Million Dollar Dirt - story of Silicon Valley

[Hersh M.]

@Jay Hinrichs In case you havent seen this peek into history, its fascinating. You must have experienced a lot of these orchards growing up in the valley I assume. Living in Sunnyvale, I had no idea about this history, now a lot of names here make sense like the C J Olson fruit stand at the mall I frequently go to. 

Land values went from dirt cheap to 12000/acre to well more than a million today. lol. The most fertile farm lands in the country used to be here in the valley. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0KFtf2Twms

[Jay Hinrichs]

YUP  think Mariani  they were huge land owners and orchardist..

yes I grew up in it moved to Sunnyvale Cupertino mid 60s  before hwy 280 was built and the corner of stevens creek and HWY 9  9 now De Anza BLD were still gravel roads.

were apple is was a country store  C Cali brothers were used to play in the stacked Hay bails inside the place I used to hunt birds were Valco mall is... etc etc.