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La Fiesta Super Market (Mountain View, California)

USA / California / Palo Alto / Mountain View, California / San Antonio Road, 391
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391 San Antonio Road
Mountain View, CA 94040
(650) 948-6028
www.yelp.com/biz/fiesta-market-mountain-view

This is a building of some historic importance and this is the same building.

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
Birthplace of Silicon Valley

September 18, 1957

www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/weekinreview/02goodheart.htm...

SEPT. 18, 1957: Revolt of the Nerds

Fed up with their boss, eight lab workers walked off the job on this day in Mountain View, Calif. Their employer, William Shockley, had decided not to continue research into silicon-based semiconductors; frustrated, they decided to undertake the work on their own. The researchers — who would become known as "the traitorous eight" — went on to invent the microprocessor (and to found Intel, among other companies). "Sept. 18 was the birth date of Silicon Valley, of the electronics industry and of the entire digital age," says Mr. Shockley's biographer, Joel Shurkin.


There is a historic marker outside the building.

Site of first silicon device and research manufacturing company in silicon valley. the research conducted here led to the development of the silicon valley, 1956


There is also a plaque in the sidewalk:

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

This site, 391 South San Antonio Road, is the former location
of the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. At this location in
1956, De William Shockley started the first silicon devices
research and manufacturing company in the valley. The
individuals that gathered to work at this site went on to form
the pioneering Silicon Valley startup company Fairchild
Semiconductor Corporation and invent the first practicable
integrated circuit. The advanced reserach and ideas
developed here led to the development of Silicon Valley and
later breakthroughs in the computer industry.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLNh4UY5ohw


This building is used for a different name: "International Produce Market" starting in 2005

and around 1995:

At this address in the past:
Soma Ergonomics‎
Sound Goods-Stereo Specialists‎

www.paloaltohistory.com/william-shockley.php
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Coordinates:   37°24'17"N   122°6'38"W
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