Anyone remember the drive in theaters? Clarke's is great. Mountain View was obviously a bigger success.) There was an old farm house circa 1900's that was at the intersection on 237, near where the Union Pacific railroad crossing used to be, called The Beer Garden. Does anyone know what was at the northeast side of the Moffett and W. Middlefield intersect? really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. on, with the High School being down towards El Camino. There were dozens of Dept of Defense contractors in the general area including Raytheon, doing radar research and production, and Singer, doing flight simulators. The water tower at Questa and Grant Road was routinely vandalized with painting by person(s) unknown (before tagging was a term). It answers the "even earlier." I moved to San Jose, CA in June of 1984. Calif. street was still 2 lanes, too. I lived on Colony St and went to Powell School, Crittenden and Mountain View HS on Castro street. 10 8 8 comments Best Add a Comment LaoFuSi 2 yr. ago Also, Chef Chu's nearby, my first exposure to high-end Chinese food. Oddgothgirl was the ice cream place you were thinking of Coldstone Creamery by chance? The Eagle was simply left at the old MV High football field. Thank you for any info. Tackle football on the weekends at Monta Loma school with the forniers and walshes in the mud. . Mtn view has come a loooog ways but I loved it better when it was smaller and slower. They The Almanac The hobby shop was really packed on weekends from 1966-1968. The Moffett Drive In was our cheap entertainment. Join to view full profile. It was officially opened by Portfolio Minister . Watching SP commute trains at San Antonio and Alma Liberty House department store at the old San Antonio Shopping Center. I think everyone also remembers the Menu Tree there as well, so that has to be mentioned. In the median of Castro in front of the city hall was a huge redwood? - Highway 237 had traffic signals; was called Mountain View-Alviso Road People did there own thing and weren't into $ and status. I've recently moved here from Louisiana, married, and bought a lil condo. I did in 1978 and broke my arm on the monkey bars. We had a "Food Fair" grocery store on El CAMINO between Castro and grant/237 Town dump at the end of Stierlin road. that machine that cheapie simple stuff was really expensive back I remember the Wherehouse Records store at El Camino between Clark and El Monte, although I bought most of my LPs at Tower Records on San Antonio in the 70's and 80's. 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. Then the City Bicycles wagons all sorts of things hanging on the walls. Albertson's bakery had the best brownies i've ever tasted. Anyone remember Clints ice cream? YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. It was a great place to go and drink and dance. 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. Had a friend that called and asked me the name of the furniture store and I have forgotten. We lived on Cornelia Ct., and I attended Bubb School for the 4th - 6th grades when we moved back to Green Bay, Wi. Thanks for any insight! I don't think there are as many night spots in the whole penisula area as there were when I first came here in 1972. 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 Steven's Creek? Directions Advertisement. Thank You all for your shared memories. I still can't believe it's gone! Stig's Bakery Thank goodness, Foster's Freeze and Clarke's Charcoal Broiler are still there. And the center's hobby shop was a fun place to browse. Nice to remember everything tho. Thanks for bringing back some good-ole memories! View High. Most of my neighbors and friends like me can remember purchasing the broken cookies for a penny and that these cookies were the best ever. Also had an acre of land. There was a drive in theatre on Grant Road across the street from Erik's Deli. 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. And probably ensures I will make Mountain View a destinationthe next time I visit relatives in the area and patronize the MV businesses so, Steve, it may bore you, but, it's not all a waste! that place but it was short-lived. What did they used to call 85 before it was a highway and ended Imperial Gardens even had a water wheel going in their back yard. This was such a great place in the mid to late 70's - the Baylands Park, the old white house near Shoreline. In the middle of the rows of corn was a large plot of pot, strictly for medicinal purposes of course. Jocelyn's Bike shop started in Midtown Palo Alto didn't it? Eddie's Gun Shop the best in Palo Alto. The best pastries ever./Photo Shop I do however have two clear memories of this period. Lets make 2023 great! The little store on Rengstorff and old Middlefield where La Costena Greets. I think the Old Mill closed in the mid to late 80s? - Farms on Charleston north of 101, orchards on Whisman & elsewhere My favorite Italian restaurant was "two guys from Italy" on grant and el CAMINO. The Handyman store on Grant road My grandpa and I would go through in our funky station wagon. I believe I saw the original JUNGLE BOOK movie at the theater there : ) This used to be my playgournd. Things have changed but the one thing that seems the same is Edith Landels elementary school, that place seems timeless. Not it seems mostly prepared food, but it used to be they cut the meet and did their A family run business- all their first names started with "D" Dean, Don, Dale, Dennis, etc their last name was Steinke. traffic ticket as a kid and never thought I could feel so bad! Magical Mountain View [looking back--] Circulation & Delivery My sister worked at Handy Man and also payless donuts. 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. Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. My Family knew the people who owed the big spooky looking house across the street. Constantly hearing the U.S. NAVYS planes overhead. What a place to hang-out in the 40's. 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. The Wunderman house is there still. Does anyone know what bakery I'm talking about? 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. There was also a pizza place called Fargo's that had live music on weekends. Dial-a-bus this was back in the early 70's. I helped the owner fix his truck once. It's an open field now that runs north along W Middlefield. I went to school with their children "military brats". I have also taken several nice walks in Shoreline and Cuesta Parks. Dances on friday night at the rec center were great.. Eagles Rule!!! The Old Mill and Mayfield malls were already mostly derelict. Gonzalez, Morgan Maxwell,Davis, Capote,Addington, Hubner, . Speaking of pizza, have you followed the curious path of Pontillo's Pizza that was on Rengstorff near El Camino? 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. The wait to eat inside is a little much, though. When my kids were small, the biggest thrill for them was hearing the music and seeing the ice cream truck come down our street. I remember the following I thought this place was absolutely perfect and much better than Redding, where I had just come from! (I worked there from 1976-1984). "The Rumpus Room" (I shot the 8-ball in on the break on New Year's Eve!). 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. Went to Landels Elementary and Graham Junior High. It's amazing, really, how much things have changed over the years, especially the businesses that have come and gone. the best Chicken place in the area, Pollo Loco! Change has made the campus unrecognizable. by Newbie, Whisman Station, 503 were here. Mtn View seemed the same right in old downtown but the shops were all different. Grew up in MV and graduated from MVHS in 1971. 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). Palo Alto was 'Davenport'. Now our old house is appraised at 1.5 million + and apparently the Mtn View I knew and loved is no more. and may again, but why don't people do their jobs when they are I think the biggest change is East Mt. There was the I Magnin store where the Medical Center is now at 85 & El Camino. DV. The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. During the summer many of us were required to work in the fruit harvest. Went to Crittenden in the 80's, Graduated from Los ALtos High. St. James Infirmary - A peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers and their families Happy New Year Everyone! We thought the old house (still there) on the corner of Calderon and Church was haunted. Bokman Chevy and Tuban Ford Kragans Auto? View high building is gome butGo eagles !s31ZJ. Great town to start a career in Semiconductors. Oh gosh! . It was the best place to grow up, My first job was at the Best store in the San Antonio center, then at Rogers deli on middle field and whisman. --Tim. the best mexican food was on castro the "cabana". View native. I remember the Menu Treeall you can eat. View, where Google is now, I had some classmate that lived out there and back then it was dirt roads and chicken coops. Crusin with Dave G and the Cuz Glenn. Central Expressway was two lanes a dirt road with no lights. Mountain View was home to the St. James Infirmary Bar & Grill. We lived across the street from the Whisman Fire dept. 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. Does any one have the shortbread cookie recipe made by Baders' in Mountain View. I remember seeing the Exorcist with my girlfriend at the time in the View and the home of greasers etc. Many mini motels, and lots to do. This done to promote the authors or owners agenda. View across the street from I'm thinking across from 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. I have noticed revisionist articles that claim their "whatever" was first. There was also a Kelly's at Stanford Shopping Center before it went so upscale. 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. Another place I have enjoyed is Tony and Alba's Pizza. Lived the rest of the time near Castro Street: The public library on Franklin Street, where Miss Marion the Librarian and Miss Meta Antisdell were like surrogate parents to me. You could buy beer by waiting outside Mayfair Market for someone "cool" to walk in and ask them to score you a six. There was a Chinese restaurant named Andy on Castro st. 1970s very good food It was a hofbrau or road stop kind of place. Now its an India restaurant. Betty is the last of a generation of the deCurtoni family who settled in Mountain View from San Francisco in 1906, on what was the family ranch along Church Street (35 Church Street, still in family) belonging to her Grandfather and Grandmother, Frank and Mattie. One of my favorites was Linda's with their Parisian burgers and tater tots. Carr's Pet Shop. Food Fair was down 3 or 4 blocks. It's driving us all crazy. One was on ElCamino Real where the Amber Cafe is now located. My dad worked in the telephone company central office at Hope & Dana streets in the '60s and '70s. I never bothered to buy an alarm clock! We got our pumpkins from a farm stand on grant road (near el CAMINO hosputal) People came from miles to have New York style pizza/dinners. I use to walk over to buy cookies there too. Came to Mtn View in 1967 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). San Francisco, California, United States. I am kind of amazed at how many people get that wrong. DV. 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). Best hamburgers in the south bay. I haven't used it, but you might be able to find some helpful resources there. It was a good one, too. Lived in Mtn View on Nilda Ave from 1957-1969.Went to Bubb for kindergarten, St Joseph's for grade school, Holy Cross fot high school. The Navy was in town, Moffitt Field was booming and the Blue Angels had their air show every year (my family would watch the show from our roof). I'm still digging through old family photos trying to find a pic of the big tree of birds and clocks. You forgot Herman's Sporting Goods. Didn't like La Poblanita 'cause I got sick once after eating there. St James Infirmary Health & Welfare Clinics Website 22 YEARS IN BUSINESS (415) 554-8494 730 Polk St San Francisco, CA 94109 CLOSED NOW Showing 1-1 of 1 Map View Places Near Mountain View, CA with St James Infirmary Los Altos (3 miles) Sunnyvale (5 miles) Palo Alto (8 miles) Cupertino (8 miles) Stanford (8 miles) Alviso (10 miles) I loved their apple and blueberry pankcakes. And I have seen quite a few Tower Records; in the Bay Area, L.A., Orange County and even London. Fiesta Bowl in Palo Alto/The Hotel was the Cabana Hyatt house where the Beatles stayed (now the Crowne Plaza). I used to love to go in there and watch the monkeys and dream about having one of my own. 1998 -Arson fire destroys St. James Infirmary, a popular bar and grill that opened in 1967. Pretty spooky and not for the weak. James F. Todd (Navy), who was aboard the USS Macon when it went down off the coast of Monterey (Hanger 1, was it's home back then). It is known for its kitchy decor, notably a 30-foot-statue of Wonder Woman. What was the name of that Ice Cream place on the corner of San Antonio and El Camino..they had ginormous bowls of ice cream (where that guy used to sell flowersremember that?) - The constant drone of P-3 Orion aircraft overhead Let me just add to notable places, Susie's Diner and El Zarape on El Camino. I remember the pre Gemco store named White something, was it White Castle? It's amazing how many good book stores we had back then. Are you thinking of White Front in Sunnyvale by Toys R Us. View since I was about 6, went to Slater elementry, then Graham jr. High and graduated Mtn. Is it still good. The house prices went up, $450,000. But so did Thousands of Deadhead fans, noise complaints and traffic jams. Castro Street in the 70s was a ghost town. -----Brentwood Grocery Store/Safeway There was a political scandal of sorts when big money started offering what seemed high sums for all the old run down shacks and houses north of Moffet Field east of 101 and south of San Antonio. [melissabee, 11/08/2009] Uniroyal Gal - Confirmed Gone All sources list the location of St. James Infirmary Bar & Grill as 390 Moffet Blvd. Gelato Classico, the best ice cream in the world in my opinion, was over by a bowling I guess you could call me a true Mtn. There was no parking garage. - Zen Houseplants at Middlefield and MV-Alviso Rd Chuck's Cellar on El Camino near San Antonio. fatality. St. James Infirmary Address: 730 Polk St San Francisco, CA 94109 HCAI ID: 306380604; Facility License Type: Clinic; I enjoy reminiscing the things that made Mountain View so great. had kept it. The nightclub at the Old Mill was called Fargo's. 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. Don't forget Bob's Big Boy and Linda's on El Camino. Try to find a gun shop in Mountain View today. Sold See item details Similar items on Etsy ( Results include Ads ) Christmas Gifts for Boyfriend - Video Game T shirt for Him - Boyfriend Gifts from Girlfriend - Funny Tshirts UnicornTees $19.99 FREE shipping 730 Polk St San Francisco CA 94109 (415) 554-8494. Free suicides after the little league game. This was in the mid-late 90s? 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. We heard every announcement. Downtown Mtn. Hofbrau and then office buildings or something now. Thrifty for 5, 10 and 15 cent ice creams in the San Antonio Shopping center and right next to it was Woolworth with the restaurant where you could sit at the counter or the booths while everyone else was shopping around you. Hello. Anybody remember Gemco? In Mountain View. 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