About the above photo: Numerous trees line the street on Forest Avenue between Lincoln Avenue and Center Drive in 2018. File photo by Veronica Weber. In celebration of the Palo Alto Weekly’s 40th anniversary, news staff wanted to examine what the city is like today in light of what has happened over the past four […]
About the above photo: A couple walks underneath vibrant gingko trees on Greenwood Avenue in Palo Alto in 2016, one of many streets in the city where mature trees form a canopy over the road. File photo by Veronica Weber. East Coast native George Richardson arrived 50 years ago to attend Stanford Law School. Like […]
About the above photo: Pedestrians walk along University Avenue, one of Palo Alto’s main roads that house many businesses, in 2017. File photo by Veronica Weber. What makes a business last nearly half a century or more? Often it’s being in the right place at the right time — or buying the property before values shoot […]
Scroll sideways through the timeline to view events at your leisure. Looking back at history through the lens of news coverage reveals the contours of a community: historic events that defined an era, ideas that rose and then fell away, movements that seized people’s collective imagination and created change, annual traditions that marked the passage […]