{"id":785,"date":"2010-07-24T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=785"},"modified":"2010-07-24T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T18:39:25","slug":"on-garages-as-inspiring-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2010\/07\/24\/on-garages-as-inspiring-places\/","title":{"rendered":"On Garages as Inspiring Places&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/hp-garage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-789\" title=\"hp-garage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/hp-garage-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/hp-garage-198x300.jpg 198w, http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/hp-garage.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>We had occasion to note the entrepreneurial importance of garages as start-up locales in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2010\/07\/18\/andy-grove-gets-real-about-manufacturing\/\">our last Insights post<\/a> on Andy Grove&#8217;s concerns about the status of U.S. manufacturing. One such garage \u2013 where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard got started 70 years ago was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/05\/18\/hewlett-packard-garage-given-national-landmark-status\/\">designated a national historic landmark<\/a> in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>As we happened upon that bit of Internet information, we wondered about the garage where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the first Apple computer almost 35 years ago. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/SteveJobsHouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-790\" title=\"SteveJobsHouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/SteveJobsHouse-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/SteveJobsHouse-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/SteveJobsHouse.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We haven&#8217;t been readily able to determine its present status, <a href=\"http:\/\/cicorp.com\/apple\/garage\/index.htm\">but that garage was part of Jobs&#8217; parents&#8217; home<\/a> on Crist Drive in Los Altos, CA. (The two Steves actually began creating their revolutionary computer in a spare bedroom, then moved production to the garage.)<\/p>\n<p>Both these garages, of course, are part of the high-tech Silicon Valley story and we normally don&#8217;t cover computer technology, because lots of other blogs do. But garages initially aren&#8217;t mystical places. They&#8217;re handy, available, low-budget spaces with a roof and probably electricity. \u00a0They only become famous when the ingenuity employed in them proves to be truly visionary.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, we thought you&#8217;d enjoy seeing two of the nation&#8217;s most famous garages. If your kids want a place to indulge some of their ideas, make <em>yours <\/em>available. It may become a laboratory setting, a convenient outlet for creativity and, with luck, a source of great wealth.\u00a0<em>\u2013 DB <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had occasion to note the entrepreneurial importance of garages as start-up locales in our last Insights post on Andy Grove&#8217;s concerns about the status of U.S. manufacturing. One such garage \u2013 where Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard got started 70 years ago was designated a national historic landmark in 2007. As we happened upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}