YP - The Real Yellow PagesSM - helps you find the right local businesses to meet your specific needs. total expenses. Michael T is right, there were 7 buildings. Website(s): Main Website. 1. We used to go to a hardware store in what I believe is now The Village. Printer's Inc. You could get your gas pumped by the attendant a the Texico station--- Skychief or SuperChief for you today? The 7-11 at the end of Alvin on Middlefield Rd brought us the Slurpee when it opened in the mid 60's. The Bowling alley was/is called El Camino bowl ( I hung out there a lot from age 10 to 19) The first job I ever had was scooping ice cream in THAT Thrifty's Drugs, when cones were 5, 10, & 15 cents. really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. Who knew those daily landings for about an hour would go away along with the base. Magical Mountain View [looking back--] 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. We ate at Ken's House of Pancake's (apple pancakes! Bubble gum was the best flavor. General Electric and the "big" Orange Pumpkin It's located on Castro St. across the street from Red Rock Cafe. My Mother, brothers, and I moved to Mtn. $908,224. where Heritage Bank is on El Camino or his father? The Tower Records in Mountain View is the only one I have been to that had an actual bookstore. They had these numbered grey totes that the checker put the groceries and purchases in, and placed it on a conveyor belt which sent it to the front of sidewalk., where you would present your claim ticket and another clerk would load it in your car. And I too remember the table game with the volley ball at St. Francis with very fond memories, thank you for bringing that memory back to me. Feinschmuckers Deli, remember Best products store. I guess you could call me a true Mtn. Mountain View near Castro was a wonderful place to live. It began to boom in the 90s and is now a destination. Target used to be a store called Gemco. Lockheed was designing and building spy satellites, as well as the submarine based Polaris nuclear missile. Fun times in the '70's. I was born and raised in Mountain View and, except for about 6 years out-of-state for college, I've spent my whole life here. omg Togo's turkey and Avocado. Its been a long time since ive been though there. We always looked forward to the annual Pet Parade that would start in front of the downtown pickle factory and march down Castro to MV High. PR MediaRelease Every Sunday night we would go to the store after dinner and my father would work on the books. My first job was at Menu Tree and after that I worked at Gemco. The list goes on and on. I worked nights when I was in high school (Awalt on Bryant)at the DerWienerschnitzel in 1972 and '73, does anyone remember getting one of my special versions of the polish sandwhich where I deep fried the polish sausage? Shaw's Ice Cream. Alot of great memories, thank for the thread. alley on El Camino before it moved to Castro. ***. 85 then what did they call it? At the time was a 4 year student at the relocated MVHS class of '85. Main Phone Number (415) 554-8444. I remember visiting it during a shadowing exercise as a student at Crittenden. The Jewell Tea Co. brought groceries right to your door without the Internet. Payless/Albertsons was on Grant road and had great garlic bread. Bokman Chevy and Tuban Ford Boy, talk about kids in a candy store. . I am kind of amazed at how many people get that wrong. Me and my friends rode our bikes all over Mtn. -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. PT, I don't think it was a library. If you grew up in that neighborhood, you would remember the smell of those cookies! I remember: And San Antoinio Mall where Menu Tree was located. Had a small house with no heat except the fireplace and, most likely, the last outhouse in Mt. Let me just add to notable places, Susie's Diner and El Zarape on El Camino. I worked just a short distance away on Middlefield towards San Antonio and Palo Alto. Liberty House department store at the old San Antonio Shopping Center. My brother and I called it "the popcorn room". It was a German resteraunt and pub. Blossom Valley True Value Hardware My friends worked at the movie theater and some also worked at Village Host a pizza place in downtown. Songroth Brothers (gravel & cement) next to the railroad tracks near Alma & San Antonio? I went to Huff elementry, Graham Jr. High and Awalt High School. Blossom Valley also had a great pizza place called Old Cal where we would go as kids on minimum days from Blach. Remember the P-3s that used to fly over on their quests to track Soviet Jerry Reed(1937-2008) was a country music singer, songwriter, and actor, who specialized in a variety of novelty numbers. I always thought the food there was better than Taco Bell. When I lived on Park Dr I used to walk over on Saturday mornings. Maybe thanks to the float, the Los Altos football team flushed the Santa Clara High Panthers (the float's tasteful theme) enroute to a Santa Clara County championship. Mountain View was obviously a bigger success.) The movie theater may have stuck around a little longer than the mall. My friend lived very close. The owner had a old pick-up. . That place could get really crazy. Speaking of pizza, have you followed the curious path of Pontillo's Pizza that was on Rengstorff near El Camino? Ate at the Chez Yvonne many times at 1854 W. El Camino. Albertsons and Payless were connected in the middle, @ El Camino and Grant. Imperial Gardens was doing big business on Rengstorff and El Camino and also Peng's further up on El Camino, both specializing in dim sum. I moved to San Jose, CA in June of 1984. Arby's had the best fries then. I seem to be the only one in my family that remembers it and I can't find a picture or any other information. Gelato Classico, the best ice cream in the world in my opinion, was over by a bowling This my wife's quest and wants to know where he went. Castro Street in the 70s was a ghost town. I heard that Tai Ming Lo was a really good restaurant. In 1971, Linda Ronstadt played The Cellar with Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, and Don Henley who soon formed The Eagles. It's great and I am grateful to the Voice for continuing it. This was such a great place in the mid to late 70's - the Baylands Park, the old white house near Shoreline. So, though I now live about 50 miles away, downtown MV has become a kind of Mecca for me. 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. 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?) Ctr) and St. James Infirmary (Moffett Blvd) with my friends back in the late 70's to mid 80's era. My Grandma used to take me to Mervyn's downtown when it was still a diner, and not a bar. Computer, and I have such fond memories of that machine. When Shoreline was still Bailey Ave. and it was just a 2 lane road. And across the street where Longs Drugs/Starbucks/Blockbuster is was a lumber yard/home improvement type of place, forgot the name. Everyone remembers the Old Mill, but do you remember the fantastic candy store there? The Dublin Inn on Middlefield and Rengstorff I helped the owner fix his truck once. Lots of good memories there JCPenneys was on Castro Street Star & Bar gas station? It was hard to find parking. Going into the back of the store was always a scandalous adventure as a child I delivered San Francisco Chronicle and Mountain View News Herald papers along Thompson Ave and Alvin St as well over in Del Medio area. My apartment($125/month) at 515 Central looked out over onion fields in 1966. Having just gone to Watsonville for the first time a few months ago, I was Always busy and great New York Style pizza never had any since!! If my recollection is correct, it used to be an Exxon station. The Boardwalk is a good burger and beer place on the El Camino with a friendly vibe. TheSixFifty.com Armed soldiers with police dogs constantly walked the grounds. St James Infirmary 445 California Avenue Reno, NV 89501 775-657-8484 (Click here to view map) Neighborhood. Cuesta Park has an artificial lake. Nice to remember everything tho. You forgot Herman's Sporting Goods. Mr Knight was a wonderful employer and friend. Moffett Food Center owned by Sam Leong and his family. Speaking of burgers, Hobees when it started in the 70s (?) I remember that Yorkshire was written on the side of the Palm Variety shopping center. I believe they also had live music and entertainment from Greek/Mediterranean culture. Anyone remember the Community School of Music on California street. Redwood City Pulse, 2023 Mountain View Online Knights drugstore was an Asian restaurant. I remember the wonderful Chinese bakery on Castro that had the best black bean buns..I still haven't found any to rival them. The Moffett Drive In was our cheap entertainment. In the shopping center at El Camino and Escuela was Macheesmo Mouse, the clone of the I grew up there, and spent a great deal of time in Mountain View. Mayfield Mall where HP had offices and now is empty. Does anybody remember the Sunnyview Family Club, down on Esceula? I never bothered to buy an alarm clock! the best Chicken place in the area, Pollo Loco! Lots of other kids participated did that continue into the '70's? now. every year.GO EAGLES. My friends and I would literally rollerskate down the middle of Castro St., on Saturday's with no problem. This is very important to me I am trying to locate my father who I have never met and I think he may have worked at one of these places. I arrived in the area in 1974, joining a little company called Intel. I could go on forever on how much this city has changed. 20 planes about 2 minutes apart, talk about noise pollution. The train to Santa Cruz rail bed is a jogging trail now. Any others going further back? Brentwood Market When Central Expressway was built. You could bring your empty bottles and get them filled. Trying to locate a Amazon parrot that was left at a store in that time frame. There was a motorcycle suspension shop on Leghorn called Simon's it later morphed into Roxshox. I swam for the Mountain View Dolphin's swim team, at Mountain View High School which was on Castro Street in the 1960's. some highlights, like the Co-op Supermarket which became the old Rite Aid Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 I remember the Wherehouse Records store at El Camino between Clark and El Monte, although I bought most of my LPs at Tower Records on San Antonio in the 70's and 80's. Anyone remember the drive in theaters? And seeing their adds at the drive-in during intermission? + many more) TG&Y, the Red Barn (country Gourmet now). The book also said that the owners of Fargo's wanted to build a hotel on the site, but that project obviously didn't go through. They had a neat stairway with upper level seating. Imagine. Can't remember for sure, but I think they had sound to outside. miss those days. from 1973 to 1978. the best in Palo Alto. In 1967, one of the boys got killed in an accident, and the business went down hill after that. All the neighbors would then come out and talk. Miramonte School. Anyone remember the Hell Angels' moving into the house on 237 and then filming in parts of Mountain View and Sunnyvale? Thanks again:). Ken's House of Pancakes on El Camino Real (great for breakfast) I remember in the 70s, the Monte Vista drive-in. The Infirmary was destroyed by an arson fire in 1998. . Does anyone remember the gas station on evelyn and casto back in the 60's shoreline was two lanes. Old Mountain View High was diagonally across the street from St. Joseph's church, one of my sisters was one of the last graduates from that high school before it got tore down (what a shame). She was married to Cpt. doing well. I can still taste it sometimes when I smell a truly good pizza. Car dealership n Castro and el CAMINO. I thought this place was absolutely perfect and much better than Redding, where I had just come from! As a kid in the 70s, we would go there in the afternoon with our parents and get a match box car from there extensive collection. Stings bakery was my walk to bakery yum yum Central Expressway stopped at Castro. Obituaries, Send News Tips That location is now a Hampton Inn. Mt View in the 60-70's was the best MV was on the USSR's list of early nuclear targets, for good reason. The shopping center on castro was called Palm Plaza and the thrift shop was Palm Variety. The place was on the eastern end of the complex. HOWEVER, whoever, and I used to know the name because I used to call I remember when Edelweiss Dairy was on 237 and it was all farmland to Milpitas. You could still find "cowboys" in the Rengstorff-Rock St-Middlefield area 20 years ago but they are long gone. VB, I think the diner at Mayfield Mall was called Kelly's. I live now in Kiseemmee Florida,but I travel to Mountain View on Friday nights after football games. Anyone remember Clints ice cream? Downtown / Midtown Cross Street. San Antonio Center, Tower Records for a time, more and cheaper housing, I live in Mountain View from 1958-1976 it was and still is one of Casa Maria also and there was a nice steak and ale type restaurant on the corner of El Camino and Castro St., but I cannot remember the name of it.It did have great steaks and baked potatoes with all the salad you could eat, and wine carafes. I have we have one of the best downtowns in the area with such a great selection of places to eat and hang out. The movie theater was pretty small.I recall we usually chose the Varsity Theater up in Palo Alto over the small MV theater. Who was that guy who wore a dress and sat in the bleachers? Next door was an ice cream store, I think it was called Dons. The old Highway school on the corner of El Camino and Calderon. Dial-a-bus this was back in the early 70's. Thanks for the memories people. 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. Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. That mall was a flop from Day One and has since been sort-of-converted back into something else. One person would drive a car in, and 4 or more would sneak in through the hole in the fence behind the bush on the entrance road. There was a big cattle ranch out there too. -Shoreline Park was a landfill. There was always lots to do in the neighborhood- during summer, the owner of the little east side grocery store would have a monthly quick-draw competition in the side parking lot. from 1973 to 1978. I worked at Rhodes which became Liberty House, which became random stores which is now a new mega mixed used complex. 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 . I have lived in Mountain View since 1977 and this is what I remember: Being able to walk the store aisles when the store was closed and no one else was there :). One of the things I really liked about the area was that there were small artisan shops, whether they were small restaurants with health food items on the menu, sprouts and tofu, or if they were jewelry and clothing shops, privately owned. The school was later used as the temporary site for Foothill College until it opened in 1961. We were the group the released the Peacocks and Peahens into the community when our properties were sold and converted to Industrial! St. James Infirmary - A peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers and their families Happy New Year Everyone! News I cannot believe I am reading this article still. Man what a time You could actually walk across town or to school and not worry about anything but being late. 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. Awalt High School for swimming lessons on Bryant and Truman 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 miss those days. We lived across the street from the Whisman Fire dept. 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. I remember Sakura Gardens at 2116 W. El Camino and it did have some beautiful Japanese gardens inside. A search for "Dublin Inn" gave just a pointer to a late-2015 comment earlier on this same recollections page, signed by one Bill242 (same Bill who just asked? 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. Gunn Highschool across Charleston used to be a field full of cattle. You could get excellent fresh artichokes at a reasonable price back then. Hubbard and Johnson was on the corner of El Monte and El Camino, where Longs and Starbucks are today. Fabric store in the Purity Market building (Later torn down) Further up El Camino was the "other" part of shopping in Mountain View, the San Antonio Shopping Center. WTH happened?!?! Bay Meadows was fantastic right next door in San Mateo; won 21 to 1 odds on Bridgetwister!!! I still can't believe it's gone! For the longest time on ECR (80's) there was a great little store selling seat covers (I think it was near Castro). When did the Old Mill close down and whateve happened to the best pizza place that I knew of Fargo's? This was a hippie/environmentalist type of grocery store. 4. This is an old town paper not the SF ChronicleThe Home Page has plenty of updates and current news for your viewing pleasure now kindly stay out of the Town Square if you have nothing nice to say Express / Weekend Express hundreds of cows. His GF dies, which leads him to tell us how great he is and then plan his own funeral.. Never dreamed of planes before or since, despite having been a sky diver and knowing well of the Blue Angels. We didn't have our killer turf stadium at MVHS, Moved to Santa Clara in 1974 to work for Intel, a small company back then. I lived in Mtn. On the other hand as a kid we felt safe walking any where in town not now. 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. About where the Hausner Day school is now on San Antonio between Middlefield and Alma, there was an Indian mound (Ohlone--pre Spanish era) camping/living area. chicken. I was a kid here in the 1960's, My family moved here in 59. Halloween was a must every year. Mtn View Dolphins swim team, coaches Sehlmeyer, Perry, and Bosmans. I remember the Gemco store being where Target is today and you had to show a membership ID card to even go in the door. There was a movie theater on Castro, but it only seemed to show Chinese or Mexican films and nobody went there. When they closed, it became Jenny Craig, and then Prudential Real Estate office. 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. Malachi's was a little "head shop" that sold beads, incense and other weird stuff in a little stucco building on the east side of El Camino when you sat at the El Monte and El Camino stop light. As a kid I lived mostly in extreme south Palo Alto, but I was oriented more toward Mountain View than anything to the north: Mayfield Mall with its music store and Consumers Distributing catalog store; the San Antonio Center with the Menu Tree, the Time Zone arcade, and the Sears with the candy counter. It was also interesting to see that 1984 W. El Camino was once a Holiday Inn. Joselyn's Bike Shop The lot at Moffett and Middlefield held the temporary library while the one downtown was being rebuilt. Bayshore highway was a 4 lane undivided road. It's hard to find entertainment like that anymore. But the best night was seeing the original Limelighters (Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, Glenn Yarbrough). There are a lot of restaurants that I remember. I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too! But then maybe younger people know where all the new nightspots are. Went to Crittenden in the late 60's . I remember that well. Vintage Sport T Jersey St. James Infirmary Bar Resturant Mountain View Ca. What a great time! There was so much land there before, and it devastates me to only have fragments of memory.. Wow, it great to read about MV in the 60's and 70's..I was born and raise in MV. Mountain View had that," Small Town USA " feel . - The constant drone of P-3 Orion aircraft overhead Gemco was called Bazaar. The Togos have moved around and changed a lot, but Togos used to be really great. Ken's House of Pancakes was the best (and maybe the only) middle of the night meal in town. Lots of fruit trees on ElCamino. It's such a great town still, very expensive but it holds my childhood memories, love MV!! It's odd to wonder how everyone got along without a phone in their pockets, and there 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. Central Expressway was two lanes a dirt road with no lights. arrive, but school was being led out at the same time, i remember seating to face the damage. It was good but expensive, but worth it. 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. This was in the mid-late 90s? St James Infirmary Moffett Blvd and Mariner Dr Mountain View Alas. When the infamous 'dog house' was built. Knights pharmacy was my grandmas go to pharmacy. View high building is gome butGo eagles !s31ZJ. 2 talking about this. Handyman was over by the Oasis Laundry and had tons of hardware stuff. Constantly hearing the U.S. NAVYS planes overhead. View High (graduated in '68, brother in '59 and mother in '37) orchards everywhere Rengstorf Rec Center Friday dances Dana Street School Slater School Linda's Drive In.. La Cabana Mexican food at the end of Castro near Andy's and Florintine restaurants gadz, someone said they swam for the Dolphins in the 60's, so did I do remember Shaw's Ice Cream.. Suzie's Diner Hap's Market on Caldron and Church (Sav-Mor) the Rumpus Room and Matts on ECR, good ol' dive bars of course St. James Infirmary with Wonder Woman and the bi-plane and peanuts on the floor Mtn. I lived in a complex of yellow apartment builings on Montecito Ave. That street seems relatively unchanged. Spectra Physics Lasers started up 1961 in Mt. The recreation department was second to none. Minton Lumber (gone now) Great town to start a career in Semiconductors. A block down from Printer's Inc. Mountain View Surplus sold all the clothes I needed at the time old surplus blue jeans View. Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. then. We had 2 A&W Burger places in Mountain View. Also, there was Mings where the kids never ate because it was too fancy for kids. Does anyone know what bakery I'm talking about? I did in 1978 and broke my arm on the monkey bars. [emailprotected]. 85 was Central Expressway There was a Penneys store (now Meyer's), Sim's Shoes, Veglia's Store, Arminini Drugstore and two popular Chinese restaurants: Andy's and Qui Hung Low (?). I forgot Roger and Chez Yvonne restaurant on ECR at El Monte.. nd the 88 cent store instead of 967 or 96whatever it was YOrkshire and there were still party lines To answer Lee's question from Aug 13th, according to the book "Milestones - a History of Mountain View" the Old Mill's water wheel was removed in 1988 and then the mall was demolished by the mid 90's to make way for the Crossings development. Does anyone remember the gas station on the corner of Castro and California Street. They give me the best care one could hope for. I remember the pre Gemco store named White something, was it White Castle? 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