After my grandparents got married, they moved into their house in Arroyo Saratoga, the same house my mother and her siblings were raised, and the house where my grandparents are still living today. My father was born in Mississippi. Later his family moved out to Fremont California. I was born on July 9, 1980 at [...]

Danny (Dandiggity) Le is a Vietnamese-American shop owner by day, entrepreneur by night and incredibly gifted poet, no matter the time of day.
I was born in Oklahoma in 1981 and didn’t move to Silicon Valley until 1989. My parents came to America with less than a hundred dollars in their pocket, not knowing English or [...]

My mother, a Sicilian immigrant who came to the United States before World War I, moved to the Silicon Valley and worked in Sacramento at the canneries for many years. My mother had a very tough time in this area as my grandmother was Sicilian and my grandfather was Albanian. At that time, it was [...]

I first came out here around ’59 to ’61 time frame visiting some friends in Cupertino, after getting out of the Navy. I didn’t actually move out here until probably about ’69. At the time I was working for Ampex as a field engineer, and I would travel around to do work in Chicago, Dallas, [...]

What do I think about silicon valley? Well it’s where all the jobs are, the high tech jobs are. I work for the airlines, airline employee at San Francisco Airport. I work on the ramp, move bags, luggage, help prep planes. It’s not a high tech job. It’s not a good [...]

When I first came to California [from the Netherlands] in 1957, there were orchards everywhere and the Valley Fair shopping center had just opened. Valley Fair was the only major shopping center in the valley. The only other place to purchase clothes and shoes was downtown San Jose at Macy’s or Penney’s, along with a bunch of smaller [...]

Mark was born in Ohio on an Air Force base, as his father was in the military. His family moved to Los Gatos when he was four. Mark grew up riding skateboards and playing music in a punk-band, and he has enjoyed a bit more of the Silicon Valley’s counter culture. He is married with [...]

“Papa,” Juliaa Anne whimpered as she rubbed my shoulder to wake me up from my slumber. “Wake up Pa. Sariah and I will be late for school,” she said in a somber tone. Life has been really hard on all of us ever since we moved here last October to the quiet suburb of Milpitas [...]

Nearly a lifetime San Jose resident, Ben Mayberry now lives and works in Marina, California as the marketing & event operations coordinator for the CSU Monterey Bay athletics department. He hopes to become an assistant coach for the baseball team next year. He returns to San Jose to visit his parents frequently, and still thinks [...]