1997 Map of Mountain View

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Naval Air Station Moffett Field dominates the central landscape of this late-twentieth-century study, illustrating the significant military and aerospace footprint on the San Francisco Peninsula. To the north, the sprawling Salt Evaporators and winding sloughs like Mowry Slough and Guadalupe Slough define the edge of the San Francisco Bay. This map documents a period of intense suburban and industrial development across Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale, where the residential grids are tightly knit between the Bayshore Freeway and the Southern Pacific railroad line. Civil infrastructure is prominently featured, from the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct to the network of schools such as Crittenden Middle Sch and Ohlone Sch, marking the civic expansion of the Silicon Valley region before the turn of the millennium.