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1852
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1902
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Mountain View Board of Trade
Town promoters, in their 1904 booklet for would-be settlers · Mountain View, California: A Region of Health and Prosperity · 1904
We recognize that it is facts which the enquirer wants, not rosy description in general terms, and facts alone are herein presented.
Source ↗Mountain View Board of Trade
Town promoters, 1904, on the town’s name · Mountain View, California: A Region of Health and Prosperity · 1904
Mountain View—in the Spanish, “Mira” View, and “Monte” Mountain—was so named by the early settlers, both Spanish and Americans, as suggestive of the magnificent view of the picturesque Santa Cruz range of mountains several miles west of the town…
Source ↗Mountain View Board of Trade
Town promoters, 1904 · Mountain View, California: A Region of Health and Prosperity · 1904
There is independence in a small apricot orchard at Mountain View.
Source ↗Mary J. Gates
Mountain View historian, 1895 · Contributions to Local History: Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas, Mountain View, California · 1895
Stage stations are the beginning of many towns.
Source ↗Mary J. Gates
Mountain View historian, 1895, on Jacob Shumway, who named the town · Contributions to Local History: Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas, Mountain View, California · 1895
All honor to the old bachelor, who had a fine ear for the fitness of words.
Source ↗Mary J. Gates
Mountain View historian, closing her 1895 history, forty years before the airship hangar went up · Contributions to Local History: Rancho Pastoria de las Borregas, Mountain View, California · 1895
A city will eventually stretch down to the open water, and steamers shall come and go from wharves far out on the reclaimed swamp lands. Here will be electric lights, street cars, and likely a stray air-ship or more, and Jacob Shumway would not know the place he named Mountain View.
Source ↗Eugene Tu
Director of NASA Ames Research Center, at the Hangar One celebration, March 2026 · Google unveils historic restoration of Hangar One in Mountain View · 2026
Today, we don’t just reopen a building. We celebrate the revival of a legend.
Source ↗Jake Gale
Retired Navy flight engineer who trained at Moffett Field from 1979 · Google unveils historic restoration of Hangar One in Mountain View · 2026
We used to float hot air balloons inside the hangar. It was so big.
Source ↗Bill Stubkjaer
Curator of the Moffett Field Historical Society Museum, on the USS Macon · That Giant Structure Off 101 Once Housed a Flying Aircraft Carrier · 2019
785 feet long. It was a flying aircraft carrier.
Source ↗National Park Service
On Hangar One · U.S. Naval Air Station Sunnyvale, California, Historic District
The hangar’s interior is so large that fog sometimes forms near the ceiling.
Source ↗IEEE
Milestone plaque, Birthplace of Silicon Valley, 1956 · Milestones: Birthplace of Silicon Valley, 1956 · 2018
At this location, 391 San Antonio Road, the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory manufactured the first silicon devices in what became known as Silicon Valley.
Source ↗Monica Grant
Latitude 38 writer, on the land the city turned into Shoreline · Shoreline Lake Celebrates 40 Years of Community and Watersports · 2023
Their canvas was 544 acres of junkyard, hog farm, two substandard dumps, low-lying flood plains, and a sewage treatment plant.
Source ↗Elisha Stephens
Namesake of Stevens Creek, on his rattlesnake dinners, as retold in the Voice · A trailblazer who relished ‘rattlesnake ragout’ · 2002
You don’t know what’s good! Rattlesnakes beat frogs all to pieces.
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