), and PayPal (now in San Jose). Palo Alto's retail and restaurant trade includes Stanford Shopping Center, an upscale open air shopping center established in 1955, and downtown Palo Alto, centered on University Avenue. Palo Alto is the location of the first street-level Apple Store, the first Apple mini store, the first West Coast Whole Foods Market store, and the first Victoria's Secret. According to the City's 2017

title: Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve

text: Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve The Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, known officially as the Baylands Nature Preserve, is the largest tract of undisturbed marshland remaining in the San Francisco Bay. Fifteen miles of multi-use trails provide access to a unique mixture of tidal and fresh water habitats. The preserve encompasses 1,940 acres in both Palo Alto and East Palo Alto, and is owned by the city of Palo Alto, California, United States. It is an important habitat for migratory shorebirds and is considered one of the best birdwatching spots on the West Coast. The Palo Alto Baylands is located

title: Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve

text: Bay. The interpretive center was renovated in 2017 and the boardwalk is scheduled for renovation in late 2028. Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve The Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, known officially as the Baylands Nature Preserve, is the largest tract of undisturbed marshland remaining in the San Francisco Bay. Fifteen miles of multi-use trails provide access to a unique mixture of tidal and fresh water habitats. The preserve encompasses 1,940 acres in both Palo Alto and East Palo Alto, and is owned by the city of Palo Alto, California, United States. It is an important habitat for migratory shorebirds and

title: Palo Alto, California

text: the 2010 census, the city's total resident population is 64,403. Palo Alto is one of the five most expensive cities in the United States to live in and its residents are among the highest educated in the country. Palo Alto is headquarters to a number of high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Space Systems/Loral, VMware, Tesla, Ford Research and Innovation Center, PARC, IDEO, Skype, Palantir Technologies, Houzz, and Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center. Palo Alto has also served as an incubator and as headquarters to several other prominent high-technology companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Logitech, Intuit, Pinterest, and PayPal. Prior

title: Palo Alto, California

text: of Pearson-Arastradero Preserve and Foothill Park both part of the Palo Alto park system and also large parts of the Los Trancos and Monte Bello Open Space Preserves part of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. The city extends as far as Skyline Boulevard along the ridge of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The northern more densely populated parcel is bordered by San Francisquito Creek (with Menlo Park and East Palo Alto in adjacent San Mateo County beyond) to the north, San Francisco Bay to the north-east, Mountain View, Los Altos, and Los Altos Hills to the east and south-east and

title: Palo Alto, California

text: time was attached to what is now College Terrace), but was incorporated in 1894 with the name Palo Alto. With Stanford's support, Palo Alto grew to the size of Mayfield. After long-running strife in Mayfield and a Mayfield ordinance banning saloons that took effect in January 1905, on July 2, 1925, Palo Alto voters approved the annexation of Mayfield and the two communities were officially consolidated on July 6, 1925. As a result Palo Alto has two downtown areas: one along University Avenue and one along California Avenue. The "Mayfield News" wrote its own obituary four days later: Palo Alto

title: Palo Alto High School

text: Palo Alto High School Palo Alto Senior High School, known locally as "Paly", is a public comprehensive high school located in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest high schools in the region. The school's property is adjacent to Stanford University. Paly has a rivalry with crosstown Gunn High School. 2015–16 In October 2014, a new Media Arts Center (MAC) was unveiled at Paly. The MAC is the hub of journalism at Palo Alto High School. These publications have a dedicated class associated with them. These publications are clubs but do not have

title: Palo Alto Weekly

text: Newsweeklies. They maintain Palo Alto Online and Palo Alto Wiki. The paper won many awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Palo Alto Weekly The Palo Alto Weekly is a weekly community newspaper in Palo Alto in the U.S. state of California. Owned by Embarcadero Media, it serves Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Stanford, East Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills. It was established in 1979 as an alternative to the town's daily newspaper, the "Peninsula Times Tribune", which ceased publishing in 1993. At that time, the "Weekly" expanded to twice-a-week. In 1995, a new daily, the "Palo

title: Palo Alto, California

text: "Palo Alto Daily Post" publishes six days a week. "Palo Alto Daily News", a unit of the San Jose Mercury News, publishes 5 days a week." Palo Alto Weekly" is published Fridays. "Palo Alto Times", a daily newspaper served Palo Alto and neighboring cities beginning in 1894. In 1979 it became the "Peninsula Times Tribune". The newspaper ceased publication in 1993. KDOW 1220 AM began broadcasting in 1949 as KIBE; it later became KDFC, simulcasting classical KDFC-FM. As KDOW it broadcasts a business news format. The transmitter is in East Palo Alto near the western approach to Dumbarton Bridge with

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: city's first full-service supermarket in 23 years. Starting in 2006, a large real estate investor, Page Mill Properties, purchased almost the entire west side of East Palo Alto and contested most of the city's rent control laws in what some claimed was a 'predatory equity scheme'. Page Mill left East Palo Alto in the fall of 2009 after defaulting on a $240-million bank loan. East Palo Alto is located in San Mateo County. Despite its name, it lies almost entirely north, and not east, of Palo Alto. (This may be explained by how directions on the Peninsula are traditionally defined

title: Palo Alto Weekly

text: Palo Alto Weekly The Palo Alto Weekly is a weekly community newspaper in Palo Alto in the U.S. state of California. Owned by Embarcadero Media, it serves Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Portola Valley, Stanford, East Palo Alto and Los Altos Hills. It was established in 1979 as an alternative to the town's daily newspaper, the "Peninsula Times Tribune", which ceased publishing in 1993. At that time, the "Weekly" expanded to twice-a-week. In 1995, a new daily, the "Palo Alto Daily News", began publishing. In 2008, a second daily, "The Daily Post", began in Palo Alto. In September 2009, the

title: Palo Alto, California

text: Palo Alto, California Palo Alto () is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Palo Alto means "tall tree" in Spanish; the city is named after a coastal redwood tree called El Palo Alto. The city was established by Leland Stanford Sr. when he founded Stanford University, following the death of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto includes portions of Stanford University and shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. As of

title: Palo Alto station

text: Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority proposed to relocate the bus plaza onto both sides of University Avenue. Palo Alto station is also a major transfer point for regional and local bus systems: Dumbarton Express, SamTrans, VTA, and some Marguerite buses stop in a bus plaza located northwest of the station building (adjacent to the southbound platform), with some Marguerite buses instead stopping south of the station building. Most other shuttles and some Marguerite buses stop near the northbound platform. Palo Alto station Palo Alto station (also called Palo Alto Transit Center) is an intermodal transit center located in Palo Alto,

title: Palo Alto, California

text: Valley. San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans) provides service to San Mateo County to the north but some lines include the Palo Alto Transit Center. The Stanford University Free Shuttle (Marguerite) provides a supplementary bus service between Stanford University and the Palo Alto Transit Center, and the Palo Alto Free Shuttle (Crosstown and Embarcadero), which circulates frequently, and provides service to major points in Palo Alto, including the main library, downtown, the Municipal Golf Course, the Palo Alto Transit Center, and both high schools. Cycling is a popular mode of transportation in Palo Alto. 9.5% of residents bicycle to work,

title: Palo Alto Art Center

text: The art center has an extensive volunteer program, with volunteers performing both regular and one-time tasks. Art Docents conduct free guided tours of the temporary exhibitions (Art Dialogues). Palo Alto Art Center Palo Alto Art Center is multi-purpose center for various art-related activities in the city of Palo Alto, California. The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation (PAACF) is the nonprofit that supports the Palo Alto Art Center. The Palo Alto Art Center when it was founded in 1971, was named the Palo Alto Community Cultural Center. The art center has many educational activities, such as weekly classes and special days.

title: Palo Alto Daily Post

text: to run two businesses," while the website said that "Giving away news online is a dumb way to do business." As of May 2018, "The Post" website does have news stories, but also recommends that readers get a copy of the print edition to read some stories not published online. Palo Alto Daily Post The Daily Post is a free newspaper in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2008 by the "Palo Alto Daily News's" founders, Dave Price and Jim Pavelich, who had sold that paper to new owners three years earlier. "The Post" is published Monday-Saturday and distributed in more

title: Palo Alto (2007 film)

text: Palo Alto (2007 film) Palo Alto is a 2007 independent film that is set in Palo Alto, California and was made by Brad Leong, Tony Vallone, and Daniel Engelhardt, three filmmakers who are locals of that city. The plot centers on four college freshmen on their last night of Thanksgiving Break, their first time back since leaving for school. They find that the old adage about absence making the heart grow fonder rings true in director Brad Leong's nostalgic comedy drama. Only then do they realize their small town, once seemingly boring and meaningless, has much more to offer than

title: Palo Alto Airport

text: in the area such as the Baylands Business Park adjacent and to south of the site and the structure now located at 1860 Embarcadero Road. The Harvey Gum Factory was demolished in 1982, based upon Palo Alto Planning Department records. In 2015 the City of Palo Alto took over operations from Santa Clara County, after a 50-year lease had ended. Note that though NAAS King City was built by an entity named "Palo Alto Airport Inc", it is not related to KPAO and located 100 miles further south. Palo Alto Airport Palo Alto Airport is a general aviation airport in

title: El Palo Alto

text: graffiti in August 2010, but was subsequently cleaned. El Palo Alto El Palo Alto () is a "Sequoia sempervirens" (coast redwood tree) located in El Palo Alto Park on the banks of San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, United States. As of July 2016, El Palo Alto is currently 110 feet (33.5 meters) in height, down from 162.2 feet (49.4 meters) in 1814, its top progressively dying from 1865 to 1955 from lowering of the water table so that its roots could no longer reach sustenance. The landmark redwood is 90 inches (2.3 meters) in diameter, and has a

title: El Palo Alto

text: El Palo Alto El Palo Alto () is a "Sequoia sempervirens" (coast redwood tree) located in El Palo Alto Park on the banks of San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto, California, United States. As of July 2016, El Palo Alto is currently 110 feet (33.5 meters) in height, down from 162.2 feet (49.4 meters) in 1814, its top progressively dying from 1865 to 1955 from lowering of the water table so that its roots could no longer reach sustenance. The landmark redwood is 90 inches (2.3 meters) in diameter, and has a crown spread of 40 feet (12 meters). In

title: Palo Alto, California

text: home sales price of $1,677,000. In 2010, Palo Alto ranked as the 2nd most expensive city in the United States, with a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home listing for $1.48 million on average. A primary driver of housing market values in Palo Alto is the political climate that is restricting new development in a city with a large jobs-to-housing imbalance and some of the most attractive jobs in the country. In addition, Palo Alto schools test at some of the highest levels in the Bay Area. Palo Alto is by some measures the most expensive college town in the United States. A

title: Palo Alto, California

text: the busiest single-runway general aviation airports in the country. It is used by many daily commuters who fly (usually in private single-engine aircraft) from their homes in the Central Valley to work in the Palo Alto area. Major airlines offer service at San Jose International Airport (SJC), about southeast, and San Francisco International Airport (SFO), about north. Train service is available via Caltrain with service between San Francisco and San Jose and extending to Gilroy. Caltrain has two regular stops in Palo Alto, the main one at the Palo Alto Station in downtown Palo Alto (local, limited, and express) and

title: Palo Alto station

text: on February 27, 2007 as a paid and unstaffed facility with 96 spaces. The bus plaza adjacent to the station building was renovated in 2005. from 2008 to 2009, Caltrain constructed the $35 million Palo Alto Stations Improvement Project at Palo Alto and California Avenue stations. At Palo Alto, the northern underpass was modified to make it accessible, allowing the nearby pedestrian level crossing to be closed. The platforms (shortened significantly since the station was built) were rebuilt and lengthened. New lighting, shelters, and message signs were installed. Palo Alto is the second-busiest Caltrain station after San Francisco, averaging 7,764

title: Palo Alto, California

text: the other at California Avenue (local and limited). A third, the Stanford station, located beside Alma Street at Embarcadero Road, is used to provide special services for occasional sports events (generally football) at Stanford Stadium. The main Palo Alto stop is the second most popular (behind 4th and King in San Francisco) on Caltrain's entire line. The Palo Alto Transit Center adjacent to the Palo Alto Train Station is the major bus hub for northern Santa Clara county. The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) provides primary bus service through Palo Alto with service to the south bay and Silicon

title: Palo Alto, California

text: the police department and the animal services organization. The Palo Alto Unified School District provides public education for most of Palo Alto. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, Palo Alto has a student-teacher ratio of 14.9, much lower than some surrounding communities. Juana Briones Elementary has a student/teacher ratio of 14.4. The school board meets at 7 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month; the meetings are open to the public and city, cast live on Channel 28. Channel 28 is operated by the Mid-peninsula Community Media Center in Palo Alto, which is affiliated with

title: Palo Alto University

text: Palo Alto University Palo Alto University (PAU) is a non-profit, private educational institution in Palo Alto, California, United States. It was founded in 1975 as the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (PGSP). Palo Alto University offers two undergraduate degree programs (Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Social Action and Bachelor of Science in Business Psychology) and four graduate programs: a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology as part of a consortium with Stanford University, and two master's degree programs: an M.A. in Counseling and an M.S. in Psychology. PAU subscribes to the practitioner-scientist training model, a variation

title: Palo Alto Airport

text: Palo Alto Airport Palo Alto Airport is a general aviation airport in the city of Palo Alto in Santa Clara County, California, USA, near the south end of San Francisco Bay on the western shore. It is among the busiest General Aviation airports in the United States, though the #1 rank belongs to Van Nuys Airport (KVNY) Palo Alto Airport covers and has one asphalt paved runway (13/31) measuring 2,443 × 70 ft. (745 × 21 m). First time pilots should familiarize themselves with the complex SF Bay Area airspace, especially the overlying SFO Class B and the abutting SJC

title: Palo Alto, California

text: the Alliance for Community Media. ACM represents over 2000 PEG channels in the US. Government-access television (GATV) Cable TV. Palo Alto students attend one of two high schools, Gunn High School or Palo Alto High School. There are also 3 middle schools, J.L.S., Jordan, and Terman. The Los Altos School District and Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District provide public education for the Monroe neighborhood portion of Palo Alto off El Camino Real south of Adobe Creek. The Palo Alto City Library has five branches, with a total of 265,000 items in their collections. The library's mission is to

title: Palo Alto station

text: Palo Alto station Palo Alto station (also called Palo Alto Transit Center) is an intermodal transit center located in Palo Alto, California. It is served by Caltrain regional rail service, SamTrans and Santa Clara VTA local bus service, Dumbarton Express regional bus service, the Stanford University Marguerite Shuttle, and several local shuttle services. Palo Alto is the second-busiest Caltrain station after San Francisco, averaging 7,764 weekday boardings by a 2018 count. The Caltrain station has two side platforms serving the two tracks of the Peninsula Subdivision, while the bus transfer plaza is located nearby. The San Francisco and San Jose

title: Palo Alto Art Center

text: Palo Alto Art Center Palo Alto Art Center is multi-purpose center for various art-related activities in the city of Palo Alto, California. The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation (PAACF) is the nonprofit that supports the Palo Alto Art Center. The Palo Alto Art Center when it was founded in 1971, was named the Palo Alto Community Cultural Center. The art center has many educational activities, such as weekly classes and special days. It also has exhibition galleries, where it hosts a number of temporary art exhibitions per year that focus on art and artists of the San Francisco Bay Area.

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: East Palo Alto, California East Palo Alto (abbreviated E.P.A.) is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of East Palo Alto was 28,155. It is situated on the San Francisco Peninsula, roughly halfway between the cities of San Francisco and San Jose. To the north and east is the San Francisco Bay, to the west is the city of Menlo Park, and to the south the city of Palo Alto. Despite being called "East" Palo Alto, the city is directly north of Palo Alto. While often incorrectly assumed to be part

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: Palo Alto; however, it does cause significant traffic backups at rush hour and the city is also affected by noise from events at the nearby Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. The Baylands Nature Preserve borders the city of East Palo Alto. The long trail along the marshland connects Mountain View, Palo Alto, and East Palo and it is used by bike commuters every day. East Palo Alto, California East Palo Alto (abbreviated E.P.A.) is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of East Palo Alto was 28,155. It is situated on

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: dot-com boom of the late 1990s largely bypassed East Palo Alto. The Ravenswood City School District, which serves East Palo Alto and part of adjoining Menlo Park, has struggled with low academic performance. Eventually, however, the Peninsula's shortage of land and soaring property prices meant that even East Palo Alto became an option for urban regeneration. Until recently, gentrification has been rare in East Palo Alto. East Palo Alto also includes a small piece of land across the Bayshore Freeway (US 101) from the shopping center, a roughly triangular area between US 101 and San Francisquito Creek, formerly the site

title: Palo Alto, California

text: that now cost anywhere from $800,000 to well in excess of $40 million, much of Palo Alto's housing stock is in the style of California mid-century middle-class suburbia. It has highly rated public schools (see: Gunn High School and Palo Alto High School), a high quality of life, numerous parks and open space reserves, and a vibrant downtown area. The median home sale price for all of Palo Alto was more than $1.2 million in 2007 and $1.4 million in July 2009. Palo Alto ranked in as the 5th most expensive city in the United States , with an average

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: from Google and Facebook, have begun to eliminate the cultural and economic differences between the two cities. East Palo Alto and Palo Alto share both telephone area codes and postal ZIP codes. 43% of East Palo Alto's residents were African Americans in 1990, which was the result of redlining practices and racial deed restrictions in Palo Alto. Latinos now constitute about 65% of the total population, while the proportion of African Americans has decreased to about 15%. A small minority of Pacific Islanders also reside in East Palo Alto, most of Tongan, Samoan and Indo-Fijian origin.. East Palo Alto has

title: Palo Alto University

text: in 2006. According to "U.S. News & World Report", the PAU-Stanford Consortium ranks 87th in the nation for best health schools by category of clinical psychology. Students from the PAU Ph.D Clinical Psychology and PAU-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium program receive initial clinical practical training at the Gronowski Center, a mental health clinic hosted and partially funded by Palo Alto University that provides low-fee services on a sliding scale to the Bay Area community. Palo Alto University Palo Alto University (PAU) is a non-profit, private educational institution in Palo Alto, California, United States. It was founded in 1975 as the Pacific Graduate

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: Alto. In 2014, the Sequoia Union High School District discontinued the practice of busing. Today, East Palo Alto residents are zoned to Menlo-Atherton High School in Atherton. Through the district Open Enrollment process, some residents choose to attend Carlmont, Woodside High School in Woodside, or Sequoia High School in Redwood City. Alternatively, East Palo Alto Academy (opened in 2001 as East Palo Alto High School) and East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy (opened 2006) are charter high schools in East Palo Alto. There is also a private high school, Eastside College Preparatory, which opened in 1996. Every year, parents of incoming

title: Palo Alto, California

text: at 367 Addison Avenue. Hewlett Packard recently restored the house and garage. A second historic district on Ramona Street can be found downtown between University and Hamilton Avenues. The Palo Alto Chinese School is the oldest in the entire Bay Area. It is also home to the second oldest opera company in California, the West Bay Opera. Palo Alto, California is also home to a long standing baseball tradition: The Palo Alto Oaks. The Palo Alto Oaks are a collegiate, summer baseball club that have been in the Bay Area since 1950, 8 years longer than the San Francisco Giants.

title: Palo Alto, California

text: by two major freeways, Highway 101 and Interstate 280, and is traversed by the Peninsula's main north-south boulevard, El Camino Real (SR 82). The city is also served indirectly by State Route 84 which traverses the Dumbarton Bridge to the north. There are no parking meters in Palo Alto, and all municipal parking lots and multi-level parking structures are free but limited to two or three hours per weekday 8am–5pm. Downtown Palo Alto has recently added many new lots to fill the overflow of vehicles. Palo Alto is served by Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County (KPAO), one of

title: Palo Alto, Mississippi

text: part of the community. Palo Alto, Mississippi Palo Alto (also Savannah) is a ghost town in Clay County, Mississippi. Established c. 1846, it is located at (33.6806738, -88.8000525) at an elevation of 279 feet (85 m). In 1876, Palo Alto was the site of an incident in which a group of heavily armed white men brought a piece of field artillery and broke up a meeting of the Republican Club in order to suppress black voters. In 1987, the townsite was listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name of "Town of Palo Alto." Nearly were listed

title: Palo Alto, Mississippi

text: Palo Alto, Mississippi Palo Alto (also Savannah) is a ghost town in Clay County, Mississippi. Established c. 1846, it is located at (33.6806738, -88.8000525) at an elevation of 279 feet (85 m). In 1876, Palo Alto was the site of an incident in which a group of heavily armed white men brought a piece of field artillery and broke up a meeting of the Republican Club in order to suppress black voters. In 1987, the townsite was listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name of "Town of Palo Alto." Nearly were listed on the Register as

title: Palo Alto, California

text: power of 5,000 watts daytime and 145 watts nighttime. The Midpeninsula Community Media Center provides public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv channels 26, 28, 29, 30 and 75. Among other programs, Palo Alto Institute runs a unique film festival, the Palo Alto International Film Festival, that focuses on the ways in which new technologies influence and are influenced by artistic revolution in media. The movie "Palo Alto" (2007) was filmed in the town and many landmarks can be seen in the background but the plot could be centered in any smaller town or city. Palo Alto is served

title: Palo Alto College

text: and supportive learning environment, which promotes the intellectual, cultural, economic, and social life of the community. Palo Alto College fulfills its function by offering the following: The college also provides several programs in logistics and supply chain management education and training at the associate degree and certificate levels. Palo Alto College Palo Alto College is a community college located in the San Antonio, Texas, USA area. It is one of five separately accredited colleges in the Alamo Colleges District. Palo Alto College was first approved by ACCD Board of Trustees on February 21, 1983 and chartered by the Texas Legislature

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: by having Caltrain as north-south. Caltrain runs northwest-southeast in Palo Alto, so "east" would mean northeast. In addition, downtown Palo Alto is in the northwest corner of the city, so East Palo Alto is indeed northeast of downtown Palo Alto.) It is bordered on the west by Menlo Park, to the south by Palo Alto, and to the east by the San Francisco Bay. The San Francisquito Creek defines its southern edge. To the north are Ravenswood Point and the western end of the Dumbarton Bridge in Menlo Park. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a

title: Palo Alto, California

text: enable people to explore library resources to enrich their lives with knowledge, information, and enjoyment. For Palo Alto library card holders, the main library web page also offers links to primary source databases with collections of magazine, newspaper, and other print articles. The Palo Alto City Library is also a member of the Northern California Digital Library, which allows card holders to browse and download the digital resources made available. Library cards are freely available for California residents. The Mitchell Park Library, the largest one in Palo Alto, was under construction beginning in 2010, but reopened in December 2014. The

title: Palo Alto Chinese School

text: Palo Alto Chinese School Founded in 1963, Palo Alto Chinese School (PACS) is located in Palo Alto, California and is the oldest Chinese school in the San Francisco Bay Area. The school was formed with a merger between a Cantonese school and a Mandarin school. The history of the Cantonese school could be traced back to 1960, when the Santa Clara Overseas Chinese School was founded. School hours are 7:00PM - 9:00PM on Friday nights at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, 480 E. Meadow Dr, Palo Alto, from late August to early June. Annual tuition is $320 (new student and

title: Palo Alto Medical Foundation

text: five geographical divisions: Santa Cruz, Palo Alto, Camino, Alameda and Mills Peninsula. Palo Alto Medical Foundation The Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Health Care, Research and Education (PAMF) is a not-for-profit health care organization with medical offices in more than 15 cities in the Bay Area. It has more than 900 physicians and had over 2 million patient visits in 2008. It is rated as one of California’s top medical groups. The history of the group dates back to 1930, when Dr. Russel Van Arsdale Lee founded the Palo Alto Medical Clinic (PAMC). Within a few years, several physicians joined

title: Palo Alto Chinese School

text: Palo Alto Chinese School is a member of the Association of Northern California Chinese Schools (ANCCS). Palo Alto Chinese School Founded in 1963, Palo Alto Chinese School (PACS) is located in Palo Alto, California and is the oldest Chinese school in the San Francisco Bay Area. The school was formed with a merger between a Cantonese school and a Mandarin school. The history of the Cantonese school could be traced back to 1960, when the Santa Clara Overseas Chinese School was founded. School hours are 7:00PM - 9:00PM on Friday nights at Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, 480 E. Meadow

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: of the city of Palo Alto, East Palo Alto has always been a separate entity since its founding as an unincorporated community until its incorporation in June 1983. It is also in San Mateo County, while Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County. The two cities are separated only by San Francisquito Creek and, largely, the Bayshore Freeway (the vast majority of East Palo Alto is northeast of the freeway, while all of the residential part of Palo Alto is southwest of the freeway). The revitalization projects in 2000, and high income high-tech professionals moving into new developments, including employees

title: Palo Alto, California

text: day was on February 3, 1998. Measurable snowfall is very rare in downtown Palo Alto, but fell on January 21, 1962. It is more common in the higher but rural sections of the town. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Palo Alto has a warm-summer mediterranean climate (Csb) Palo Alto was incorporated in 1894. In 1909, a municipal charter created a local government consisting of a fifteen-member City Council, with responsibilities for various governmental functions delegated to appointed committees. In 1950, the City adopted a Council–manager government. Several appointed committees continue to advise the City Council on specialized issues,

title: Palo Alto Networks

text: Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NYSE: PANW) is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves 50,000+ organizations in 150+ countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite cybersecurity conference. The company's mission statement is "to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks". Palo Alto Networks is listed 8th in

title: Palo Alto College

text: Palo Alto College Palo Alto College is a community college located in the San Antonio, Texas, USA area. It is one of five separately accredited colleges in the Alamo Colleges District. Palo Alto College was first approved by ACCD Board of Trustees on February 21, 1983 and chartered by the Texas Legislature on March 19, 1983 - the official date of its founding. The college began with 231 students in high schools and military installations with administrative offices located at Billy Mitchell Village. As of 2007-2008, the college had 7,662 students enrolled. The college is set on nearly of land.

title: Palo Alto, California

text: majority of Stanford students live on campus. Palo Alto serves as a central economic focal point of the Silicon Valley, and is home to more than 7,000 businesses employing more than 98,000 people. Many prominent technology firms reside in the Stanford Research Park on Page Mill Road, while nearby Sand Hill Road in the adjacent city of Menlo Park is a notable hub of venture capitalists. The city's economy generally follows the economic trends of the rest of the Silicon Valley. Well-known companies and research facilities headquartered in Palo Alto include: Other notable companies with significant presences in Palo Alto

title: Palo Alto, California

text: called SBC and Pacific Bell. One of the earliest central office facilities switching Palo Alto calls is the historic Davenport central office (CO) at 529 Bryant Street. The building was sold and is now the home of the Palo Alto Internet Exchange. The former CO building is marked by a bronze plaque and is located on the north side of Bryant Street between University Avenue and Hamilton Avenue. It was called Davenport after the exchange name at the introduction of dial telephone service in Palo Alto. For example, modern numbers starting with 325- were Davenport 5 in the 1950s and

title: East Palo Alto, California

text: to the east across San Francisco Bay, and carries State Route 84 into East Palo Alto toward U.S. 101. Public transportation is provided by SamTrans. The Ravenswood City School District has its headquarters in East Palo Alto. District K-8 schools include Costaño Elementary School, Belle Haven Community School, and James Flood Magnet School. 5–8 schools include Cesar Chávez Academy and Ronald McNair Academy. San Francisco 49ers Academy, a 6–8 district school, is in East Palo Alto. K-5 schools in East Palo Alto include Brentwood Academy (a district charter) and Green Oaks Academy. Ravenswood Child Development Center is in East Palo

title: Palo Alto Daily Post

text: Palo Alto Daily Post The Daily Post is a free newspaper in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2008 by the "Palo Alto Daily News's" founders, Dave Price and Jim Pavelich, who had sold that paper to new owners three years earlier. "The Post" is published Monday-Saturday and distributed in more than a dozen communities on the San Francisco Peninsula. The paper covers local news and carries reports from the Associated Press. "The Post" was founded by Price and Pavelich, originally occupying the "Daily News's" old office at 324 High Street in downtown Palo Alto, which the "News" had vacated when

title: Palo Alto station

text: the National Register of Historic Places as Palo Alto Southern Pacific Railroad Depot in 1996. The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad opened from San Francisco to Mayfield in 1863, and to San Jose the next year. Several decades later, Leland Stanford founded the new town of Palo Alto to the north of Mayfield. Palo Alto station was opened in 1890 to serve the new Stanford University. The original structure had open sides supported by posts; it was enclosed in 1893 as a waiting room. A temporary building for ticket sales, telegraphy, and baggage was constructed between it and a

title: El Palo Alto

text: and Peninsula cities like Palo Alto began obtaining water from the Hetch Hetchy system. El Palo Alto was unable to access the lowered groundwater, as redwoods are typically shallow rooted. By the mid-1960s the tree was in severe decline, leading to successive die-off of the treetop, until the water table began to recover in the late 1990s. Efforts to restore the tree's health by the Southern Pacific Railroad, the City of Palo Alto and local citizens included progressive pruning of the dying treetop, addition of soil and mulch at the tree’s base, removal of dead limbs, pesticide spraying and installation

title: Palo Alto (short story collection)

text: Palo Alto (short story collection) Palo Alto is a collection of linked short stories by American actor and writer James Franco. The collection was published on October 19, 2010, by Scribner's. The stories are about teenagers and their experiments with vices and their struggles with their families. The book is named after his hometown of Palo Alto, California, and is dedicated to many of the writers he worked with at Brooklyn College. Inspired by some of Franco's own teenage memories, and memories written and submitted by high school students at Palo Alto Senior High School, the stories describe life in

title: Palo Alto, California

text: to identify each utility's side of the shared cross arms. Palo Alto has an ongoing community debate about the city providing fiber optic connectivity to all residences. A series of pilot programs have been proposed. One proposal called for the city to install dark fiber, which would be made live by a contractor. Services traditionally attributed to a cable television provider were sold to a regulated commercial concern. Previously the cable system was operated by a cooperative called Palo Alto Cable Coop. The former Regional Bell Operating Company in Palo Alto was Pacific Telephone, now called AT&T Inc., and previously

title: Palo Alto, California

text: father to twenty-nine children, still lived just south of Palo Alto, near the location of the present-day San Antonio Shopping Center in Mountain View. Many of the Spanish names in the Palo Alto area represent the local heritage, descriptive terms and former residents. Pena Court, Miranda Avenue, which was essentially Foothill Expwy, was the married name of Juana Briones and the name occurs in Courts and Avenues and other street names in Palo Alto and Mountain View in the quadrant where she owned vast areas between Stanford University, Grant Road in Mountain View and west of El Camino Real. Yerba

title: Palo Alto College

text: Palo Alto College has over 100 staff members and full-time faculty members. PAC’s original complex included 11 buildings and 26 classrooms. The new college attracted students from throughout Bexar County and adjoining counties. In 1991, Palo Alto College was named the fastest growing college. Consistent increases in enrollment have prompted physical growth, specifically through the construction of new facilities for added classroom space as well as sports and recreation. As a public comprehensive community college, Palo Alto College provides exemplary, accessible education and training to a diverse and aspiring community. The College educates, nurtures, and inspires students through a dynamic

title: Palo Alto, Pennsylvania

text: Palo Alto, Pennsylvania Palo Alto is a borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,052 at the 2000 census. The borough stretches along the south bank of the Schuylkill River. Bacon Street is the main street of town. The borough shares Pottsville's ZIP Code, telephone exchanges, and school district. The borough maintains its own fire department and police department. Palo Alto is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of , all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,052 people, 444 households, and

title: Palo Alto, California

text: House of Representatives, Palo Alto is in . The 2010 United States Census reported that Palo Alto had a population of 64,403. The population density was 2,497.5 people per square mile (964.3/km²). The racial makeup of Palo Alto was 41,359 (64.2%) White, 17,461 (27.1%) Asian, 1,197 (1.9%) African American, 121 (0.2%) Native American, 142 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 1,426 (2.2%) from other races, and 2,697 (4.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3,974 persons (6.2%). The Census reported that 63,820 people (99.1% of the population) lived in households, 205 (0.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters,

title: Kee House (Palo Alto, California)

text: Kee House (Palo Alto, California) The Kee House is a historic house located at 2310 Yale St. in Palo Alto, California. Built in 1889, it is one of the oldest houses in Palo Alto and the oldest surviving building from Mayfield, a village that predated Palo Alto and was later annexed into the city. The house was one of the first built in the College Terrace tract, a middle-class residential area named for its proximity to Stanford University. The two-story house has an Italianate design with Eastlake elements. The front and side porches feature carved brackets and turned posts; the

title: Palo Alto, California

text: LG Chem, Sony, Hitachi and Sanyo. The companies were accused of unfair business practices. They were alleged to have fixed prices of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are commonly used in laptops, smartphones and GPS devices, and Palo Alto has purchased a lot of such devices. Palo Alto's case will be consolidated with many others brought against the batteries producers in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The companies are also facing at least 10 lawsuits in New Jersey. The city is represented by Rene Sloan Holtzman & Sakai, LLP, and Green & Noblin, P.C. Palo Alto,

title: Palo Alto High School

text: tennis, volleyball, water polo, and wrestling teams. The school is also home to several athletic clubs, including an Ultimate Frisbee Club. Palo Alto High School Palo Alto Senior High School, known locally as "Paly", is a public comprehensive high school located in Palo Alto, California. It was founded in 1898 and is one of the oldest high schools in the region. The school's property is adjacent to Stanford University. Paly has a rivalry with crosstown Gunn High School. 2015–16 In October 2014, a new Media Arts Center (MAC) was unveiled at Paly. The MAC is the hub of journalism at

title: Palo Alto Unified School District

text: citizenship classes are free and other classes charge a very low fee. Herb Wong, jazz expert and educator, was a teacher at the adult school. The Palo Alto Adult School is part of the North Santa Clara County Student Transition Consortium (STC), with nearby De Anza College, Foothill College, Mountain View Los Altos Adult Education, and Sunnyvale-Cupertino Adult Education. The Adult School offers classes at seven locations within the borders of the Palo Alto Unified School District. At its peak in 1967, Palo Alto had 22 K-6 elementary schools. Of those, these schools are closed: The Palo Alto Unified Board

title: Palo Alto County, Iowa

text: census of Palo Alto County. † "county seat" Palo Alto County, Iowa Palo Alto County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2010 census, the population was 9,421. The county seat is Emmetsburg. It is named for the first battlefield victory in the Mexican–American War. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.0%) is water. The 2010 census recorded a population of 9,421 in the county, with a population density of . There were 4,628 housing units, of which 3,994 were occupied.

title: Palo Alto Medical Foundation

text: Palo Alto Medical Foundation The Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Health Care, Research and Education (PAMF) is a not-for-profit health care organization with medical offices in more than 15 cities in the Bay Area. It has more than 900 physicians and had over 2 million patient visits in 2008. It is rated as one of California’s top medical groups. The history of the group dates back to 1930, when Dr. Russel Van Arsdale Lee founded the Palo Alto Medical Clinic (PAMC). Within a few years, several physicians joined Dr. Lee, including Edward F. Roth, Blake C. Wilbur, Herbert Niebel, Milton

title: Ravenswood High School (East Palo Alto)

text: Ravenswood High School (East Palo Alto) Ravenswood High School was a public high school located in East Palo Alto, California, United States. Opened in 1958, it served the East Palo Alto area of San Mateo County until its closure in 1976. In 1958 its enrollment was 629 students. During the existence of Ravenswood, East Palo Alto was the low-income area in the shadow of its more affluent neighbors Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto. The city of Palo Alto, while adjacent and sharing the same zip code, is a completely different city in Santa Clara County. Ravenswood was part of

title: Ravenswood High School (East Palo Alto)

text: 2002, it was memorialized in a mural created by the Mural, Music and the Arts Project at the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula in East Palo Alto, called "Remembering Ravenswood: East Palo Alto's Educational Sacrifice". Ravenswood High School (East Palo Alto) Ravenswood High School was a public high school located in East Palo Alto, California, United States. Opened in 1958, it served the East Palo Alto area of San Mateo County until its closure in 1976. In 1958 its enrollment was 629 students. During the existence of Ravenswood, East Palo Alto was the low-income area in the shadow

title: Palo Alto Unified School District

text: of Education (often known as the Palo Alto Unified School Board) consists of five members elected at-large. The current members of the school board are Melissa Baten Caswell, Ken Dauber, Jennifer DiBrienza, Terry Godfrey, and Todd Collins. On November 6, 2018, Ken Dauber was reelected to a second term, and Shounak Dharap was elected to replace Terry Godfrey. Palo Alto Unified School District The Palo Alto Unified School District is a public school district located near Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It consists of twelve primary schools, three middle schools, two high schools, and an adult school. The district

title: Kee House (Palo Alto, California)

text: rear entrance originally had a similar porch. The hip roof features double brackets and a frieze below its eaves. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1985. Kee House (Palo Alto, California) The Kee House is a historic house located at 2310 Yale St. in Palo Alto, California. Built in 1889, it is one of the oldest houses in Palo Alto and the oldest surviving building from Mayfield, a village that predated Palo Alto and was later annexed into the city. The house was one of the first built in the College Terrace

title: Palo Alto Unified School District

text: Palo Alto city councilwoman because the elder Terman, like David Starr Jordan, espoused eugenics. VTA's community bus routes 88, 88L and 88M stop in front of the school, only operating on school days. Palo Alto Adult School (PAAS) is a California Adult School established by the Palo Alto Unified School District in 1921. It offers a variety of classes at a number of schools. Its main office is located in the Tower Building at Palo Alto High School. There are no restrictions on enrollment in regards to a student's place of residence or citizenship. English as a second language and

title: What Do Kids Know?

text: 2010. What Do Kids Know? What Do Kids Know? Is a brand new family entertainment show exclusive to Watch, where celebrities and children celebrate the humour and bewilderment of Britain's generation gap. Hosted by Rufus Hound with resident team captains Joe Swash and Sara Cox. It has similarities to Small Talk. The show takes advantage of the communication gap between kids and adults often with hilarious outcomes. The teams consists of two members an adult, who is also the team captain and a child, aged 7–12. This often causes crossed wires and much hilarity. The two resident team captains are

title: What Do Kids Know?

text: What Do Kids Know? What Do Kids Know? Is a brand new family entertainment show exclusive to Watch, where celebrities and children celebrate the humour and bewilderment of Britain's generation gap. Hosted by Rufus Hound with resident team captains Joe Swash and Sara Cox. It has similarities to Small Talk. The show takes advantage of the communication gap between kids and adults often with hilarious outcomes. The teams consists of two members an adult, who is also the team captain and a child, aged 7–12. This often causes crossed wires and much hilarity. The two resident team captains are Joe

title: Palo Alto Networks

text: to be responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee in 2016. The malware communicates with its command and control server with email and uses encryption to evade detection. Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks, Inc. (NYSE: PANW) is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Its core products are a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to cover other aspects of security. The company serves 50,000+ organizations in 150+ countries, including 85 of the Fortune 100. It is home to the Unit 42 threat research team and hosts the Ignite

title: Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park

text: panels. Palo Alto Battlefield was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 19, 1960. It became Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site on November 10, 1978, with a boundary change authorized on June 23, 1992. On March 30, 2009 the site was redesignated a National Historical Park, and the park was expanded to include the Resaca de la Palma Battlefield, which is a separate 34 acres inside the Brownsville city limits. Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park near Brownsville, Texas is a National Park Service unit which preserves the grounds of the May 8,

title: El Palo Alto

text: of a pipe up its trunk to bring water to mist the top of the tree. Although the tree stands today at only 68% of its former stature, it enjoys greater health than nearly a century ago. A 1999 horticultural appraisal of El Palo Alto, conducted in accordance with the Guide for Plant Appraisal authored by the Council of Tree and Landscape Appraisers and published by the International Society of Arboriculture, valued the tree at $55,600.00. In 2004, seedlings from El Palo Alto were planted in the American Forests Historic Tree Nursery in Jacksonville, Florida. The tree was spray-painted with

title: Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve

text: Byxbee Park Hills area of Baylands was named for John Fletcher Byxbee Jr., Palo Alto City Engineer from 1906 to 1941. Byxbee was a member of the first graduating class of Palo Alto High School. At Stanford University he studied under C. D. Marx, founder of the City of Palo Alto utilities system, and graduated with a B.A. in Civil Engineering with the class of 1902. At first named Assistant City Engineer, he became City Engineer in 1906. Lucy Evans graduated from Stanford in 1929 and taught at Mayfield School for 23 years. She fought for the preservation of the

title: Palo Alto (2007 film)

text: in her aging automobile looking for Audrey. The four boys' stories continue throughout the night, briefly intersecting, before the sun rises and they all leave home again. Palo Alto (2007 film) Palo Alto is a 2007 independent film that is set in Palo Alto, California and was made by Brad Leong, Tony Vallone, and Daniel Engelhardt, three filmmakers who are locals of that city. The plot centers on four college freshmen on their last night of Thanksgiving Break, their first time back since leaving for school. They find that the old adage about absence making the heart grow fonder rings

title: Palo Alto University

text: PGSP officially reincorporated, changed its name to Palo Alto University, and moved to a new campus on Arastradero Road, formerly occupied by the American Institutes for Research, which it had purchased the previous year. The undergraduate programs at Palo Alto University are offered in partnership with Silicon Valley area community colleges like De Anza College, Foothill College, and the College of San Mateo. The bachelor's degree completion programs are created for community college students wishing to transfer to a Bachelor's program and for college graduates wishing to re-specialize in psychology or business psychology. PAU offers an education in psychology for

title: Palo Alto University

text: Mental Health emphasis fulfills all requirements for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) licensure in California and select U.S. states and countries. In January 2017, both emphases of Palo Alto University's M.A. in Counseling degree were awarded CACREP accreditation. The M.S. in Psychology, is designed to prepare students to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology or careers in community college teaching, research, and related business and nonprofit fields and is taught through distance learning (with the one-week summer intensive). Both master's programs have online and in-person options. Palo Alto University's Ph.D. program has been accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA)

title: Palo Alto Networks

text: the Forbes Digital 100. In June 2018, former Google and SoftBank executive Nikesh Arora joined the company as Chairman and CEO. Palo Alto Networks was founded in 2005 by Israeli-American Nir Zuk, a former engineer from Check Point and NetScreen Technologies, and was the principal developer of the first stateful inspection firewall and the first intrusion prevention system. When asked why he started Palo Alto Networks, Zuk cited his objective of solving a problem enterprises were facing with existing network security solutions: the inability to safely enable employees to use modern applications, which entailed developing a firewall that could identify

title: The Daily News (Palo Alto)

text: The Daily News (Palo Alto) The Daily News, originally the Palo Alto Daily News, is a free newspaper owned by MediaNews Group and located in Menlo Park. It was formerly published seven days a week and at one point had a circulation of 67,000 (a figure that included five zoned editions which no longer exist). The "Daily News" is distributed in red newspaper racks and in stores, coffee shops, restaurants, schools and major workplaces. As of April 7, 2009 the paper ceased to be published as "The Palo Alto Daily News" and was consolidated with other San Francisco Peninsula "Daily

title: Palo Alto Unified School District

text: Palo Alto Unified School District The Palo Alto Unified School District is a public school district located near Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It consists of twelve primary schools, three middle schools, two high schools, and an adult school. The district itself was founded on March 20, 1893, with the first school opening in September of that year. Enrollment grew until it reached a peak of 15,576 students in 1967. Afterwards, enrollment declined sharply, forcing the district to close many schools, including . The closing of Jordan Middle School was the reason for the renaming of Wilbur Junior High

title: Palo Alto Networks

text: to the full capabilities of both traditional firewalls and intrusion prevention systems): Support for in-line deployment without disrupting network operations, application awareness and full stack visibility allowing for fine-grained detection and control of applications, extra-firewall intelligence, and upgrade paths. Starting in 2011, Gartner began listing Palo Alto Networks as a leader on its enterprise firewall Magic Quadrant. The company debuted on the NYSE in July 20, 2012, raising $260 million with its initial public offering, which was the 4th-largest tech IPO of 2012. In 2014, Palo Alto Networks founded the Cyber Threat Alliance with Fortinet, Mcafee, and Symantec, a not-for-profit

title: Palo Alto Airport

text: of the conflict with airline traffic in San Jose International Airport. The original Palo Alto airport was located adjacent to Stanford stadium and built in the late 1920s . Between 1934 and 1936, a new Palo Alto Airport was built at the airport's current location. In 1989 a comprehensive area history analysis was conducted by Earth Metrics, based upon review of extant aerial photographs.(Earth Metrics, 1989) The photo reconnaissance flights were flown in 1956, 1960, 1973, 1974 and 1980 by the U.S. Department of the Interior, and are archived by the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. Comparison of

title: Palo Alto, California

text: used bicycles and mopeds. The city was among the first in Santa Clara County to offer advanced life support (ALS) paramedic-level (EMT-P) ambulance service. In an arrangement predating countywide paramedic service, Palo Alto Fire operates two paramedic ambulances which are theoretically shared with county EMS assets. The Palo Alto Fire Department is currently the only fire department in Santa Clara County that routinely transports patients. Rural Metro holds the Santa Clara County 911 contract and provides transportation in other cities. Enhanced 9-1-1 arrived in about 1980 and included the then-new ability to report emergencies from coin telephones without using a

title: Palo Alto, California

text: Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: Palo Alto has a city run and owned utility, City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU), which provides water, electric, gas service, and waste water disposal within city limits, with the minor exception of a rural portion of the city in the hills west of Interstate 280, past the Country Club, which does not receive gas from the City. Almost all other communities in northern California depend on Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for gas and electricity. Water and Gas Services (WGS) operates gas and water distribution networks within

title: Palo Alto, California

text: power shortages. Palo Alto is a member of a joint powers authority (the Northern California Power Agency), which cooperatively generates electricity for government power providers such as the City of Santa Clara, the City of Redding, and the Port of Oakland. Roughly the same group of entities operate the Transmission Agency of Northern California (TANC). TANC transports power over its own lines from as far as British Columbia through an interconnection with the federal Bonneville Power Administration. A local oddity is a series of joint poles; those primary conductor cross arms are marked PGE and CPA (City of Palo Alto)

title: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo

text: Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo is located in Palo Alto, California and part of the City of Palo Alto's Community Services Department (CSD). It was founded in 1934 by Josephine O’Hara in the basement of a local elementary school. The small zoo holds approximately 200 species of mostly indigenous wildlife such as bobcats, raccoons, hedgehogs, ducks, bats, snakes and more. The museum has an interactive scientific exhibition that is changed every few years. They offer science classes to local students, over 14,000 students a year. In December 2017, Palo Alto's City Council unanimously

title: Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve

text: although the creek used to flow into the Bay at the site of the former Yacht Club. In the late 1920s levees were constructed to re-route San Francisquito Creek away from its former mouth, to a sharp north turn for about half a mile, then to the northeast, before exiting to the Bay. Dredging of the former Yacht Club produced landfill for the filling of marshlands to construct the Palo Alto Airport and Municipal Golf Course. By 2004, filled areas such as the Palo Alto golf course and the Palo Alto Airport had reduced the tidal marsh to . The

title: College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

text: College Terrace and elsewhere in California. College Terrace, Palo Alto, California College Terrace is a neighborhood in the city of Palo Alto, California, adjacent to Stanford University. An all-residential neighborhood, College Terrace stretches 12 by two blocks. It lies between South California Avenue and Stanford Avenue, from Amherst Street to El Camino Real. College Avenue runs down the center of the neighborhood. College Terrace is directly adjacent to Escondido Village, a campus residence on the southern edge of Stanford University. The neighborhood features its own branch of the Palo Alto Public Library system. There are three parks in the College

title: Palo Alto station

text: Railroad was built through then-empty land north of Mayfield in 1863. The first Palo Alto station was opened in 1890 to serve the then-new Stanford University. It was replaced by a larger depot in 1896. The Southern Pacific Railroad opened a new station in 1941 as part of a grade separation project. Designed by John H. Christie, it was constructed in the Streamline Moderne style to match the railroad's "Daylight" series of streamlined passenger trains. Intercity service to Palo Alto ended in 1971; the Peninsula Commute service continued and was renamed Caltrain in 1985. The station building was listed on

title: Palo Alto, California

text: to the arrival of Europeans, the Ohlone lived on the San Francisco peninsula; in particular, the Puichon Ohlone lived in the Palo Alto area. The area of modern Palo Alto was first recorded by the 1769 party of Gaspar de Portolà, a 63-man, 200-horse expedition from San Diego to Monterey. The group overshot Monterey in the fog and when they reached modern-day Pacifica, ascended Sweeney Ridge and saw the San Francisco Bay. Portolà descended from Sweeney Ridge southeast down San Andreas Creek to Laguna Creek (now Crystal Springs Reservoirs) and the Filoli estate, and thence to the San Francisquito Creek

title: SS Palo Alto

text: SS Palo Alto SS "Palo Alto" was a concrete ship built as a tanker at the end of World War I. It was built by the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company at the U.S. Naval Shipyard in Oakland, California. It was launched on 29 May 1919, too late to see service in the war. Her sister ship was the . It was mothballed in Oakland until 1929, when it was bought by the Seacliff Amusement Corporation and towed to Seacliff State Beach in Aptos, California. A pier was built leading to the ship in 1930, and it was sunk in a

title: College Terrace, Palo Alto, California

text: College Terrace, Palo Alto, California College Terrace is a neighborhood in the city of Palo Alto, California, adjacent to Stanford University. An all-residential neighborhood, College Terrace stretches 12 by two blocks. It lies between South California Avenue and Stanford Avenue, from Amherst Street to El Camino Real. College Avenue runs down the center of the neighborhood. College Terrace is directly adjacent to Escondido Village, a campus residence on the southern edge of Stanford University. The neighborhood features its own branch of the Palo Alto Public Library system. There are three parks in the College Terrace neighborhood: There are three religious

title: Wilson House (Palo Alto, California)

text: Wilson House (Palo Alto, California) The Wilson House is a historic house in Palo Alto, California. It was built in 1906. It was designed in the Colonial Revival architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since January 2, 1980. According to the NRHP: "Almost two stories in height, it is, in terms of size, shape and quality among the finest residential example of its era in Palo Alto. The design is complex, the colors striking, and the rounded forms dictated by the bay are both unusual and difficult to execute. The workmanship is particularly