Sunday , May 6 , 2018 1:00 – 3:00 p . m .
MVHA SPRING EVENT & MEETING : The PEOPLING OF SILICON VALLEY
A Special TAlk By
Tim Stanley
Author Of The Books : Last of the PRUNE PICKERS & The Peopling of Silicon Valley
Sunday , May 6 , 2018 1:00 – 3:00 p . m .
AT THE HISTORIC Adobe Building 157 Moffett Boulevard , Mountain View CA
ABOUT THE EVENT
The MVHA is excited to welcome back author Tim Stanley to share a slideshow lecture on his new book ! The Peopling of Silicon Valley , 1940 to the Present Day : An Oral History puts a human face on the Valley . It does not pretend to be a history of the entire Valley during this period or of the technology industries for which the place is now famous . This is a personal history of a cross section of the people who have settled here and of the place they call home with just enough of the technology story to make it interesting .
The book encompasses the five major migrations to the Valley since World War II : the GIs , Lockheed , the chip makers , the minicomputer folks , and the software and web developers . Each is , if not the dominant group , at least a group representative of a particular period that lasted fifteen years or more . Each wave of people brought with it both increased economic prosperity and social change . This is their story , told as much as possible in their own words .
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER , TIM STANLEY
Tim Stanley grew up in the Santa Clara Valley of California before it was known as Silicon Valley . His first jobs were cutting apricots and picking prunes , which is what kids did here before they started writing code at age 12 . Tim spent five summers working on a local fruit farm and the lessons learned there left a lasting impression on him . After raising two children with his wife Deborah and running a construction business for more than thirty years , Tim has been devoting most of his time to writing . His latest book is titled The Peopling of Silicon Valley , 1940 to the Present Day : An Oral History . It is a sequel to his popular local history titled The Last of the Prune Pickers : A Pre- Silicon Valley Story . Tim and his wife live in Irvine , California .
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