The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. Blossom Valley Shopping Center was an orchard; as was most of the surrounding land. We loved Moffett and Mtn View. 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. Dial-a-bus this was back in the early 70's. i sure spent a lot of money on books and cartridges for About the only remaining part of downtown is Colonel lee's Mongolian BBQ and Meyer's Appliances. 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. Thanks for the recap Charlie. 4. View Jailon's full profile. chicken. I moved to Mtn. View High. The Old Mill also had an FM radio station at one time where you could watch the DJ's at work, through a large window. Harry's Hofbrau was the Food Fair Market. I remember the A&W chain next to the Social Service Agency. I stopped at Omalley's a week ago and two of the "old regulars" didnt believe me when I told them I thought it had been the Dublin Inn before it was Francesca's. It's great and I am grateful to the Voice for continuing it. El Zarape Resturant on El Camino their facilities. 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. where My wife was on-call as a dietitian at the nursing home there in the early 80s. I developed a routine I still remember fondly. The Emporium on El Camino and Sylvan On Saturdays I'd drive up El Camino. later and let me tell you, Mountain View was fantastic in the 1ate 1970's and early 80's when I resided in the area. and going to Old Mountain View's Castro Street felt soooooo far away! How difficult is it envisioning what we will (or should!) 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. I thought this place was absolutely perfect and much better than Redding, where I had just come from! Thanks for this thread! Steve, Is someone making you read this stuff? "NEWBIE" Mountain View Hight was located in downtown M.V. Pretty spooky and not for the weak. Arby's at San Antonio and California 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. I can't think of anything to add to the list, and it sure brought back memories. Claim this business (415) 554-8494. Winery Restaurants and shops were popping up around the area, some were really good to lunch and dine at. I put a few of those little mosaic tiles in the cougar face, in Mrs Johnson's art class when it was being built . Truly a classic '70s dive. I was here in the 70's though I lived in Palo Alto. I forgot something! was a great a place to do one's laundry and occasionally meet people. Does anyone remember the gas station on evelyn and casto back in the 60's shoreline was two lanes. I don't know who occupies the site now. There was ateen center hangout for awhile downtown in 70 but I dont recall were it was exactly. Jocelyn's Bike shop started in Midtown Palo Alto didn't it? arrive, but school was being led out at the same time, i remember seating to face the damage. In the 80's Mtn View seemed the same right in old downtown but the shops were all different. She was a long time Sunnyvale resident with roots back to old Mountain View. Linda's was my favorite place for take-out as a child (I LOVED the tator tots!) i went to monta loma back in 1979 then i moved to oakdale. I lived briefly in Mtn View from September to December 30, 1952. 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. I just remembered "The Menu Tree" Does anybody remember The Menu Tree? Home On the northwest side there was an (RCA?) (Thank you, historic preservationists!). No cell phone, no internet, no answering machines, just good friends, good times. I remember the following There are a lot of restaurants that I remember. Don't forget the Red Barn with 19 cent burgers, Taco Tico and I saw someone else mentioned El Zarrape (the best). Super Duper market at central and Rengstorff Cruising between Johnny Macs and Spiveys drive Inns on the El 4. There was also a pizza place called Fargo's that had live music on weekends. my friends worked at foster freeze, red barn chicken (SJ), payless donuts, mcdonalds and arby;s in sunnyvale when i was in my high school fast food phase. Mayfield Mall was where The Crossings condos were buildt. Mayfield Mall Construction went on for quite a while and the place was really novel with JC Penny holding the anchor spot. There also was an ElZarape Resturant on San Antonio Road. From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 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 . Join to view profile ST. JAMES INFIRMARY . Also, does anyone remember Otto's Cheesecake downtown MV? I lived in a complex of yellow apartment builings on Montecito Ave. That street seems relatively unchanged. And all the great air shows at Moffett and yes when the Blue Angels came to town one place they would hang out was St. James. Name of the bowling alley near Cherry Chase Golf Course? 5 cents/10 cent Woolworth ice cream cones at woolworths in the San antonio shopping center. It once comprised 7 buildings, of which only two still stand. 20 planes about 2 minutes apart, talk about noise pollution. My cousins were Sharon & Jerry Stark, and Harvey, Ed, & Jay Miller. View not Mt. I lived on Colony St and went to Powell School, Crittenden and Mountain View HS on Castro street. I'm thinking across from Later years the Poblanita restaurant on Castro for the Milanesa, yummy! . I remember St. James Infirmary, but I was too young to go inside, but I do remember eating some leftover hot wings my sister brought home and lovin it. Theatre is now standing. 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. On El Camino near Mathilda was this huge langendorff bread sign that sliced bread of buttered the slice. HOWEVER, whoever, and I used to know the name because I used to call Everybody actually went to Shakey's Pizza in P.A. Rengstorff Park had our swimming pool and great summer programs like Archery class and Tennis lessons among them. It was my grandpas restaurant!!!! My front yard is now the parking of the outdoor amp theater. from 1973 to 1978. Navy jets flew overhead constantly, then it was the Orion P-3 submarine chasers. It is a lovely thread to read and I am pleased to see it is still getting new posts after 5 years! The King of Clubs was a big Navy bar and we used to go to Denny's across the street. The St. James Infirmary is located about 5 minutes drive from downtown Montego Bay. 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. I only lived in Mtn. Andys and Qui Hing Lo were the two best restaurants. -Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. Mayfield Mall and Old Mill for shopping Centers There was an unfinished furniture place called Decor on El Monte near El Camino Rl that became Office Depot. The old building was seen on the right of the road heading towards Milpitas. It began to boom in the 90s and is now a destination. What did they used to call 85 before it was a highway and ended Was this area a library building? Armed soldiers with police dogs constantly walked the grounds. OJ Cooper school. 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. Fargo's was considered the classier place. I remember when Edelweiss Dairy was on 237 and it was all farmland to Milpitas. He and my mother are buried next to each other at Alta Mesa Cemetery on Charleston. store. When they closed, it became Jenny Craig, and then Prudential Real Estate office. 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. I asked the owner, who by the way, is third generation, why? TownSquare My husband was stationed at Moffett Field and worked in Hangar One daily. 13" screen with rabbit ears. Speaking of burgers, Hobees when it started in the 70s (?) Woody's was a real old-school place, with all the breakfast dishes or sandwiches available for ordering written on tiny chalkboards behind the counter. We drove to the main gate and a pleasant young lady guard was given permission to escort us to Hangar One and we stepped in and took pictures of each other. View for a bit over a year, but that is one memory of mine. The crowds on Castro used to be nicer and more polite and drivers used to drive better. -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. A good pizza place next to the movie theaters. The sign for the shop was misspelled as "Sheespkin House", and as a teenager I giggled every time I drove by. The year the Circus came to Mountain View high school field and the carnivals the school would have. 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! I remember The Beer Garden having a very old, tall, date palm tree in the parking lot. The others were demolished in the 1990s for the present-day Whisman Station development. I frequented it in the mid 90s. Any one work with/through the Youth Opportunity Program (high school students) at the Mountain View Post Office? Moffitt drive-in where Century 16 is now, Shoreline park area being a big expanse of empty dirt and the landfill, and the shoreline house being in it's original location near where the movie theater is today, boarded up and being in shambles. United States. Does Anyone Remember the La Cabana? Mountain View has changed a lot in 29 years, so my recollection of where things were may be off (esp. Who knew those daily landings for about an hour would go away along with the base. I lived on the southern end of Los Altos from 1961 through about 1985. There was a frozen North Pole and Santa sat in his house nearby. Antipasto salad to die for, (Hold the anchovies please) really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. This was a hippie/environmentalist type of grocery store. There was an A&W Root Beer, Bob's Big Boy Hamburgers, Bowling Alley, Gelato ice cream, Foster's freeze ice cream, Mike's Pizza, were on El Camino Real. TG&Y, the Red Barn (country Gourmet now). In addition there was a healthy contingent of military families, many lived off-base in addition to the those in on-base housing and unmarried military in barracks and off base as well. Had the best ravioli anywhere. I heard that Tai Ming Lo was a really good restaurant. Bicycles wagons all sorts of things hanging on the walls. KEEP ALL THE GOOD MEMORIES COMING.. ONE OF THESE YEARS I WOULD LIKE TO WRITE A BOOK ON THE SCHOOL CAFERTERIA'S - FOOD I RECALL EVERYONE USE TO RAVE ABOUT THE FOOD ( LAUGH ) SOME OF IT WAS PRETTY GOOD ! But then maybe younger people know where all the new nightspots are. I could go on. wow I forgot about some of the places listed above. At one time, a band that later turned out to be Santana could be heard practicing in Malachi's basement while you waited for the light to turn green. 1999 - Opening of the. I don't think this service lasted long. I use to walk over to buy cookies there too. St James Infirmary, Attn: Development PO Box 426788 San Francisco, CA 94142 Donate today and ensure that sex workers of all genders continue to have access to quality non judgemental care as well as build in our advocacy programs to center those most marginalized in our community and meet the needs of our community. Computer, and I have such fond memories of that machine. VA construction started about 1958 and opened a few years later. 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) And yes who can forget St. James ( cheap drinks and lot's of fun ) and my favorite place Linda's on El Camino. Had a Sears, JCPenney, other nice shops inside and out. Eddies Sport Shop, The Instep for Addidas. MV was on the USSR's list of early nuclear targets, for good reason. Foster's Freeze Ice Cream on El Camino Real And the Navy was the major employer of the city, at least when I was in elementary school. Still had the bumper sticker "Can't read? You could buy tires from a tire dealer in the middle of downtown Castro Street (about where Don Giovanni's is I think.) Taco la Paz on El Camino Real, a Taco Bell knock-off, where I also worked for a couple years. and saw a ton of great kid movies there in my pajamas! I lived on stierlin rd near the dumps lived next to the Capote family. I almost forgot: The Kaiser bldg was a shopping center with a grocery store Lucky and the best bakery. Almost every VA patient naysayer Ive listened to has problems best cared for in the VA mental department. Their ad every Tuesday on the back page of the PA Times. The shopping center on castro was called Palm Plaza and the thrift shop was Palm Variety. Red Barn for a Barnbuster 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 . On California there was a Best (Service Merchandise?) Went to Crittenden in the late 60's . View St James Infirmary (www.stjamesinfirmary.org) location in California, United States , revenue, industry and description. Just loved reading all these posts and bringing back all the memories. There was a drive in theatre on Grant Road across the street from Erik's Deli. Eating at the "picnic tables at Clarke's" with my mom quite often. $3,592,796. House of Yee, an old movie theater, TAP Plastics, a good Mexican place down at the train tracks end. I have not returned home to Mountain View for decades and just now saw pictures of the town. The Variety Store at Blossom Valley had a great big neon sign (at least I think it was neon.) the MV Eagles ruled The name of the store was called Palm Yorkshire Clothes in the Palm Plaza shopping Center. My sisters all worked at the Weinershnizel at the corner of Castro/California. Too many memories to mention. No grass, just blacktop. Bubb Elementary School opened without asphalt pavement. That's where my mom got her meat. San Francisco, CA 94109. TV was black and white till them - El Camino Real was just 2 lanes each way in places, some blocks lacking sidewalks, some with diagonal parking . 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). Children can walk at night without fear. View High have been demolished and are now condominiums. Saw John Stewart (formerly of the Kingstion Trio) there several times. The Togos have moved around and changed a lot, but Togos used to be really great. I encountered hundreds of rat carcasses. My sister worked at Handy Man and also payless donuts. Thank you anyone and everyone for any info. Star & Bar gas station? entrusted to live and work for such a with-it city? Printer's Inc. Grew up in Los Altos in the 60s-90s. 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. Bokman Chevy and Tuban Ford But as for Mountain View, it is better than ever. Was the Chinese restaurant Qui Hing Low? I liked funniest dance place ever! on, with the High School being down towards El Camino. 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 was a quiet bedroom community. I was part of the last graduating class of old Mtn. Website(s): Main Website. My parents owned the store with my father's cousin and wife. It is now The Village at San Antonio Center (Web Link. This was such a great place in the mid to late 70's - the Baylands Park, the old white house near Shoreline. Does anyone remember the name of this bakery? Miramonte Avenue had NO traffic after 5:30 PM, at Sladkey (later Questa Drive). View High in 87. I'm still digging through old family photos trying to find a pic of the big tree of birds and clocks. Fremont Fire Dist. 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. I'm going to add something a little different the Cold War. Frequented San Antonio shopping center, mayfield mall and old mill. 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 from '56 to '79 with a detour through the USMC abd SE.Asia. Downtown / Midtown Cross Street. train go by when you were watching movies in the Old Mill Theaters. St. James Infirmary Mountain View, CA. It was unmanned but still wired in. I do remember the French Quarter food mart and the Mexican restaurant was called La Posada. Carpeteria Then on to Stacey's Books on University, and another computer store several blocks away. This done to promote the authors or owners agenda. I went to Landels elementry school until 1979. Does anyone remember the helicopters flying overhead (every Monday evening, if I remember correctly) spraying Malathion? 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. Dave Fisher + many more) There was a fancy hotel with a big fountain in the front. I really appreciate this information! 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. Mayfield Mall where HP had offices and now is empty. This is a used 40 year old t-shirt, it isn't in mint condition. I always thought the food there was better than Taco Bell. 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). Fiesta and Camino lanes on El Camino. The movie theater may have stuck around a little longer than the mall. I lived in Mtn. Ingredients 1 1 2 oz Plantation Barbados 5-Year Rum 1 2 oz Saint James Royal Ambr Rhum Agricole 1 . I now live in Napa Valley and I haven't found anything like that here. Fotomat Drive Up The bottle was refundable for a nickle at the store where you could buy a candy bar for five cents! In the median of Castro in front of the city hall was a huge redwood? The Tower Records in Mountain View is the only one I have been to that had an actual bookstore. I think the globe on the building came from '39 or '40 worlds fair(s), but don't quote me on that. Also, does anyone remember where on ECR Matt's Club (dive bar) was? Pollo Loco. I have lived in Mountain View since 1977 and this is what I remember: The live music downstairs John Stewart of "California Bloodlines", Crystal Pistol (3 girls, violin & guitars) Harry's Hofbrau (my favorite) (It was beautiful) Turned out there was a mistake and the permit was supposed to be to have been issued for his small pepper tree instead. The school dances and alot of fights in the year 1970. It was a nice time and if I could, I would go back; maybe in the near future! I remember you could hear the up to complain, is the manager of the City recreational facilties has let Update Organization . Even Wonder Woman couldn't save the place (or herself). I live in Florida now, but I keep checking this on-going trip down memory lane. Thanks for bringing back some good-ole memories! Taking Amtrak to San Jose train station by dropping off my bags at the Amtrak shelter, driving back home, and walking back the 2 blocks to catch the train. The first 2 years of St. Joseph's School were held in the old classrooms of at what is now St. Francis High School. The persimmon tree in "our" front yard and the people who would drive up and try to strip the fruit. It's driving us all crazy. My grandpa and I would go through in our funky station wagon. The moved down Sterlin Rd toward the dump (which much later became Shoreline Park). workshirts in high school early 70's. 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. ----Great Western Savings/Home Savings/ Westwood Childcare Center The Indian lady who started that was a visionary, it Being able to walk the store aisles when the store was closed and no one else was there :). Qui Hing Low and Andy's best chinese food ever! It is bustling, vibrant, filled with great restaurants. Great Western Savings It is called Mtn. It was worse than going to the Apple Store today though the geniuses then. I swam for the Mountain View Dolphin's swim team, at Mountain View High School which was on Castro Street in the 1960's. From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org ------ THE VINTAGE MOUNTAIN VIEW SHOP features items from LINDA'S (1956-1985) * CLARKE'S CHARCOAL BROILER (1945-2020) * THE BOARDWALK (1975-2013) * SPIVEY'S * ST. 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. He also went on to explain that, in the 70's, their were quite a few brothels operating on Castro!How things have changed! Double Rainbow was the ice cream place Imagine. These all mostly faded-out by the late 1990s. Mountain View was home to the St. James Infirmary Bar & Grill. Does anyone remember the name of the coffee shop next to rower records? The parks would take us on a tour to the downtown firehouse and police station where we got to slide down the firepole! They were just fantastic. 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. 1) Playing park league flag football in the 3rd grade and getting knocked out cold on a kick off by a "BIG" kid named Rudy. Across the street from the school was a small gas station store that sold penny candy. My Grandma used to take me to Mervyn's downtown when it was still a diner, and not a bar. Down the drive was a grilled chicken place called Pollo now I cannot remember. The Monte Carlo Restaurant was the Movie theater for the town We thought the old house (still there) on the corner of Calderon and Church was haunted. Was the Rumpus Room ever "topless"? Across the street from the tire store was a five-and-dime store. Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. Here is some details about the Mountain View I grew up in. The mobile home park community; I went to Theuerkauf elementary. In 1971, Linda Ronstadt played The Cellar with Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, and Don Henley who soon formed The Eagles. wow such great memories. We had a "Food Fair" grocery store on El CAMINO between Castro and grant/237 Chez Yvonne was at 1854 W. 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