The King of Clubs was a big Navy bar and we used to go to Denny's across the street. We had a "Food Fair" grocery store on El CAMINO between Castro and grant/237 some highlights, like the Co-op Supermarket which became the old Rite Aid When those establishments are gone, they will lament the passing of their youth like the many posts above. I haven't used it, but you might be able to find some helpful resources there. This was back in the first days of the home computers. I frankly had more fun at St. James and spent more time there. The list goes on and on. Jocelyn's Bike shop, Movie Rental Place next to the post office, and Jack "n" Jill kids clothing store was there, I think close to the Vacum Cleaner sales and repair place. Down the drive was a grilled chicken place called Pollo now I cannot remember. We thought we were in heaven and loved our life there until one night John came home and told me his division was being transferred to San Diego North Island and the aircraft carrier USS Princeton CV 37. 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). Did anyone go to Crittenden for elementary school?! I know this is incorrect. Every Sunday night we would go to the store after dinner and my father would work on the books. Albertsons and Payless were connected in the middle, @ El Camino and Grant. But the best night was seeing the original Limelighters (Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, Glenn Yarbrough). I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. Central Expressway was two lanes a dirt road with no lights. 1. A lot has changed since then. ***. Charlie. Crusin with Dave G and the Cuz Glenn. submarines. St. James Infirmary was made possible because of the unique vision of Sex Worker rights activists from COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and the Exotic Dancers Alliance (EDA), and a timely event in the . I havent been there but hope to before "old age" sets in :>) My thanks to all other contributors--so many places and things I had forgotten! Mountain View was starting to have some interesting stores, so sometimes I'd stop there. Here is some details about the Mountain View I grew up in. My parents work for the Government Telecommunication Co. GTE. 20 planes about 2 minutes apart, talk about noise pollution. I'm was 12 years old. I remember when Edelweiss Dairy was on 237 and it was all farmland to Milpitas. So many memories attached to them from those whose formative years were spent there. Carrs pet store at the beginning of Castro Street was where me and my dad would always go to buy chicken feed for our chickens. Nice to remember everything tho. What a great place to grow up. Home & Real Estate DV. The bookstores all went away, The computer stores were subsumed by Fry's (which I was going to in Sunnyvale as early as 1984), Best Buy, and later by the Apple Stores. We were newly wed and I was pregnant with our first child. Castro St. was quite run down in the early '80s--it seemed like the poor man's Palo Altowhat a transformation! Went there many times in the 1975-80 period. -The North Bayshore area was still farms. color TV set for like $325. Frequented San Antonio shopping center, mayfield mall and old mill. yes,st. I loved their apple and blueberry pankcakes. for me. Neither are there anymore. Sun and SGI were a couple of the large employers, fighting out the workstation market. View High have been demolished and are now condominiums. My Family knew the people who owed the big spooky looking house across the street. Oh the perils of middle age, ugh! I spend a lot of time and money in Mountain View, used to live there on Apr 13, 2008, There's a good DVD at the public library on the history of Mountain View. This page has been a really interesting read. Does anyone remember the little italian restaurant right across the street from Graham. Director of Finance And Accounting at ST. JAMES INFIRMARY View profile View profile badges I am sure it isn't hard to keep up with the current events, sports and crime of this town a week at a time. As a community, Moutain View is far better off having had such people as molders of what we have today. I'm thinking across from It was officially opened by Portfolio Minister . That area around Middlefield/Ellis was where Raytheon? Before it was torn down, did the community come out to stop development, like they did for the Milk Pail? Carpeteria And regrettably been here ever since. + many more) The place was torn down when 237 was rebuilt years ago. There was also a Kelly's at Stanford Shopping Center before it went so upscale. Linda's was my favorite place for take-out as a child (I LOVED the tator tots!) I do however have two clear memories of this period. Bobs Big Boy became a Japanese restaurant became another restaurant. [emailprotected]. I remember the clinic on castro where alot of my friends got counceling and pills the cool thrift shop the gun shop lindas in 70s mvh alot of fun but also a bit of the wild west going on back then alot of fist fights not gangs and guns like nowdays and walkinggggg everywhere bein safe good old days. Thank you for that :) 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. I attended some classes at Foothill College..remember their "new" lazer light shows for the time!It seems that it was just that perfect place with so many things to do and so many people starting businesses. came in and told them they could not sell food or drinks. I remember the pre Gemco store named White something, was it White Castle? Someone mentioned it closed in about 1980, but I say it hung on a few years longer than that, maybe till about 1985. The old days of a quiet little town with orchards and farms and friendships that lasted a lifetime John Puppo, Don Lawson, Ed Mylrea, Lorena Mylrea, Maggie Mylrea, Charles Moore, Lawrence Anderson, Pete Stahor, Stan Anderson, Marty Spangler, Doris Awalt, Irv Carter, Alan Cranston, Peppy Martinez, Pete Janovich, Jack Randall, Bob Mastin, Helen Shearer, Jean Mockbee, Andy Janovich too many to recall and too many departed Maybe they are all now gathered together at my Grandmother's old Creamary that sat next to the old Mountain View Theater. It had a flush toilet, but was just a small shed built over the septic tank. It had a french quarter food mart , mexican restaurant, movie theatres, bookstore, and and water wheel with water in the center of the mall.The mall was two stories. total expenses. My friends worked at the movie theater and some also worked at Village Host a pizza place in downtown. Dial-a-bus this was back in the early 70's. Key points were Shoreline Park, Century Theaters, Downtown renovation. Mountain View near Castro was a wonderful place to live. Came to Mtn View in 1967 I have just returned to Sunnyvale after ten years in L.A. The redwood in front of city hall wasn't merely damaged, but actually accidentally cut down and then someone said "whoops!" The downtown was 2 narrow lanes with no parking and there was nothing going Lets not forget The TownClub, R-Club, Cottage, The OakRoom, Mervyns. What a great time! I think everyone attended some sort of function there at some point in their lives. It's located on Castro St. across the street from Red Rock Cafe. Gas was cheap, crime was low and we had a blast growing up there. It started when high tech (ie computers) hit the area. I remember the big white-and-red sign very well. I'm going to add something a little different the Cold War. It is the second left turn from the Cornwall College playground and is erected on the Albion property. Cost Plus? The hobby shop was really packed on weekends from 1966-1968. Go Eagles!!! We had a wonderful wholesale bakery in that neighborhood, where you could buy a big bag of shortbread cookies for a $1. ie Apricots, cherries, prunes. It is a lovely thread to read and I am pleased to see it is still getting new posts after 5 years! My brother and I called it "the popcorn room". View for a bit over a year, but that is one memory of mine. And the "Generic Hamburger Stand" in the old Der Weinerschnitzel (which became Weinerschnitzel again after the generic place closed). Boy, talk about kids in a candy store. . From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Imperial Gardens even had a water wheel going in their back yard. It also had a smallish, old-fashioned PBX switchboard with plugs and cables. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. Where the amp. I lived on the southern end of Los Altos from 1961 through about 1985. We could see Monte Vista drive in from our roof . This was the Bay Area bar and grill that burned down in the 90s. Fond memories of Palm Plaza buying candy there on days we walked to church, buying comic books once a week at store on Miramonte? St Joseph church would ring the church bell during the day. Then the sound became noise pollution. Had a small house with no heat except the fireplace and, most likely, the last outhouse in Mt. Then a fire had destroyed a class room module/building (in fragments i remembered either it was used as a science lab or it was actually the computer lab). My co-workers and I would go to lunch on Castro St. every day--we loved Florentine (great pizza bread), Mekong (run by a former Vietnamese diplomat), and the Blue Sky Cafe, where I believe I had my first tofu sandwich. The one in the shopping Center at 85 and Advertising Info Blossom Valley Shopping Center was an orchard; as was most of the surrounding land. The house prices went up, $450,000. Families. I don't know when or why they would use it, maybe as a backup? Some old photos were also in the lock shop plus the lock shop has not altered building it is the Jehning Family Lock Museum. I live in Florida now, but I keep checking this on-going trip down memory lane. Oh, and back when 85 was only 2 lanes where I got my first There would be like 50 bikes out front on those days. My mom was a single mother of 4 and she was able to afford to feed all of us occasionally at the Menu Tree and Bobs Big Boy. Steve - It's pretty obvious that the Voice's website is designed to place links to the three Town Square threads that have the most recent posts. Brentwood Market They give me the best care one could hope for. View memories of that era: Dog City on Castro, Linda's Drive In, a favorite from the early 60's when I attended high school in Palo Alto, Susie's Diner, and next door- Art's Chili Bowl- where you could get 5 way chili while Art snoozed in his recliner in the middle of the room, and for pizza, Frankie, Johnnie and Luigi too- the only place still in business after 50 years! I remember Payless on Grant next to that was Albertsons that had the bus depot where kids would take the bus to San Francisco during the Flower Power days. More. Castro Street in the 70s was a ghost town. Bells would ring from St. Joseph's at noon and the whistle would blow at 5:00 from the downtown fire station everyday, so kids always knew when to go home for meals. It's amazing, really, how much things have changed over the years, especially the businesses that have come and gone. (Later turned into office parks.it may be where a big CAD company is now located.) I've lived in the neighborhood since 1967. I remember when I moved to Mountain View in 1973 there were still orchids around. Ahh, the way it was They had a neat fish tank inside. One of my favorite 1960s childhood memories is of riding stingray bikes with neighborhood friends across big muddy meadows (now the surrounding shopping center including Nob Hill) to get Slurpees or hot chocolate at the Payless Bakery (where all my best friend's many sisters worked one after the other)followed by a doughnut. YUM! I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. Hope that you find something on the internet about it? GTE's greatly reduced operation was moved to Santa Clara a few years ago. 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. The St. James Infirmary was a landmark bar and grill in Mountain View that was destroyed by arson fire in 1998. There were I have we have one of the best downtowns in the area with such a great selection of places to eat and hang out. Calif. street was still 2 lanes, too. Speaking of burgers, Hobees when it started in the 70s (?) We would go over in our car, a still new 1951 Plymouth Belevedere hardtop convertible, on Saturday night to watch the Jackie Gleason Show. There was also Fargo's Pizza at the Old Mill. "NEWBIE" There's also a history center in the library. My Mother, brothers, and I moved to Mtn. While I was struggling to get through San Francisco state in the mid '70s, the owner of the Town Club could have put his kids through Harvard with the money my dad used to spend there. Mountain View had that," Small Town USA " feel . The movie theater may have stuck around a little longer than the mall. View not Mt. Speed limit was 55 mph on all freeways (coming again soon? Anyway it was big. Fond memories of seeing "Animal House" there in around 1978. Embarcadero Media This is an old town paper not the SF ChronicleThe Home Page has plenty of updates and current news for your viewing pleasure now kindly stay out of the Town Square if you have nothing nice to say First things first. County: San Francisco. Tidal lands existed along the bay. The best pastries ever./Photo Shop How about the California Bakery and the Beauty College right in town and how you always took out of town visitors to Andy's restaurant for the best chinese food or Linda's for the magnificent Perisian burgers and tater tots. Bernardo in Mountain View near Middlefield. It was across the street from a bowling alley. Its been a long time since ive been though there. 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