Driving in Downtown Palo Alto, California - 4K60fps

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Palo Alto is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

Originally formed as the township of Mayfield in 1855, the city was established in 1894 by the American industrialist Leland Stanford when he founded Stanford University in memory of his son, Leland Stanford Jr. Palo Alto includes portions of Stanford University and borders East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. At the 2020 census, the population was 68,572. Palo Alto is one of the most expensive cities in the United States in which to live, and its residents are among the most educated in the country. However, it also has a youth suicide rate four times higher than the national average, often attributed to academic pressure.

As one of the principal cities of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto is home to the headquarters of multiple tech companies, including HP, Space Systems/Loral, VMware, and PARC. Palo Alto has also served as headquarters or the founding location of several other tech companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Logitech, Tesla, Intuit, IDEO, Pinterest, and PayPal; Ford Motor Company and Lockheed Martin each additionally maintain major research and technology facilities within Palo Alto.

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[francisbusa]

It's really strange to see those tall palm trees along the drive into the Stanford campus, because my wife's grandfather, who was born in 1895, said that when he was a kid the trees were so short that they could pick the dates off of them. Hard to imagine now. He spent years when he was a teen exploring the hills behind the campus.
When he was almost age 11 the San Francisco earthquake happened. His family lived above the livery stable on Alma across the El Camino. He remembered his bed dancing across the bedroom floor to the window, where he looked out just in time to see the stone pillars at the campus entrance collapse in a cloud of dust.
How time changes our world.

[kevinmingtarja]

Thanks for the video. Brings back memories from when i used to live there

[bearmerica]

I'm always surprised that Pizza My Heart still is there, lol.

[dennisdewey]

I'm making a film of a story set in Palo Alto (but shooting in Upstate NY). Can I get permission to use a few seconds of this in my film (with attribution)? (It's basically a no-budget film.) Can send details if you'd like more info. Meanwhile will subscribe. Thanks.

[saintpreferred]

Stay out of California, if you know whats good for you.