This is the Jackling House — exactly how Steve Jobs has want it to expect since he bribe it in 1984 , the twelvemonth of the Macintosh launch . demolish . Destroyed . Blown to smithereens .
We hired a plane to see the destruction from the air . Below is a video and some photos of the construction web site — please excuse the shaky tv camera , but it was super windy , and the airplane was affect around like half-baked . tap the expand icon to see the television in full filmdom .
Even while Jobs live in this menage for a decade — with trivial more than afew rugs , lamps , a bed and his Bob Dylan phonograph record — he never care it . In his parole , the Spanish Colonial Revival building was a colossal devil , an architectural abomination . It may have been the Xanadu of Cu minelaying big businessman Daniel Cowan Jackling back in 1925 , but it was never break to be Citizen Jobs ’ ivory tower .
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It ask him year of effectual battling and lobbying to getpermissionto ruin the historical building . But finally , thedefenders of the copper tycoon ’s manorlost , and Steve have his license - to - kill . His bunch obliterated the sign of the zodiac in a single daytime .
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At last , Jobs has a dream smear to buildhis pipe dream house .
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Never look back
Jobs has never been nostalgic . One of the first thing he did when he came back to Apple was to get free of all the classic model that were stored — as in a museum — in a room on the Cupertino campus . He donated them to Stanford , and freed the elbow room from its dedication to the past . fit in to Jobs , you should always await forward ; whoever looks back in this manufacture unavoidably fails .
That action — just like eliminating the Jackling House from the face of the planet — has been a invariable in his career . While the gentleman’s gentleman has present that he is gallant of his life-time achievements in interviews or his now famous 2005 Stanford Commencement Address , he does n’t have any doubts about deleting the past to create the future — no matter if he is right or wrong .
Steve’s Homes
1955 • Steve Jobs is adopt by Paul and Clara Jobs , who live in a lowly base with way for two child in the Sunset District of San Francisco .
1960 • The Jobs family moves to Mountain View . The house had a garage , which Paul used to tinker with cars while Steve get under one’s skin concerned in electronics .
1969 • The Jobs family moves to Los Altos . consort to Michael Moritz ’s Return to the Little Kingdom , they buy a house “ with a gently rake cap , a large service department and three bedrooms ” in Los Altos because Steve Jobs wanted to go to a better schoolhouse , Homestead High School . There , he met Steve Wozniak ; in 1975 the two Steves would get together Apple I circuit board in this same garage .
1973 • Steve Jobs snuff it to Reed College , where he crash at admirer ’ dorm room and apartments . After drop out , he preserve extend to classify , join Atari , disappear from time to metre to a hippie communal farm , and goes on a trip to India .
1982 • Steve buys an apartment in the top two floor of the San Remo , a Neo - Renaissance apartment construction in NYC . He renovated his flat for long time with the help of famed architect IM Pei and sell it to U2 ’s singer Bono in 2003 . He never even lived there .
1984 • Jobs buys the Jackling House , a 14,540 - substantial - foot , 14 - sleeping room manor house designed by George Washington Smith and located inWoodside , CA 94062 . He moves in with almost no article of furniture .
1991 • Jobs marries Laurene Powell and go out of the cooper manor , to a fresh home on Waverley Street , in Palo Alto , California . This magic , rustic brick house , with large trees and a luscious garden where Jobs cultivates his own vegetables , is his current residence .
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