Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: San Francisquito Creek, Castilleja School, CalCars, The Third Wave, TouchWave, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Digital DNA, Bear Creek, El Palo Alto, World Electric Vehicle Association, Corte Madera Creek, TheatreWorks, Palo Alto Airport of Santa Clara County, Juana Briones de Miranda, Stanford Shopping Center, Fred Ho, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Los Trancos Creek, Mental Research Institute, Birge Clark, HP Garage, Arastradero Preserve, Professorville, Palo Alto University, Ramona Street Architectural District, International School of the Peninsula, Palo Alto Weekly, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, College Terrace, Palo Alto, California, Stanford Research Park, Institute for the Future, 165 University Avenue, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto Art Center. Excerpt: Palo Alto (; Spanish: palo: "Stick" and alto: "tall") is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, United States. The city shares its borders with East Palo Alto, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Stanford, Portola Valley, and Menlo Park. It is named after a redwood tree called El Palo Alto. The city includes portions of Stanford University, is headquarters to a number of Silicon Valley high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Tesla Motors, Ning, IDEO, Palantir Technologies, and Facebook, and has served as an incubator to several other high-technology companies, such as Google, Logitech, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, and PayPal. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 64,403 residents. Palo Alto's earliest recorded history stems from 1769, when Gaspar de Portola noted an Ohlone settlement. This remains an area of known Indian mounds. A plaque is erected at Middlefield Road and Embarcadero Road to...