(The Original Town Hall)
A sleepy area of orchards and ranches becomes the Community Hub of a thriving town of upscale Silicon Valley homes. The date is the mid 1950's...
It all begins with the establishment of the Town of Los Altos Hills when it was incorporated as a Town by a vote of the area residents in 1956. |
7) This is how the photo appeared in the newspaper of the day (October 1957) with red headlines implicitly questioning the viability of this new Town, with a caption drawing attention to the fact that the Town Hall had been constructed on land that had not yet been subdivided for the purpose/ |
13) By way of orientation, here is a picture of the new Town Hall taken in 2020, showing on the left the "Parks & Rec" building" which had served that function
since the new Town Hall was built.
By this time the original roundabout with the flagpole had become considerably larger (not visible in this picture but just behind the photographer) and as can be seen, the flagpole itself had been moved into the landscaped area to the right of the main building. |
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14) In 1976 (The Bicentenary Year) a photographer climbed onto the roof of the original Town Hall and took this picture of the flagpole in the middle of the roundabout.
(Note the floral display in the roundabout in honor of the occasion)
What is interesting to note is that we also get a view of the old parking lot and the trees as they were in 1976. The parking lot of the new Town Hall is essentially unchanged from the original with the exception of the size and location of the roundabout at the end. |
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