I passed by
this spot the other day while caching, and it unleashed such a
flood of good memories of good times in my "olden" days that I
determined that I would place a cache here, more for me than
for you!
In August 1980, my first job in California began in the large
now-vacant building behind the cache hide. In July, I had driven
across the country away from Michigan where I had grown up,
traveling in my little 1974 Honda Civic (literally crammed to the
ceiling with all of my wordly (books) and worldly possessions) to
start a new life in Silicon Valley. And here my new working life
started.
I worked for a company named Dysan. Dysan had an R&D group at
the site dedicated to developing custom manufacturing equipment.
The "Walsh Bunch" (as we called ourselves) was a great fun group of
creative individuals that I was very happy to be a part of. I had a
lot of good times here and made a lot of good friends, all of whom
unfortunately have slowly ebbed out of my life over the tides of
years.
A young 20sumtin at the time, I was a mechanical designer: I
designed custom in-house production equipment for rigid and floppy
discs manufacturing. And while most of my machine designs tended to
have a very definite "Rube Goldberg" style to them, hey! at least
they worked! 
(http://www.rube-goldberg.com)
Little did I know at the time that my California professional life
would later include survival during 3 different company acquistions
by other companies (Xidex, Anacomp, SKC America) with countless
associated layoffs, several transfers, several promotions,
countless changes in supervisors and managers to whom I would
report, and two very definite identifiable career "morphs".
But I digress ...
The cache is a very little plastic box hidden out of site, just
big enough for the logsheet and very little else. There is no evil
camo involved, or clever cache placement. Maybe the next hide in
the series ...
Speaking of the series, by the time I am done the "Been Here"
series is likely to include the following(in autobiographical
chronological order):
Been Here: Walsh
Been Here: Elko and Reamwood
Been Here: Patrick Henry
Been Here: Pastoria
Been Here: East Java
Been Here: Osgood
My Scotts valley cache Benchmark Q 1455 is a related cache that
fits in between Walsh and Elko/Reamwood.
Enjoy! And Happy Caching!
50sumtin
Congratulations to (in alphabetical order) Mystery Ink and stbk for
co-FTF! 