Steve Jobs has certainly left his mark on the world in more ways than one. And now it seems even his childhood will be preserved for fans and foes alike to revel about.
The Apple founder‘s childhood home in Los Altos, California, is currently being considered as a possible historical site.
Jobs‘ childhood home is quite a far cry from the mansion he spent his last few years in. The single story, ranch-style home features 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. A very average, middle class family home that was built in 1952.
The house also has an attached garage – and it is in that same garage that Jobs and his partner, Steve Wozniak started building the first 50 Apple 1 computers.
Jobs moved into this home with his foster parents in the 7th grade, and continued to live there throughout his high school career. While some teenagers would throw parties in their parents‘ garage, Steve decided to start building his empire.
Jobs and Wozniak sold their first batch of 50 Apple 1‘s to Paul Terrell‘s Byte Shop in Mountain View for $500 each. It wasn‘t long after, in 1977, when the pair moved out of the garage and into their new space in nearby Cupertino and the Apple Computer Co. was officially established.
Sure it is quite impressive to showcase the garage that started one of the largest and most innovative tech-companies of all time, but that decision now sits with the Los Altos Historical Commission.
The commission has scheduled a “˜historic property evaluation‘ for the house. If they find that the house does have historic merit, it will have to be preserved the way it is.
The property evaluation said: “Steve Jobs is considered a genius who blended technology and creativity to invent and market a product which dramatically changed six industries — personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing“
According to real estate website, Zillow, the house is currently estimated to be worth $1.5 million. A steep price for a rather average home. One can only wonder if the price has got to do with it‘s famous previous resident.
A lot of people are Steve Jobs crazy, and it will be interesting to see if his status as pioneer and icon will raise even further by making the humble, modest house of 2066 Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, a historic site.
