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I got Frankie, Johnny and Luigi's Pizza to go once and it was good. The Shenandoah military housing is adjacent to this site. talk about noise pollution. View in late 1961 after my parents divorced. Music Store Nancy, Dave and Rachel are the greatest!! Taco la Paz on El Camino Real, a Taco Bell knock-off, where I also worked for a couple years. The very first wireless telephone station was established by Charles Herrold here in 1909. Hah, when I was going to Foothill I loved just down Bonita from the Food Fair Market 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. The Camino Medical Group building at El Camino and 85 is on the site of the defunct Emporium-Capwell store. The store is laid out by time period, with like-items grouped together so everything is easy to sift through. Before it was Silicon Valley, the Santa I actually worked down the road in Los Altos at the Boardwalk, what a shame they closed. I have also taken several nice walks in Shoreline and Cuesta Parks. As for the tire store it was located where the bead store is now. 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. If you're in town looking for a deal on authentic vintage clothing (1920s - 1980s), look no further. Went to Crittenden in the late 60's . Town dump at the end of Stierlin road. Seeing Whitesnake at Shoreline Amphitheater and then being there when they had to close it down to clean all the methane (because flicked lit cigarettes were flaring up) lolgood timesgood times, Thank you everyone for the 60's memories my family and I lived on stierlin rd. Payless/Albertsons was on Grant road and had great garlic bread. The Scuitlebutt on El Camino Real. I was born in Lost Altos and lived there until 1971. At the time was a 4 year student at the relocated MVHS class of '85. (Sunnyvale went the "planned route" and tore up Murphy Avenue to give it over to a covered mall in the 70s. We had one of our early department picnics at a a hamburger joint in an orchard, near where the old Route 237 crosses Central Expressway. First gourmet burgers for me the Hawaiian with pineapple.. and the friendliest of owners. It was good but expensive, but worth it. It was replaced by the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. Stereo Habitat home of the first 8 track tape decks on Castro Sherm's Barber Shop at Palm Plaza Yorkshire Clothes at Palm Plaza the Old City Hall the old little park on Castro, between California and Mercey (Easter egg hunts) the old Presbyterian Church on Castro St of course the old Mtn. The old building was seen on the right of the road heading towards Milpitas. 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! The mens clothing store was George"s. Who remembers the mexican restaurant on el camino and bailey. Vintage Sign Stencils; Subscribe to Knick of Time; Talk of the Town #114 & Giveaway Winner. Jen @Cincy Shopper says February 20, 2018 at 10:01 pm. I will give you a pass on that since you are a It was a great place to go and drink and dance. The first 2 years of St. Joseph's School were held in the old classrooms of at what is now St. Francis High School. Eddy's Sport Shop on Castro, where I bought my first baseball glove (Bobby Bonds model). My uncle had a Moped (gas powered scooter) club. El Chico's Italian was on El Camino to the south. May 28, 1995. I assume the owners knew about the misspelling and either enjoyed the humor of it, or just didn't care. He and my mother are buried next to each other at Alta Mesa Cemetery on Charleston. In 1947, William Shockley led a Palo Alto-based team at Bell Labs that invented the world's first amplifying semiconductor, the transistor. Learn more. While I was struggling to get through San Francisco state in the mid '70s, the owner of the Town Club could have put his kids through Harvard with the money my dad used to spend there. The grocery store was Diamond Ranch in 1970 until 1971, before Diamond Ranch was Les Brothers grocery store since we moved to MV in 1951. .25 cents for mixed drinks. Talk of the Town ARK33, which was declared to be mainly about young people [a] somewhat oblique expose of the Young Ones, celebrated the lives of, It was a Saturday evening, St Valentines Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. She was a long time Sunnyvale resident with roots back to old Mountain View. Printer's Inc. and the home of greasers etc. Does anyone remember Mountain View X-mas Tree Farm? Next door, was a Gelato ice cream shop. Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. I don't know when or why they would use it, maybe as a backup? Web32 reviews of Talk of the Town "Their selection is great, the staff is super-friendly and knowledgeable, and the prices are a true bargain. Old California Pizza Galaxy Gifts, the Variety store, Archies Couffures, and Tots to Teens at the Blossom Valley shopping center where Mayfair Market was. Hubbard and Johnson was on the corner of El Monte and El Camino, where Longs and Starbucks are today. Thank-you for the memories. Special Pubs, About Us Moffett Food Center owned by Sam Leong and his family. This is a great thread. 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. So sad to see all this go away.. Perhaps one day they will some how rebuild things.. You never know.. In around 1982-86 I was living in The Americana, a large apartment complex at Highway 85 and El Camino Real. It seemed like a great concept. were a lot less photos of people's lives back then. Great times when Mountain View really felt like families where the heart of the community not transplants!!!!!! Ive had both knees replaced there and the VA health care system gets a 5 star rating from me. I'm was 12 years old. 166K. Fun times in the '70's. Bubble gum was the best flavor. I think it was White something. Dear Newbie- It was a quiet bedroom community. View across the street from Who was that guy who wore a dress and sat in the bleachers? The seller might still be able to personalize your item. Does shopping on Etsy help support small businesses? Hours. 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. 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. I think everyone attended some sort of function there at some point in their lives. But the biggest thing to miss STIGS bakery and the pink box those treats came home in!!!!!!!!!!!! Loved that park. ie Apricots, cherries, prunes. TALK OF THE TOWN We got our pumpkins from a farm stand on grant road (near el CAMINO hosputal) The Kaiser bldg was a shopping center with a grocery store Lucky and the best bakery. Carpeteria I attended some classes at Foothill College..remember their "new" lazer light shows for the time!It seems that it was just that perfect place with so many things to do and so many people starting businesses. Mtn View seemed the same right in old downtown but the shops were all different. WebAccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-08-31 18:01:59 Boxid IA119415 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Richmond Donor alibris External-identifier Active today. No Hard Feelings and Joy Ride Bring Back the Sex Comedy, With Shoreline Avenue was called Bailey Avenue $39.88. It felt like home . Tuwanda Coleman. And I have seen quite a few Tower Records; in the Bay Area, L.A., Orange County and even London. The downtown was 2 narrow lanes with no parking and there was nothing going WebValue Pawn & Jewelry. I remember when there was a break between Sunnyvale-Mountain View. The lot was empty for several years. My apartment($125/month) at 515 Central looked out over onion fields in 1966. Actress Linda Blair joins the panel to discuss her career since The Exorcist (film) (1973). There also was an ElZarape Resturant on San Antonio Road. Talk Of The Town Vintage Had a Sears, JCPenney, other nice shops inside and out. Did anyone go to Crittenden for elementary school?! Mayfield Mall where HP had offices and now is empty. View from '56 to '79 with a detour through the USMC abd SE.Asia. for me. The staff were extremely knowledgeable, helpful and friendly. I didn't care much for the place, but To schedule an appraisal or for more information and rates, call (615) 790-7190 or email, [email protected]. Had a friend that called and asked me the name of the furniture store and I have forgotten. I truly felt at home. Then a few years later it became Ontilo's. Talk Of The Town First, let's take a look at what you may have missed from your party hosts! not too far from San Antonio. My cousins were Sharon & Jerry Stark, and Harvey, Ed, & Jay Miller. I do remember the French Quarter food mart and the Mexican restaurant was called La Posada. PR MediaRelease Tater tots and Parisian Burgers. Etsys 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsys global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. Palo Alto was 'Davenport'. View. Then the sound became noise pollution. Chuck's Cellar on El Camino near San Antonio. I thought that place was so cool when I was young! Wild Olive Pizzeria & Artisan Sandwiches. Did anyone mention Holy Cross High School next to St Josephs School. You can just make out the IBM logo in this aerial shot from 1970. on, with the High School being down towards El Camino. This is such a fun list to read. And the center's hobby shop was a fun place to browse. San Antonio Hobby Shop --four locations till it closed in '05 Discussion often included sexually oriented jokes, insults and gossip with Morgan and her co-host comedian Pat Cooper. now sits. We lived on Parker Ct. All rights reserved. Shogun was about a half a block up El Camino from Rambus. I wish I Oh the perils of middle age, ugh! Maybe if we had renamed it "Peking buisness district" it would still be there. where the Albertson's was. By the 1970s and 1980s, San Jose had developed into a thriving metropolis. There are a lot of restaurants that I remember. $49.00, $70.00 Wow, who've thunk back in 1975? Talk of the Town, Cincinnati | Roadtrippers TownSquare thinking how much it reminded me of Mountain View of the 70's. They didn't just help find a costume but all the accessories as well. 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"? When my kids were small, the biggest thrill for them was hearing the music and seeing the ice cream truck come down our street. I might be the youngest and recent entry here. Did anyone here work for HandyMan in the 1960's or 1970s? Make sure your information is up to date. What about driving through The Milk Pail at the corner of San Antonio and California to get your daily dairy? Going to Linda's for Parisian burgers and tator tots,double features at Mtn View theatre on Saturdays. a fruit/vegetable stand. General Electric and the "big" Orange Pumpkin "Our" red painted wood duplex and the big empty field inside the block disappeared when the block "went condo" (in '76?). Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. - The constant drone of P-3 Orion aircraft overhead Vintage Photos of Silicon Valley before It Became a - Vintage Following. The place was on the eastern end of the complex. [emailprotected]. Lockheed shared Moffett NAS with the Navy VP-31 squadron, flying P-3 Orions day and night, patrolling the waters of the west coast for USSR submarines. I thought that was absolutely amazing. 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. There was a movie theater on Castro, but it only seemed to show Chinese or Mexican films and nobody went there. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. -San Antonio Center was a mall (yep, three malls!) Follow. Talk Of The Town Vintage (@talk.of.the.town.vintage) that you could buy, TV going on. Oh Mountain View and how I miss it. And Clarkes had the best burger in Mountain View, Amber Lantern had yes,st. Sold my 1958 VW bus, painted Rustoleum orange with yellow roof, with an engine that had died forever on the highest point of Hwy 17, to teenagers across the street who cut out the back end for surf boards and replaced the engine. You needed to become a member and show your card when you entered the store. It's driving us all crazy. Mtn. Introduced that same week at SXSW, the scrappy Mountain View's facilities go to heck. Found something you love but want to make it even more uniquely you? And the "Generic Hamburger Stand" in the old Der Weinerschnitzel (which became Weinerschnitzel again after the generic place closed). I lived in Mtn. It stimulates my aging brain. In the 80's Vintage Clothing and Costumes from All Eras, in All Sizes, for All Price Ranges. Fotomat Drive Up 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. Tweet. Highway School had large wood paned windows, oak floors, wide halls, and huge cloakrooms! Gunn Highschool across Charleston used to be a field full of cattle. It's great and I am grateful to the Voice for continuing it. Also, there was Mings where the kids never ate because it was too fancy for kids. Talk of the Town Too many memories to mention. Their downstairs cellar was a nice and intimate showroom and upstairs they had good steaks. The field where they sold Christmas trees and fireworks on El Camino Real east of Calderon (across from Tuban Ford). My wife was on-call as a dietitian at the nursing home there in the early 80s. When the infamous 'dog house' was built. Lots of fruit trees on ElCamino. Jewelry, gloves, handbags, swimsuits, dresses, hats, vests we have it all and so much more for men and women. Greetings.. Ya Luv these comments.. I can almost remember their "3rd Annual Going Out of Business Sale" with 25 cent shots of Jack Daniels and 10 cent draft beers. It was crazy but totally fun!! At Starland Vintage & Unusual, you'll find vintage clothing, jewelry, housewares, furniture, books, and records from the 1950s to Three men are seen working on circuit panels in 1965. Gonzalez, Morgan Maxwell,Davis, Capote,Addington, Hubner, . Does anyone else remember this or am I crazy? Other guests simply joined the panel for discussion of their personal lives and careers. more forward thinking than Palo Alto and I am sorry I moved to Palo Alto The Jewell Tea Co. brought groceries right to your door without the Internet. I won't be going back . It was a nice time and if I could, I would go back; maybe in the near future! Following. and it was the Mountain View Eagles. That remained mainly an electronics trade term for decades, although by the 1990s, general journalism was using it for the geographical area. I now live in Hanford CA. Being able to walk the store aisles when the store was closed and no one else was there :). Also, does anyone remember where on ECR Matt's Club (dive bar) was? $22.49, $24.99 1. The Tower Records in Mountain View is the only one I have been to that had an actual bookstore. Who remembers Frankie, Johnnie and luigo too, before major expansion, on Friday and Saturday nights the line to get was so long. A friend of mine had a bad experience at Kirk's Steakburgers and turned vegetarian. Talk of the Town In the 60's on the corner of Middlefield Road and Moffett Blvd. My daughter and her friends hang out at the In-n-Out burger on Grant or at our local smoothie places. Navy jets flew overhead constantly, then it was the Orion P-3 submarine chasers. Personalized advertising may be considered a sale or sharing of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. What a great time! 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 :/). Antique Sewing Machine Table, Plus Things I Love Antique Cutting Board from Salvaged Wood Chunky Style Craftsman Style Trim Repurposed Lamp Necklace Holder Clean Up Your Act Creative Space Reorganization Challenge chicken. Thanks for this thread! -The Crossings was a mall called The Old Mill 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. Hello Father, we would sayHello boys..his response..Keep the memories coming . The Lotz House offers expert appraisal services to a wide range of antiques. (Probably "Looking Back") View theater, through a kind of walkway/tunnel to the parking lots behind. - Highway 101 was 3 lanes each direction, Hwy 85 was 2 lanes and ended at Stevens Creek Blvd. on Castro back before that. With powerful tools and services, along with expert support and education, we help creative entrepreneurs start, manage, and scale their businesses. Greets. By Janet Malcolm. Reproductions from several eras and one of a kind costumes. Spiveys was in the shopping center too. We used to go to a hardware store in what I believe is now The Village. 4. Where I would play baseball in the parks and rec league for poor kids in the summer. The Lotz House offers expert appraisal services to a wide range of antiques. 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. And by 1940, Santa Clara Valley had a population of nearly 175,000 people. Its also home to a whole host of one-of-a-kind items made with love and extraordinary care. ever. Drying apricots in the orchards on Grant Road There was the I Magnin store where the Medical Center is now at 85 & El Camino. I made it clear that I wasn't interested. At halloween time, they had the best selection of wax whistles, plastic lips, and dracula teeth. This is a longer review, but with respect to the other associate, I want to make sure I'm clear with where the issues originated. Linda's was great ( I know the recipe for their sauce!) An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Choose the options youd like for the order. Privacy Policy Computer, and I have such fond memories of that machine. Further up El Camino was the "other" part of shopping in Mountain View, the San Antonio Shopping Center. It's amazing how many good book stores we had back then. now. More. The Moffett Drive In was our cheap entertainment. Typically, orders of $35 USD or more (within the same shop) qualify for free standard shipping from participating Etsy sellers. This was the family tree of the semiconductor industry, spawned by Fairchild Semiconductor after it spun off from Shockley Semiconductor (itself located in MV on San Antonio in the 1950s, subject of historical-article link that follows) -- the industry whose rapid succession of spin-off firms, even in its first 15 years, prompted journalist Don Hoefler in 1971 to write a series of historical articles about what he dubbed "silicon valley." What I remember from my 1982 arrival in Mountain View: Mountain View (and the rest of the Peninsula seems quite different now). The public library on Franklin Street, where Miss Marion the Librarian and Miss Meta Antisdell were like surrogate parents to me. The Dublin Inn on Middlefield and Rengstorff But thier pie always worth it. The bottle was refundable for a nickle at the store where you could buy a candy bar for five cents! WebTalk of the Town was a short lived comedy and talk show performed at the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in 1982 and aired on cable television. Great funky atmosphere, too. This was a hippie/environmentalist type of grocery store. They had a neat fish tank inside. Handyman was over by the Oasis Laundry and had tons of hardware stuff. PT, I don't think it was a library. It's going to shock you, turn you on, turn you off, but it will make you think and see and experience. Talking Barbie From left, Sabrina Wu, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu and Ashley Park in Joy Ride.. Dont see this option? Frequented San Antonio shopping center, mayfield mall and old mill. Loved the tater tots at Linda's. Thanks to everyone for the contributions. Oh, I miss that barbecue There was a huge barrel of pickles there does anyone remember that? 80's things began to happen, and now I think Mountain View is nicer and Original post made The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. Shaw's Ice Cream. Blossom Valley True Value Hardware The walls where filled with black and white pictures of actors and sport figurs from the 30' and 40's and 50's i think it was the bolkin village?? Talk of the Town Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary. I wished Id taken more pictures , than what I have. A block down from Printer's Inc. First, let's take a look at what you may have missed from your party hosts! Best of all was C Grafton. Talk Of The Town Vintage When they closed, it became Jenny Craig, and then Prudential Real Estate office. Jocelyn's Bike shop started in Midtown Palo Alto didn't it? The Monte Vista drive-in movie theater was on Grant Road behind where the Walgreens is now (bunch of housing there now.) Dont forget about Rhodes department store, Roos Atkins, Purity Super Market at San Antonio Center. 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? The E.M. club at Moffett Field naval Base was a great place to go. It was a German resteraunt and pub. View, either the Old Highway School or the newly completed (back then) Mountain View High. The Menu Tree had quite the selection. 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). Shoreline Blvd was Sterlein Rd the entire length. I'm not sure many people ever went there because the preschool was moved to Rengstorff Park facilities if I remember correctly. Thank goodness, Foster's Freeze and Clarke's Charcoal Broiler are still there. I do not know what the atmosphere is now. 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. The inside was as cool as the outside. Remember Gregg's Pharmacy and Los Altos Travel at the current Bossom Valley Shopping Center? I lived there 24 years and Neal lived there 30 years. I spend a lot of time and money in Mountain View, used to live there I think it closed around 1971 and that's when St Francis High School was allowed to enroll girls. YP, the YP logo and all other YP marks contained herein are trademarks of YP LLC and/or YP affiliated companies. despite the rude owners great sushi. And Mountain View Surplus where I used to get my blue jeans and blue miss those days. Talk Of The Town Vintage. I remember Father Moss walking the streets alone late at night. Etsy is powered by 100% renewable electricity. in Downtown Los Altos 88-96. Enter your address above to see fees, and delivery + pickup estimates. Authentic Caribbean Food at Music City Jerk Festival. We went on to have a total of eight children (with set of boy-girl twins) and we had all twenty-one of our grandchildren before we lost John at his 75th birthday Christmas 2006.

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