page_title: Mountain View, California
section_title: Other
hierarchical_section_title: Mountain View, California / Points of interest / Other
caption_attribution_description: English: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View.
context_page_description: Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States, in Silicon Valley. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Mountain View has developed from its origins as a stagecoach stop into one of the principal cities of Silicon Valley. It has a population of 74,066.
  Situated in the southern end of the peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, Mountain View is the location of many high technology companies. In 1956, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the first company to develop silicon semiconductor devices in what came to be known as Silicon Valley, was established in the city by William Shockley. Today, the headquarters of many of the world's largest technology companies are in the city, including Google, Mozilla Foundation, and Intuit.
context_section_description: The Computer History Museum is home to the largest and most significant collection of computing artifacts in the world.
  Moffett Field is a joint civil-military federal airfield located between northern Mountain View and northern Sunnyvale, California. It is home to NASA Ames Research Center and the Air National Guard. Its hangars for blimps and rigid airships (now mostly vacant) make unique landmarks for motorists on Highway 101.
  The Historic Adobe Building, a small events center on Moffett Boulevard, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
  St. Joseph Parish was founded in 1905, and survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, only to burn down in 1928. St. Joseph's Seminary operated here between 1924 and 1991. The current St. Joseph church building was built in 1929.
  The Mountain View Voice is the local newspaper, which began publishing in 1993.
caption: Shoreline Amphitheatre
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