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2026

Silicon Valley Circuits 2026 Jul 27    placesjournal.org
Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future.
In the linked Places article, New Yorker staff writer and Cupertino native Hua Hsu reminisces about the promise of Highway 85 – a South Bay freeway near my childhood home which was completed when I was a kid. But most importantly, among the photos illustrating the article is one of my own! Used with permission, of course, scroll about halfway down to a color-graded image of a Highway 85 onramp to see my contribution. And also read the article, which tackles the placeless experience of growing up in Silicon Valley as the child of an engineer.