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Located in Santa Clara County, south San Francisco Bay Area, California

37n26 (Latitude), 121w54 (Longitude)

13.6 square miles in area

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Santa Clara County Quick Facts from the Census
Silicon Valley is defined as being Santa Clara County, at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay. Milpitas is located on the east side, north end, just south of Fremont, which is in Alameda County. East of of Milpitas is unincorporated ranch land and wilderness. Click the little insert to get an aerial view of Milpitas, or on the Google Earth Map linked below for a clearer view.

City Hall
NE corner of E. Calaveras and N. Milpitas Blvd.
455 E. Calaveras Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035.

Chamber of Commerce
Turn east into the office complex just south of Shell Gas Station. Once in the front door, turn right. It is a couple of office spaces down on your left.
828 N. Hillview Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035-4401.

Community Center
Site of many town events, and civic meetings.
457 E. Calaveras Blvd., Milpitas, CA. 95035-5411.

Community Library
Community room is just to the right after you pass the first set of doors from the garage, and in the auditorium on the right. Site of a number of meetings including the Milpitas Historical Society.
160 N. Main St., Milpitas, CA 95035-4403.

Google Earth Map of Milpitas
Get a bird’s eye view of Milpitas, zoom in to see the rooftops. Notice all the parks!

Great Mall
Google map showing how to get to the Great Mall and some of its major stores.

Milpitas High School
A bit further north than the star is placed, in the large space to the left. Yahoo Map.
1285 Escuela, Milpitas, CA 95035-3221.

Milpitas Schools
Map showing where the public schools are located. Page includes links to school websites and principals’ email addresses.

Milpitas Unified School District Office, Calaveras Hills High School, Sports Center (Pool, ball fields, new skate park.)
After crossing intersection at S. Park Victoria, turn left into parking lot. For Board Meetings, keep going east to the next parking lot entrance.
1331 E. Calaveras Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035-5707.

Parks and Recreation Facilities
Addresses, facilities, and maps to all the parks and recreational facilities in Milpitas.

Police Department
Has a community room where some meetings are held.
1275 N. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035-3153.

Post Office
450 S. Abel, Milpitas, CA 95035-5211

San Jose Airport
Take Montague west, and when it “Y’s” with Trimble, take Trimble left. At the light rail tracks, go left on First Street. Right on Component, up and over 101, which will dump you on Guadalupe. Stay in the right lane for the airport. Make a right into the airport. Be in the right lane for Terminal A, and in the center for Terminal C.

Senior Citizen Center
Large auditorium and stage where number of events are held.
40 N Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035-4323.

Sexual Offenders in Milpitas
Put “95035” or “Milpitas” into the search fields after reading and verifying disclaimer.

Milpitas Chamber of Commerce Invitation Form

Not yet a Milpitas Chamber of Commerce member? Haven’t been a member for 3 years or longer?

Let me invite you to join the Milpitas Chamber of Commerce and share the benefits the GoMilpitas.com already enjoys.

Have you heard that Gaye Morando is back, and selling memberships? She will get back to you once you have sent in this form.

You will get tools to grow your business (See list in image below.), and I get credited $20 toward my membership dues, which would really help, since this site doesn’t make very much money for “extras” like membership dues.

Print out this image, and fill out the top of the form below where it asks for your business name (Referred business), the contact name of the person doing the joining, their phone number and email address.

**Chamber Referral Form from Ann Zeise, GoMilpitas.com**

Mail to:

Milpitas Chamber of Commerce
828 N. Hillview Dr.
Milpitas CA 95035

or fax to 408-262-2823

or scan and send file to info@milpitaschamber.com

If you decide to call or drop by, be sure to tell them you were referred by GoMilpitas.com.

Fireworks Set-Up for 4th of July 2002

A lot of work went into setting up the fireworks display on the 4th of July, 2002. Pyro Spectaculars is a very active company that hires professionally licensed “pyros” to manage the display set-up. They usually have a crew of friendly volunteers who turn out to help with various aspects of the two-day process.

The Zeise family has now helped out twice. Here are some photos of the whole gang working on the non-explosive part on July 3rd, which is why you’ll see some children.

For current 4th of July plans in Milpitas, check the Events Calendar.

First sandboxes are set up. These are held together with metal stakes and cotter pins for fast set-up and take down.
For the most part, the tubes are made of the PVC-type material used to make drains for your home plumbing, though a few were made of iron and were quite heavy. They had diameters of 3″, 4″, 5″, and 6″.
These are set up in a specific order in each box, well away from the sides and each other. They are inspected for any debris left from a previous display.
The finale fireworks are in their own green containers in the background of this photo.

Jim Mcworter figures out how to get the little cat off of its trailer: dive forward verrrrryyyy slooooowly and let it tip.

Covers are placed over the tubes to keep sand from getting into them.

Sand Handling — After the first dump, it was decided to have a group of volunteers hold the tops on while the sand was carefully shoveled out by hand.

Ready to move the lids over to the next box of tubes.
The building in the background is part of KLA Tencor, which makes semiconductor equipment. Both they and Quantum (now Maxtor) were nice about letting us and the evening crowd use their parking lots.
It is doubtful this field will be around for many more 4th fireworks display.

July 4th, the fireworks all wired up and in their foil-covered tubes. Should a live one not go off, the foil would serve as a warning. The afternoon is wearing down and we take a break for dinner before the show will start. Note the white bee-hive boxes back against the levy. We were a little nervous about disturbing the bees.

Silicon Valley Singles Center

In a nutshell: Milpitas is not a good city for singles. Out of about 19,000 homes in Milpitas, nearly 16,000 are family-led. Few homes are owned by single people (705), and young adults tend to live with their parents, or other willing relative willing to take them in as they get started. So when looking for someone to date, singles need to look outside into the wider population of Silicon Valley. There is virtually no night life here, unless you count Dave & Busters.

They’ve got money, power and huge hard drives so why aren’t Silicon Valley’s finest getting any? In Silicon Valley the biggest immigration problem may be sex. People come from all over to work in the valley — from other states and other countries. It’s hard to make connections. Foreign nationals may have been schooled in the universal language of mathematics, but they may also be caught in a neuterland. That is, the rules of attraction and courtship they grew up with in Pakistan and Turkey don’t apply here; dating, West Coast style, can be confounding even for the natives. From No Sex please, we’re geeks

Bay Area Singles
We have a diverse, local community of quality single adults who share common goals and interests. Intelligent individuals who want to find great dates, make new friends, form romantic relationships or meet life partners.

California Singles
Are you single in California? Let Singles CA make it easy to meet other singles, find personal ads, and singles’ profiles.

Linx Dating
An offline boutique curated dating and social network located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Founded by Amy Andersen in 2003, Linx has now been matching high caliber, relationship-minded Bay Area professionals for more than a decade. Though dating is our specialty, some of our most unexpected success stories have come from countless platonic social and business connections that can trace their origins to the broader Linx network.

The Party Hotline
888-700-6789, Calendar of singles events for Bay Area single professionals.

Single Mom
A virtual place for single mothers where they can meet, leverage each other’s experiences, get practical advice and build friendships and contacts.

Singles Meetups within 10 miles of Milpitas
Singles MeetUps via interests, ethnicity, ages, gender orientation, profession, and more.

Singles Supper Club
Single Gourmet of the San Francisco Bay Area including Silicon Valley offers cocktail parties, mixers, dinners, dances, cooking classes, hikes and travel for singles of all ages from young professionals to baby boomers and older.

Fiber Optic Cable

Optic Trunk Comes Through Milpitas

Sunday my son and I watched as the Utilities Construction Company strung fiber optic cable on top of (turned off) power towers that run parallel to Milpitas Boulevard, about a half block to the east. We chatted with an inspector for the company, who told us that they were going to be stringing the cable all around the Bay Area. This particular cable started in Hayward, so scenes like this will be common in the Bay Area for the next couple of weeks. Unlike another cable laying construction company that has been getting in trouble for laying cable through Indian burial grounds, this company specializes in high tower work, subcontracting the services of helicopters. The linemen nonchalantly hopped from tower to tower on the skids of the chopper. The chopper also brought up tools, equipment and the heavy rope that was first strung from the towers before the cable was pulled through the large bike wheel-sized pulleys. The capacity of the cable will be leased or sold in part to cities, utilities and internet service companies.

All in a day's work stringing cable. — All in a day’s work stringing cable.

Dateline: December 20, 1999
By Ann Zeise, photos by Scott Zeise