It was also interesting to see that 1984 W. El Camino was once a Holiday Inn. There was Rainbow Record Store at the light on Grant Road as you approach the shopping center. Theatre is now standing. I lived on stierlin rd near the dumps lived next to the Capote family. Where the amp. I don't think this service lasted long. Thanks for any insight! We heard every announcement. 2023 Mountain View Online. -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. View High in 1965 go Eagles memoriesAndy's Chinese rest.,Linda's , drive in theater, dog city, Mayfield mall, soooo long ago. I miss Old Cal Pizza and Stuft Pizza on Castro St. Where was Stuft Pizza located again? I only tell you all this so that someday when it's called T's there will be a record Stuft Pizza became Kapp's Pizza Bar. And Clarkes had the best burger in Mountain View, Amber Lantern had On the corner of ECR & 237?? Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. Oh gosh! We are lucky some parts of the old town remain and we have " a downtown area " unlike Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino. Echos of Don Sherwood and Superfrog live on in Maine. Mt View east of Bayshore (101)had no paved roads--dust in summer, mud in winter. Their downstairs cellar was a nice and intimate showroom and upstairs they had good steaks. Someone said that Linda's sold horse meat burgers. 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 . I asked the owner, who by the way, is third generation, why? Web Link. It was unmanned but still wired in. When did the Old Mill close down and whateve happened to the best pizza place that I knew of Fargo's? Oh, and back when 85 was only 2 lanes where I got my first History. Worked at A & W for school credit in 1974 and 1975 for MVHS then after graduation moved to San Jose/Los Gatos area joined US Navy and retired.Live in MS now, Let's not forget when the Hells Angels Visited this little town There was no parking garage. Even Wonder Woman couldn't save the place (or herself). The Camino Medical Group building at El Camino and 85 is on the site of the defunct Emporium-Capwell store. Lockheed shared Moffett NAS with the Navy VP-31 squadron, flying P-3 Orions day and night, patrolling the waters of the west coast for USSR submarines. As for the tire store it was located where the bead store is now. D.V., when you mentioned Baeders cookies I knew it was you cuz. had kept it. There was a huge barrel of pickles there does anyone remember that? We thought the old house (still there) on the corner of Calderon and Church was haunted. Songroth Brothers (gravel & cement) next to the railroad tracks near Alma & San Antonio? 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. Mtn View seemed the same right in old downtown but the shops were all different. First on Pear Ave, where we raised chickens and exotic birds. I think Rotten Robbie's is still on the corner of Whisman and Middlefield, maybe even the Wagon Wheel restaurant next to it. It was an easy commute to Intel, about 8 minutes. If you had to grow up somewhere in the 60's and 70's, Mountain View had it all and was a real community where we all knew each other (absolute Americana). The Handyman store on Grant road I use to walk over to buy cookies there too. I remember the New Library that has since been replaced with a newer library. 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. Hubbard and Johnson was on the corner of El Monte and El Camino, where Longs and Starbucks are today. 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. Keep em' coming Mountain Viewers. Yes? They would have this giant table with holes in it, and you would roll a ball and make bets where the ball would stop and then you would win whatever amount it landed on if you had that same bet. In the 50's, MV had a downtown city park on Castro. Directions Advertisement. Lockheed was designing and building spy satellites, as well as the submarine based Polaris nuclear missile. We used to go to a hardware store in what I believe is now The Village. Thank you Marlene Koers and everyone above for contributing your memories of the Mountain View of yesteryear. You could buy tires from a tire dealer in the middle of downtown Castro Street (about where Don Giovanni's is I think.) This was a hippie/environmentalist type of grocery store. I remember seeing the Exorcist with my girlfriend at the time in the View Music Store I remember the Menu Treeall you can eat. There was a Red Barn Hamburger place on El Camino @ Rengstorff Loved that park. There was no Shoreline Park. A butcher shop was where Red Rock Coffee Co. is now. 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 . St. James Infirmary - A peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers and their families Happy New Year Everyone! I remember 4th of July at Rengstorff Park with fireworks. We loved Moffett and Mtn View. A man named Chester F. Awalt donated 40 acres of orchard land to MVLA High School District for a much needed third high school; they named the school Chester F. Awalt HS. Noone mentioned Lenny's Pies on Castro and the Dairy Queen on El Camino Real! The owner had a old pick-up. 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! View theater, through a kind of walkway/tunnel to the parking lots behind. Did they really stop the church bells from ringing though. Down the drive was a grilled chicken place called Pollo now I cannot remember. The Emporium on El Camino and Sylvan Every Sunday night we would go to the store after dinner and my father would work on the books. 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. Later on. Two Guys from Italy Rest. it used to be. The gas station where Jack in the Box is on Shoreline (sterlin rd) Join to view full profile. Andy's Chinese Restaurant. Magical Mountain View [looking back--] Many of the streets were unpaved and had chickens and peacocks roaming around. House of Yee, an old movie theater, TAP Plastics, a good Mexican place down at the train tracks end. [melissabee, 11/08/2009] Uniroyal Gal - Confirmed Gone All sources list the location of St. James Infirmary Bar & Grill as 390 Moffet Blvd. Shogun was about a half a block up El Camino from Rambus. The concession stand at McElvey Park was run for ever by an old guy named Levy, who loved baseball. It has the peanut shells on the floor and it was a great singles dive. This was the Bay Area bar and grill that burned down in the 90s. 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. View, CA .. 1967-1998 .. A Fan Page For Those Who Loved This One Of A Kind Place! It closed in 80/81 school year. What a great place to grow up. The recreation department was second to none. I'd love to hear from anyone who may remember me. My sister worked at Handy Man and also payless donuts. the second crash in as many years. From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org I think it is like over $3000 for a studio. Is this bakery still in existance? It was across the street from a bowling alley. The school was later used as the temporary site for Foothill College until it opened in 1961. Smelling patchoulli and knowing that the "Dead" were here It's hard to find entertainment like that anymore. When my kids were small, the biggest thrill for them was hearing the music and seeing the ice cream truck come down our street. The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. I would hope it still exists in someones attic and wasnt destroyed. If my recollection is correct, it used to be an Exxon station. My kindergarden classroom was the 1st near the entrance, I remember feeling excited and part of an elite school that invested in Apple computers. We went on to have a total of eight children (with set of boy-girl twins) and we had all twenty-one of our grandchildren before we lost John at his 75th birthday Christmas 2006. Actually the whole page is excellent if you want to follow them on Facebook. Some of the best people and food ever. 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 :/). That was Red Barn for a Barnbuster There was Mervyns in San Antonio Shopping Center, and the Time .25 cents for mixed drinks. (I worked there from 1976-1984). A good pizza place next to the movie theaters. hundreds of cows. Best hamburgers in the south bay. I live in Florida now, but I keep checking this on-going trip down memory lane. I think the globe on the building came from '39 or '40 worlds fair(s), but don't quote me on that. Village Host Pizza on Castro. Blogs It stimulates my aging brain. Thanks for this thread! El Camino was the best I've ever tasted, and is sadly long gone now. The El Camino foreign auto repair/sales where Fred Stengle sold me a rebuilt forest green 1966 MGB for $2,000, and the foreign auto repair guys west of there on Miramonte who later kept it running (re-rebuilding it piece by piece). Try to find a gun shop in Mountain View today. The other was located after you pass the train tracks going towards Moffet on left side near the corner of Moffet and Sterling. There was a Pier One in the underground area and the Mall had a good record store. Arby's on San Antonio, where I worked for a while, and was taught that a fry should break, never bend. Unfortunately, Moffett had been closed. View High in 87. 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. I now live in Hanford CA. I am a little bummed out that the 1st and last schools I attended, San Ramon Elementry and Old Mt. and it is too bad that someone did not foresee all the changes coming and head off Castro Street was mostly a wasteland. I went to Bubb Elementary School when Ben DeBolt was principal, to Graham Junior High, and to Awalt High School (when it was an open campus and we used to cut class occasionally and hang out at an old dry creek bed in the surrounding neighborhood). ( In door food court ) I grad Mtn. I was born in Lost Altos and lived there until 1971. The entire street, except for the scattering of bars and Chinese restaurants was vacant in the late 70's and 80's. Mountain View Library with great new book selections inside the entrance usually getting no farther than that to stop and read. 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. There used to be that drive in place Linda's that is now Wolfe Camera, I think, or was. Carr's pet store on Evelyn Mtn. It is the second left turn from the Cornwall College playground and is erected on the Albion property. Tater tots and Parisian Burgers! The mall was great off of, I believe Covington Rd. I do however have two clear memories of this period. Food Fair turned into Harry's 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. View, where Google is now, I had some classmate that lived out there and back then it was dirt roads and chicken coops. ----Woolworth's/Wells Fargo Bank/ Long's Drug Store YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. Fremont Fire Dist. Go Eagles and Keep the Faith This done to promote the authors or owners agenda. Navy jets flew overhead constantly, then it was the Orion P-3 submarine chasers. - not so Newbie anymore. It was later disclosed that this was one of two centers where the US controlled their defense satellites, and downloaded intelligence. That place was great too. VIEW HISTORICAL SPOTS IT TIME TO MOVE ON. Mountain View was sleepy and boring and we used to consider it lower class When the infamous 'dog house' was built. The car dealership on El Camino with the globe on the pole was Mancini Motors. 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. theater. There is a Historic marker in front of a small building on Charleston just before it crosses San Antonio. We went wild over it. The front facade are new buildings but the roof and rear are the remains of old Victorian houses. There was always lots to do in the neighborhood- during summer, the owner of the little east side grocery store would have a monthly quick-draw competition in the side parking lot. Privacy Policy If you grew up in that neighborhood, you would remember the smell of those cookies! The place was torn down when 237 was rebuilt years ago. We went to Mass at St Joseph Church and shopped at Bettancourt Grocery. Carpeteria The live music downstairs John Stewart of "California Bloodlines", Crystal Pistol (3 girls, violin & guitars) When I lived on Park Dr I used to walk over on Saturday mornings. (Jason Williams) I remember the Weinerschnitzel on Castro St. Which is something we would'nt likely have done in the 70s. I seen the fire dept. I was just there several days ago to meet with some friends at Shiva's, an upscale Indian place with a reasonably-priced buffet lunch ($15). 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. I remember all the fruit orchards around and Libby's canning factory in Sunnyvale. Frankie Johnnies & Luigi's on El Camino was/is the best place for a pizza Lets not forget The TownClub, R-Club, Cottage, The OakRoom, Mervyns. During the summer many of us were required to work in the fruit harvest. There were contests at all the night spots and tons of costume shops in and around the areas. The lot at Moffett and Middlefield held the temporary library while the one downtown was being rebuilt. San Francisco, CA 94109. 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