Don't forget Andy's Chinese Restaurant on Castro Street. The owner had a old pick-up. best city in Northern California.I attended MVHS AT Castro street. I went to St. Joseph's Elementary and we had to buy our burlap pants and sweaters at the J.C. Penney store on Castro. There was a frozen North Pole and Santa sat in his house nearby. and saw a ton of great kid movies there in my pajamas! Mountain View high school was actually bordering Castro Street, old high school way, shoreline (formerly n. Bailey/sterlin road) At corner of Castro/El Camino where Wash. Mutual located, Mancini Motor (Chrysler Dealer)had world globe on a top of round column, that column with globe came from Treasure Island World Fair in 1930's. It was near the road into Alviso, home of the first Yacht Club in Calif. cheap movie theater La Petit Boulangerie, Florentines Pasta Shop, TOGO's!!!!! The lot was empty for several years. I remember the Menu Treeall you can eat. Further up El Camino was the "other" part of shopping in Mountain View, the San Antonio Shopping Center. I remember in the 70s, the Monte Vista drive-in. That furniture place on El Monte/El Camino that sold unfinished pine furniture became Office Max? The train to Santa Cruz rail bed is a jogging trail now. In the 50's, MV had a downtown city park on Castro. Mayfield Mall with the Grayhound station next to it became HP, and will now become more housing, the original San Antonio mall with Menu Tree (what a great place to eat), the little water fountains and a Woolworths where BevMo is now. The hobby shop was really packed on weekends from 1966-1968. The mall with Sears and JC Penney was San Antonio Shooping Center on the corner of El Camino Real and San Antonio Road, across the street from what was Tower Records. Mountain View has provided some good times and good memories. Families. I also grew up in Mountain View and attended Landels, Graham and Mountain View High on Castro Street. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. I liked Web Link And the center's hobby shop was a fun place to browse. It's great and I am grateful to the Voice for continuing it. I lived there from the '50s thru to 1984. I lived there 24 years and Neal lived there 30 years. Every Sunday night we would go to the store after dinner and my father would work on the books. 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. Ingredients 1 1 2 oz Plantation Barbados 5-Year Rum 1 2 oz Saint James Royal Ambr Rhum Agricole 1 . I have seen several of those trees over the years and they werent accurate as far as the 1950s and 60's are concerned Hewlett/Packard and Varian werent on one of them which indicated the authors lack of knowledge and research efforts. 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. where Rengstoff and El Camino split off with El Monte .. that was a dirt The concession stand at McElvey Park was run for ever by an old guy named Levy, who loved baseball. tree that always got decorated during Christmas time, and unfortunately got damaged and chopped down during Castro st. renovations. Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. I can almost remember their "3rd Annual Going Out of Business Sale" with 25 cent shots of Jack Daniels and 10 cent draft beers. now sits. 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. It's amazing, really, how much things have changed over the years, especially the businesses that have come and gone. What wonderful memories!!! I remember seeing the Exorcist with my girlfriend at the time in the View Wasn't Handyman over there near the Oasis Laundry and what used to be But so did Thousands of Deadhead fans, noise complaints and traffic jams. Served with from San Diego, CA. He liked my sister, but never gave my friend and I candy if we came by ourselves. We were newly wed and I was pregnant with our first child. Hello California! in downtown Castro, where the landmarks have shifted dramatically!). Togo's was great, but I am not sure if it was toward Palo Alto or not. Well at least Clark's burgers is still around! This thread keeps me coming back to the site each day to see what new memories have been posted. My father liked Indian history and so I did too. Even our long time neighbors can't recall the name. Across the street from the tire store was a five-and-dime store. i remember mayfield mall, with jc penneys and world mart. My brother and I called it "the popcorn room". ----Woolworth's/Wells Fargo Bank/ Long's Drug Store Gardens and water wheels inside the mall. DV. 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. Please keep the memories alive. Waitresses in shorts; orders placed in car windows, fantastic. Shoreline made us known in the area as thousands came to listen to music. Red Barn for a Barnbuster Old California Pizza Galaxy Gifts, the Variety store, Archies Couffures, and Tots to Teens at the Blossom Valley shopping center where Mayfair Market was. PR MediaRelease Which is something we would'nt likely have done in the 70s. and the home of greasers etc. Downtown Mtn View was a vital business district for everyone. [emailprotected]. Dairy Pail (San Antonio/california) was a drive thru. We lived on Parker Ct. 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 do however have two clear memories of this period. I just don't know the name of it. I was a Mt. I also remember the 50s holdout restaurant Linda's, farther down El Camino (at Escuela, evidently). I'm thinking across from View was 'Yorkshire' and all numbers began YO7-xxxx. My apartment($125/month) at 515 Central looked out over onion fields in 1966. For the longest time on ECR (80's) there was a great little store selling seat covers (I think it was near Castro). Linda's Hamburger Joint on El Camino Go Eagles!!! View. Harry's Hofbrau was the Food Fair Market. I went to Chucks for entertainment and the Tarr & Feathers in Palo Alto. It is called Mtn. Rhodes had midnight madness sales. I of course remember: the hobby store near The Menu Tree, the Pacific Stereo/Sound Goods down San Antonio (which had in the 1950s been the site of Shockley Semiconductor), Tower Records, Best Products, the fabric store next door (because an old girlfriend used to buy fabrics there), the shopping center with the water wheel and gardens inside (saw "Animal House" there in 1978), Gemello's Winery off of ECR, the Heidelberg Beer Garden where some high tech buildings are now located (Daisy Systems, now Synopsis, I think), Eddy's Sport Shop (where I bought some nice guns), and the first Byte Shop, a few doors down from Frankie, Johnny and Luigi and also from Mel Cotton's Sporting Goods. Anyone remember the Community School of Music on California street. There were a lot of Country Stores throughout the bay area, little shops. Moved to Mountain View, in the Americana apartment complex next to Emporium/Capwell, now PAMF at 85 and ECR. Mtn view has come a loooog ways but I loved it better when it was smaller and slower. View High have been demolished and are now condominiums. The Bowling alley was/is called El Camino bowl ( I hung out there a lot from age 10 to 19) DV. Dad used to spend major portions of his paychecks there, a practice which ultimately destroyed his marriage to my mother. If you grew up in that neighborhood, you would remember the smell of those cookies! Does anyone remember the gas station on evelyn and casto back in the 60's shoreline was two lanes. Moffet Drive In..worked there in the 60's along with the Shell station at San Antonio and El Camino. I remember you could hear the (now shoreline) my home was where the parking lot for Shoreline AmpleTheater is now. Speaking of burgers, Hobees when it started in the 70s (?) where I was a kid here in the 1960's, My family moved here in 59. - Farms on Charleston north of 101, orchards on Whisman & elsewhere Los Altos Travel The Foothill Owl mascot used to reside in the highway school tower. My front yard is now the parking of the outdoor amp theater. I think the globe on the building came from '39 or '40 worlds fair(s), but don't quote me on that. View native. I remember when I moved to Mountain View in 1973 there were still orchids around. 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. I did in 1978 and broke my arm on the monkey bars. Michelle. Mountain View was sleepy and boring and we used to consider it lower class Wasn't there a Card Room called SUTTERS on 237? Who could forget WonderWoman on the main floor and (if your male) the "Not tonight I've got a headache" dinosaur in the men's room. Did anyone go to Crittenden for elementary school?! The persimmon tree in "our" front yard and the people who would drive up and try to strip the fruit. 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. DO YOU REMEMBER SHAWS, EL ZARAPE, CHEZ YVONNE, RUMPUS ROOM, WAGON WHEEL, ANDY'S CHINESE REST, CLINTS, SPIVEYS, ST JAMES INFIRMERY, CHUCKS OF HAWAII SOME REALLY FAMOUS SINGERS SHOWED UP THERE.. Andy's Chinese was the best place for Chinese on Castro. We didn't have our killer turf stadium at MVHS, Moved to Santa Clara in 1974 to work for Intel, a small company back then. Juice Time was next to the cleaner's This is about the old originals of Mountain View. The Infirmary was destroyed by an arson fire in 1998. . Directions Advertisement. I joined the Navy in Mt View in 1961, went on an old Destroyer, was in Vietnam in 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Incident, got out in 1965 and went to work for a small electronics company as a Field Service Engineer. Bowling Alley on El Camino The Handyman store on Grant road Linda's and the Red Barn I would like to know what the name of the furniture store was where Wholefoods market is now on El Camino in Mtn. Me and my friends rode our bikes all over Mtn. similar to The Cheesecake Factory. The Jewell Tea Co. brought groceries right to your door without the Internet. S.R. St. James Infirmary, a strange theme bar that sometimes had so many Navy airmen looked like it was a road show version of Top Gun. Minton Lumber (gone now) I guess you could call me a true Mtn. The field where they sold Christmas trees and fireworks on El Camino Real east of Calderon (across from Tuban Ford). I truly felt at home. Another pizza place I remember was Boswell's Pizza Company on Castro near California, probably more 80's than 70's. MV is still a great place to live! We used to eat at The Menu Tree and the kids got the $1 burger basket. Never dreamed of planes before or since, despite having been a sky diver and knowing well of the Blue Angels. On one side, there was a collection of large satellite dishes. About the only remaining part of downtown is Colonel lee's Mongolian BBQ and Meyer's Appliances. So sad to see all this go away.. Perhaps one day they will some how rebuild things.. You never know.. Linda's drive-in had the BEST hamburgers (Parisian burger) and fries in town. Walking miles to the nearest 7-11 past St Francis for slurpees. 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. A few notes: St. James Infirmary - A peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers and their families Happy New Year Everyone! Bernardo in Mountain View near Middlefield. I remember the cookie factory well. As a former resident of Old Mountain View in the 70's and 80's one of my fondest memories is of St. James Infirmary on Moffett. A butcher shop was where Red Rock Coffee Co. is now. I don't think this service lasted long. I lived on Sterling RD. This was the family tree of the semiconductor industry, spawned by Fairchild Semiconductor after it spun off from Shockley Semiconductor (itself located in MV on San Antonio in the 1950s, subject of historical-article link that follows) -- the industry whose rapid succession of spin-off firms, even in its first 15 years, prompted journalist Don Hoefler in 1971 to write a series of historical articles about what he dubbed "silicon valley." That place could get really crazy. In around 1982-86 I was living in The Americana, a large apartment complex at Highway 85 and El Camino Real. A couple of good books on Mountain View history are: "Milestones - A History of Mountain View" by Mary Jo Ignoffo and "Images of America - Mountain View" by Nicholas Perry. Does anyone remember the little italian restaurant right across the street from Graham. Antipasto salad to die for, (Hold the anchovies please) There was a playground facing the parking lot where now the front gate and front office is. go. The Scuitlebutt on El Camino Real. I remember the A&W chain next to the Social Service Agency. I remember all the fruit orchards around and Libby's canning factory in Sunnyvale. The tulip tree next to it, with bare branches I filled with lights at Christmas while blaring my record of Bach's "Magnificat." train go by when you were watching movies in the Old Mill Theaters. How bout the Greek resturant on elcamino. Print Edition/Archives I lived on the southern end of Los Altos from 1961 through about 1985. We had a "Food Fair" grocery store on El CAMINO between Castro and grant/237 But the biggest thing to miss STIGS bakery and the pink box those treats came home in!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow--Been here since 1966--On Hwy 237(Mountain View-Alviso Rd) there was a place called the Heidle Beer Garten--Best burgers and beer in the city. Payless Drug Store, which is now Rite-aid 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. Anyone remember Clints ice cream? . A search for "Dublin Inn" gave just a pointer to a late-2015 comment earlier on this same recollections page, signed by one Bill242 (same Bill who just asked? every year.GO EAGLES. View. Kamei House Chinese Restaurant for me. YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. It was also interesting to see that 1984 W. El Camino was once a Holiday Inn. Shagging foul balls at McKelvey for a quarter. Crusin with Dave G and the Cuz Glenn. Foster freeze was my go to for French fries and fried burritos and shakes. I'm going to add something a little different the Cold War. Too many memories to mention. I spend a lot of time and money in Mountain View, used to live there St James Infirmary located at 445 California Avenue Reno NV 89501, view menus, pictures, reviews, directions and more . Then I moved to the Monterey area working for an educational publishing company, but try to enjoy Mountain View on occasion when I visit friends and family in the area. You forgot Herman's Sporting Goods. It's not still there, is it? It's hard to find entertainment like that anymore. the Diamond Ranch Market in 1970 until 1971, as mentioned above, That mall was a flop from Day One and has since been sort-of-converted back into something else. El Chico's Italian was on El Camino to the south. If it's boring you, CHANGE THE CHANNEL! The only electric signal lights were on El Camino Real. My first "job" was gathering eggs at a chicken farm on Old Middlefield in early 50s' (the fork hadnt been built yet, so there was just "Middlefield Rd" no "old" Middlefield. You could get your gas pumped by the attendant a the Texico station--- Skychief or SuperChief for you today? The 7-11 at the end of Alvin on Middlefield Rd brought us the Slurpee when it opened in the mid 60's. There would be like 50 bikes out front on those days. TheSixFifty.com - The constant drone of P-3 Orion aircraft overhead View across the street from JoAnn Fabrics was called New York Fabrics. Such great memories. Downtown was a quest area with a few Chinese restaurant. Linda's was great ( I know the recipe for their sauce!) Website(s): Main Website. Brentwood Market (After returning from two rainy years near Portland, a few times. And great memories. Clarke's is great. But then maybe younger people know where all the new nightspots are. Blossom Valley also had a great pizza place called Old Cal where we would go as kids on minimum days from Blach. Malachi's was a little "head shop" that sold beads, incense and other weird stuff in a little stucco building on the east side of El Camino when you sat at the El Monte and El Camino stop light. I Magnin was at Stanford where the Macy's Men's Store is now located. 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). But to leave this on for weeks and weeks is very ridiculous and very boring. - Highway 101 was 3 lanes each direction, Hwy 85 was 2 lanes and ended at Stevens Creek Blvd. I seem to be the only one in my family that remembers it and I can't find a picture or any other information. Riding the old plow horse Dolly in the field next to St Joseph's, little league games at McKelvey park,helping Levy in the concession stand . Main Phone Number (415) 554-8444. And San Antoinio Mall where Menu Tree was located. My wife was on-call as a dietitian at the nursing home there in the early 80s. Hotels near St. James Infirmary: (0.02 mi) Plush 2-bed apt in Riverside Heights! Is this bakery still in existance? 13" screen with rabbit ears. I remember the small TV store on El Camino and I think Castro where I bought my first Shockley lab the real birth of silcon valley is still on San Antonio road as a furniture store. Wow, what memories! Many people used the train in those days to commute to "The City (San Francisco)". At the little mall with the hobby store upstairs they used to decorate extensively for Christmas. Dear Community, It has been quite an exciting year full of activism and progress toward the full realization of sex worker rights. If anyone knows this information, please post the answer and thanks in advance for your help. Jerry Reed(1937-2008) was a country music singer, songwriter, and actor, who specialized in a variety of novelty numbers. I don't know who occupies the site now. Its where the first IC was made by Noyce? As a kid my friends and I would like to knock on the windows and aggrevate them. Web Link. A lot has changed since then. 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). It was a great place to go and drink and dance. As for the tire store it was located where the bead store is now. People came from miles to have New York style pizza/dinners. Oh, and back when 85 was only 2 lanes where I got my first Shaw's Ice Cream. I bought my first maternity clothes at JC Penney's near the drugstore on Castro. Food Fair where Harrys Hofbrau is. The shopping center is no more, at least not anything like the original. The Camino Medical Group building at El Camino and 85 is on the site of the defunct Emporium-Capwell store. Downtown only had Chinese Restaurant's except for the Weinersnitzel on the corner of Castro and California Street. Facilities include two wards for males and females, an administrative block, a chapel, staff quarters and a separate dwelling for street people. Went into Intel before D2, their first modern Fab area was built--have been to all Intl site in western part of US, Oregon, New Mex, Ariz. The crowds on Castro used to be nicer and more polite and drivers used to drive better. Somebody sprayed on the windows of "DOG CITY" and those buildings have always been Dog City in my mind.. only a moment in time. The mall was great off of, I believe Covington Rd. You had to have a membership card to get in, I think the card was $1. 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. I've recently moved here from Louisiana, married, and bought a lil condo. organizations filed purposes: st. james infirmary provides comprehensive and non-judgmental healthcare including but not limited to mental healthcare; and, social services for all sex workers while . 503 were here. For some, the 70's kicked off in Mountain View with a homecoming float featuring a huge EAGLE. television dealer in the building that burnt down recently. Then on to Stacey's Books on University, and another computer store several blocks away. We thought the old house (still there) on the corner of Calderon and Church was haunted. Bubble gum was the best flavor. Mt View in the 60-70's was the best the MV Eagles ruled Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 The copper penny Middlefield Mall Thrifty's at the San Antonio Shopping Center for ice creams Super Duper market at central and Rengstorff Red Barn for a Barnbuster Nostalgia is great, but I think I prefer the current downtown MV to the sleepy street of the 1970s. and is where Silicon Valley essentially started. I have happier memories of seeing movies at the Monte Vista drive-in near Mancini Motors' tower and globe. We had 2 A&W Burger places in Mountain View. South Palo Alto, I attended Wilbur Junior High on East Meadow, class of 1957 and Cubberley class of 1960 on Middlefield Rd just before San Antonio. I am looking for any one who might possibly have any information on who owned The Rumpus Room and or The 101 Club back in the 80's???? Yes? At halloween time, they had the best selection of wax whistles, plastic lips, and dracula teeth. Charlie. Fiesta and Camino lanes on El Camino. JC Penney's was where Meyer Electric is now. I am kind of amazed at how many people get that wrong. Stings bakery was my walk to bakery yum yum Approximately 40 residents of the St. James Infirmary are now able to occupy the new $45-million male ward that was built at the facility in Albion, Montego Bay. 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. Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. the best in Palo Alto. 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. When Bloomingdales moved to their smaller store built in the mall parking lot, the old building was torn down to make more smaller independent stores since large department stores have lost their appeal. Today, my Aunt, Betty Todd (deCurtoni) passed away at the age of 84. the second crash in as many years. 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. View high. look like in 30 years? was a great a place to do one's laundry and occasionally meet people. wow such great memories. View since the mid/late 70's, things have definitely changed since then, both in the town and around the valley. So we at Los Altos High salvaged it to build a giant KNIGHT which road the winning float at the following week's Los Altos High homecoming. 730 Polk St San Francisco CA 94109 (415) 554-8494. Lots of fruit trees on ElCamino. 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