There are no private airstrips in Palo Alto, but five are located within 30 miles of the city center. Moffett Federal Airfield Airport (no website; Airfield M/S 158-01, Moffett Field; 650-604-5050) is the closest to Palo Alto, located five miles east in Mountain View.
Weber Grills: Mostly Made in America by Private Equity. Sixty-one years ago, George Stephen got tired of wind and rain messing up his cooking on an open-air grill, the main barbecue tool of the day. He grabbed a buoy made where he worked, Weber Brothers Metal Works in Illinois. He sliced it in half and fashioned a tight-fitting dome lid.
Email. Born in the 1950s, they are the recipe, the smell, the taste of American summers -- Weber Grills. George Stephen came up with the idea when he was looking for a way to cook a better slab of ribs. That's when inspiration struck. Stephen cut a buoy in half and invented the Weber Grill. He traveled around the country with his new invention cooking for anyone who was willing to taste test. Filling America's backyards for nearly 60 years, the business has boomed to more than 1,000 employees.