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Sunnyvale - Silicon Valley - San Francisco

It is the mission of the Sunnyvale Collection to preserve and share a record of the evolution of our community, past and present. 

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                to 1879       1880-1899       1900-1919       1920-1939       1940-1959       1960-1979       1980+

 1924
Edwina Benner serves as Mayor of Sunnyvale, the first of four terms, in rotation among members of city board of trustees, the first woman mayor in California
1925
Fremont High School opens

1929
Mission-revival town hall opens

1930
Congress chooses to place its West Coast dirigible base in Sunnyvale/Mountain View. Naval Airstation Sunnyvale later renamed Moffett Airfield

1933
Naval Airstation Sunnyvale opens and the navy dirigible Macon arrives

1935
Macon lost off the coast of Monterey
1939
Flight research begins at the Ames Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the forerunner of NASA)
 

 

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Photographs courtesy of the California History Center.

 
Information chiefly from:
Mary Jo Ignoffo. (1994). Sunnyvale, from the City of Destiny to the Heart of Silicon Valley. Cupertino, California: California History Center & Foundation.