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Writers and translators for the European Union even have a name for this affliction of the electronic age: the Cupertino effect.

He’s commemorated, but misspelled egregiously, in so many landmarks around Silicon Valley

No one ever wanted to come to his house for dinner because he would be serving rattlesnake. Even though he said it tasted like chicken.

He was a curmudgeon, which is a very old-fashioned word for ornery.

Blackberry Farms is a microcosm of the history of the whole area

As it has since its beginnings, Cupertino continues to attract pioneers from multiple cultures, as it adapts to each new era.

He has had his ups and downs having sold prunes as low as $25.00 a ton, but also as high as $250.00 a ton.

The population is about 500 and there are no fixed boundaries.

Porter became sick of his investment and sold out just as his vines came into bearing, and, it is said, the first crop harvested by the grantee amounted to the money paid for the place!

He also planted blackberries, and from this came the name of the place.

This place of San Joseph Cupertino has good water and much firewood, but nothing suitable for a settlement, because it is among the hills very near to the range of cedars which I mentioned yesterday and lacks level lands.

Continuing our route in the same direction for about three leagues and a half, we turned to the west, going close to some small hills at our left, and arrived at the arroyo of San Joseph Cupertino, which is useful only for travelers.

This modular design reduced materials and man hours to the point where a home could be put up in a single day.

The 200 cherry trees and the two traditional lanterns at the park were gifts to the City of Cupertino from Toyokawa.

Thanks to some old photographs of Cupertino, we can now see just how big of an imprint the Steves’ company has left behind.

It’s a circle, so it’s curved all the way round. This is not the cheapest way to build something.

We have a shot at building the best office building in the world.

The remaining hayfields and fruit trees tell the story of this land’s agricultural past.

Picchetti Winery, started in the 1880s, is one of the oldest surviving wineries in California.

There are these layers and layers of human stories of travail and triumph that just get paved over as new generations come through and forge their own paths in the Golden State.

The valley floor itself is all suburbia and companies. Yeah, but get up into the hills, and the hills are beautiful. They’re filled with trees and wildlife and babbling brooks

No matter where a person is from, it is a good idea for them to know their local history to better understand the community, to get a feeling for what came before, who settled the area, what kind of people were originally there

This barrel is from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the World’s Fair in San Francisco.

[But] I think it can be the Valley of Heart’s Delight and Silicon Valley at the same time.

Our mission is not only to preserve our past, but also to engage youth and the rest of the community in what we consider is actually history happening now.

It is also the only example of “V” rustic redwood construction remaining in the area.

Built in 1892 for Charles A. Baldwin and his wife Ellen Hobart Baldwin, the mansion known as Le Petit Trianon was once the center of their successful wine-producing estate where the couple was known to entertain lavishly.

Explore Cupertino’s 18-acre natural preserve, a former horse ranch from the 1930s and 40s.

The Baer Blacksmith Shop at McClellan Ranch Preserve might look like just another building, but this restored blacksmith shop dates back to the 1880s.

Cupertino owes its earliest mention in recorded history to Spaniards with a pioneering spirit.

His residence was erected adjoining a group of oak trees, making one of the beauty spots of the country.

He was the first man to grow wheat on this kind of land in this section, and it was such a novelty that people came from different parts of the county to see his wheat crop.

Directly west of San Jose and Meridian is Cupertino, on the Saratoga and Mountain View road.

Captain Merithew makes about 6,000 gallons of wine annually.

Much of the land was thin and covered with chemissal, and had no reputation either for fertility or endurance.

Cupertino preserves the name, but is farther out in the plain than was the site of the camp.

In this valley or plain there is a great abundance of oaks, in some places more, in others less, some very large and others not so large.

From this place we have seen at our right the estuary which runs from the port of San Francisco.