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. It began to boom in the 90s and is now a destination. I can still taste it sometimes when I smell a truly good pizza. TheSixFifty.com Mountain View Library with great new book selections inside the entrance usually getting no farther than that to stop and read. Jocelyn's Bike shop, Movie Rental Place next to the post office, and Jack "n" Jill kids clothing store was there, I think close to the Vacum Cleaner sales and repair place. There was a fancy hotel with a big fountain in the front. Actually, the Nob Hill where it is today was Handyman, a home center. 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! 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 . Sun and SGI were a couple of the large employers, fighting out the workstation market. Baileys Pharmacy, The Menu Tree had that awesome place to get the BEST fish and chips I have EVER had (seriously), Round Table Pizza, The Boardwalk bar and grill ever. No one in my family can remember the name of this bakery! There were two chains, Pollos and Pollo Locos. 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. D.V., when you mentioned Baeders cookies I knew it was you cuz. I fetched that post by typing O'Malley's in the Search box (toward upper right on this page). Blue Sky Cafe - vegetarian restaurant in a wooden cottage west of Castro. There used to be that drive in place Linda's that is now Wolfe Camera, I think, or was. The Jewell Tea Co. brought groceries right to your door without the Internet. 2 talking about this. Who remembers Frankie, Johnnie and luigo too, before major expansion, on Friday and Saturday nights the line to get was so long. It opened in 1970 and closed in 1995. Get introduced. View was 'Yorkshire' and all numbers began YO7-xxxx. Is it still good. i remember mayfield mall, with jc penneys and world mart. You could buy beer by waiting outside Mayfair Market for someone "cool" to walk in and ask them to score you a six. I live now in Kiseemmee Florida,but I travel to Mountain View High Way Elementary School on El Camino; it was closed and became the temporary Foothill College; closed and left empty; later developed into a mixed use project; there was a pedestrian tunnel crossing under El Camino there. For a taste of the restaurants in the area circa 1969, you can see this document preserved at the Computer History Museum. Palo Alto was 'Davenport'. I bought a hamster for my kids there. Does anyone know what bakery I'm talking about? I was born and raised in Mtn. There was a motorcycle suspension shop on Leghorn called Simon's it later morphed into Roxshox. 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. Born 1978 @ the El Camino hospital. I remember the funnn cinco day mayo parties there everyone had fun, not all the politicle chaos its become. When we moved to Palo Alto, we would take the bus for 10 cents and go to Mayfield Mall. -Downtown Mountain View was kind of a ghost town. The Shenandoah military housing is adjacent to this site. Shockley lab the real birth of silcon valley is still on San Antonio road as a furniture store. GTE's greatly reduced operation was moved to Santa Clara a few years ago. People were alot happier back then, with less The other was located after you pass the train tracks going towards Moffet on left side near the corner of Moffet and Sterling. This was back in the first days of the home computers. Does anyone remember the name of this place? Contact Us I put a few of those little mosaic tiles in the cougar face, in Mrs Johnson's art class when it was being built . I remember the pre Gemco store named White something, was it White Castle? The old days of a quiet little town with orchards and farms and friendships that lasted a lifetime John Puppo, Don Lawson, Ed Mylrea, Lorena Mylrea, Maggie Mylrea, Charles Moore, Lawrence Anderson, Pete Stahor, Stan Anderson, Marty Spangler, Doris Awalt, Irv Carter, Alan Cranston, Peppy Martinez, Pete Janovich, Jack Randall, Bob Mastin, Helen Shearer, Jean Mockbee, Andy Janovich too many to recall and too many departed Maybe they are all now gathered together at my Grandmother's old Creamary that sat next to the old Mountain View Theater. Kragans Auto? It's driving us all crazy. Does anyone remember the helicopters flying overhead (every Monday evening, if I remember correctly) spraying Malathion? 1999 - Opening of the. ----Imagemakers Hair Salon/Vicky's Hair Salon. Facilities include two wards for males and females, an administrative block, a chapel, staff quarters and a separate dwelling for street people. Opened in 1967, it was known for its kitschy decor, notably a 30-foot-statue of Wonder Woman, and Buffalo Wings and burgers. His GF dies, which leads him to tell us how great he is and then plan his own funeral.. Ahh, the way it was was a Union 76 (I worked there when I was 16) What a story that was. Here is the link to one of the photos. 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 . It was located off Middlefield near Ellis Street. As for the slot car racing place in Mt View, it was called D&S Hobby, in Carlotta Shopping Center, which used to be across from Franciscan Glass, off the west bound loop of the San Antonio Rd overpass. County: San Francisco. Steve, Is someone making you read this stuff? It was good but expensive, but worth it. The owner had a old pick-up. - El Camino Real was just 2 lanes each way in places, some blocks lacking sidewalks, some with diagonal parking Was the Rumpus Room ever "topless"? The mobile home park community; I went to Theuerkauf elementary. Village Host Pizza on Castro. I wonder what businesses we have today are worth fighting for. Greetings.. Walking miles to the nearest 7-11 past St Francis for slurpees. the Library, the City Hall area, Steven's Creek trail Mountain View is My father liked Indian history and so I did too. - The constant drone of P-3 Orion aircraft overhead Can anyone tell me when it changed names and the history? 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. funniest dance place ever! Lets make 2023 great! My friends worked at the movie theater and some also worked at Village Host a pizza place in downtown. the Diamond Ranch Market in 1970 until 1971, as mentioned above, I can almost remember their "3rd Annual Going Out of Business Sale" with 25 cent shots of Jack Daniels and 10 cent draft beers. 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. I never bothered to buy an alarm clock! It might have been called Samurai, but I can't recall. Later years the Poblanita restaurant on Castro for the Milanesa, yummy! More like this Route 66 Oklahoma Route 66 Road Trip Historic Route 66 Travel Route Tulsa Oklahoma Old Neon Signs Vintage Neon Signs Old Signs Metro Diner This is the website of Frank Romeo. View Jailon's full profile. 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. It's amazing, really, how much things have changed over the years, especially the businesses that have come and gone. Many mini motels, and lots to do. Wow, what memories! Thanks for any pet related recollections you may have. It had a 50 foot tall Wonder Woman, a stage coach on the ceiling and peanut shells on the floor. I was born in Lost Altos and lived there until 1971. St. James Infirmary suffered a huge fire in late '97. We had a wonderful wholesale bakery in that neighborhood, where you could buy a big bag of shortbread cookies for a $1. on Castro back before that. I think with the aging of the baby boomer generation, the place has gentrified into a lot of expensive condos. Qui Hing Low and Andy's best chinese food ever! Eating at the "picnic tables at Clarke's" with my mom quite often. I always loved Frankie Johnnie and Luigi too. Which is something we would'nt likely have done in the 70s. They give me the best care one could hope for. Promotions, About Us Moffett Food Center owned by Sam Leong and his family. Ingredients 1 1 2 oz Plantation Barbados 5-Year Rum 1 2 oz Saint James Royal Ambr Rhum Agricole 1 . Bubb Elementary School opened without asphalt pavement. Truly a classic '70s dive. Thanks for the memories people. 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 . We had a wonderful life the short time we lived there and treasure the memories and friends there. Calif. street was still 2 lanes, too. Now its an India restaurant. St. James Infirmary, a strange theme bar that sometimes had so many Navy airmen looked like it was a road show version of Top Gun. "The Rumpus Room" (I shot the 8-ball in on the break on New Year's Eve!). ***. Become a Member HOWEVER, whoever, and I used to know the name because I used to call Now -- this one may be way in my imagination, but I remember as a child that at the corner of Escuela and ECR there used to be a shoestore in the shape of a house (before the Cost Plus moved in there). I didn't care much for the place, but As mentioned above That's where my mom got her meat. Bicycles wagons all sorts of things hanging on the walls. Remember Gregg's Pharmacy and Los Altos Travel at the current Bossom Valley Shopping Center? It was a quiet bedroom community. 4. It was crazy but totally fun!! Sponsored content It was cool. 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. But the biggest thing to miss STIGS bakery and the pink box those treats came home in!!!!!!!!!!!! I now live in Napa Valley and I haven't found anything like that here. The World Famous St. James Infirmary .. Mt. Bay Meadows was fantastic right next door in San Mateo; won 21 to 1 odds on Bridgetwister!!! I remember when there was a break between Sunnyvale-Mountain View. First I rented in a duplex on Sierra Vista: Lockheed was designing and building spy satellites, as well as the submarine based Polaris nuclear missile. In 1971, Linda Ronstadt played The Cellar with Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, and Don Henley who soon formed The Eagles. You could bring your empty bottles and get them filled. Was it part of 237? Imperial Gardens even had a water wheel going in their back yard. Thank you Marlene Koers and everyone above for contributing your memories of the Mountain View of yesteryear. A good pizza place next to the movie theaters. I enjoy reminiscing the things that made Mountain View so great. Blossom Plaza gift store called Galaxy was 2 stories and THE place to buy presents for moms . What was the name of that Ice Cream place on the corner of San Antonio and El Camino..they had ginormous bowls of ice cream (where that guy used to sell flowersremember that?) My Mother, brothers, and I moved to Mtn. (Probably "Looking Back") Phone Number: (415) 554-8494. - Farms on Charleston north of 101, orchards on Whisman & elsewhere Thanks for the link to the 1969 restaurant guide, Richard. Thanks for any reply, O'Malley's Sports Pub (under that name) isn't quite three years old according to Elena Kadavny's blog post on this website, reporting the sale, remodeling, and renaming of what for some years had been Francesca's. Obituaries, Send News Tips And don't forget the Camino Bowl, a great place to go bowling before it got torn down and replaced with businesses/condo units. 4. 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. Find related and similar companies as well as employees by title and much more. Mountain View Hight was located in downtown M.V. Food Fair turned into Harry's It's time has expired. It was a great time but I grew up and moved to other places for my career. Does anyone remember the gas station on evelyn and casto back in the 60's shoreline was two lanes. I also remember the 50s holdout restaurant Linda's, farther down El Camino (at Escuela, evidently). and it is too bad that someone did not foresee all the changes coming and head off mortuary, all you can eat (pre-mega buffet) Chinese buffet near middle field road/San Antonio rd) My kindergarden classroom was the 1st near the entrance, I remember feeling excited and part of an elite school that invested in Apple computers. !the jack in the box at shoreline & montecito was a gas station>>> the deli at baily park was owned by a former wrestler.. who cut turkey sandwhiches w/ an electric carver as you ordered>> where I practiced graffiti.. god bless IN&OUT BURGER. Things have changed but the one thing that seems the same is Edith Landels elementary school, that place seems timeless. 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. VB, I think the diner at Mayfield Mall was called Kelly's. My parents lived on View Street which is 2 blocks from Castro Street. 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. Funny I can't remember the name of that music store. Fabric store in the Purity Market building (Later torn down) Versions of it (the tree got bigger with time) became posters or advertisements, and I encounter copies periodically. It was near the road into Alviso, home of the first Yacht Club in Calif. That remained mainly an electronics trade term for decades, although by the 1990s, general journalism was using it for the geographical area. I'm going to add something a little different the Cold War. I used to ride my bike down El Camino when it was 4 lane, no center divider and no sidewalks. Google, Ebay and others seem to like that area. Nick from the Netherlands, not sure if this is correct neighborhood---There is a restaurant/bar on Old Middlefield near Rengsdorf called O'Mally's. Shagging foul balls at McKelvey for a quarter. There was an old farm house circa 1900's that was at the intersection on 237, near where the Union Pacific railroad crossing used to be, called The Beer Garden. Stewart recorded his "Lonesome Picker Rides Again" album there. The Bowling alley was/is called El Camino bowl ( I hung out there a lot from age 10 to 19) My price and style at the time. On the other hand as a kid we felt safe walking any where in town not now. Then the City What did they used to call 85 before it was a highway and ended There's a blocked off driveway off Moffett and an old parking lot inside the area. the second crash in as many years. Express / Weekend Express Oh, and back when 85 was only 2 lanes where I got my first Tater tots and Parisian Burgers. . Mountain View was obviously a bigger success.) . Get used to it. I believe it is still vacant. El Camino hospital was behind orchards that ran all the way down Cuesta. james that burned down.and Gyro's house of terror at the old mill ..before it became a tent in san jose>> The Greatful Dead would come into town!!!!!!! I was out of the area for a while and when I can back it was a Harry's Hofbrau, but The school was later used as the temporary site for Foothill College until it opened in 1961. Went to Landels Elementary and Graham Junior High. Mt View in the 60-70's was the best We frequented Bourbon Street night club in the Old Mill Mall which had again great food and night life. 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. Stings bakery was my walk to bakery yum yum I actually worked down the road in Los Altos at the Boardwalk, what a shame they closed. We'd also get lunch at Weinerschniztel (at the corner of Castro and California). - Highway 101 was 3 lanes each direction, Hwy 85 was 2 lanes and ended at Stevens Creek Blvd. We went to Mass at St Joseph Church and shopped at Bettancourt Grocery. My mom used to take me there and I remember always ordering the grilled cheese sandwich and jello for dessert. Walking to the pet shop by the laundry where the lpressing shirts would wave at us. OJ Cooper school. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-St-James-Infirmary/330535863804 I wished Id taken more pictures , than what I have. Spiveys was in the shopping center too. There are several stains scattered on the shirt. I had only been here for a day or two. hundreds of cows. I believe Bazaar was in between the other two names. Definitely check out the History Center if you get a chance. Juice Time was next to the cleaner's I remember The Beer Garden having a very old, tall, date palm tree in the parking lot. I'm thinking across from For the longest time on ECR (80's) there was a great little store selling seat covers (I think it was near Castro). All rights reserved. St James Infirmary . I remember in the late '60's entering my cat in the local "pet parade". Across the street from the tire store was a five-and-dime store. . I think the globe on the building came from '39 or '40 worlds fair(s), but don't quote me on that. Served with from San Diego, CA. 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. doing well. They had a student built Totem with Paly, Cubberley, Wilbur and Jordan mascot heads. In the 80's I believe they also had live music and entertainment from Greek/Mediterranean culture. 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? 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. Did lots of educational games of learning on the 2e ! Andy's Chinese was the best place for Chinese on Castro. Miss you. Zone video game place. I thought that place was so cool when I was young! 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? 1998 -Arson fire destroys St. James Infirmary, a popular bar and grill that opened in 1967. I remember the big white-and-red sign very well. - Highway 237 had traffic signals; was called Mountain View-Alviso Road Some of the best people and food ever. Uncle Otto's Cheescake where I went nearly every day for lunch takeout, and they were the best!Mountain Mikes Pizza..I believe it is still there. (now shoreline) my home was where the parking lot for Shoreline AmpleTheater is now. The E.M. club at Moffett Field naval Base was a great place to go. There was The old Mill Mall, had nice shops inside and I remember a little coffee and cake shop that you could sit and read in while eating. Does any one have the shortbread cookie recipe made by Baders' in Mountain View. The "new" MVHS used to host a carnival in its parking lot on Bryant Avenue in the 80's and there was also one that stopped at the Sears parking lot on San Antonio Rd. Florentine Restaurant ( The only Italian place in the middle of all the Chinese Restaurants ) was located where Xanh now is. The Togos have moved around and changed a lot, but Togos used to be really great. Does anyone remember the gas station on the corner of Castro and California Street. Gelato Classico, the best ice cream in the world in my opinion, was over by a bowling The inside was as cool as the outside. Bernardo in Mountain View near Middlefield. Imagine. Hello Father, we would sayHello boys..his response..Keep the memories coming . 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! There used to be a tree diagram inside the lobby that showed the true history of early Silicon Valley--but when I went back to photograph it about 1975 it had been removed when they did some remodeling Several Fairchild Semiconductor engineers left and started other companies that later became big players and the history is on that tree diagram. Is Mountain View better or worse without it? And across the street where Longs Drugs/Starbucks/Blockbuster is was a lumber yard/home improvement type of place, forgot the name. 80's things began to happen, and now I think Mountain View is nicer and In 1967, one of the boys got killed in an accident, and the business went down hill after that. 1089 Mission Street. He also went on to explain that, in the 70's, their were quite a few brothels operating on Castro!How things have changed! I have fond memories of the Mountain View Movie theater and remember Palm Plaza, long since torn down. I lived briefly in Mtn View from September to December 30, 1952. Magical Mountain View [looking back--] A lot has changed since then. We are peer based occupational health and safety clinic for current and former sex workers - we. - Cherry Chase golf course where Cuernavaca is now Bokman Chevy and Tuban Ford + many more) 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. Shoreline used to be called Steirlin Road, and before that part of No grass, just blacktop. I could go on forever on how much this city has changed. We are lucky some parts of the old town remain and we have " a downtown area " unlike Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino. It was worse than going to the Apple Store today though the geniuses The Dublin Inn on Middlefield and Rengstorff Moved to Mountain View, in the Americana apartment complex next to Emporium/Capwell, now PAMF at 85 and ECR. 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