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WOODSIDE STORE
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The old WOODSIDE STORE (SRL 93), the first store
opened between San Francisco and Santa Clara, is
the one surviving landmark of pioneer days in
Woodside. The present structure was built in 1854 by
M. A. Parkhurst and Dr. R. O. Tripp ("Doc" Tripp), a
dentist, who had arrived as early as 1849 and engaged
in cutting shingles. In 1851 they gave up the lumber
business for merchandising. Until his death in 1909
Tripp kept his store at Tripp and Kings Mountain
roads, one and one-half miles west of the present
town of Woodside... The Woodside Store is now
owned by the County of San Mateo and is open to the
public as a museum. (From HISTORIC SPOTS IN
CALIFORNIA, Third Edition, Stanford, Stanford Uni-
versity Press, 1966)
Photograph © 1966 and published by Rudolf K. Meyer, Sunnyvale, California
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