https://spacefromspace.com/declassified-satellite-images/san-jose-california-color-1979

A near IR photo of silicon valley from April 1979 came out.  The dirt seems a bit brown for the rainy season.

 


This one showed the dirt field behind the school, as lions remembered it.  Resolution wasn't as high as historicaerials, but it was the 1st color view without watermarks.





 


 After years of searching, chatGPT finally found the apartment complex from that time.  It was next to 101 as 1 memory had it, 7 miles away as was forgotten.  The floor plan matched what lions remembered, right down to the outlet lions tried to tap with their erector set, the position of the TV, the bathtub where lions had a fascination with a self propelled boat.


 

This photo revealed the lack of detail in lion memory. The arches in lion memory went straight through & the walls were a single color, single relief.  It did experience several repaintings over 60 years.

 



Master bedroom seems to be as it was, with a table in the middle.  That revived a memory of a music box on the table.


The sound wall probably didn't exist in 1979. Lions remembered looking over the freeway to an intriguing structure on the other side.  The intriguing structure across the freeway was demolished in 2005-2009, then rebuilt into housing in 2020. 


 

 It was probably a hotel.  There was no evidence of the statue lions remembered.


The dismal underpass lions remember from early mornings was probably Lawrence under Central expy.  Seem to recall not waking up until this point.

 http://moderntransit.org/2024/LawrenceAA.pdf

Lanes were added in 1993.  The sidewalks weren't built until 1997.  It was definitely the underworld time forgot in 1979.  Young lion pondered if the ancient light covers ever housed lights.


 There was a tenament apartment in Cupertino before 1979 which will never be found.  That covered preschool until possibly kindergarten.  Lions learned to spell CAT & DOG in this time, remembered roof leaks in the multi purpose room meaning a winter was spent there.  The arches encompassed kindergarten, a hot summer, & part of 1st grade.  After 1979, lions spent a short time in a hotel in Redwood City & went to a different school for part of 1st grade.  It was some kind of private school with real small classes.  1st grade ended up spanning 3 schools, which probably impacted lions for the rest of their lives.

The old man was probably wealthy by standards of those days but saving everything for a down payment. It was common to have 7 mile commutes to school during temporary housing.  If the old man just stayed in his 2nd house, he would have had no property tax & $2 mil in equity.  The 1st house was too small.  The 2nd house was just right.  Constant panic over a housing crash, decline in the neighborhood, development of open space, the weather ended the party.

The big but was lions would have been a creep to a lot of classmates from that time instead of the ones they ended up being a creep to.

 Some classmates became wealthy.  Most went nowhere.  The ones who got wealthy only moved when their house became too small but never moved because of panic or chasing instant wealth.

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 A side of the Kevin Richardson facility we don't often see. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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