Silicon Alleys: Dark Dispatch
Bob Calhoun s new book reflects on Silicon Valley s place in the region s gory history
May 5, 2021 by Gary Singh
SPACE AND TIME: Apple s new headquarters, known colloquially as the spaceship sits not far from where one of Cupertino s darkest moments happened a decade ago, the same day the tech giant s revered founder died.
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The dark history of Cupertino has resurfaced thanks to author Bob Calhoun, whose new book cooks up a bouillabaisse of carnage.
At least a few chapters of The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area (ECW Press, 2021), are dedicated to the South Bay. In one called The Technological Divide, Calhoun recounts one of Cupertino s darkest moments, 10 years ago, when Steve Jobs passed away the same day Shareef Allman went on a shooting rampage at the Lehigh Permanente Quarry before taking cops on a manhunt thro