Los Altos’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Los Altos. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area was initially called the Fremont Judicial Township, which was formed in 1853. Fremont Judicial Township was later unofficially called "Banks and Braes". Paul Shoup, an executive of the Southern Pacific Railroad, and his colleagues formed the Altos Land Company in 1906 and started the development of Los Altos. The company acquired 140 acres (57 ha) of land from Sarah Winchester. Shoup wanted to link Palo Alto and Los Gatos by making Los Altos a commuter town. It continued a train-a-day operation to and from San Francisco.
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Start Los Altos’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Los Altos’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewChrist Episcopal Church, 461 Oran…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Los Altos, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Christ Episcopal Church, 461 Orange Avenue and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
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From Wikimedia Commons (2), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.