I think the archaeology was part of the problem. Through its last days there was a lot of, well, garbage that absolutely nobody would be interested in. Like iPhone 3GS cases c.a. 2018 - who's gonna buy that?
I left the valley in 2010 - so maybe I only saw it at its best? I can remember part of the fun was just figuring out what the hell you were looking at :-) There was another place not to far from there that was mostly ham gear - they had a electron microscope at one point!
