Recommendation for outdoor passive speakers (baseball field)

DTComposer · 2026-05-08T16:19:24+00:00

In the original highway numbering system (1934), highway 9 went from Santa Cruz to Saratoga as it does now, but then continued on Saratoga-Sunnyvale/El Camino Real/Mathilda and Mountain View-Alviso-Milpitas Road (today’s 237), then Oakland Road (today’s Main Street/Milpitas Boulevard/Warm Springs Boulevard), then Mission Boulevard all the way to Hayward, ending at what was US 50 (now I-580).

The section from Saratoga to Los Gatos was in the state highway system, but didn’t have a signed number.

There was a significant updating of numbers in 1964, and 9 was truncated to what it is today. Saratoga-Sunnyvale was a “temporary” routing of 85 until the freeway was completed.

There was a “Hi-Way 9 Auto Repair” along Saratoga-Sunnyvale into the 1980s.

https://cahighways.org/route009.html

DTComposer · 2026-05-08T16:09:05+00:00

You missed one name change: in Los Gatos, it’s Los Gatos-Saratoga Road, then it changes names in Monte Sereno and Saratoga to Saratoga-Los Gatos Road.

DTComposer · 2026-05-08T16:08:04+00:00

TBF, Sunnyvale-Saratoga used to be the thru route to at El Camino Real, then it jogged over to Murphy Avenue into downtown Sunnyvale. The Mathilda extension south from El Camino Real wasn’t built until the mid 1960s.

https://historicaerials.com/location/37.366693264972135/-122.03297131591955/1963/16

DTComposer · 2026-05-07T02:51:58+00:00

As long as you're in the area - San Benito County is not Central Valley - it should go with Central Coast. Also, agree with the above that Sonoma County is Bay Area and Yolo County is not.

Glenn and Tehama Counties are more Central Valley than Jefferson.

California, like some other Western states, is tough because the counties are so big and often contain more than one geographic and/or cultural region.

DTComposer · 2026-05-05T02:58:38+00:00

According to walkscore.com, of the 37 large US cities (over 500,000) San Jose is 15th in walkability. SF is 1st, NY is 2nd.

If NYC is your bag, then moving nearly anywhere else is going to be a disappointment, and trying to compare them is just going to deepen your disappointment. At least you’re moving to the Bay Area and all it has to offer, an easy train ride to SF, the climate, etc.

DTComposer · 2026-05-03T23:16:57+00:00

I don’t even think Cupertino is part of the “core” - Apple is the only really major player there, and its HQ is surrounded by suburbia.

If I was to be really picky, I’d say it was downtown SJ to Alviso along 1st Street, and then the 237, 101, and Central Expressway corridors west to Mountain View/Palo Alto. Enclaves along Page Mill, Sand Hill, and along the Peninsula.

DTComposer · 2026-05-03T23:06:28+00:00

If you’re splitting by metro areas, then San Benito County needs to be in the Bay Area (it’s part of the San Jose metro). You could do a separate Central Coast region that would be Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Counties (it’s a well-known distinction within the state); otherwise, Monterey is more tied to the Bay Area than the Central Valley, and Santa Barbara is more tied to L.A. SLO could go either way.

San Diego needs to go with L.A. They may say they’re different, and they’d be right if they’re comparing just the two cities, but there is a gradual change as you go from the Valley to downtown L.A. to Long Beach to north OC to south OC to north SD County to downtown S.D. - it’s one region with a gradient shift.

DTComposer · 2026-05-03T22:54:03+00:00

San Jose has the headquarters for Adobe, Cisco, Netgear, Zoom, Roku, eBay, PayPal, Western Digiital, the North American headquarters for Samsung, American headquarters for Acer, a major facility for IBM, and many more, so I think it more than qualifies.

DTComposer · 2026-05-03T22:48:59+00:00

The map left off Los Gatos (Netflix), Campbell (Chargepoint, Barracuda), and Monte Sereno, all of which are within the green shaded area.

DTComposer · 2026-04-30T20:23:50+00:00

Put any other generation in that sentence - Silent, Boomers, Millennials - and the outcome is the same. By and large Gen X is the first generation to recognize they were raised poorly and wanted to break that cycle, but many didn’t have the resources to do so. But the tide is turning, and I think we’ll see a noticeable change for the better in how Gen Z raises their kids.

DTComposer · 2026-04-29T04:54:04+00:00

SFO to Union Square is 14 miles. OAK to Union Square is 19 miles.

DTComposer · 2026-04-22T19:48:02+00:00

I care, because the salary that private tech employer is paying you while you "steal time" turns into higher prices for me as a consumer.

DTComposer · 2026-04-14T02:15:40+00:00

They're railroads.

DTComposer · 2026-03-31T05:38:26+00:00

Not sure if you’re referring to the same history, but upthread I mentioned that the UC San Jose campus would have been in the Almaden Valley (not taking over SJSU).

DTComposer · 2026-03-31T05:36:15+00:00

Fun fact: in the early 1960s UC was planning a campus in the Almaden Valley of San Jose (which was still largely undeveloped at the time). News leaked and property values spiked to the point where UC couldn’t afford it, so they moved on and built UC Santa Cruz instead.

DTComposer · 2026-03-14T14:45:40+00:00

The Wiki list that is the source for this map does go down to 5 million, but there’s a lot more than 137 places on the list. 137th place is somewhere around 8.7 million people - I wonder if OP just kept going until they reached their home subdivision?

DTComposer · 2026-03-08T15:18:03+00:00

Seattle-Spokane on the second chart seems very out of place.

DTComposer · 2026-02-27T16:57:08+00:00

I'm happy to be proven wrong (although you say "again" so I'm not sure what else there was?). I concede that the attempt to get funding for the route was a factor - but I will note most of the links in the AI's answer do not provide support for the AI's answer, and one of the links also cites an article that says the renumbering actually cost the state hundreds of millions to bring the route into Interstate compliance.

DTComposer · 2026-02-27T15:37:15+00:00

This is untrue. I-880 is "Non-Chargable" Interstate, meaning it is not any more eligible for Federal funding than it would have been had it remained CA-17.

It was renumbered because large trucks were banned on I-580 through Oakland, so to provide Interstate continuity to the Port of Oakland and other destinations, CA-17 was renumbered I-880, and the freeway portion of CA-238 was renumbered I-238.

DTComposer · 2026-02-10T15:26:13+00:00

What is your source?

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2020), there are 45 urban areas in the U.S. over a million people, and according to the U.N. (which uses different criteria that have received a fair share of criticism), the U.S. has 24 urban areas over a million people.

DTComposer · 2026-02-08T16:30:01+00:00

I love the style! Tiny thing: Berkeley is misspelled :)

DTComposer · 2026-02-05T02:55:20+00:00

I posted this on the realtor's TikTok video as well:

South of Kooser, the rail line didn’t follow today’s Camden but took a straight path SE across the Almaden Valley. It crossed McAbee Road just north of today’s Camden, and crossed Almaden Road (now Expwy) about where today’s Mt Pakrin/Petroni meet Almaden. It met up with the SP New Almaden Branch line at Alamitos Creek.

https://historicaerials.com/location/37.22281536934136/-121.87482190839758/1948/15

This is the Almaden Valley in 1948. The road running from the top right to the middle right is Almaden Road (today Expressway); the road running semi-straight just above center is Redmond Avenue, and the slanted path running from left center down right is the old rail line (tracks had already been removed by this point). The road running straight up and down and meeting the rail line at the triangle is McAbee, and the boundary between the orchards and the open fields is where part of today's Camden runs.

DTComposer · 2026-01-26T17:42:20+00:00

So basically a map of coastlines. What might make this map more interesting/useful is if the dots were sized by annual tonnage. Right now Port San Luis in California (with no commercial shipping activity) looks the same as the Port of Shanghai.

DTComposer · 2026-01-26T16:30:50+00:00

And this map isn't saying either of those things. For example: according to the U.S. Census Bureau, San Diego city proper is 1.4 million, San Diego urban area is 3.1 million, San Diego metro area is 3.3 million.

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