Alfred Hitchcok and Silicon Valley

The most famous resident of Scott's Valley, located between San Jose and Santa Cruz, was film director Alfred Hitchcock,who lived there from 1940 to 1972 in a mountaintop estate. In the early morning hours of August 18, 1961, Santa Cruz residents awoke to the macabre sight of a massive flock of birds slamming themselves against coastside buildings, an eerie event said to have inspired Hitchcock's movie thriller, "The Birds."