Steve Jobs' Calif. home gets historic designation

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Source: AP



LOS ALTOS, Calif. (AP) -- The Silicon Valley home where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs grew up and built some of his first computers is now on the city's list of historic properties. The historical commission in the city of Los Altos voted unanimously for the historic designation on Monday night, the Palo Alto Daily News reported. Any proposed renovations to the modest, ranch-style home now require additional review.

The home, where Jobs and his foster parents moved in 1968, is currently owned by Patricia Jobs, Steve Jobs' sister. The commission didn't need her permission for the designation, although she could appeal it to the city council. Zachary Dahl, a senior planner with the city, said Patricia Jobs requested corrections to the city's evaluation of the property, but then didn't respond when it was sent to her for review. "So I'm assuming that was an affirmative because I have had multiple communications with her over the past several weeks," Dahl said.

Steve Jobs, with help from his sister and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, built the first 100 Apple 1 computers at the home, according to the city's evaluation. Fifty were sold to a shop in neighboring Mountain View for $500 each.

Steve Jobs also wooed some of Apple's first investors and in 1976, established the first partnership for Apple at the home. The company later relocated to nearby Cupertino.

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[LuckyLib]

1. Oh, puhleeeeeeze. It's a suburban CA house. In decades, when everything

is "memorialized" (but no one can remember who most of the folks are because life moves on), we will be full of meaningless sites and centers. Same with the "naming" of everything. Drivel!

[LanternWaste]

3. I imagine you believe you yourself have the absolute knowledge that others lack...

I imagine you believe you yourself have the absolute knowledge that others lack of what should or should not be memorialized, yes?

Everything? Really? No melodrama there at all... just the facts as you pretend them to be.

[Auggie]

8. It's Los Altos, CA, a local designation … not the state, not the country

And if you don't like it … tough!

[Link Speed]

2. She'll be SORRRRYYY...

I grew up in a home on the Registry and owned another one for 30 years because I didn't learn my lesson(s) the first time. Repairs or upgrades are a bureaucratic nightmare.

[OhioChick]

4. Utterly Pathetic

There wasn't this much fuss over Alexander Fleming (Discovered Penicillin) or for Dr. Joseph E. Murray (Performed first successful organ transplant) as well as many others.

The public's priorities are all screwed up and we wonder why the Country is in the shape that it's in.

[marble falls]

5. The garage I can see being designated.

[philosslayer]

6. This is awful reporting

They weren't his foster parents. They were his adoptive parents.

[Posteritatis]

7. I think it's great, myself

Person who, whether you like Apple or not, substantially changed things, and a specific location tied to his doing so? Perfectly reasonable cause to designate the site, IMO. Buildings get designated for far flimsier reasons than that all the time, as anyone walking through a reasonably-aged North American city can probably see with a bit of looking.

[JI7]

9. this looks like a local thing

[Fearless]

10. Taking money away from actual historic buildings.

[greatauntoftriplets]

11. This is a feature story and better suited to General Discussion or Good Reads.

Please re-post it in one of those forums; it's an interesting story. Thanks.