View St James Infirmary (www.stjamesinfirmary.org) location in California, United States , revenue, industry and description. In the 50's, MV had a downtown city park on Castro. and may again, but why don't people do their jobs when they are The current city hall and MVCPA did not exist. All rights reserved. where It seemed like a great concept. He moved his business and family out of state in 2001. I graduated from Mtn. Let me just add to notable places, Susie's Diner and El Zarape on El Camino. No longer. Phone Number: (415) 554-8494. At the little mall with the hobby store upstairs they used to decorate extensively for Christmas. I have fond memories of the Mountain View Movie theater and remember Palm Plaza, long since torn down. Moved to Sunnyvale a year later. I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. It had a french quarter food mart , mexican restaurant, movie theatres, bookstore, and and water wheel with water in the center of the mall.The mall was two stories. Oddgothgirl was the ice cream place you were thinking of Coldstone Creamery by chance? I do however have two clear memories of this period. Juice Time was next to the cleaner's When Mancini motors (Dodge dealership) was on the corner of Castro and El Camino. Go Eagles and Keep the Faith 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. It was replaced by the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. It stimulates my aging brain. from 1973 to 1978. 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? Does anyone remember the old building along the Mountain View-Alviso Road (237) that was on the corner of either Maude or Middlefield? Creek Place Cuisine. The store located at 85 and El Camino was The Emporium, not I Magnin. Join to view full profile. $3,128,456. and it was a treat to go to the candy store afterwards. Facilities include two wards for males and females, an administrative block, a chapel, staff quarters and a separate dwelling for street people. 4. Best hamburgers in the south bay. I remember when there was a break between Sunnyvale-Mountain View. 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 There was aWhisman Gramer School on the corner of Sterling and Charlston Rd.It had 4 class rooms with two grades each room. 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?? I truly felt at home. 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. . Nice thread full of great memories! My dad worked at Lockheed. Drying apricots in the orchards on Grant Road I'm trying to remember where the beauty college was located at, fond memories of downtown. What a place to hang-out in the 40's. Blossom Valley Shopping Center was an orchard; as was most of the surrounding land. It was known to be Mountain View High School's teachers watering hole. A huge pepper tree was like a secret room. United States. There was ateen center hangout for awhile downtown in 70 but I dont recall were it was exactly. had kept it. We left the Navy in 1955 after John made two nine month cruises on the Princeton. Landell's Elementary. I didn't care much for the place, but When the infamous 'dog house' was built. My parents still live there, and I visit them often. 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. It was my grandpas restaurant!!!! Sponsored content View since 1992I live on the East Coast now. 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. I used to get a postcard in the mail for a discount. (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.) I remember that Mayfield Mall closed right around 1983 when we moved. ??? Surely miss those days, Looking for pet stores in the Mtn View, Los Altos areas in the mid 70's. Blossom Plaza gift store called Galaxy was 2 stories and THE place to buy presents for moms . . What about driving through The Milk Pail at the corner of San Antonio and California to get your daily dairy? Came to Mtn View in 1967 I arrived in the area in 1974, joining a little company called Intel. When I first moved to Mountain View in 1983 I went to the movies at the "Old Mill" shopping center. Castro Street in the 70s was a ghost town. Watched movies at the old mill and don't forget the Moffett Drive in (shoreline blvd) I went to Huff elementry, Graham Jr. High and Awalt High School. Mayfield Mall, Old Mill, Rhodes department store. Mt View in the 60-70's was the best The San Antonio Shopping Center had that church single's group that met every Sunday morning in the upper floor of the Menu Tree. No grass, just blacktop. Ming Pan Florist and the Moffet Drive-in Theatre too! Tour buses would take visitors on tours to see all the trees in blossom that were a sight to behold. Mountain View has provided some good times and good memories. Web Link. I remember going to both Fargo's (Old Mill Sh. Charlie. Chuck's Cellar on El Camino near San Antonio. Castro St. was quite run down in the early '80s--it seemed like the poor man's Palo Altowhat a transformation! The Super Duper Grocery store and the Rexall Drugs and the Barbershop rounded out the corner of Rengstorff and Centeral Expressway (Alma St originally). Now our old house is appraised at 1.5 million + and apparently the Mtn View I knew and loved is no more. St James Infirmary, Attn: Development PO Box 426788 San Francisco, CA 94142 Donate today and ensure that sex workers of all genders continue to have access to quality non judgemental care as well as build in our advocacy programs to center those most marginalized in our community and meet the needs of our community. I had only been here for a day or two. Truly a classic '70s dive. The only other big event was the art and wine festival and a chinatown. First I rented in a duplex on Sierra Vista: And seeing their adds at the drive-in during intermission? Bubb Elementary School opened without asphalt pavement. (I saw Swiss Family Robinson there! The mall was great off of, I believe Covington Rd. Payless Drug Store, which is now Rite-aid I just don't know the name of it. See who you know in common. 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! We had a "Food Fair" grocery store on El CAMINO between Castro and grant/237 Linda's was great ( I know the recipe for their sauce!) View since I was about 6, went to Slater elementry, then Graham jr. High and graduated Mtn. ever. Steve - It's pretty obvious that the Voice's website is designed to place links to the three Town Square threads that have the most recent posts. The movie theater was pretty small.I recall we usually chose the Varsity Theater up in Palo Alto over the small MV theater. "Our" red painted wood duplex and the big empty field inside the block disappeared when the block "went condo" (in '76?). They had monterey pines and stone pines freshly cut for sale. 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. When did the Old Mill close down and whateve happened to the best pizza place that I knew of Fargo's? We went wild over it. Rhodes had midnight madness sales. 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." 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. some highlights, like the Co-op Supermarket which became the old Rite Aid 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. 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. I remember when I moved to Mountain View in 1973 there were still orchids around. TG&Y, the Red Barn (country Gourmet now). The originals from back in a day we can only imagine and who so few are still around to shed light on how truly special Mountain View was back before Silly-con Valley erupted. I think it won't broke due to all the free pizzas that they gave away. Michelle. Does anyone remember the helicopters flying overhead (every Monday evening, if I remember correctly) spraying Malathion? View in late 1961 after my parents divorced. Palo Alto Online Lets not forget The TownClub, R-Club, Cottage, The OakRoom, Mervyns. was a great a place to do one's laundry and occasionally meet people. HOWEVER, whoever, and I used to know the name because I used to call What a great time! I also briefly had a place in your fair city. -Downtown Mountain View was kind of a ghost town. best city in Northern California.I attended MVHS AT Castro street. Mountain View was and still is a great city. Old Mill had a AMC theater in the back with cheap movies, then it turned into a big empty farmers market, then finally razed. It answers the "even earlier." Rexall drugs was our downtown drugstore. 1998 -Arson fire destroys St. James Infirmary, a popular bar and grill that opened in 1967. Gregg's Pharmacy Eating at the "picnic tables at Clarke's" with my mom quite often. On the other hand as a kid we felt safe walking any where in town not now. And the Navy was the major employer of the city, at least when I was in elementary school. Now it is El Charro's Mexican Restauraunt. 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