Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the Center of the Tech World

Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by ZanyProgrammer on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:56PM (#13523412)

I'd love to go back in time to circa 1980 and drive down ECR from Palo Alto to downtown San Jose.

Back when there were blue collar jobs in Santa Clara County.

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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by kkylin on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:12PM (#13525970)

Not sure this is what you meant by "blue collar," but I was just thinking this morning about driving by the NeXT logo in Fremont, the stretch of Mission connecting 680 to 880. I believe they actually built the cube there, but I could be wrong. (I'm sure someone reading this can confirm or deny that.) Not sure if anyone still assembles computers in the Bay Area anymore.

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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by twblalock on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:56PM (#13523972)

> Back when there were blue collar jobs in Santa Clara County.

There still are.

If you don't think there are blue-collar jobs in Santa Clara county, please explain why restaurants, stores, construction companies, plumbing companies, etc. are able to exist.

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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by ZanyProgrammer on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:27PM (#13524212)

I was thinking more of the businesses here that no longer exist. http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/spins/spins_san_jose_opt.pdf

Not so much the churn of retail that most large cities (suburban sprawls in this case) have.

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