It was across the street from a bowling alley. Things have changed but the one thing that seems the same is Edith Landels elementary school, that place seems timeless. 1999 - Opening of the. Carpeteria But can anyone please help me remember the name of the pre-school on San Ramon Ave. where The Fountains retirement community is built. 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. I use to live in San Carlos ave. It closed in 80/81 school year. -----Brentwood Grocery Store/Safeway I could go on forever on how much this city has changed. My father liked Indian history and so I did too. When Shoreline was still Bailey Ave. and it was just a 2 lane road. 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. Grew up in Los Altos in the 60s-90s. Had a Sears, JCPenney, other nice shops inside and out. So by posting to this thread, you inadvertantly ensured that it will continue to grace the front page. Unfortunately, Moffett had been closed. Magical Mountain View [looking back--] There was no Shoreline overpass you would cross the railroad tracks. Ken's House of Pancakes on El Camino Real (great for breakfast) The moved down Sterlin Rd toward the dump (which much later became Shoreline Park). ??? St James Infirmary's headquarters are located at 730 Polk St Fl 4, San Francisco, California, 94109, United States What is St James . I lived briefly in Mtn View from September to December 30, 1952. Their downstairs cellar was a nice and intimate showroom and upstairs they had good steaks. Always busy and great New York Style pizza never had any since!! I think Rambus occupies that site now. We left the Navy in 1955 after John made two nine month cruises on the Princeton. Andy's Chinese Restaurant. I have not returned home to Mountain View for decades and just now saw pictures of the town. I remember when I moved to Mountain View in 1973 there were still orchids around. . Went to Landels Elementary and Graham Junior High. JCPenneys was on Castro Street I can remember the name. It was located off Middlefield near Ellis Street. 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. everything I knew is gone. Dave Fisher and saw a ton of great kid movies there in my pajamas! - Highway 101 was 3 lanes each direction, Hwy 85 was 2 lanes and ended at Stevens Creek Blvd. The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. The entire street, except for the scattering of bars and Chinese restaurants was vacant in the late 70's and 80's. Renamed it La Problem Eata. Any others going further back? 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. Home & Real Estate I recall that Fargo's was a pretty happening spot for live music in its day. PT, I don't think it was a library. Had a friend that called and asked me the name of the furniture store and I have forgotten. Imperial Gardens even had a water wheel going in their back yard. 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. theater. Go Eagles! One was on ElCamino Real where the Amber Cafe is now located. It was farmland with a few ranch homes. Like to give a shout out to all the families that participated in making Mtn View such a fun place to grow up. I'm still digging through old family photos trying to find a pic of the big tree of birds and clocks. and is where Silicon Valley essentially started. It had a 50 foot tall Wonder Woman, a stage coach on the ceiling and peanut shells on the floor. The Japanese teppan place I was trying to think of was called Shogun, on El Camino west of San Antonio. Does anyone else remember playing at the little playground there before the movie started? Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. . Now its an India restaurant. I am kind of amazed at how many people get that wrong. View High have been demolished and are now condominiums. It was cool. Blossom Valley also had a great pizza place called Old Cal where we would go as kids on minimum days from Blach. Navy jets flew overhead constantly, then it was the Orion P-3 submarine chasers. View since 1992I live on the East Coast now. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. And regrettably been here ever since. Alot of great memories, thank for the thread. Albertson's bakery had the best brownies i've ever tasted. i went to monta loma back in 1979 then i moved to oakdale. I'm not sure many people ever went there because the preschool was moved to Rengstorff Park facilities if I remember correctly. My sister made one big donut with the leftover dough at the end of the shift and would bring it to the parties in a big pink box. The restrooms in the parks are It's was a PayLess the last time I noticed. I moved to the Bay Area in 1983 from NJ, and started a new job in a technology company on No. It later moved to El Camino and lost an "l" to become Pontilo's. In the middle of the rows of corn was a large plot of pot, strictly for medicinal purposes of course. Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. They Does anyone remember the helicopters flying overhead (every Monday evening, if I remember correctly) spraying Malathion? 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. 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. There was a music store on Castro Street where I took classical guitar lessons back in the 70s when I was 9-10 years old, and later bass guitar lessons. St. James Infirmary was made possible because of the unique vision of Sex Worker rights activists from COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) and the Exotic Dancers Alliance (EDA), and a timely event in the . 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. Then a few years later it became Ontilo's. Mountain View (and the rest of the Peninsula seems quite different now). The lumber yard and hardware store on El Monte near El Camino was called Hubbard & Johnson; I used to do a lot of business there. Carr's Pet Shop. MV is still a great place to live! Bowling Alley on El Camino We lived in Palo Alto and it was a completely different world south of San Antonio road, much different from snooty Palo Alto. Mostly comprised of middle-class folks employed in the military industrial complex that eventually morphed into Silicon Valley. Loved that park. BF, "the spooky old house standing alone somewhere along Shoreline." Search on line for "Rengsdorff house". I just don't know the name of it. It burned down a long time ago but I was hoping someone remembered it and could tell me about it. cheap movie theater that place but it was short-lived. 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. As a kid my friends and I would like to knock on the windows and aggrevate them. This was the Bay Area bar and grill that burned down in the 90s. Mayfield Mall was where The Crossings condos were buildt. I attended Eastbrook Elementary. Mountain View Library was very small and crowded. doing well. I loved going with my family to the Drive-In at the corner of Grant and El Camino (hard to imagine a drive-in on that corner!!!) Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 Drinking suicides through red licorice as our straw. So many memories. Harry's Hofbrau (my favorite) Next door, was a Gelato ice cream shop. 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. The concession stand at McElvey Park was run for ever by an old guy named Levy, who loved baseball. Slot car racing at a small shopping mall on san antonio road. HOWEVER, whoever, and I used to know the name because I used to call Moved to Sunnyvale a year later. I miss Old Cal Pizza and Stuft Pizza on Castro St. Where was Stuft Pizza located again? View theater, through a kind of walkway/tunnel to the parking lots behind. And who remembers Rod Martin karate studios on El Camino near the San Antonio shopping center? 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. Feinschmuckers Deli, remember Best products store. "The Rumpus Room" (I shot the 8-ball in on the break on New Year's Eve!). The Old Mill shopping center was kind of cool. 2 talking about this. Frankie & Johnnie Luigi's on El Camino RealI lived in the "flat" above the resturant. Printer's Inc. And I have seen quite a few Tower Records; in the Bay Area, L.A., Orange County and even London. Neither are there anymore. Back over across Went there many times in the 1975-80 period. Other notable Mt. Los Gatos and Mountain View have SV's best downtowns IMO. Everyone knows who owns big chunks of that land now. I seen the fire dept. We got our pumpkins from a farm stand on grant road (near el CAMINO hosputal) I might be the youngest and recent entry here. Antipasto salad to die for, (Hold the anchovies please) Is Mountain View better or worse without it? Echos of Don Sherwood and Superfrog live on in Maine. Going to Linda's for Parisian burgers and tator tots,double features at Mtn View theatre on Saturdays. Since I was so young I am not sure about the cities for these places. Ferry-Morse seed Co. Is the waterfall still there? 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. Came to Mtn View in 1967 The Kaiser bldg was a shopping center with a grocery store Lucky and the best bakery. - Cherry Chase golf course where Cuernavaca is now In the 70's, the shopping center went belly-up, stood vacant for years I recall a Frye's market and Cost Plus in there. 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 frankly had more fun at St. James and spent more time there. Did anyone go to Crittenden for elementary school?! The mobile home park community; I went to Theuerkauf elementary. Thrifty's at the San Antonio Shopping Center for ice creams In the 50's, MV had a downtown city park on Castro. The Camino Medical Group building at El Camino and 85 is on the site of the defunct Emporium-Capwell store. Now reside in New Mexico. During the summer many of us were required to work in the fruit harvest. - Highway 237 had traffic signals; was called Mountain View-Alviso Road I don't know who occupies the site now. I delivered San Francisco Chronicle and Mountain View News Herald papers along Thompson Ave and Alvin St as well over in Del Medio area. I went to Landels elementry school until 1979. The grocery store at the Palm Plaza was for years called Bee Foods. It was full of inexpensive children's toys and candy, and had this amazing candy smell that I still remember to this day. from the shopping center where Walgreens is at grant and el camino, This was such a great place in the mid to late 70's - the Baylands Park, the old white house near Shoreline. Can't remember for sure, but I think they had sound to outside. Did we grow up OK? Link to California State Website. I only lived in Mtn. 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). it was Baily Rd Mountain View has provided some good times and good memories. Special Pubs Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. liked that place and the one at Stanford. Bayshore highway was a 4 lane undivided road. Opened in 1967, it was known for its kitschy decor, notably a 30-foot-statue of Wonder Woman, and Buffalo Wings and burgers. 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." 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. I lived in Mtn. Mountain View in the vintage 70's and 80's years was a haven. I'm was 12 years old. where Rengstoff and El Camino split off with El Monte .. that was a dirt The Emporium on El Camino and Sylvan . The only things going in the downtown were Printer's Inc. and a few restaurants like Szechuan Gardens, Dynasty, Fu Lam Mum and Florentine. But the biggest thing to miss STIGS bakery and the pink box those treats came home in!!!!!!!!!!!! And our wonderful married life started in a beautiful and wonderful place named Mountain View CA and Moffett Field Naval Air Station! Heard the wind tunnel at Ames at night. also went to Cubberly High school in 50s-60s. In Mountain View. they were the "reject" cookies, but as kids, we didn't care if it was missing a corner or had a funky shape, as long as the cookie was warm and melted in your mouth. Fiesta and Camino lanes on El Camino. We used to go to the Mexican Restaurant there that was in the middle of the mall (La Posada???) 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. The Monte Vista drive-in movie theater was on Grant Road behind where the Walgreens is now (bunch of housing there now.) I think it closed around 1971 and that's when St Francis High School was allowed to enroll girls. Dad used to spend major portions of his paychecks there, a practice which ultimately destroyed his marriage to my mother. the Library, the City Hall area, Steven's Creek trail Mountain View is Some old photos were also in the lock shop plus the lock shop has not altered building it is the Jehning Family Lock Museum. In the 80's There was actually a gun shop (Eddy's) on Castro and El Camino which first moved across the street then finally went out of business about 6 or 7 years ago. "NEWBIE" I also remember another Japanese restaurant on El Camino west of San Antonio that did teppan style (similar to Benihana). The little store on Rengstorff and old Middlefield where La Costena . People moved alot slower , talked a little slower . There was a fancy hotel with a big fountain in the front. Tater tots and Parisian Burgers! Grocery Store All rights reserved. Great times when Mountain View really felt like families where the heart of the community not transplants!!!!!! We would order the largest pie,and all the drinks refilled over and over again. Chuck's Cellar on El Camino near San Antonio. 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. All rights reserved. We also went to Country Gourmet on El Camino (I think it's still there), and of course the food court in the Old Mill. It was a quiet bedroom community. Was this area a library building? Further up El Camino was the "other" part of shopping in Mountain View, the San Antonio Shopping Center. Moffett Food Center owned by Sam Leong and his family. 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 . 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