Photos That Show What Silicon Valley Looked Like Before It Became A Giant Technology Heartland

Before it was Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was a land of orchards and farmland. This photo, taken from the top of Mount Hamilton in 1914, shows the wide expanse of the valley.

Color Photos of San Francisco in 1975

People of California from the 1960s

Dennis Stock’s remarkable black-and-white photographs are the result of the author’s travels through the unique state of California during the 1960s.

The Oldest Photos of California

 Los Angeles, 1912. College students from USC surveying the area in downtown Los Angeles on Fourth Street.

People of California in the Early 1970s

Photos That Show Streets Of San Francisco In The 1960s

Humans of San Francisco in the 1960s

California in the 1940s and 1950s

 Hollywood Boulevard in December 1946.

Composite Then and Now Photos of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

California In The 1970s

 Transmission lines and railroad near Salton Sea. District of Los Angeles smog obscures the sun, May 1972

Photos of LA Restaurants With Wacky Shapes from the past

 This Tail O' The Pup hot dog stand used to be at 300 N. La Cienega Blvd. in West Hollywood.

Old Color Photos That Show Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s

Color Photos That Show Streets of San Francisco in the 1950s

The many faces of the Golden Gate Bridge

Old photos of LA

The intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, looking east down Wilshire circa 1950.

Photos That Show People Of San Francisco During The 1940s And 1950s

Shaving

Fritz, a television celebrity bulldog, is shaved by a Californian barber.April, 1961