Exhibit provides bird’s-eye view of Sunnyvale – The Mercury News

The school of Fremont High School in Sunnyvale can be seen in this aerial image, part of a brand-new unique exhibition at Sunnyvale’s Heritage Park Museum. Via historical aerial pictures of the city, visitors can follow the advancement of Sunnyvale from a farming town to the contemporary Heart of Silicon Valley. (Courtesy image)

 Bird’s-eye view of Sunnyvale

A brand-new unique exhibition at Sunnyvale’s Heritage Park Museum is showcasing historical aerial pictures of the city. Visitors can follow the advancement of Sunnyvale from a farming town dotted with orchards to the contemporary Heart of Silicon Valley by means of these bird’s-eye views.

From one image to the next, brand-new advancements can be seen closing in the space gradually, as increasingly more individuals gathered to the city to discover work along with schools for their kids. The pictures are identified with street names, and visitors are welcomed to discover their house, school, workplace or grandma’s orchard back in 1940. Magnifying glasses are supplied. This display will be open up until May.

The museum includes other pieces of city history, such as an early map of the town doodled on the back of an invoice in 1898. This is the very first recognized usage of Murphy Avenue rather of Main Street to explain Sunnyvale’s downtown location. On the bottom, the names for other downtown streets appear: Mathilda and Evelyn were Martin Murphy Jr.’s granddaughters, and Mary Murphy Carroll was his child. Streets called after Murphy member of the family can be discovered all over the city.

The city’s name itself came from 1901, when its very first post workplace was developed; prior to that, it was either Murphy’s Station or Encinal.

The museum, situated at 570 E. Remington Drive, is open Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, noon-4 p.m., without any admission charge. For more details, call 408-749-0220 or see www.heritageparkmuseum.org.