$908,224. I was born and raised in Mtn. I remember seeing the Exorcist with my girlfriend at the time in the View in the 70's best pizza ever !!!!!!!!!! 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. My folks moved to Mountain View from San Bruno in 1962 when I was 4. View renter in Mountain View from '73 through '85 then returned to Florida. Does anyone remember the little italian restaurant right across the street from Graham. !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. I think the Angels had several social functions there. Foothill College, the new campus in Los Altos Hills was talked about thruout California, for its inovative architectural style; this topic was an English class required paper for the first couple of years. Heard the wind tunnel at Ames at night. alley on El Camino before it moved to Castro. The first 2 years of St. Joseph's School were held in the old classrooms of at what is now St. Francis High School. It took a long time, but we did walk home. The grocery store at the Palm Plaza was for years called Bee Foods. no one mentioned Continental MKT. I also remember P-3's flying over my house hourly from Moffett Field and the Blue Angels Air Show annually with Fireworks on July 4th Louie comicbooks and texan horns at the elzarape. Went to Landels Elementary and Graham Junior High. It was worse than going to the Apple Store today though the geniuses Left in 68 to join the USMC. YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. Shoreline used to be called Steirlin Road, and before that part of It just doesn't seem as fun anymore I sure miss that restaurant. A movie theater, not much else. Does anyone remember the old building along the Mountain View-Alviso Road (237) that was on the corner of either Maude or Middlefield? TownSquare JCPenneys was on Castro Street I remember when they opened up Fro Yo at that shopping center, when Safeway was Brentwood market and opened into a liquor store, there was a deli next store called Feinshmeckers? Tater tots and Parisian Burgers. I helped the owner fix his truck once. 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. The car dealership on El Camino with the globe on the pole was Mancini Motors. Taco la Paz on El Camino Real, a Taco Bell knock-off, where I also worked for a couple years. When MVHS was still on Castro St. Could hear the Friday nite football games from where I lived. I loved their apple and blueberry pankcakes. 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. View theater, through a kind of walkway/tunnel to the parking lots behind. My apartment($125/month) at 515 Central looked out over onion fields in 1966. A big Tower Records across the street, a "Best" (not the same place as Best Buy) where I bought a ton of stuff, a hobby shop, and so on. 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. Don't forget Bob's Big Boy and Linda's on El Camino. When Shoreline was still Bailey Ave. and it was just a 2 lane road. 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!!!!!!! Thank-you for the memories. My friends worked at the movie theater and some also worked at Village Host a pizza place in downtown. Always busy and great New York Style pizza never had any since!! Great town to start a career in Semiconductors. Facilities include two wards for males and females, an administrative block, a chapel, staff quarters and a separate dwelling for street people. At halloween time, they had the best selection of wax whistles, plastic lips, and dracula teeth. Arby's on San Antonio, where I worked for a while, and was taught that a fry should break, never bend. My parents lived on View Street which is 2 blocks from Castro Street. Stewart recorded his "Lonesome Picker Rides Again" album there. I grew up next to Therekauf/Stevenson school. their facilities. I stopped there a few years ago and was told it has always been O'Malley's. Gemco was called Bazaar. 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. Does anyone remember the gas station on evelyn and casto back in the 60's shoreline was two lanes. Mountain View was starting to have some interesting stores, so sometimes I'd stop there. the best in Palo Alto. Contact Us Washboard Leo does St. James Infirmary as a novelty number, inventing a different story line in which St. James Infirmary is not even mentioned, and the emphasis is on his own funeral. It's hard to find entertainment like that anymore. Thank goodness, Foster's Freeze and Clarke's Charcoal Broiler are still there. . There was a drive in theatre on Grant Road across the street from Erik's Deli. The movie theater was pretty small.I recall we usually chose the Varsity Theater up in Palo Alto over the small MV theater. 85 was Central Expressway I think everyone also remembers the Menu Tree there as well, so that has to be mentioned. In the shopping center at El Camino and Escuela was Macheesmo Mouse, the clone of the Waitresses in shorts; orders placed in car windows, fantastic. I know Mtn. Anyone remember the Community School of Music on California street. My dad was laid off in '90 my step mom is still with the company under new name General Dynamics. 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. Noone mentioned Lenny's Pies on Castro and the Dairy Queen on El Camino Real! Sometimes the lines were around the block. Their ad every Tuesday on the back page of the PA Times. Gelato Classico, the best ice cream in the world in my opinion, was over by a bowling TG&Y, the Red Barn (country Gourmet now). View.. The betting game with the ball at the St. Francis Western Roundup was The Pan Game and it is still played every year at the St. Joseph International Festival on Miramonte. It's not still there, is it? The Huntingdon Apts $125 a month rent now It was unmanned but still wired in. Walking to the pet shop by the laundry where the lpressing shirts would wave at us. 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. I remember the New Library that has since been replaced with a newer library. Carrs pet store at the beginning of Castro Street was where me and my dad would always go to buy chicken feed for our chickens. miss those days. . I also forgot to mention Castro City Market on Rengstorff west of Central Expressway right by the Amtrak commuter train stop at the same location. 85 then what did they call it? Wow, so much has changed. VB, I think the diner at Mayfield Mall was called Kelly's. Castro Street in the 70s was a ghost town. That was 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. Mountain View was a very different place back then! A plant nearby that sprang from nothing each year and was spectacular. This was before 237 was an expressway. (These two are still there, but the Byte Shop bit the dust by the late 70s.it was first opened around 1976, and I visited it often.) Just east of Cooper school on Eunice was a big dip in the road where it was county property, as was all the neighborhoods with no sidewalks. Theatre is now standing. The Wunderman house is there still. from 1973 to 1978. I'm trying to remember where the beauty college was located at, fond memories of downtown. I was part of the last graduating class of old Mtn. funniest dance place ever! That night I learned people yelled "Where's The Beef!" That location is now a Hampton Inn. View High in 87. This was a hippie/environmentalist type of grocery store. Being able to walk the store aisles when the store was closed and no one else was there :). Old Mill had a AMC theater in the back with cheap movies, then it turned into a big empty farmers market, then finally razed. He quit in 1971 and we moved to Southern California. These all mostly faded-out by the late 1990s. Contact Jailon directly. And Mountain View Surplus where I used to get my blue jeans and blue Let me just add to notable places, Susie's Diner and El Zarape on El Camino. 503 were here. Lots of small apartments everywhere and all very kept up. It answers the "even earlier." People came from miles to have New York style pizza/dinners. There was a movie theater on Castro, but it only seemed to show Chinese or Mexican films and nobody went there. Please keep the memories alive. And great memories. Oh, how I long for the old days!!! It was the first place I'd ever found Jelly-Bellies. That remained mainly an electronics trade term for decades, although by the 1990s, general journalism was using it for the geographical area. The hobby shop was really packed on weekends from 1966-1968. You needed to become a member and show your card when you entered the store. I used to love to go in there and watch the monkeys and dream about having one of my own. We could see Monte Vista drive in from our roof . Navy jets flew overhead constantly, then it was the Orion P-3 submarine chasers. submarines. Mtn view has come a loooog ways but I loved it better when it was smaller and slower. Andy's Chinese Restaurant. Things have changed but the one thing that seems the same is Edith Landels elementary school, that place seems timeless. Thanks to all your memories of place & business names I had forgotten. Lockheed was designing and building spy satellites, as well as the submarine based Polaris nuclear missile. Mountain View near Castro was a wonderful place to live. First things first. This is a used 40 year old t-shirt, it isn't in mint condition. Woody's was a real old-school place, with all the breakfast dishes or sandwiches available for ordering written on tiny chalkboards behind the counter. The water tower at Questa and Grant Road was routinely vandalized with painting by person(s) unknown (before tagging was a term). A family run business- all their first names started with "D" Dean, Don, Dale, Dennis, etc their last name was Steinke. On Saturdays I'd drive up El Camino. The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. I have lived in Mountain View since 1977 and this is what I remember: Anyone remember Clints ice cream? Lived the rest of the time near Castro Street: Palo Alto Online 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 - Highway 101 was 3 lanes each direction, Hwy 85 was 2 lanes and ended at Stevens Creek Blvd. The high school games at Foothill and how exciting it was and still is being in Mountain View. Driving to Stanford via ElCamino Real one could smell skunks from the open fields. O'Malley? Dana Elementary School, at Dana and Bailey; closed and demolished. really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. I joined the Navy in Mt View in 1961, went on an old Destroyer, was in Vietnam in 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Incident, got out in 1965 and went to work for a small electronics company as a Field Service Engineer. where Rengstoff and El Camino split off with El Monte .. that was a dirt I can remember the name. View, either the Old Highway School or the newly completed (back then) Mountain View High. Obituaries, Send News Tips Not many people were aware of this, or cared, for that matter--those bead makers were the very first Palo Alto hi-tech design engineers. He was in port until early February and they sailed to Japan and Korean War. I don't know when or why they would use it, maybe as a backup? Her father, Frank and his wife Sara brought into the world, her brother, Charles (1913), and sisters, Doris (Laurie/1912), Elva (Kankel/1917) and Barbara (Welch/1920) all preceeded her in death and all graduated from Mtn. My sister worked at Handy Man and also payless donuts. Liberty House department store at the old San Antonio Shopping Center. in downtown Castro, where the landmarks have shifted dramatically!). .25 cents for mixed drinks. Was the Chinese restaurant Qui Hing Low? 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. Jocelyn's Bike shop started in Midtown Palo Alto didn't it? Apt. OJ Cooper school. 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?) You could bring your empty bottles and get them filled. Just a few things I didn't see mentioned. First gourmet burgers for me the Hawaiian with pineapple.. and the friendliest of owners. What did they used to call 85 before it was a highway and ended I'd love to hear from anyone who may remember me. And to this very day, Prince's music reminds me of how happy I was to have discovered Mountain View! Someone said that Linda's sold horse meat burgers. Arby's at San Antonio and California Karen, See who you know in common. The Old Mill had that Upstart Crow Bookstore and (I think) the "Jumping Frog," a dance place where I saw a full sized 1940s style dance band one night. If anyone knows this information, please post the answer and thanks in advance for your help. And the Old Mill was really nice, and seems like it was a terrrible place to If it bent, we threw them out. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. Don't forget Fairchild. Even our long time neighbors can't recall the name. Here is some details about the Mountain View I grew up in. every year.GO EAGLES. Director of Finance And Accounting at ST. JAMES INFIRMARY View profile View profile badges What about driving through The Milk Pail at the corner of San Antonio and California to get your daily dairy? Aikido lessons in a hot second floor dojo above Castro Street. a fruit/vegetable stand. Albertson's bakery had the best brownies i've ever tasted. 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. When Central Expressway was built. More details in a comment posted to this local 2012 article: Web Link. You could buy fresh ravioli at the old State Street Deli on Castro and State. View since 1992I live on the East Coast now. It was sad to see it go. The Togos have moved around and changed a lot, but Togos used to be really great. Mt View in the 60-70's was the best These were new, and under the daily Navy P-3 airplane landing routes (4 propellers). The Shenandoah military housing is adjacent to this site. You call and requested a bus to pick you up for only 10 cents. The front facade are new buildings but the roof and rear are the remains of old Victorian houses. I just wonder if anyone from the 70's can remember the name of the bakery that was located on San Rafael Avenue off of Terra Bella in Mountain View. Blossom Valley Shopping Center was an orchard; as was most of the surrounding land. 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 (?). Wherehouse Records, Chuck's Cellar on El Camino was mentioned and John Stewart of Kingston Trio fame. Oh, if anyone can remember a few other night spots in Mountain View, one by the Old Mill Mall and another I believe was Froggers or a name similar. I remember Sakura Gardens at 2116 W. El Camino and it did have some beautiful Japanese gardens inside. The Monte Carlo Restaurant was the Movie theater for the town Gunn Highschool across Charleston used to be a field full of cattle. We used to have regular apricot fights in the orchards that are now Cuesta Park. United States Phone Number: (415) 554-8494 (Main Phone Number) (415) 554-8444 (Domestic Fax) Website: Main Website Facebook E-mail: admin@stjamesinfirmary.org (Main Email) Hours: Not available . I did like the St. John's Infirmary, on the Moffatt Field side of the railroad tracks. Web Link. St. James Infirmary suffered a huge fire in late '97. Going to Linda's for Parisian burgers and tator tots,double features at Mtn View theatre on Saturdays. I really appreciate this information! My cousins were Sharon & Jerry Stark, and Harvey, Ed, & Jay Miller. News It used to be called the Dublin Inn as I recall from 50's, 60's and later. Alot of great memories, thank for the thread. I lived in Mtn. One thing for certain, everything changes. And this sort of group meets weekly at the Red Rock Cafe to talk about math and programming and physics. I also have very fond memories of the Variety Store at Blossom Valley Shopping Center where we all got candy for a nickel, the Galaxy Gift Store where we got every Christmas Present for my mother for about a decade, I think, and Tots-to-Teens where my mom took me for school clothes (and I had to get size "6x" which meant I was not skinny enough :/). Is the staff stagnant, lazy and amateur. 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. Where I would play baseball in the parks and rec league for poor kids in the summer. El Camino was the best I've ever tasted, and is sadly long gone now. 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. And who remembers Rod Martin karate studios on El Camino near the San Antonio shopping center? Location. 730 Polk St San Francisco CA 94109 (415) 554-8494. Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. We used to go to the Mexican Restaurant there that was in the middle of the mall (La Posada???) I remember the big white-and-red sign very well. 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 . 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. wow such great memories. Miramonte School. hand towels of a working hand air dryer for almost year despite my Mountain View was and still is a great city. I'd appreciate some help. Located in the South of Market district of San Francisco, the mission of the St. James Infirmary is to provide compassionate and non-judgmental health care and social services for all sex workers while preventing occupational illnesses and injuries through a comprehensive continuum of services. Bowling Alley View high. Mailing Address PO Box 426788 San Francisco, CA 94142 Thanks for an interesting trip down memory lane. Getting a traffic citation for making a u-turn in front of the Post Office (considered in the business district although 1 block east of Castro and seemingly behind the actual business on the street. Kragans Auto? I think the biggest change is East Mt. Crusin with Dave G and the Cuz Glenn. Rhodes had midnight madness sales. WTH happened?!?! The Golden Wok was good too, but suddenly closed and never reopened. View from '56 to '79 with a detour through the USMC abd SE.Asia. Coming home from Foothill College. 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