Imperial Gardens even had a water wheel going in their back yard. I havent been there but hope to before "old age" sets in :>) My thanks to all other contributors--so many places and things I had forgotten! Amazons live to be 50~60 years so he may still be alive. - Cherry Chase golf course where Cuernavaca is now It was a nice time and if I could, I would go back; maybe in the near future! Great place to grow up. got that right and Commodore is not more. Like to give a shout out to all the families that participated in making Mtn View such a fun place to grow up. Frankie & Johnnie Luigi's on El Camino RealI lived in the "flat" above the resturant. - Zen Houseplants at Middlefield and MV-Alviso Rd Arby's on San Antonio, where I worked for a while, and was taught that a fry should break, never bend. Had a fun summer vacation visiting my dad and his partner, they owned omg Togo's turkey and Avocado. Remember the P-3s that used to fly over on their quests to track Soviet ( In door food court ) So by posting to this thread, you inadvertantly ensured that it will continue to grace the front page. The site of Nob Hill on Grant Road was a Hubbard & Johnson hardware store before it's more recent incarnations. My husband was stationed at Moffett Field and worked in Hangar One daily. View since 1992I live on the East Coast now. Oddgothgirl was the ice cream place you were thinking of Coldstone Creamery by chance? (After returning from two rainy years near Portland, a few times. St James Infirmary . The Handyman store on Grant road VB, I think the diner at Mayfield Mall was called Kelly's. View not Mt. Mt View east of Bayshore (101)had no paved roads--dust in summer, mud in winter. The "shoreline house" was actually the home of Henry Rengstorff. ----Jocelyn's Bike Shop. Now it is a Karate Studio. My wife was on-call as a dietitian at the nursing home there in the early 80s. And the Navy was the major employer of the city, at least when I was in elementary school. Joselyn's Bike Shop I used to love to go in there and watch the monkeys and dream about having one of my own. The old Nob Hill was Fry's Grocery Store. 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. their facilities. Just loved reading all these posts and bringing back all the memories. Printer's Inc. Also, I remember the Copper Penny a big A-frame restaurant near I lived there from the '50s thru to 1984. The name of the store was called Palm Yorkshire Clothes in the Palm Plaza shopping Center. Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. There was a Pet Store I worked at for one weekend helping put hay in the attic area on Evelyn and feeding the mice for sale. the best Chicken place in the area, Pollo Loco! I have another memory I haven't seen mentioned yet: a restaurant called Woody's that was on Middlefield (or Old Middlefield?) Drive-in Movie Theater where Walgreen's is. Definitely check out the History Center if you get a chance. But the best night was seeing the original Limelighters (Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, Glenn Yarbrough). I remember the fun Easter egg hunt; company picnics; dept. Who remembers Frankie, Johnnie and luigo too, before major expansion, on Friday and Saturday nights the line to get was so long. The concession stand at McElvey Park was run for ever by an old guy named Levy, who loved baseball. every year.GO EAGLES. There was a Pier One in the underground area and the Mall had a good record store. The owner had a old pick-up. La Petit Boulangerie, Florentines Pasta Shop, TOGO's!!!!! It was comfortable. Palm variety was a store with tons of household knick knacks. Gemco was called Bazaar. Wherehouse Records, Chuck's Cellar on El Camino was mentioned and John Stewart of Kingston Trio fame. As mentioned above Knights drugstore was an Asian restaurant. I lived in a complex of yellow apartment builings on Montecito Ave. That street seems relatively unchanged. Does any one have the shortbread cookie recipe made by Baders' in Mountain View. I stopped there a few years ago and was told it has always been O'Malley's. When I first moved to Mountain View in 1983 I went to the movies at the "Old Mill" shopping center. There was also Fargo's Pizza at the Old Mill. It is now The Village at San Antonio Center (Web Link. On one side, there was a collection of large satellite dishes. 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. Noone mentioned Lenny's Pies on Castro and the Dairy Queen on El Camino Real! on Apr 13, 2008, There's a good DVD at the public library on the history of Mountain View. The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. I liked Mountain View Hight was located in downtown M.V. Fosters Freeze and Linda's were a treat. At one time, a band that later turned out to be Santana could be heard practicing in Malachi's basement while you waited for the light to turn green. The San Antonio Shopping Center had that church single's group that met every Sunday morning in the upper floor of the Menu Tree. As a former resident of Old Mountain View in the 70's and 80's one of my fondest memories is of St. James Infirmary on Moffett. How well I remember the Town Club! The Boardwalk is a good burger and beer place on the El Camino with a friendly vibe. I think it is like over $3000 for a studio. During the summer many of us were required to work in the fruit harvest. So we at Los Altos High salvaged it to build a giant KNIGHT which road the winning float at the following week's Los Altos High homecoming. Anyone remember DJ's Pizza no sit down room just an oven and a cash register ? Near San Antonio & Middlefield the pay-to-play indoor racquet ball courts for just a few years, and next to it, I think, was a pay-to-play woodworking shop. St James Infirmary Organization Address: 1089 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94109. Rhodes had midnight madness sales. I remember 4th of July at Rengstorff Park with fireworks. Payless/Albertsons was on Grant road and had great garlic bread. Circulation & Delivery I remember the Rexall drug store on Castro and J.C. Penney's and if you now go to Mayer Electric it still has the squeaky floors Penny's had upstairs. 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. 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. Don't miss out (Later turned into office parks.it may be where a big CAD company is now located.) In the middle of the rows of corn was a large plot of pot, strictly for medicinal purposes of course. 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. YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. I was born and raised in Mtn. That was It's amazing how many good book stores we had back then. [melissabee, 11/08/2009] Uniroyal Gal - Confirmed Gone All sources list the location of St. James Infirmary Bar & Grill as 390 Moffet Blvd. 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. I moved to San Jose, CA in June of 1984. 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'. You are correct Emporium, I used to shop there all the time. Food Fair turned into Harry's Key points were Shoreline Park, Century Theaters, Downtown renovation. Louie comicbooks and texan horns at the elzarape. Mountain View's facilities go to heck. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. They took their hard earned allowance and bought an ice cream. It was the site of the old Highway School. I delivered San Francisco Chronicle and Mountain View News Herald papers along Thompson Ave and Alvin St as well over in Del Medio area. That Food Fair on Bonita and El Camino was a good place and I was sorry to see it Charlie. It was mostly known as the place to get Chinese food. And our wonderful married life started in a beautiful and wonderful place named Mountain View CA and Moffett Field Naval Air Station! similar to The Cheesecake Factory. Shaw's Ice Cream. I grew up next to Therekauf/Stevenson school. !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 don't know who occupies the site now. It's was a PayLess the last time I noticed. It's hard to find entertainment like that anymore. It's such a great town still, very expensive but it holds my childhood memories, love MV!! But to leave this on for weeks and weeks is very ridiculous and very boring. -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. It was officially opened by Portfolio Minister . I worked just a short distance away on Middlefield towards San Antonio and Palo Alto. My mom wored for Wells Fargo Bank but it wasn't always a wells, we also owned a short lived book store in Blossom Valley Center, how about the deli and donut store, old cal pizza use to be a paint store, now the safeway. I have lived in Mountain View since the mid 70's. The list goes on and on. 503 were here. Sometimes the lines were around the block. 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. There was a big cattle ranch out there too. Dana Elementary School, at Dana and Bailey; closed and demolished. 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 was the best place to grow up, My first job was at the Best store in the San Antonio center, then at Rogers deli on middle field and whisman. The school dances and alot of fights in the year 1970. I highly recommend it ;) Mountain View was a very different place back then! 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. No longer. My dad was laid off in '90 my step mom is still with the company under new name General Dynamics. I almost forgot: Mtn View Dolphins swim team, coaches Sehlmeyer, Perry, and Bosmans. I sure miss that restaurant. I live in Mountain View from 1958-1976 it was and still is one of Also had an acre of land. There was an underpass that allowed children to go beneath the busy road to get to school. You had to have a membership card to get in, I think the card was $1. The copper penny Lets not forget The TownClub, R-Club, Cottage, The OakRoom, Mervyns. Does anyone remember Beto's Casa Blanca Mexican Restaurant. I know Mtn. It was Treasury for a while, and Drug Barn, now vacant. I used to ride my bike on the dirt trails where the old Highway school used to be. Foster's Freeze Ice Cream on El Camino Real This was back in the first days of the home computers. What a story that was. Ferry Morse Seed Company Now reside in New Mexico. JCPenneys was on Castro Street It also had a smallish, old-fashioned PBX switchboard with plugs and cables. workshirts in high school early 70's. Now it is El Charro's Mexican Restauraunt. Any recall/information about the Mountain View Ice Company? Search results are sorted by a combination of factors to give you a set of choices in response to your search criteria. Chucks also once had a place in Tustin (Orange County), with no entertainment, and I quess two or three are still going in Hawaii. Thank you anyone and everyone for any info. The Camino Medical Group building at El Camino and 85 is on the site of the defunct Emporium-Capwell store. Greetings.. Thanks for taking me on a trip down memory lane! It was known to be Mountain View High School's teachers watering hole. St James Infirmary located at 445 California Avenue Reno NV 89501, view menus, pictures, reviews, directions and more . I did in 1978 and broke my arm on the monkey bars. There was an appliance store in town that had TV in their window and it was on after they closed. After the Mac was introduced in 1984 I often went to Computerware, on California Avenue in Palo Alto. I only lived in Mtn. 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. 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