A Tale of Two Valleys
TIMES STAFF WRITER
The Valley. In the ‘80s, the word meant one thing, the urban sprawl north of the Santa Monica Mountains. Icon of the San Fernando Valley: a shoping-crazed teenage girl. In the ‘90s, the term is just as likely to denote the Silicon Valley, that storied stretch of high-tech utopia south of San Francisco. Icon of Silicon Valley: a 20-something software genius with no social skills. Here’s how the two stack up.:
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