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. We'd also get lunch at Weinerschniztel (at the corner of Castro and California). Left in 68 to join the USMC. liked that place and the one at Stanford. I also remember the huge billboard on 237,alongside the crop fields, advertising Tai Ming Lo restaurant in bold red letters. You could get excellent fresh artichokes at a reasonable price back then. There would be like 50 bikes out front on those days. It seemed like a great concept. Many of the streets were unpaved and had chickens and peacocks roaming around. Go Eagles! There was also a pizza place called Fargo's that had live music on weekends. Ferry-Morse seed Co. Food Fair was down 3 or 4 blocks. Thank you for any info. There was a motorcycle suspension shop on Leghorn called Simon's it later morphed into Roxshox. Thanks for any pet related recollections you may have. Wasn't Handyman over there near the Oasis Laundry and what used to be It has the peanut shells on the floor and it was a great singles dive. I don't know who occupies the site now. The ward was a joint initiative between the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the St. James Municipal Corporation. the Diamond Ranch Market in 1970 until 1971, as mentioned above, Anyone remember DJ's Pizza no sit down room just an oven and a cash register ? Remember the P-3s that used to fly over on their quests to track Soviet At the little mall with the hobby store upstairs they used to decorate extensively for Christmas. People were alot happier back then, with less Mountain View high school was actually bordering Castro Street, old high school way, shoreline (formerly n. Bailey/sterlin road) There was a frozen North Pole and Santa sat in his house nearby. Mtn. Many mini motels, and lots to do. Anyone remember the drive in theaters? 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. I remember the Old Mill theaters and seeing Return Of The Jedi. There were a lot of Country Stores throughout the bay area, little shops. And I remember the candy store at the Old Mill. TownSquare That place was great too. It was mostly known as the place to get Chinese food. I actually worked down the road in Los Altos at the Boardwalk, what a shame they closed. I remember when Edelweiss Dairy was on 237 and it was all farmland to Milpitas. television dealer in the building that burnt down recently. arrive, but school was being led out at the same time, i remember seating to face the damage. My friend lived very close. I lived on the southern end of Los Altos from 1961 through about 1985. Wherehouse Records, Chuck's Cellar on El Camino was mentioned and John Stewart of Kingston Trio fame. There are many more places I can talk about while I lived in the area. And our wonderful married life started in a beautiful and wonderful place named Mountain View CA and Moffett Field Naval Air Station! Carr's Pet Shop. But so did Thousands of Deadhead fans, noise complaints and traffic jams. JC Penney's was where Meyer Electric is now. La Petit Boulangerie, Florentines Pasta Shop, TOGO's!!!!! Mountain View's facilities go to heck. 2) A very hot classmate whom I had a secret 6th grade crush on named Sandy Allen Driving to Stanford via ElCamino Real one could smell skunks from the open fields. Grew up in MV and graduated from MVHS in 1971. At corner of Castro/El Camino where Wash. Mutual located, Mancini Motor (Chrysler Dealer)had world globe on a top of round column, that column with globe came from Treasure Island World Fair in 1930's. Man what a time You could actually walk across town or to school and not worry about anything but being late. Standard Brands was built on the corner of 237 and El Camino Real, so many open fields built up. I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. Any one work with/through the Youth Opportunity Program (high school students) at the Mountain View Post Office? Dairy Pail (San Antonio/california) was a drive thru. We lived in a trailer park just going north on 101 from the main gate at Moffett. There were also Tower Books, Printer's Inc. in Palo Alto, Stacey's, Kepler's, Books Inc. in the Stanford Center all of them with much bigger and more fascinating selections than one sees now. Thanks for the recap Charlie. Had a friend that called and asked me the name of the furniture store and I have forgotten. St James Infirmary Organization Address: 1089 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94109. First on Pear Ave, where we raised chickens and exotic birds. --Tim May, You can see some of the past if you go up the Parking structure off Castro. Grant Road was only 2 lanes with no sidewalks! 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. View. Florentine Restaurant There's a Residence Inn there now. It was THE place to go on Friday and Saturday nights.not to mention the other hangout was "The Shack" for dancing and meeting 'guys'. This was a hippie/environmentalist type of grocery store. For some, the 70's kicked off in Mountain View with a homecoming float featuring a huge EAGLE. 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! Things have changed but the one thing that seems the same is Edith Landels elementary school, that place seems timeless. I think that space is now occupied by a Chinese restaurant. -San Antonio Center was a mall (yep, three malls!) 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. That furniture place on El Monte/El Camino that sold unfinished pine furniture became Office Max? Even our long time neighbors can't recall the name. 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. The house prices went up, $450,000. Eddie's Gun Shop As a community, Moutain View is far better off having had such people as molders of what we have today. I enjoy reminiscing the things that made Mountain View so great. Hofbrau and then office buildings or something now. This was before 237 was an expressway. Blogs I have we have one of the best downtowns in the area with such a great selection of places to eat and hang out. ----Great Western Savings/Home Savings/ Westwood Childcare Center My folks moved to Mountain View from San Bruno in 1962 when I was 4. 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. Carpeteria On Saturdays I'd drive up El Camino. fumes overhead. Does anyone else remember this or am I crazy? Chevy's occupies that site today. Dont forget about Rhodes department store, Roos Atkins, Purity Super Market at San Antonio Center. Steve, Is someone making you read this stuff? Original post made Yes? where Rengstoff and El Camino split off with El Monte .. that was a dirt Right next door was a large building, light blue and cube-shaped without windows or features of any kind other than a US Air Force sign on top. it was Baily Rd $2.00 pitcher of beer, peanuts on the floor, awesome pinball, and almost a guaranteed biker tussle every Friday night. That mall also had another restaurant that had live jazz music by The Danny Hull Quintet? Currently being remodeled and replaced with Wachovia Savings. The library had only one story and was overcrowded. Welcome to THE VINTAGE MOUNTAIN VIEW SHOP, your one-stop shop for apparel and gift items commemorating long-gone spots in and around Mountain View, California! Had a fun summer vacation visiting my dad and his partner, they owned 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. I also grew up in Mountain View and attended Landels, Graham and Mountain View High on Castro Street. When I want to go to Target, he reminds me that it used to be Gemco:) When I craved a burger, he took me to Clarke's. View and Sunnyvale at all times day and night and never had a worry. Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 I can almost remember their "3rd Annual Going Out of Business Sale" with 25 cent shots of Jack Daniels and 10 cent draft beers. Shoreline used to be called Steirlin Road, and before that part of Shoreline Blvd was Sterlein Rd the entire length. -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. I think everyone attended some sort of function there at some point in their lives. Try to find a gun shop in Mountain View today. 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). Tidal lands existed along the bay. The World Famous St. James Infirmary .. Mt. He also went on to explain that, in the 70's, their were quite a few brothels operating on Castro!How things have changed! The site of Nob Hill on Grant Road was a Hubbard & Johnson hardware store before it's more recent incarnations. As for restaurants, I was saving my pennies in those years. Coming home from Foothill College. BIG difference. Oh the perils of middle age, ugh! The moved down Sterlin Rd toward the dump (which much later became Shoreline Park). Stigs plus also a mens clothing store, dry cleaners and a small store that sold home items. Any recall/information about the Mountain View Ice Company? I know this blog is a few years old but he ran across it and boy can you bring me down memory lane I'm sure I will repeat a lot of the familiar places in Mountain View but I just wanted to share them as well. Later on. Two Guys from Italy Rest. I've recently moved here from Louisiana, married, and bought a lil condo. Served with from San Diego, CA. For the longest time on ECR (80's) there was a great little store selling seat covers (I think it was near Castro). (my first kiss too!) I think the globe on the building came from '39 or '40 worlds fair(s), but don't quote me on that. Then the City The little lady in the kitchen i think her name was "short" best tacos for 25 cents. Or, taking a local bus home from San Francisco Airport, down El Camino to my street (View), and rolling the bag home. Foster's Freeze Ice Cream on El Camino Real Dave Fisher What about the holiday decorations in both the Mayfield Mall and Old Mill Mall and shops like that jelly belly booth with every imaginable flavor I so enjoyed. Food Fair turned into Harry's Somebody sprayed on the windows of "DOG CITY" and those buildings have always been Dog City in my mind.. only a moment in time. I'm going to add something a little different the Cold War. Sun and SGI were a couple of the large employers, fighting out the workstation market. There were contests at all the night spots and tons of costume shops in and around the areas. You could buy fresh ravioli at the old State Street Deli on Castro and State. We had a wonderful life the short time we lived there and treasure the memories and friends there. Miles Tone wrote: "The Decor furniture store that became Office Depot at El Monte and El Camino was also once a grocery store, in the 60's I think"? Free suicides after the little league game. Recipes . It was the site of the old Highway School. miss those days. The Japanese teppan place I was trying to think of was called Shogun, on El Camino west of San Antonio. If my recollection is correct, it used to be an Exxon station. Thank you anyone and everyone for any info. The Infirmary was destroyed by an arson fire in 1998. . When I'm visiting friends in the area, we often end up on Castro Street for meals. Camino. My memories of this time are somewhat faded by time and the fact, my Mother didn't drive, so my mobility around the area was limited to foot and my Schwinn bicycle. I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. I remember going to both Fargo's (Old Mill Sh. some highlights, like the Co-op Supermarket which became the old Rite Aid - Highway 237 had traffic signals; was called Mountain View-Alviso Road Michael T is right, there were 7 buildings. He liked my sister, but never gave my friend and I candy if we came by ourselves. Nice thread full of great memories! Can anyone tell me about a restaurant called Saint James Infirmary in Mountain View? We were the group the released the Peacocks and Peahens into the community when our properties were sold and converted to Industrial! and it was the Mountain View Eagles. Does anyone remember the old building along the Mountain View-Alviso Road (237) that was on the corner of either Maude or Middlefield? Went into Intel before D2, their first modern Fab area was built--have been to all Intl site in western part of US, Oregon, New Mex, Ariz. This page has been a really interesting read. .25 cents for mixed drinks. St Joseph church would ring the church bell during the day. I was here in the 70's though I lived in Palo Alto. Many people used the train in those days to commute to "The City (San Francisco)". Mayfield Mall with the Grayhound station next to it became HP, and will now become more housing, the original San Antonio mall with Menu Tree (what a great place to eat), the little water fountains and a Woolworths where BevMo is now. color TV set for like $325. I went to Landels elementry school until 1979. That's the closest address my childhood brain can come up with. chicken. Too many memories to mention. All rights reserved. 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. St. James Infirmary - A peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers and their families Happy New Year Everyone! It was my grandpas restaurant!!!! We would order the largest pie,and all the drinks refilled over and over again. At the time was a 4 year student at the relocated MVHS class of '85. Its where the first IC was made by Noyce? that machine that cheapie simple stuff was really expensive back Cruising between Johnny Macs and Spiveys drive Inns on the El It's not still there, is it? I remember: There used to be that drive in place Linda's that is now Wolfe Camera, I think, or was. Opened in 1967, it was known for its kitschy decor, notably a 30-foot-statue of Wonder Woman, and Buffalo Wings and burgers. Thank you for that :) I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. Gemco was where Target is now. OJ Cooper school. 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. Downtown only had Chinese Restaurant's except for the Weinersnitzel on the corner of Castro and California Street. Oh, I miss that barbecue Claim this business (415) 554-8494. Fiesta and Camino lanes on El Camino. and the home of greasers etc. Two a&w's in town (frequented the one on el CAMINO air) I never bothered to buy an alarm clock! See who you know in common. $3,592,796. I Across the street from the tire store was a five-and-dime store. It was comfortable. Music Store Does anyone else remember playing at the little playground there before the movie started? When Central Expressway was built. Posted by Elizabeth, a resident of the Whisman Station neighborhood, on Feb 22, 2011 at 3:15 pm I remember visiting it during a shadowing exercise as a student at Crittenden. at Steven's Creek? Location. Does Anyone Remember the La Cabana? And don't forget the Camino Bowl, a great place to go bowling before it got torn down and replaced with businesses/condo units. Mt View east of Bayshore (101)had no paved roads--dust in summer, mud in winter. I've been her since 1952 (Sunnyvale, actually). up to complain, is the manager of the City recreational facilties has let What an interesting question. A&W near the corner with Castro. 2. Facilities include two wards for males and females, an administrative block, a chapel, staff quarters and a separate dwelling for street people. Ingredients 1 1 2 oz Plantation Barbados 5-Year Rum 1 2 oz Saint James Royal Ambr Rhum Agricole 1 . (now shoreline) my home was where the parking lot for Shoreline AmpleTheater is now. I always thought the food there was better than Taco Bell. Can't remember for sure, but I think they had sound to outside. I heard that Tai Ming Lo was a really good restaurant. Does anyone remember the name before Gemco? There was a playground facing the parking lot where now the front gate and front office is. He and my mother are buried next to each other at Alta Mesa Cemetery on Charleston. The field behind Cooper School was not a park yet! There was no Shoreline Park. The original "Der Weinerschnitzel" on California and Castro. Some old photos were also in the lock shop plus the lock shop has not altered building it is the Jehning Family Lock Museum. You could bring your empty bottles and get them filled. their facilities. look like in 30 years? Great Western Savings San Antonio Center, Tower Records for a time, more and cheaper housing, Update Organization . I had only been here for a day or two. Ive had both knees replaced there and the VA health care system gets a 5 star rating from me. It's odd to wonder how everyone got along without a phone in their pockets, and there The St. James Infirmary is located about 5 minutes drive from downtown Montego Bay. near NW corner of Middlefield at Rengsdorf. Tour buses would take visitors on tours to see all the trees in blossom that were a sight to behold. I miss Old Cal Pizza and Stuft Pizza on Castro St. Where was Stuft Pizza located again? View for a bit over a year, but that is one memory of mine. No grass, just blacktop. Der Wiener Schnitzel on Castro was a great place to skip off campus from Mountain View High for some munchies. 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! And the center's hobby shop was a fun place to browse. 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. 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 ! Don't forget the Red Barn with 19 cent burgers, Taco Tico and I saw someone else mentioned El Zarrape (the best). Get introduced. The Safeway on Shoreline was tiny compared to today with an empty restarant space next to it, and when the Grateful Dead came to play Shoreline the deadheads would always take over the parking lot. I might be the youngest and recent entry here. A Palo Alto Co-op store was on the corner of San Antonio and El Camino. In the mid 80's is when everything started to change..I have a little memory of downtown, I'm a Castro City resident, so I remember San Antonio and the Old Mill more. Downtown Mtn View was a vital business district for everyone. Those days of MV being a quiet, bucolic suburb are over. The Tower Records in Mountain View is the only one I have been to that had an actual bookstore. All rights reserved. The only hardware/nursery store was on the north side of the tracks, on Castro Street. Thrifty's at the San Antonio Shopping Center for ice creams I can still taste it sometimes when I smell a truly good pizza. There was ateen center hangout for awhile downtown in 70 but I dont recall were it was exactly. Just a few things I didn't see mentioned. 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. (0.37 mi) Plaza Resort Club Hotel (0.21 mi) Legacy Vacation Club Reno Studio Suite, SUNDAY Check-In (0.23 mi) Stunning Views On Riverwalk Wow Factor 1BR 2BA (0.21 mi) Legacy Vacation Resort Reno; View all hotels near St. James Infirmary on Tripadvisor Blossom Valley also had a great pizza place called Old Cal where we would go as kids on minimum days from Blach. at the Huntingon Apartments. Qui Hing Low and Andy's best chinese food ever! But the biggest thing to miss STIGS bakery and the pink box those treats came home in!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for an interesting trip down memory lane. Arby's at San Antonio and California Anyone remember the Hell Angels' moving into the house on 237 and then filming in parts of Mountain View and Sunnyvale? Down the drive was a grilled chicken place called Pollo now I cannot remember. There also was Handyman hardware store where Radio Shack is today. I took a part time job at Knight's Drugstore at the soda fountain, having my 18th birthday celebrated there with wonderful fellow employees. My sisters all worked at the Weinershnizel at the corner of Castro/California. I moved to San Jose, CA in June of 1984. That area around Middlefield/Ellis was where Raytheon? 4. It was a good one, too. Maybe this has been covered already but does anyone remember the bike shop, "The Bicycle Tree", that had a section of a large tree in the shop where the tree had grown around an old bike frame? There is a Historic marker in front of a small building on Charleston just before it crosses San Antonio. St. JAMES Infirmary was the name of the dive on Moffett with Muffler Guy and Wonder Woman. The mall with Sears and JC Penney was San Antonio Shooping Center on the corner of El Camino Real and San Antonio Road, across the street from what was Tower Records. Creek Place Cuisine. There was also a Kelly's at Stanford Shopping Center before it went so upscale. I moved to the Bay Area in 1983 from NJ, and started a new job in a technology company on No. You could hear the Saint Joseph bell ring everyday at 12noon. 13" screen with rabbit ears. Link to California State Website. That's Gone. Shaw's Ice Cream. That Food Fair on Bonita and El Camino was a good place and I was sorry to see it Being able to walk the store aisles when the store was closed and no one else was there :). Actually the whole page is excellent if you want to follow them on Facebook. the MV Eagles ruled We'd go to Bee Foods (formerly Lucky) sometimes and grab something for lunch (where Kaiser is now) and there was Palm Variety in that shopping center too. Website(s): Main Website. Dropping eggs over the now CAL TRAIN main engine trying to get them into the big fans blowing off the top of the locomotive, I think I was about 16. Chucks also once had a place in Tustin (Orange County), with no entertainment, and I quess two or three are still going in Hawaii. "Our" red painted wood duplex and the big empty field inside the block disappeared when the block "went condo" (in '76?). I remember walking through the construction site where the new Mtn View Police Department is now standing, picked up spent shell casings in the basement level, before it had a roof over it. (Probably "Looking Back") Downtown was a quest area with a few Chinese restaurant. 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 graduated from Mtn. I now live in Hanford CA. Thanks for this thread! Had the best ravioli anywhere. TG&Y between Safeway and Walgreens. I went to Fremont Hi, but met lots of students from Mt. This is a great thread. View High in 1965 go Eagles memoriesAndy's Chinese rest.,Linda's , drive in theater, dog city, Mayfield mall, soooo long ago. I remember Payless on Grant next to that was Albertsons that had the bus depot where kids would take the bus to San Francisco during the Flower Power days. Neither are there anymore. In around 1982-86 I was living in The Americana, a large apartment complex at Highway 85 and El Camino Real. It's an open field now that runs north along W Middlefield. It is the second left turn from the Cornwall College playground and is erected on the Albion property. I remember the Balkan Village with its Greek themed architecture. I went to Chucks for entertainment and the Tarr & Feathers in Palo Alto. In the meantime I'll ask my family that still live in there if they know the name. Don't forget the Bickell Brothers Lumber on San Antonio and Freeman-Sondgroth Paving Company (the gravel factory) making noise and causing cracks in the windows and drywall of everyone's homes. Some guy would provide entertainment by dancing and picking up a dinner table with his teeth and begin swinging it around.I ended up on his shoulders while he was doing a greek dance step and the whole room got up and everybody started dancing to the greek music . MV is still a great place to live! I of course remember: the hobby store near The Menu Tree, the Pacific Stereo/Sound Goods down San Antonio (which had in the 1950s been the site of Shockley Semiconductor), Tower Records, Best Products, the fabric store next door (because an old girlfriend used to buy fabrics there), the shopping center with the water wheel and gardens inside (saw "Animal House" there in 1978), Gemello's Winery off of ECR, the Heidelberg Beer Garden where some high tech buildings are now located (Daisy Systems, now Synopsis, I think), Eddy's Sport Shop (where I bought some nice guns), and the first Byte Shop, a few doors down from Frankie, Johnny and Luigi and also from Mel Cotton's Sporting Goods. some of the problems. I saw some great photos of Castro street circa 1965 on Mountain View Historical Societies Facebook page. ST JAMES GATE BAR AND RESTAURANT - 255 Photos & 339 Reviews - 1410 Old County Rd, Belmont, CA - Yelp Restaurants Home Services Auto Services St James Gate Bar and Restaurant 340 reviews Claimed $$ American (Traditional), Bars, Breakfast & Brunch Edit Open 11:00 AM - 1:00 AM (Next day) See hours See all 261 photos Write a review Add photo Save Menu It was across the street from a bowling alley. store. My dad worked at Lockheed. The Moffett Drive In was our cheap entertainment. Speed limit was 55 mph on all freeways (coming again soon? Always busy and great New York Style pizza never had any since!! The Boardwalk is a good burger and beer place on the El Camino with a friendly vibe. Arby's had the best fries then. Get used to it. The place was torn down when 237 was rebuilt years ago. Please keep the memories alive. Then on to Stacey's Books on University, and another computer store several blocks away. sewage treatment plant and the airport spewing noise and leaded exhaust People reminisce, for example, about Linda's. The Simpson Buick car dealership used to be on the northeast corner of El Camino Real and Castro with a Chrysler dealer that had a huge tower with a globe on top on the opposite corner where the big bank is now. It is a lovely thread to read and I am pleased to see it is still getting new posts after 5 years! Before it was torn down, did the community come out to stop development, like they did for the Milk Pail? The bookstores all went away, The computer stores were subsumed by Fry's (which I was going to in Sunnyvale as early as 1984), Best Buy, and later by the Apple Stores. St James Infirmary Moffett Blvd and Mariner Dr Mountain View Alas. I wonder what businesses we have today are worth fighting for. You may also email me at [emailprotected] Thank you! 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