Tom Harrison

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Tom Harrison was born in San Mateo, but moved to Palo Alto in 1949 when he was in sixth grade. He has owned Peninsula Plating Works, a Palo Alto metal finishing business, since 1939.

[edit] Memories

Harrison's various memories were printed during the Palo Alto Centennial in 1994.

"When I was a really little kid, I remember coming down to the corner of Homer and Alma with my father to watch the white-faced Pacific steam engines with the steam shooting up. It was really dramatic.
"They had green trees coming down both sides of Alma, and the train was all black with a white face--the face being where the light was, in front of the boiler. And I remember the whistle. No matter where you were in Palo Alto, you could hear the whistle from the steam engine, which is a very different sound from a diesel."
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