The bottle was refundable for a nickle at the store where you could buy a candy bar for five cents! I remember the wonderful Chinese bakery on Castro that had the best black bean buns..I still haven't found any to rival them. I just remembered "The Menu Tree" Does anybody remember The Menu Tree? (It was beautiful) I know this is incorrect. I was teaching at Foothill Jr. College. and going to Old Mountain View's Castro Street felt soooooo far away! (Thank you, historic preservationists!). that machine that cheapie simple stuff was really expensive back By the way, the tree diagram cited in the Nov. 14, 2015 comment above, showing "the true history of early Silicon Valley," does exist in durable forms. My folks moved to Mountain View from San Bruno in 1962 when I was 4. Bubb Elementary School opened without asphalt pavement. 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. First gourmet burgers for me the Hawaiian with pineapple.. and the friendliest of owners. their facilities. It felt like home . When Mancini motors (Dodge dealership) was on the corner of Castro and El Camino. I swam for the Mountain View Dolphin's swim team, at Mountain View High School which was on Castro Street in the 1960's. Mountain View Hight was located in downtown M.V. Red Barn for a Barnbuster JCPenneys was on Castro Street The Golden Wok was good too, but suddenly closed and never reopened. Florentine Restaurant Where that big El Camino Medical group complex is at 85/El Camino used to be the Emporium Capwell department store. Fiesta and Camino lanes on El Camino. I went to Fremont Hi, but met lots of students from Mt. My parents still live there, and I visit them often. 2 talking about this. Mountain View near Castro was a wonderful place to live. Freedom. There was a drive in theatre on Grant Road across the street from Erik's Deli. It is the second left turn from the Cornwall College playground and is erected on the Albion property. Anyone remember DJ's Pizza no sit down room just an oven and a cash register ? was a great a place to do one's laundry and occasionally meet people. Car dealership n Castro and el CAMINO. Bob's Big Boy, When did the Old Mill and Fargo's Pizza close. And the "Generic Hamburger Stand" in the old Der Weinerschnitzel (which became Weinerschnitzel again after the generic place closed). It is bustling, vibrant, filled with great restaurants. I remember all the fruit orchards around and Libby's canning factory in Sunnyvale. It's odd to wonder how everyone got along without a phone in their pockets, and there The school dances and alot of fights in the year 1970. This was a Navy town back then. Yes there were also the yearly Navy air shows. I lived on Colony St and went to Powell School, Crittenden and Mountain View HS on Castro street. It was a hofbrau or road stop kind of place. I remember the disco on San Antonio Road at the Old Mill, jogging at the high school, St. james Infirmiry, Andys Chinese Restaurant, Longs Drugs, The Boardwalk on El Camino near Chucks, I remember when my friend Len Rhode opened his burger King on San Antonio Road and El Camino. The old house on Phyllis (the last home on the back side of the shopping center) was originally located in a ring of Redwood trees in the former Handyman parking lot! YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. I moved to the Bay Area in 1983 from NJ, and started a new job in a technology company on No. The original Mountain View location has always been better than the recent chain locations IMO. What a great place to grow up. View in 1975. St James Infirmary . But so did Thousands of Deadhead fans, noise complaints and traffic jams. My friend lived very close. Spiveys was in the shopping center too. Bicycles wagons all sorts of things hanging on the walls. Shoreline used to be called Steirlin Road, and before that part of It was hard to find parking. The house prices went up, $450,000. Bubble gum was the best flavor. Wasn't there a Card Room called SUTTERS on 237? Where I would play baseball in the parks and rec league for poor kids in the summer. The ward was a joint initiative between the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the St. James Municipal Corporation. El Camino was the best I've ever tasted, and is sadly long gone now. There were dozens of Dept of Defense contractors in the general area including Raytheon, doing radar research and production, and Singer, doing flight simulators. Mountain View was the southernmost town with the 415 area code. Remember St. Johns on Moffett? There also was Handyman hardware store where Radio Shack is today. 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. and may again, but why don't people do their jobs when they are Mr Knight was a wonderful employer and friend. There was no Shoreline overpass you would cross the railroad tracks. (Sunnyvale went the "planned route" and tore up Murphy Avenue to give it over to a covered mall in the 70s. Chucks also once had a place in Tustin (Orange County), with no entertainment, and I quess two or three are still going in Hawaii. House of Yee, an old movie theater, TAP Plastics, a good Mexican place down at the train tracks end. Jocelyn's Bike shop started in Midtown Palo Alto didn't it? Moffet Drive In..worked there in the 60's along with the Shell station at San Antonio and El Camino. All in all I think it was a better time Anyone remember the Community School of Music on California street. It had sawdust and peanut shells on the floor, and a giant Wonder Woman statue. When they re-did Castro Street can't remember if that was late 70's or MV is still a great place to live! Now our old house is appraised at 1.5 million + and apparently the Mtn View I knew and loved is no more. The Almanac Nice thread full of great memories! Thanks for bringing back some good-ole memories! I don't think this service lasted long. and saw a ton of great kid movies there in my pajamas! County: San Francisco. Please if any one has any thing that could help I would appreciate it. I was born and raised in Mtn. Going to Linda's for Parisian burgers and tator tots,double features at Mtn View theatre on Saturdays. If it's boring you, CHANGE THE CHANNEL! Like to give a shout out to all the families that participated in making Mtn View such a fun place to grow up. Moved to Sunnyvale a year later. omg Togo's turkey and Avocado. Saw John Stewart (formerly of the Kingstion Trio) there several times. Key points were Shoreline Park, Century Theaters, Downtown renovation. ( In door food court ) MV was specifically preserving the Casuarins - had a special one in a ramp right-of-way (Central Expressway andEl Monte?). I was a Mt. I can still taste it sometimes when I smell a truly good pizza. All rights reserved. Hotels near St. James Infirmary: (0.02 mi) Plush 2-bed apt in Riverside Heights! So, though I now live about 50 miles away, downtown MV has become a kind of Mecca for me. hand towels of a working hand air dryer for almost year despite my It took a long time, but we did walk home. It was a beautiful spanish style building which should of been restored and named a historical landmark. All rights reserved. VA construction started about 1958 and opened a few years later. Lots of small apartments everywhere and all very kept up. The town had a Bobs Big Boy, Linda's drive in, foster freeze, Wiener schnitzel, st James infirmary, Denny's restayeant (great for after a long night if dancing), GEMCO, Carrs pet store, emporium, mervyns, Sears, tower RECords, warehouse records, jcpennys, cost plus, tony Roma's, lots of used car lots along el CAMINO real, kens house of pancakes, thrift store next to cuisimanos (sp?) I bought a coffee table and oak side tables there. I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. Does anyone know what was at the northeast side of the Moffett and W. Middlefield intersect? Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 Original post made by Richard Gambatese, Old Mountain View, on Feb 6, 2009 I was a couselor at the Mt.View Methadone Clinic which was in the County Building at the intersection of Stirlin Rd and Moffett Blvd. Alot of great memories, thank for the thread. And seeing their adds at the drive-in during intermission? Went to MVHS when it was on Castro St. Lots of fruit trees on ElCamino. Does any one remember that Mountain View was owned by the 7th Day Adventist who spent a few years looking to move away (BEFORE the computer movement)? From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1089 Mission Street. I have just returned to Sunnyvale after ten years in L.A. And our wonderful married life started in a beautiful and wonderful place named Mountain View CA and Moffett Field Naval Air Station! Now on El Camino, but nothing like I then moved out of the area, but then moved back to an apartment in nearby Sunnyvale and worked for someone I knew for awhile from 1999 to 2001. I assume the owners knew about the misspelling and either enjoyed the humor of it, or just didn't care. Downtown only had Chinese Restaurant's except for the Weinersnitzel on the corner of Castro and California Street. View for a bit over a year, but that is one memory of mine. I might be the youngest and recent entry here. Old California Pizza Galaxy Gifts, the Variety store, Archies Couffures, and Tots to Teens at the Blossom Valley shopping center where Mayfair Market was. Also, Chef Chu's nearby, my first exposure to high-end Chinese food. Lets make 2023 great! Don't forget the Red Barn with 19 cent burgers, Taco Tico and I saw someone else mentioned El Zarrape (the best). The Monte Carlo Restaurant was the Movie theater for the town - Highway 237 had traffic signals; was called Mountain View-Alviso Road The King of Clubs was a big Navy bar and we used to go to Denny's across the street. If it bent, we threw them out. I miss Old Cal Pizza and Stuft Pizza on Castro St. Where was Stuft Pizza located again? You are correct Emporium, I used to shop there all the time. Our baby was born in March and I came home to Indianapolis Indiana to stay with my parents until his leave in September 1953. Rexall drugs was our downtown drugstore. fast food place in Palo Alto on University. The place was on the eastern end of the complex. We used to go to the Mexican Restaurant there that was in the middle of the mall (La Posada???) where Rengstoff and El Camino split off with El Monte .. that was a dirt WTH happened?!?! not too far from San Antonio. Community Calendar I am not sure it was called It's not still there, is it? And Mountain View Surplus where I used to get my blue jeans and blue A&E 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! Also worth noting but less strategic is NASA Ames research center, which was doing key research on human physiology and support systems in space and wind tunnel research. Registering a complaint with the City of MV when my landlord (1904 Bates house at California & View Street - next to the little home in the orchard tower) planned to cut down his 2 story tall Australian Pine (Casuarina equisetifolia ) because it dropped too much "mess." Spectra Physics Lasers started up 1961 in Mt. However, I have not found anyone who remembers the name of the company and when they closed it no one seems to know where they went or if they just went out of business. If anyone knows this information, please post the answer and thanks in advance for your help. He had more cattle up off Skyline and near Half Moon Bay When I first moved to Mountain View in 1983 I went to the movies at the "Old Mill" shopping center. AND, There were greenhouses along 237 for as far as the eye could see, along with Ferry Morse Seed Company. A lot has changed since then. 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. 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. Thank-you 1, Graduated from MVHS in 1975 while working at A&W riding my 125 Honda yep it is Eric. Original post made First I rented in a duplex on Sierra Vista: Ken's House of Pancakes was the best (and maybe the only) middle of the night meal in town. Here is the link to one of the photos. It answers the "even earlier." I think it is like over $3000 for a studio. What wonderful memories!!! There was a night club called The Infirmary lots of fun. Steve don't be such a downer you must be a transplant people like myself who happen to be a 4th generation MV resident like hearing old stories of MV stop clicking on the link. The front facade are new buildings but the roof and rear are the remains of old Victorian houses. There was an underpass that allowed children to go beneath the busy road to get to school. I fetched that post by typing O'Malley's in the Search box (toward upper right on this page). Back over across I remember delivering flyers announcing store-opening specials (and being paid the handsome wage of 35 cents! In 1999 we took a nostalgia trip back to San Francisco and Mtn View and then on to San Diego. The Moffett Drive In was our cheap entertainment. Does anyone remember the name before Gemco? We heard every announcement. 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). The shopping center is no more, at least not anything like the original. St. James Infirmary just outside of Moffett Field Naval Air Station was a frequent place as well as The Country Store, but that was south past Sunnyvale on El Camino. I spend a lot of time and money in Mountain View, used to live there I use to live in San Carlos ave. Funny I can't remember the name of that music store. No grass, just blacktop. Can anyone tell me when it changed names and the history? 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