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For the most part, Sunnyvale’s orchard history has met its match with high tech companies. Where fruit-bearing trees and early twentieth century homes stood yesterday, modern structures rise upward today, with few reminders of the orchard lands and homes that came before. One notable exception is a ... Read More about The Mellow House: Where Sunnyvale History Meets High Tech

We have Spring teas to plan for, and the Tea Team is looking for individuals to help with the organizing and execution of the ever-popular Teas. There are opportunities to take on very simple tasks that will nevertheless be of great help to the effort, as well as positions requiring more time and ... Read More about Tea Help Needed

An airplane, you’d think, however small, would be conspicuous enough to be noticed sitting around somewhere outside of an airfield. – And yet, some time between 1958 and today, we managed to lose one. When I was looking in the SHS archives for materials about an airplane crash in Sunnyvale, I ... Read More about The Curious Case of the Cougar

Some years ago I lived in the Heritage District in Sunnyvale, across the street from a resident who has lived her whole life a block away from where I lived. Since she knows that I have an interest in Sunnyvale history, and I am always eager to hear her musings on what life has been like on South ... Read More about A Mystery in the Heritage District

Although the nature of communication in Sunnyvale has changed dramatically during the past one hundred years, history allows us to look back to a time when communication bore little resemblance to today’s high-speed links.  One such glimpse into the past is the story of an early postal employee, Joe ... Read More about A Glimpse at Sunnyvale’s Early Postal Service