Turned out there was a mistake and the permit was supposed to be to have been issued for his small pepper tree instead. I believe it is still vacant. If it's boring you, CHANGE THE CHANNEL! All of this is mostly gonelike Linda's. Also, does anyone remember Otto's Cheesecake downtown MV? Frequented San Antonio shopping center, mayfield mall and old mill. Steve, Is someone making you read this stuff? I grew up next to Therekauf/Stevenson school. OJ Cooper school. Palm variety was a store with tons of household knick knacks. Versions of it (the tree got bigger with time) became posters or advertisements, and I encounter copies periodically. It was sad to see it go. Mountain View Library was very small and crowded. Does any one remember that Mountain View was owned by the 7th Day Adventist who spent a few years looking to move away (BEFORE the computer movement)? And GTE @ the Central Park Apts. Does anyone remember the name before Gemco? This was before 237 was an expressway. from the shopping center where Walgreens is at grant and el camino, Michelle. YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. I also have very fond memories of the Variety Store at Blossom Valley Shopping Center where we all got candy for a nickel, the Galaxy Gift Store where we got every Christmas Present for my mother for about a decade, I think, and Tots-to-Teens where my mom took me for school clothes (and I had to get size "6x" which meant I was not skinny enough :/). It is a lovely thread to read and I am pleased to see it is still getting new posts after 5 years! The movie theater was pretty small.I recall we usually chose the Varsity Theater up in Palo Alto over the small MV theater. in Downtown Los Altos 88-96. There was an underpass that allowed children to go beneath the busy road to get to school. It had a 50 foot tall Wonder Woman, a stage coach on the ceiling and peanut shells on the floor. . I know this blog is a few years old but he ran across it and boy can you bring me down memory lane I'm sure I will repeat a lot of the familiar places in Mountain View but I just wanted to share them as well. State Delicatessen. Grocery Store All rights reserved. It was also easier on the pocketbook. My grandpa and I would go through in our funky station wagon. Woody's was a real old-school place, with all the breakfast dishes or sandwiches available for ordering written on tiny chalkboards behind the counter. My dad worked at Lockheed. It is now The Village at San Antonio Center (Web Link. It was officially opened by Portfolio Minister . And this sort of group meets weekly at the Red Rock Cafe to talk about math and programming and physics. I lived there 24 years and Neal lived there 30 years. It's easy to be nostalgic. I Magnin was at Stanford where the Macy's Men's Store is now located. really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. After the Mac was introduced in 1984 I often went to Computerware, on California Avenue in Palo Alto. The Simpson Buick car dealership used to be on the northeast corner of El Camino Real and Castro with a Chrysler dealer that had a huge tower with a globe on top on the opposite corner where the big bank is now. I lived in Mountain View briefly in 1973. Some of the best people and food ever. About where the Hausner Day school is now on San Antonio between Middlefield and Alma, there was an Indian mound (Ohlone--pre Spanish era) camping/living area. St James Infirmary located at 445 California Avenue Reno NV 89501, view menus, pictures, reviews, directions and more . Any one work with/through the Youth Opportunity Program (high school students) at the Mountain View Post Office? Does anybody remember the Sunnyview Family Club, down on Esceula? Lots of other kids participated did that continue into the '70's? I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. own bread, and sold beers at least in the old Palo Alto place on Meadow. There was also a Kelly's at Stanford Shopping Center before it went so upscale. Crusin with Dave G and the Cuz Glenn. I actually worked down the road in Los Altos at the Boardwalk, what a shame they closed. It's odd to wonder how everyone got along without a phone in their pockets, and there As a kid I lived mostly in extreme south Palo Alto, but I was oriented more toward Mountain View than anything to the north: Mayfield Mall with its music store and Consumers Distributing catalog store; the San Antonio Center with the Menu Tree, the Time Zone arcade, and the Sears with the candy counter. I also remember P-3's flying over my house hourly from Moffett Field and the Blue Angels Air Show annually with Fireworks on July 4th -Whisman Station was a big industrial campus for GE. Hopefully that new Electronics Museum has some accurate literature available. That night I learned people yelled "Where's The Beef!" Some old photos were also in the lock shop plus the lock shop has not altered building it is the Jehning Family Lock Museum. Village Host Pizza on Castro. Fiesta and Camino lanes on El Camino. The mall was great off of, I believe Covington Rd. Car dealership n Castro and el CAMINO. The Infirmary was destroyed by an arson fire in 1998. . . and those Cinco de Mayo dances that Mountain View high school would have at Rengstorff park or sometimes at the Portuguese hall on Stierlin (boy did you open a can or worms) i could go on and on. The Menu Tree.. spent many days there.. It was full of inexpensive children's toys and candy, and had this amazing candy smell that I still remember to this day. And I remember the candy store at the Old Mill. I just don't know the name of it. I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. I remember in the late '60's entering my cat in the local "pet parade". I moved to Mtn. More. Those days of MV being a quiet, bucolic suburb are over. TownSquare This page has been a really interesting read. It was unmanned but still wired in. By then, St. James and Fargo's had both closed, but Mountain View had really developed an impressive downtown that I have enjoyed (especially considering it is a suburb of Silicon Valley). on, with the High School being down towards El Camino. Eating at the "picnic tables at Clarke's" with my mom quite often. House of Yee on Castro. Fosters Freeze and Linda's were a treat. by Newbie, Whisman Station, And across the street where Longs Drugs/Starbucks/Blockbuster is was a lumber yard/home improvement type of place, forgot the name. Boy, talk about kids in a candy store. My mom and dad both went to the original MVHS -- though I went to LAHS (who stole their mascot and not a few of their teachers). Hofbrau and then office buildings or something now. Eddies Sport Shop, The Instep for Addidas. Anyone remember the drive in theaters? Oh gosh! We used to have regular apricot fights in the orchards that are now Cuesta Park. tree that always got decorated during Christmas time, and unfortunately got damaged and chopped down during Castro st. renovations. Home As for the slot car racing place in Mt View, it was called D&S Hobby, in Carlotta Shopping Center, which used to be across from Franciscan Glass, off the west bound loop of the San Antonio Rd overpass. Unfortunately, Moffett had been closed. And don't forget the Camino Bowl, a great place to go bowling before it got torn down and replaced with businesses/condo units. Was this area a library building? When I first moved to Mountain View in 1983 I went to the movies at the "Old Mill" shopping center. - not so Newbie anymore. I will never forget how nice they would fix up Mayfield Mall for Christmas. Our baby was born in March and I came home to Indianapolis Indiana to stay with my parents until his leave in September 1953. Great town to start a career in Semiconductors. View High have been demolished and are now condominiums. Mesquite grilled - best BBQ chicken You might also look at Web Link. Not just the Gemco in Mountain View, but all the stores in the Gemco chain across California were bought out by Target. It's such a great town still, very expensive but it holds my childhood memories, love MV!! You are correct Emporium, I used to shop there all the time. Circulation & Delivery Is the staff stagnant, lazy and amateur. You could bring your empty bottles and get them filled. The only other big event was the art and wine festival and a chinatown. Pretty spooky and not for the weak. It's amazing, really, how much things have changed over the years, especially the businesses that have come and gone. The current city hall and MVCPA did not exist. Mountain View had that," Small Town USA " feel . It was a great time but I grew up and moved to other places for my career. The Monte Carlo Restaurant was the Movie theater for the town One was on ElCamino Real where the Amber Cafe is now located. The place was torn down when 237 was rebuilt years ago. Chez Yvonne was at 1854 W. El Camino, although I never went there. I remember Father Moss walking the streets alone late at night. Went to Landels Elementary and Graham Junior High. The only things going in the downtown were Printer's Inc. and a few restaurants like Szechuan Gardens, Dynasty, Fu Lam Mum and Florentine. In 1999 we took a nostalgia trip back to San Francisco and Mtn View and then on to San Diego. Preferred listings, or those with featured website buttons, indicate YP advertisers who directly provide information about their businesses to help consumers make more informed buying decisions. The nightclub at the Old Mill was called Fargo's. I took a part time job at Knight's Drugstore at the soda fountain, having my 18th birthday celebrated there with wonderful fellow employees. It seemed like a great concept. My daughter and her friends hang out at the In-n-Out burger on Grant or at our local smoothie places. and going to Old Mountain View's Castro Street felt soooooo far away! MV was specifically preserving the Casuarins - had a special one in a ramp right-of-way (Central Expressway andEl Monte?). Michael T is right, there were 7 buildings. net assets. View in late 1961 after my parents divorced. Oh one last thing the phone prefix for Mtn. Tidal lands existed along the bay. Speaking of burgers, Hobees when it started in the 70s (?) Didn't like La Poblanita 'cause I got sick once after eating there. Stig's Bakery I was teaching at Foothill Jr. College. I remember the P-3s flying over, often with a prop feathered for training. but I sure do miss Uncle Otto's Cheesecake and Stigs Pastry shop on Castro. General Electric and the "big" Orange Pumpkin We used to eat at The Menu Tree and the kids got the $1 burger basket. I only lived in Mtn. View for a bit over a year, but that is one memory of mine. These all mostly faded-out by the late 1990s. I saw some great photos of Castro street circa 1965 on Mountain View Historical Societies Facebook page. hand towels of a working hand air dryer for almost year despite my The originals from back in a day we can only imagine and who so few are still around to shed light on how truly special Mountain View was back before Silly-con Valley erupted. Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. Does anyone remember the name of the diner on the lower level of the Mall? The betting game with the ball at the St. Francis Western Roundup was The Pan Game and it is still played every year at the St. Joseph International Festival on Miramonte. View high. The mens clothing store was George"s. Who remembers the mexican restaurant on el camino and bailey. Terms of Use It was mostly known as the place to get Chinese food. My friend lived very close. The old house on Phyllis (the last home on the back side of the shopping center) was originally located in a ring of Redwood trees in the former Handyman parking lot! I remember the cookie factory well. I enjoy reminiscing the things that made Mountain View so great. -San Antonio Center was a mall (yep, three malls!) There were also Tower Books, Printer's Inc. in Palo Alto, Stacey's, Kepler's, Books Inc. in the Stanford Center all of them with much bigger and more fascinating selections than one sees now. I lived in Mtn. Speaking of pizza, have you followed the curious path of Pontillo's Pizza that was on Rengstorff near El Camino? The Eagle was simply left at the old MV High football field. You needed to become a member and show your card when you entered the store. (After returning from two rainy years near Portland, a few times. I use to live in San Carlos ave. View, CA .. 1967-1998 .. A Fan Page For Those Who Loved This One Of A Kind Place! not too far from San Antonio. JC Penney's was where Meyer Electric is now. Dreamed of a jet in a small group colliding with a tree, a few days before the Blue Angels had their first (?) Later years the Poblanita restaurant on Castro for the Milanesa, yummy! Hah, when I was going to Foothill I loved just down Bonita from the Food Fair Market Me and my friends rode our bikes all over Mtn. Mountain View was and still is a great city. Thanks for this thread! The Foothill Owl mascot used to reside in the highway school tower. But can anyone please help me remember the name of the pre-school on San Ramon Ave. where The Fountains retirement community is built. The wait to eat inside is a little much, though. on the discussion! I grew up there in the late 70's when my grandfather retired from TWA we moved from Mountain View to Florida. Co-Op Market by Sears the pool hall on Castro.. the old theater (stinky bathrooms)and double features (25 cents) Wagner's Drugs on Castro Robert Moore Flowers on Castro Parkers Flowers on Castro Moore Furniture on Castro.. Lawrence Tires Sims Shoes Mtn. Someone said that Linda's sold horse meat burgers. Thanks for an interesting trip down memory lane. Original post made I see from maps now there is a pocket park on Sierra Vista by Middlefield. I remember Dog towers,A very cozy public library with a fireplace, A big fire at Mountain view high school in 1974 and spending every day at Fairmount park.The city had a great summer recreation program that gives me some of my best childhood memories.Especally going up to Deer hollow farm in the Los Altos foothills.I was very lucky to be able to spend my childhood years in Mountain view. Primary Menu Newsroom; Public Meetings; About HCAI; Subscribe; Careers; Log In; Scroll navigation Left Building Safety & Finance. Oh Mountain View and how I miss it. Everybody actually went to Shakey's Pizza in P.A. Embarcadero Media Saw John Stewart (formerly of the Kingstion Trio) there several times. Sponsored content This is a used 40 year old t-shirt, it isn't in mint condition. I remember The Beer Garden having a very old, tall, date palm tree in the parking lot. The movie theater may have stuck around a little longer than the mall. The Chinese market on Castro street was a pharmacy/rite aid type store. The Mancini house on Church St. was the place to go on Halloween because of the great treats and to sneak a glimpse at the marble interior. Posted by Elizabeth, a resident of the Whisman Station neighborhood, on Feb 22, 2011 at 3:15 pm We went wild over it. Bernardo in Mountain View near Middlefield. Contact Jailon directly. It was crazy but totally fun!! Back over across Lived on the east side of 101 for many years in the 1970's- rent was cheap and neighbors were weird (imagine they said the same about us). despite the rude owners great sushi. Cocktail Love. best city in Northern California.I attended MVHS AT Castro street. People moved alot slower , talked a little slower . Thank-you 1, Graduated from MVHS in 1975 while working at A&W riding my 125 Honda yep it is Eric. St James Infirmary's headquarters are located at 730 Polk St Fl 4, San Francisco, California, 94109, United States What is St James . I spent my early childhood in Mountain view in the 1970s. On the other hand as a kid we felt safe walking any where in town not now. Does anyone remember the name of this place? that place but it was short-lived. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. As a community, Moutain View is far better off having had such people as molders of what we have today. This was such a great place in the mid to late 70's - the Baylands Park, the old white house near Shoreline. I remember when they opened up Fro Yo at that shopping center, when Safeway was Brentwood market and opened into a liquor store, there was a deli next store called Feinshmeckers? Hello California! Downtown was a quest area with a few Chinese restaurant. Joselyn's Bike Shop Bullfarbers ? no one mentioned Continental MKT. It was a beautiful spanish style building which should of been restored and named a historical landmark. I lived there from the '50s thru to 1984. ), I remember moving to Mtn View in 1965 from Sunnyvale so that my dad could live closer to his clothing store that was located on Castro St. As for the tire store it was located where the bead store is now. I don't think this service lasted long. YP - The Real Yellow PagesSM - helps you find the right local businesses to meet your specific needs. There was Rainbow Record Store at the light on Grant Road as you approach the shopping center. When one of the Hispanic neighbors would host a party, everyone was invited! Keep em' coming Mountain Viewers. The field behind Cooper School was not a park yet! There were a few other places in Sunnyvale, but Friday night at the Jack in the Box parking lot on El Camino by Grant Rd was where me and my gearhead buddies stopped to watch the show and surreptitiously quaff a brew or two. I lived in the Cuesta Park area growing up (my parents still live in the same house) and have rented several apartments/duplexes/houses in other parts of our town over the years, but just moved to a tiny house in Old Mountain View with my daughter and new husband. I don't know when or why they would use it, maybe as a backup? My wife was on-call as a dietitian at the nursing home there in the early 80s. I moved to Old Mtn View in the late '70s.remember Gemello Winery? Sometimes I don't even recognize the downtown area. Uncle Otto's Cheescake where I went nearly every day for lunch takeout, and they were the best!Mountain Mikes Pizza..I believe it is still there. Sun and SGI were a couple of the large employers, fighting out the workstation market. The high school games at Foothill and how exciting it was and still is being in Mountain View. It answers the "even earlier." When I lived on Park Dr I used to walk over on Saturday mornings. The E.M. club at Moffett Field naval Base was a great place to go. And to this very day, Prince's music reminds me of how happy I was to have discovered Mountain View! We had to say indoors and make sure cars were in covered parking. On Saturdays I'd drive up El Camino. The gas station where Jack in the Box is on Shoreline (sterlin rd) And I have seen quite a few Tower Records; in the Bay Area, L.A., Orange County and even London. United States. There was a music store on Castro Street where I took classical guitar lessons back in the 70s when I was 9-10 years old, and later bass guitar lessons. And Mountain View Surplus where I used to get my blue jeans and blue Mountain View Library with great new book selections inside the entrance usually getting no farther than that to stop and read. I'd appreciate some help. It stimulates my aging brain. It had sawdust and peanut shells on the floor, and a giant Wonder Woman statue. I can almost remember their "3rd Annual Going Out of Business Sale" with 25 cent shots of Jack Daniels and 10 cent draft beers. When they closed, it became Jenny Craig, and then Prudential Real Estate office. View, where Google is now, I had some classmate that lived out there and back then it was dirt roads and chicken coops. Remember???? The Almanac There was no Shoreline Park. The walls where filled with black and white pictures of actors and sport figurs from the 30' and 40's and 50's i think it was the bolkin village?? Mayfield Mall where HP had offices and now is empty. Bowling Alley It was a nice time and if I could, I would go back; maybe in the near future! Eddie's Gun Shop View theater, through a kind of walkway/tunnel to the parking lots behind. View- was also a mailman there for a couple of years in late 60's. The bottle was refundable for a nickle at the store where you could buy a candy bar for five cents! There were a lot of Country Stores throughout the bay area, little shops. Wasn't there a Card Room called SUTTERS on 237? Blossom Valley also had a great pizza place called Old Cal where we would go as kids on minimum days from Blach. Definitely check out the History Center if you get a chance. Navy jets flew overhead constantly, then it was the Orion P-3 submarine chasers. Carr's Pet Shop. Also, does anyone remember where on ECR Matt's Club (dive bar) was? (I saw Swiss Family Robinson there! in the San Antonio Shopping area. It was near the road into Alviso, home of the first Yacht Club in Calif. The sign for the shop was misspelled as "Sheespkin House", and as a teenager I giggled every time I drove by. and may again, but why don't people do their jobs when they are On El Camino near Mathilda was this huge langendorff bread sign that sliced bread of buttered the slice. Now -- this one may be way in my imagination, but I remember as a child that at the corner of Escuela and ECR there used to be a shoestore in the shape of a house (before the Cost Plus moved in there). I CAN STILL VISUALIZE THE BILL BOARDS ON THE WALL.. McKelvey Baseball Field/Park The book also said that the owners of Fargo's wanted to build a hotel on the site, but that project obviously didn't go through. The first 2 years of St. Joseph's School were held in the old classrooms of at what is now St. Francis High School. One of the things I really liked about the area was that there were small artisan shops, whether they were small restaurants with health food items on the menu, sprouts and tofu, or if they were jewelry and clothing shops, privately owned. When I got here in '86 the Shoreline Amphitheater had just recently been converted from the dump and methane fires were breaking out when the garbage caught fire. I think Rambus occupies that site now. Downtown / Midtown Cross Street. Shoreline Park is much nice than Byxbee Park in Palo Alto with the stinky The site of Nob Hill on Grant Road was a Hubbard & Johnson hardware store before it's more recent incarnations. VA construction started about 1958 and opened a few years later. The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. A block down from Printer's Inc. Remembering that when our family drove to First Baptist Los Altos we went up Castro St. to many times and saw Doberman Pincher dogs inside as guard dogs at the newly built High Rise down town, dog poop on the vacant expance of concrete floors when you look into the windows here BoofA is currently standing . as it was completely VACANT. But to leave this on for weeks and weeks is very ridiculous and very boring. Its where the first IC was made by Noyce? There was an unfinished furniture place called Decor on El Monte near El Camino Rl that became Office Depot. Linda's was great ( I know the recipe for their sauce!) The Indian lady who started that was a visionary, it where Please keep the memories alive. I remember my mom and grandma shopping at the Purity grocery store where Golden Wok now sits, it was one of the first grocery stores in town and had smaller shopping carts for the kids to use. 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