notbob wrote:

> Are you trying to tell me there are still businesses in SV proper?
> From Milpitas and hwy 880 West to 85 and from hwy 237 South to ECR?
> 3Com, National Semiconductor, AMAT, Apple, Sun, HP, IBM? No freakin
> way! Last time I was there, not a single business I delt with, other
> than my own company, remained. Even my company had shrunk from 18
> huge campuses to 2, both ghosts of their former self. Every campus
> for 5 miles in every direction was also deserted. The Central Frwy
> was deserted. No restaurants, no vendors, no support business, nada.
> Whole brand new campuses built in '98 still stand vacant, never having
> been occupied to this very day. You can drive down a dozen boulevards
> in that area and not see one single company campuse occupied. Smaller
> business parks shuttered and deserted. No, it's beyond quiet. It's a
> cemetery.

This bodes well for my plans to take a road trip to Los Gatos. I'm trying to
figure out a low-congestion route from the Sacramento area.

Bob