We had to say indoors and make sure cars were in covered parking. Not many people were aware of this, or cared, for that matter--those bead makers were the very first Palo Alto hi-tech design engineers. I lived there 24 years and Neal lived there 30 years. I stopped there a few years ago and was told it has always been O'Malley's. ), 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. The Tower Records in Mountain View is the only one I have been to that had an actual bookstore. It started when high tech (ie computers) hit the area. The Safeway on Shoreline was tiny compared to today with an empty restarant space next to it, and when the Grateful Dead came to play Shoreline the deadheads would always take over the parking lot. Central Expressway stopped at Castro. Double Rainbow was the ice cream place I do remember Carr's Pet Store. It's was a PayLess the last time I noticed. I lived right behind the Mayfield Mall, and mostly what I remember are annual magic shows, Easter egg hunts, great decorations at Christmas, and the fantastic egg-rolls that a man sold from a cart. ***. VIEW HISTORICAL SPOTS IT TIME TO MOVE ON. the Diamond Ranch Market in 1970 until 1971, as mentioned above, Also, does anyone remember Otto's Cheesecake downtown MV? You had to have a membership card to get in, I think the card was $1. I have lived in Mountain View since the early 70's. People reminisce, for example, about Linda's. During the summer many of us were required to work in the fruit harvest. St. James Infirmary recipe, brought to you by the folks at Cocktail Love. (0.37 mi) Plaza Resort Club Hotel (0.21 mi) Legacy Vacation Club Reno Studio Suite, SUNDAY Check-In (0.23 mi) Stunning Views On Riverwalk Wow Factor 1BR 2BA (0.21 mi) Legacy Vacation Resort Reno; View all hotels near St. James Infirmary on Tripadvisor It was cool. View renter in Mountain View from '73 through '85 then returned to Florida. Red Barn for a Barnbuster Ming Pan Florist and the Moffet Drive-in Theatre too! Pretty spooky and not for the weak. and it was the Mountain View Eagles. I remember the small TV store on El Camino and I think Castro where I bought my first I always thought the food there was better than Taco Bell. The library had only one story and was overcrowded. Mtn view has come a loooog ways but I loved it better when it was smaller and slower. A few years back I did a few interior deconstructions on the North side of Castro close to Central Express Way. Constantly hearing the U.S. NAVYS planes overhead. A huge pepper tree was like a secret room. There was also another night club on the other side of the freeway, next to Safeway- can't remember the name- that was more of a dance club. 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. Can't remember for sure, but I think they had sound to outside. La Petit Boulangerie, Florentines Pasta Shop, TOGO's!!!!! We lived on Parker Ct. some highlights, like the Co-op Supermarket which became the old Rite Aid no one mentioned Continental MKT. Stuft Pizza We ate at Ken's House of Pancake's (apple pancakes! WTH happened?!?! He quit in 1971 and we moved to Southern California. Another place I have enjoyed is Tony and Alba's Pizza. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. Dairy Bell restaurant had burgers at 5 for $1 and some really good greasy deep fried taco's. Unfortunately, Moffett had been closed. Privacy Policy I remember the P-3s flying over, often with a prop feathered for training. It had sawdust and peanut shells on the floor, and a giant Wonder Woman statue. The tree reminded me of home (Florida beaches now it's illegal to grow them in my Florida city). Yes there were also the yearly Navy air shows. The San Antonio Shopping Center had that church single's group that met every Sunday morning in the upper floor of the Menu Tree. So many memories. There was actually a gun shop (Eddy's) on Castro and El Camino which first moved across the street then finally went out of business about 6 or 7 years ago. Actually, the Nob Hill where it is today was Handyman, a home center. We had a wonderful wholesale bakery in that neighborhood, where you could buy a big bag of shortbread cookies for a $1. ----Woolworth's/Wells Fargo Bank/ Long's Drug Store View was a great town back then and still is today. Now its an India restaurant. -Whisman Station was a big industrial campus for GE. Tidal lands existed along the bay. I believe Bazaar was in between the other two names. That mall also had another restaurant that had live jazz music by The Danny Hull Quintet? - Highway 237 had traffic signals; was called Mountain View-Alviso Road Cocktail Love. Halloween was a must every year. that machine that cheapie simple stuff was really expensive back Armed soldiers with police dogs constantly walked the grounds. Man what a time You could actually walk across town or to school and not worry about anything but being late. Fiesta Bowl in Palo Alto/The Hotel was the Cabana Hyatt house where the Beatles stayed (now the Crowne Plaza). The small open spaces like the corner of Cuesta and Grant Road and on Shoreline Blvd were homes that had to be moved for the widening of the those respective streets. Liberty House department store at the old San Antonio Shopping Center. It was known to be Mountain View High School's teachers watering hole. . There's a Residence Inn there now. The "shoreline house" was actually the home of Henry Rengstorff. What I remember from my 1982 arrival in Mountain View: ST. JAMES INFIRMARY Hospitals and Health Care San Francisco, California 403 followers It is our mission to meet the needs of people engaged in the sex trade through advocacy, direct services . The vibe was great. I was part of the last graduating class of old Mtn. It was also interesting to see that 1984 W. El Camino was once a Holiday Inn. The Jewell Tea Co. brought groceries right to your door without the Internet. Sold my 1958 VW bus, painted Rustoleum orange with yellow roof, with an engine that had died forever on the highest point of Hwy 17, to teenagers across the street who cut out the back end for surf boards and replaced the engine. My mom used to take me there and I remember always ordering the grilled cheese sandwich and jello for dessert. had kept it. There was an underpass that allowed children to go beneath the busy road to get to school. Echos of Don Sherwood and Superfrog live on in Maine. Once in a while I would walk down Castro street and some guy in a Ford Mustang would try to pick me up, a lad of 18 at the time. I'm going to add something a little different the Cold War. Does anyone know what was at the northeast side of the Moffett and W. Middlefield intersect? Kragans Auto? "Our" red painted wood duplex and the big empty field inside the block disappeared when the block "went condo" (in '76?). Downtown Mtn. St. James Infirmary Address: 730 Polk St San Francisco, CA 94109 HCAI ID: 306380604; Facility License Type: Clinic; In the median of Castro in front of the city hall was a huge redwood? There are a lot of restaurants that I remember. james that burned down.and Gyro's house of terror at the old mill ..before it became a tent in san jose>> The Greatful Dead would come into town!!!!!!! At halloween time, they had the best selection of wax whistles, plastic lips, and dracula teeth. Somebody sprayed on the windows of "DOG CITY" and those buildings have always been Dog City in my mind.. only a moment in time. Thanks to everyone for the contributions. Every Sunday night we would go to the store after dinner and my father would work on the books. sewage treatment plant and the airport spewing noise and leaded exhaust Blogs The Old Mill and Mayfield malls were already mostly derelict. by Newbie, Whisman Station, television dealer in the building that burnt down recently. In the mid 80's is when everything started to change..I have a little memory of downtown, I'm a Castro City resident, so I remember San Antonio and the Old Mill more. The Monte Carlo Restaurant was the Movie theater for the town The first time we saw "Great America" parkway..and all the drive in movie theaters and how we would sneak are friends in and have great ol' times. Thank-you for the memories. See who you know in common. (Later turned into office parks.it may be where a big CAD company is now located.) There were two chains, Pollos and Pollo Locos. My dad was laid off in '90 my step mom is still with the company under new name General Dynamics. Heard the wind tunnel at Ames at night. I lived on Colony St and went to Powell School, Crittenden and Mountain View HS on Castro street. I also remember another Japanese restaurant on El Camino west of San Antonio that did teppan style (similar to Benihana). You forgot Herman's Sporting Goods. 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 View high building is gome butGo eagles !s31ZJ. Mountain View was a working-class town back in the 60s and 70s, and while I still love living here, I'm sad that high-tech has made it so hard to afford to live here. Just loved reading all these posts and bringing back all the memories. Also the Time Zone Arcade. Later on. Two Guys from Italy Rest. Does anyone remember the gas station on the corner of Castro and California Street. Knights pharmacy was my grandmas go to pharmacy. One person would drive a car in, and 4 or more would sneak in through the hole in the fence behind the bush on the entrance road. My parents work for the Government Telecommunication Co. GTE. Grew a huge garden every summer. San Francisco, CA 94109. St James Infirmary. build houses so close to the train tracks. Waitresses in shorts; orders placed in car windows, fantastic. Eddies Sport Shop, The Instep for Addidas. There are several stains scattered on the shirt. Never dreamed of planes before or since, despite having been a sky diver and knowing well of the Blue Angels. The only electric signal lights were on El Camino Real. Yes? ----Great Western Savings/Home Savings/ Westwood Childcare Center El Zarape, Qui Hing Low, Fosters hamburgers, the original "Big Mac" at Johnny Macs, Lindas, The Red Barn, the Sylvania pit, . The tulip tree next to it, with bare branches I filled with lights at Christmas while blaring my record of Bach's "Magnificat." Graham middle school is known as Graham junior high. Oh gosh! I will never forget how nice they would fix up Mayfield Mall for Christmas. it used to be. I was out of the area for a while and when I can back it was a Harry's Hofbrau, but I'd say more, but, well, there's a little book you can pick up at the library or at Books Inc that has tons of photos of Mountain View's history and will probably answer a lot of your questions. Grew up in Los Altos in the 60s-90s. My grandpa and I would go through in our funky station wagon. Remember???? I frequented it in the mid 90s. This thread keeps me coming back to the site each day to see what new memories have been posted. I lived in Mtn. Then it burned down.) There was a Penneys store (now Meyer's), Sim's Shoes, Veglia's Store, Arminini Drugstore and two popular Chinese restaurants: Andy's and Qui Hung Low (?). Eating at the "picnic tables at Clarke's" with my mom quite often. This is such a fun list to read. There is a Historic marker in front of a small building on Charleston just before it crosses San Antonio. Frequented San Antonio shopping center, mayfield mall and old mill. 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?? At the little mall with the hobby store upstairs they used to decorate extensively for Christmas. United States Phone Number: (415) 554-8494 (Main Phone Number) (415) 554-8444 (Domestic Fax) Website: Main Website Facebook E-mail: admin@stjamesinfirmary.org (Main Email) Hours: Not available . Mountain View Library with great new book selections inside the entrance usually getting no farther than that to stop and read. Dave Fisher Thank you for any info. It was a nice time and if I could, I would go back; maybe in the near future! The Foothill Owl mascot used to reside in the highway school tower. There are many more places I can talk about while I lived in the area. The little store on Rengstorff and old Middlefield where La Costena I have lived in Mountain View since the mid 70's. Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 It's easy to be nostalgic. Old Mountain View High was diagonally across the street from St. Joseph's church, one of my sisters was one of the last graduates from that high school before it got tore down (what a shame). Albertsons and Payless were connected in the middle, @ El Camino and Grant. I lived on stierlin rd near the dumps lived next to the Capote family. go. The moved down Sterlin Rd toward the dump (which much later became Shoreline Park). MV was specifically preserving the Casuarins - had a special one in a ramp right-of-way (Central Expressway andEl Monte?). Nice thread full of great memories! Thanks to all your memories of place & business names I had forgotten. Only after it became a mainstream cliche did the various after-the-fact suppositions and misconceptions begin, wrongly associating the term's origin to this region's far longer history of technology firms, already underway by the 1930s (long before not just the semiconductor industry, but other technology firms such as Hewlett-Packard, which some people, especially around Palo Alto, like to conflate today with "silicon valley" origins). View, where Google is now, I had some classmate that lived out there and back then it was dirt roads and chicken coops. As a kid my friends and I would like to knock on the windows and aggrevate them. Versions of it (the tree got bigger with time) became posters or advertisements, and I encounter copies periodically. I just wonder if anyone from the 70's can remember the name of the bakery that was located on San Rafael Avenue off of Terra Bella in Mountain View. then. The current city hall and MVCPA did not exist. Car dealership n Castro and el CAMINO. My Mother, brothers, and I moved to Mtn. 2. But the best night was seeing the original Limelighters (Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, Glenn Yarbrough). There was a Pier One in the underground area and the Mall had a good record store. The other was located after you pass the train tracks going towards Moffet on left side near the corner of Moffet and Sterling. My grandmother and stepmother both worked at Liberty House in the San Antonio Shopping Center, and the Menu Tree was the best place ever ever ever (besides the fantastic Hobby Shop). A block down from Printer's Inc. The field behind Cooper School was not a park yet! And the center's hobby shop was a fun place to browse. Mountain View had that," Small Town USA " feel . Still had the bumper sticker "Can't read? So by posting to this thread, you inadvertantly ensured that it will continue to grace the front page. Mtn. on the discussion! Lets make 2023 great! I thought that was absolutely amazing. more forward thinking than Palo Alto and I am sorry I moved to Palo Alto Taco la Paz on El Camino Real, a Taco Bell knock-off, where I also worked for a couple years. On the other hand as a kid we felt safe walking any where in town not now. Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. View High (graduated in '68, brother in '59 and mother in '37) orchards everywhere Rengstorf Rec Center Friday dances Dana Street School Slater School Linda's Drive In.. La Cabana Mexican food at the end of Castro near Andy's and Florintine restaurants gadz, someone said they swam for the Dolphins in the 60's, so did I do remember Shaw's Ice Cream.. Suzie's Diner Hap's Market on Caldron and Church (Sav-Mor) the Rumpus Room and Matts on ECR, good ol' dive bars of course St. James Infirmary with Wonder Woman and the bi-plane and peanuts on the floor Mtn. What about driving through The Milk Pail at the corner of San Antonio and California to get your daily dairy? It was crazy but totally fun!! His GF dies, which leads him to tell us how great he is and then plan his own funeral.. workshirts in high school early 70's. Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. And the Mountain View Bakery, the Navy used to buy cakes from them for every occasion. It was worse than going to the Apple Store today though the geniuses My apartment($125/month) at 515 Central looked out over onion fields in 1966. I seem to be the only one in my family that remembers it and I can't find a picture or any other information. It was a good one, too. Payless Drug Store, which is now Rite-aid Great funky atmosphere, too. The King of Clubs was a big Navy bar and we used to go to Denny's across the street. The hobby shop was really packed on weekends from 1966-1968. "The Rumpus Room" (I shot the 8-ball in on the break on New Year's Eve!). 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