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Los Altos Designates Steve Jobs' Childhood Home a 'Historic Resource'

IJ Reilly said:
Your version of "getting it" seems to be lecturing on subjects you know nothing about.
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I know nothing about prioritizing historical significance to places? I place almost ZERO value in Job's old house and I love apple products...

Explain to me the purpose of making his old house a landmark please. At what end does it serve? It's a nondescript house on a nondescript street for a home a significant spent a short time in.

Besides you personally feeling like it's some sort of Bethlehem of the tech world?

"the goal of the historical designation is to preserve the home as it looked in the 1970s." (nbcbayarea.com)

Sweet. Government enforced Brady Bunch house for the foreseeable future.

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musicianm said:
Holy crap has anyone seen the prices of houses in that area??? GEEZ.
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Ever watch HGTV's House Hunters when they are in LA? Totally can't relate.
 
Justan00b said:
Or....... they could (WAY more respectfully), let the Jobs family, who currently own it decide what they would like to do with the property they own.
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I'm not sure you understand how buying works. Apple could offer to buy it, and they could turn them down.

Apple can't just say "It's ours now, take a million and go away", which is not what the person you responded to said.
 
As for property rights

I think American society decided in the '60s and '70s that it wanted the preservation of landmarks. You need to keep monuments, and have a local identity. In part, it's a tourist thing. It's also something to inspire future generations. I went to Menlo Park, to the Edison factory. It's a great holy place in America.

But if the restrictions are all they do, that's wrong. If the city wants a monument, they should pay for it. The roof needs repair, they pay the historical shingles guy. The government should pay for the period repairs it requires.

If real estate developers were the only ones to make decisions, you wouldn't have a civil war battlefield in America that wasn't asphalted under a mall with a Chick-fil-a and Walmart.

Sure, individual property rights are very important. But there are other factors to consider. The individual owes things to the community. If the community needs a swatch of your property to finish a fire access road or other important thing for the public interest, they are allowed, under the law, to pay you a fair market price and then take it. I'm for the wise use of eminent domain. So if you're the son of the guy who bought Steve Jobs' house, you ought to trade that in for cash somehow. Make it into a museum. Sell tickets. It's not that great a house, very typical late '50s bungalow.
 
i thought that whole family would be all insanely rich ? didn't jobs have a multi billion dollar yacht ? how much does tim cook make anyone know ? quote me pls so i get the notification
 
Smith288 said:
I know nothing about prioritizing historical significance to places? I place almost ZERO value in Job's old house and I love apple products...

Explain to me the purpose of making his old house a landmark please. At what end does it serve? It's a nondescript house on a nondescript street for a home a significant spent a short time in.

Besides you personally feeling like it's some sort of Bethlehem of the tech world?

"the goal of the historical designation is to preserve the home as it looked in the 1970s." (nbcbayarea.com)

Sweet. Government enforced Brady Bunch house for the foreseeable future.
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You know nothing, and you are peddling misinformation besides.

If you'd paid even the remotest attention to anything anyone else was saying, you'd know that the city did NOT make this property a landmark. In fact I've explained that in some detail at least twice already.

Oh, and thanks for telling me what I feel. If it wasn't for you, I surely would not know what to feel.
 
Justan00b said:
Or....... they could (WAY more respectfully), let the Jobs family, who currently own it decide what they would like to do with the property they own.
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I said Apple should "BUY" it, not "STEAL IT." Offering to purchase a property is pretty respectful, considering the Jobs family has a right to refuse.

I think it would be cool to have the place where "it all started" as a museum. They will have enough space at the ultra-campus to house it.

Bryan
 
IJ Reilly said:
You know nothing, and you are peddling misinformation besides.

If you'd paid even the remotest attention to anything anyone else was saying, you'd know that the city did NOT make this property a landmark. In fact I've explained that in some detail at least twice already.

Oh, and thanks for telling me what I feel. If it wasn't for you, I surely would not know what to feel.
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The Los Altos Historical Commission did which is part of the City of Los Altos.

http://www.losaltosca.gov/historicalcommission
 
isephmusic said:
i thought that whole family would be all insanely rich ? didn't jobs have a multi billion dollar yacht ? how much does tim cook make anyone know ? quote me pls so i get the notification
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The Queen Mary 2, the worlds largest cruise liner, cost about 780 million dollars to build. I don't know what kind of ship you would get for "multi billion dollars". I suppose the only one "insanely rich" is his widow, and eventually his four children.
 
"...didn't jobs have a multi billion dollar yacht ?"

Well they don't call this website MacRumors for nothing - an easy search would have given that poster the answer and they also would have seen one of the world's ugliest mega-yachts - really - what was Job's thinking?
 
IJ Reilly said:
No, they did not. They declared it a "historic resource" and included it in the city's inventory of documented properties, and that is by no means the same thing as a landmark. I have now explained this four times.
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Yea, there's no legal ramifications if the home owner went and knocked out the garage for a new living room. Nope. They merely "declared" it. Who are you trying to fool? Talk about parsing words.
 
Smith288 said:
Yea, there's no legal ramifications if the home owner went and knocked out the garage for a new living room. Nope. They merely "declared" it. Who are you trying to fool? Talk about parsing words.
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I am not "parsing words," I am explaining something that you clearly know nothing about. This is a concept that seems to elude you.
 
I forget the sticker shock that people outside of California have when looking at our pricing here in the bay area. I originally came from texas where $150k bought you a nice house. Here you need $500K for a non desirable part of town, $1M for a somewhat desirable part of town and $1.75M for a very desirable part of town. All of those prices will buy you a small 3 bedroom house.

Every house on my street started as a 1,000 sq ft house built in the 1950s.
Its amazing to see what they go for now and what people have done to them to expand and raise families.
 
She should have bulldozed that craphole when she had the chance because now it is essentially and functionally priceless and worthless both at once.
 
Love that perfectly typical and livable little house.

Famous people get their childhood homes preserved. Good. Lots of people enjoy living in such houses and keeping them original and in good repair. To them this is more fulfilling than some cheesy McMansion with plastic fences and artificial rock facades.
 
Come on guys, it's Jobs' or Jobs's, not Job's. His last name was Jobs, not Job. You just don't add in an apostrophe before the s to make it possessive. In a similar vein, it's Apple's, not Apples. Just something that has been bugging me, feel free to ignore.
 
garya73 said:
Come on guys, it's Jobs' or Jobs's, not Job's. His last name was Jobs, not Job. You just don't add in an apostrophe before the s to make it possessive. In a similar vein, it's Apple's, not Apples. Just something that has been bugging me, feel free to ignore.
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LOL.. and don't get me started about punctuation inside the quotes...
 
osx11 said:
Jobs needs a statue!
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Just wait til the new campus is built. Wouldn't be surprised if something like a bronze statue of both Jobs and Woz holding an Apple I motherboard is smack center of the Mothership on opening day.
 
And this was also done to the original SV garage workshop

The 'silicon valley' started in an old garage back in the 1930's by Hewlett and Packard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Garage

Nice to see another historical site preserved so those who follow understand how and where innovation can be born anywhere there are creative (out of the box thing) people.
 
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