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The Great Flood of '98 (1998)
The Great Flood Protest (1998)
The Beginning of Mayfield's End (1886)
The Tinsley Case: Inching Towards Integration (1976)
The Nazi Princess & Her Palo Alto Hideout (1940)
The Barron Mansion Fire: Red-Hot Resentment (1936)
The Medfly Invasion: Pesky Bugs Have State in a Panic (1981)
The Massage Parlor Crackdown (1976)
The Stanford Daily Search and a High Court Ruling (1971)
Bringing Down the Superblock (1971)
Senior Pranks: Taking it to the Limit (1994)
Two Tragedies at Town & Country (1960)
The Christmas Floods (1955)
Venceremos: Arming for a Fight (1971-1973)
Early Days
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
A Tale of Two Protests (1969)
The 1967 Recall Election: Palo Alto's Political Rumble (1967)
Fighting Back at College Terrace (1979-80)
Vladimir Pokhilko: A Silicon Valley Tragedy (1998)
Albert Hopkins Plays the Race Card (2003)
The First Baptist Church Fire (1960)
The Great Eruv Debate (1999-2000)
Wesley Church and Mayfield's Liquor Problem (1873)
The AME Zion Church: Reconstructing History (1925-present)
Saving the Sea Scout Building (1941-present)
The Sand Hill Road Extension: A Major League Project (1992-1998)
The Squire House: The Preservationists' First Stand (1971-1973)
The Hotel de Zink: A Friend Indeed (1931-1934)
The Sit-Lie Ban: A City Divided (1997)
Palo Alto Paternalism at the Movies (1921-1954)
Joan Baez's First Protest (1958)
Joseph Eichler and His Historic Eichlers (1950s)
The Greg Brown Murals: Public Art for All of Us (1976)
The Professorville Hospital (1970)
College Terrace Library: The Smallest Branch on the Tree
(1936-present)
Children's Library: Generosity For Kids (1940-present)
Children's Theatre: Good Government at Work (1932-present)
The Gamble Garden Center & The Williams House (1981)
The Stanford Theatre: As Time Goes By (1925-present)
Beatlemania Invades Palo Alto (1965)
The Palo Alto Drive-In: A Generational Memory (1947-1969)
The Palo Alto Elks: A Whole New Order (1923-present
The Hewlett-Packard Garage: A Digital Log Cabin (1938)
Foreign Friends: An Unfriendly Welcome (1989-1998)
The Civic Art Gallery: Digital DNA and Rrrun (2003-present)
Save the Oaks: Palo Alto's First Environmental Victory (1914)
Bloody Bayshore: A Dangerous Ride (1950s)
Beginning Again at Town & Country Village (1953-present)
The Hotel President: The Class of Palo Alto (1929-1968)
Rickey's: Gone Without a Trace (1945-2004)
Christmas Tree Lane: A Palo Alto Tradition (1940-present)
The Palo Alto Office Center: A Modernist White Elephant (1964-present)
The Cubberley Closing: A Tough Call 1979)
The Power Line Plane Crash (1949)
Edgewood Plaza: Hanging in the Balance (1958-present)
300 University: One Building's Story (1900-2007)
Bell's Books: The Anti-Borders (1935-present)
Bergmann's and the Decline and Rebirth of Midtown (1992-1998)
The Hotel Cabaña: Vegas Comes to Palo Alto (1962-present)
Jim Zurcher: Chief Superpig (1971-1987)
2000s
The KKK Comes to Palo Alto (1923-1924, 1946)
Dinah's Shack: A Delicate History (1926-1989)
Channing House: Retirement in the Community (1964-present)
Lytton Plaza: Rebels Without a Cause (1964-present)
The Palo Alto Train Station: A Streamline to the Past (1941-present)
Palo Alto's Snow Day: January 21st (1962)
The Paris Theatre: Prurience or Porno-Chic? (1961-1977)
The Palo Alto Home Front: Life During Wartime (1941-1945)
The Yacht Harbor Closing: The Battle by the Bay (1980-1987)
Japanese Internment: Palo Alto's Deported Patriots (1942-1946)
The Bert Kay Murder: A Community Grieves
Palo Alto's Civil Defense & the Pearl Harbor Panic (1941-1945)
Housing Discrimination: A Closed Door in Palo Alto (1946-present)
The Oregon Expressway: Residentialists Unite (1962)