Emerson Street Radio

Oral histories from the neighborhood

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Eileen moved from Capitola.

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Judith grew up in Palo Alto

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A Stanford junior, from nearby Marin.

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Street name “Milo”

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Avana Andrade just moved to Palo Alto.

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More Coming Soon

We will be posting a few more neighborhood stories soon, so please stay tuned. 

Also - if you'd like to be interviewed for Emerson Street Radio, please get in touch! This is an ongoing project. 

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A present from Herb and Joy Kaiser for the Emerson Street Radio collection.

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What Is Emerson Street Radio?

Emerson Street Radio is a neighborhood oral storytelling project. At our annual block party in 2013, we set up a table with two chairs, a recorder and a couple mics and asked our neighbors to interview neighbors. Friends interviewed friends. Old neighbors interviewed new ones. Children interviewed adults.

We posted the edited audio on this site. The project serves a dual purpose - it records the history of our street and, at the same time, brings neighbors together. 

In 2014, the city of Palo Alto awarded us a Know Your Neighbor grant that helped us expand the project to other neighbors and other streets. 

Much of journalism today is devoted to major, breaking news and interviews with the rich and powerful. This is our attempt to capture the extraordinary stories of ordinary people and help preserve the personal histories of our community.

It’s been fun. Take a listen!

-Sindya and Hemant

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We burnt a DVD with all the raw audio and photos to give to all those we interviewed at the Emerson, Ramona, and Bryant St block parties. Contact us if you didn't get yours!

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The Longstreth house and garden under construction back in the day.

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Atul and Mitchell chat about Palo Alto

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Anne Firth Murray and her partner Barry Rose, a mechanical engineer, are residents on Colorado Avenue in Midtown. They talk here about the most profound technological changes that have occurred in their lifetime. Rose is a Murray is the founding president of the The Global Fund for Women, and a lecturer at Stanford using MOOCS.

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Two German friends talking. Krista, a longtime Palo Alto resident and her friend Gutan, a former Palo Alto resident.

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Herb Kaiser, 91, is a retired foreign service officer who was posted throughout Eastern Europe and in South Africa. He talks about his block on Ramona Street in Palo Alto.

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Paul Kaiser interviews his dad Herb Kaiser and we find out about his work in the foreign service and aid work training medical professionals in South Africa

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Delmar Chen talks about growing up on Ramona Street.

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Mary Barton Rose about remodeling on Ramona St and moving to Palo Alto.