| I also remember various conversations about making a tech-oriented or nerd-oriented list of things to see around here. I don't remember everything that was suggested, but: Exploratorium (San Francisco) Lawrence Hall of Science (Berkeley Hills) Chabot Space and Science Center (Oakland Hills) Computer History Museum (Mountain View) Maybe see if you can get a tour at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, SLAC (the Stanford accelerator), or NASA Ames Research Center? All of them have had tours on occasion but might not offer them regularly. Silicon Valley used to have some very beloved electronics and surplus equipment stores, but I think most of them have closed permanently. :-( Over on Green Street there's a plaque for the site where Philo T. Farnsworth invented television (!) but no other historic site to actually visit. This is quite nearby a pair of beautiful garden-lined walkways up to Coit Tower (the Greenwich Steps and the Filbert Steps) so you could see the plaque when planning to walk up there. The Cable Car Museum is cool because you can see the wheels that are physically pulling the cables for the cable cars (right now, not just in the past). |