Palo Alto Historical Association

Palo Alto High School graduation ceremony in the late 1940s. (Photo by Gene Tupper)

Cashel Brothers Sanitary Plumbers Building, 200 Homer Avenue, 1905. This building still stands today.

Chandler's Shoes store located at 262 University Ave. in 1939. This would be close to the corner of Ramona St.

Students pose on the steps of the Channing Grammar School sometime in the 1890's. The upper floor was used as the high school until 1897 when Anna Zschokke donated money to help expand the high school to another location.

Lytton School, ca. 1915. The school was named after the English writer, Sir Edward Lytton. Today this location is the Lytton Gardens senior housing facility.

Lytton Avenue, ca. 1940s.

Lucie Stern and Ruth Stern. Lucie (right) sits with daughter Ruth in living room of Cowper Street home.

Lee De Forest's House at 913 Emerson Street, ca 1912. You can see the tall antenna next to his workshop behind his home.

Federal Telegraph Company's Palo Alto factory, constructed in 1916 to keep up with the needs of the U.S. Navy. (Source: Perham Collection of Early Electronics, History San Jose, San Jose, Calif.)

The Fine Arts Theatre in 1987. First opened in 1926 as the California Ave. Theatre, it was later called the Mayfield Theatre in 1936. Then in the 1950's called the Cardinal Theatre and finally in the 1960's called the Fine Arts. Today this old building is the home of Mini Cat Town.