A History of East Palo Alto

Credits

Romic Environmental Technologies Corp. wishes to express its sincere appreciation to the following for their assistance:

Alan Michelson, historian
Albert and Sally Nakai, business owners
Bob Hoover, resident
Dennis Scherzer, resident
Ed Jennings, San Mateo County Department of Public Works
Edward Becks, resident
Gertrude Wilks, resident
Katherine Solomonson, historian
Marian Holmes, San Mateo County Historical Association
Michael Demeter, business owner
Stan Hiller, former business owner
Steven Staiger, Palo Alto Historical Association
Thomas Kavanaugh, former resident
and especially Trevor Burrowes, East Palo Alto Historical and Agricultural Society


Sources

Alan Michelson and Katherine Solomonson, The City of East Palo Alto Historic Review, April 1993, San Mateo County Historical Association and East Palo Alto Historical and Agricultural Society.

Albert and Sally Nakai

Bob Lowe, "The History of East Palo Alto," East Palo Alto Progress, April and June 1983

City of East Palo Alto, City Connection, March 1987

City of East Palo Alto, East Palo Alto: A New City Determined to Develop, Prosper and Grow

David Gumaer, "Model Cities in California," The Review of the News, November 27, 1968

Dennis Scherzer

Edward Becks

Gertrude Wilks

Isaac D. Stevenson Jr., A Brief Look at East Palo Alto's History, January 1978

League of Women Voters of Southern San Mateo County, Community Handbook, 1971

Menlo Park Recorder, November 7, 1963

Miriam Turner Eads, Discovering East of Bayshore's Roots

Palo Alto Times and Palo Alto Times Tribune, 1945-1993

Phyllis Barusch and Harriet Nathan, The East Palo Alto Municipal Advisory Council: A Black Community's Experiment in Local Self-Government, October 1972.

Ray Spangler, "Charles Weeks Leader of East Palo Alto Poultry Business," Redwood City Tribune, 1958

Robert Hoover

Stan Hiller

Thomas Kavanaugh

The History of Redwood City, 1988

Werner Foss Jr., History of Ravenswood, 1942