The SF Bay Area has seen remarkable change in recent decades, but which place has changed the most?
on this topic. We heard from dozens of readers who shared how they have seen their childhood communities evolve and reminisced about the bygone days when kids rode their bikes all over town and homes were left unlocked.Jonathan Clark/Getty Images"I arrived in Palo Alto as a 5-year-old in 1931, lived there continually until graduation from Paly High in 1944, and again after the war from 1946 to 1949. Cupertino then was hardly more than a country store and fraternal lodge amidst farmland.
"Dear Cupertino: I am the son of a baker. I doubt you remember my father as he died 26 years ago. But in 1958, he founded the Do-Nut Wheel. If you live in Cupertino, you’ve eaten there. It is the only thing that hasn’t changed in Cupertino. "De Anza College wasn’t even on the drawing boards. Interstates 280 and 85 wouldn’t be developed for decades. Those were the days I remember best. They put Cupertino on the map, and its perfect weather invited a demographic shift — the likes of which has no equal in the entire Bay Area. Clearly, Cupertino has changed the most, at least through these 68-year-old eyes." — Lance W."For me, Livermore has changed the most.
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