Things to Do at Hp Garage

367 Addison Avenue hides in plain sight. You'll pass it twice before you notice. The HP Garage is a single-car wooden box, cream paint fading, dark trim peeling, tucked behind a Craftsman cottage. Tools and lawnmower vibes. Yet this is where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard built Product One in 1938. California slapped the bronze in 1989: Birthplace of Silicon Valley. Tech pilgrims queue for selfies beside it. Listen. Sprinklers hiss. Teslas glide. Oaks creak. No startup pitch decks here. Just cut grass, jasmine, and the hush of money sleeping. HP owns the property and keeps it frozen in 1938. View from the sidewalk. Garage doors, narrow driveway, period shrubs. The scale feels laughably small. A trillion-dollar empire started here. Wild. Look, don't linger inside. Ten minutes max. Read the plaque. Snap the photo. Walk away oddly satisfied. Something huge wearing something ordinary.

367 Addison Avenue sits ten minutes from Palo Alto Caltrain. Walk from University Avenue in fifteen. Driving from San Francisco: US-101 South, Embarcadero Road west, left on Addison. Forty-five minutes clear, longer at rush. Street parking free. Respect signs. Ride-shares drop at curb. Combine with Stanford or Computer History Museum in Mountain View.