Now reside in New Mexico. Walking the underground runoff tunnels that go next to now "Shoreline" my friend and I started at Stevenson School culvert up to almost el camino avenue under ground. 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? on Friday nights after football games. It was an easy commute to Intel, about 8 minutes. + many more) Fiesta and Camino lanes on El Camino. Carr's pet store on Evelyn I fetched that post by typing O'Malley's in the Search box (toward upper right on this page). Lets make 2023 great! Thanks to everyone for the contributions. I remember a Chinese restaurant near the Mt. ??? Community Calendar Ken's House of Pancakes was the best (and maybe the only) middle of the night meal in town. It used to be called the Dublin Inn as I recall from 50's, 60's and later. Driving to Stanford via ElCamino Real one could smell skunks from the open fields. It once comprised 7 buildings, of which only two still stand. Mtn. My Mother, brothers, and I moved to Mtn. Phone Number: (415) 554-8494. People were alot happier back then, with less Gemco was where Target is now. Always busy and great New York Style pizza never had any since!! Does anyone remember the little italian restaurant right across the street from Graham. The only electric signal lights were on El Camino Real. It was farmland with a few ranch homes. There was no Shoreline overpass you would cross the railroad tracks. Highway School had large wood paned windows, oak floors, wide halls, and huge cloakrooms! 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. 1089 Mission Street. Does anyone remember the name before Gemco? some of the problems. Los Gatos and Mountain View have SV's best downtowns IMO. I graduated from Mtn. Bayshore highway was a 4 lane undivided road. View Music.. That place was great too. When I want to go to Target, he reminds me that it used to be Gemco:) When I craved a burger, he took me to Clarke's. Remember Freeman - Sondgroth paving, where Old Mill was built (and eventually razed) 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 think it won't broke due to all the free pizzas that they gave away. Old Mill had a AMC theater in the back with cheap movies, then it turned into a big empty farmers market, then finally razed. Shoreline Park was the dump for the city Maybe if we had renamed it "Peking buisness district" it would still be there. Google, Ebay and others seem to like that area. Florentine Restaurant ( The only Italian place in the middle of all the Chinese Restaurants ) was located where Xanh now is. If it bent, we threw them out. Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 Definitely check out the History Center if you get a chance. fatality. We would often drive over to St James, especially on Sunday afternoons when they had drink specials. ------ THE VINTAGE MOUNTAIN VIEW SHOP features items from LINDA'S (1956-1985) * CLARKE'S CHARCOAL BROILER (1945-2020) * THE BOARDWALK (1975-2013) * SPIVEY'S * ST. His GF dies, which leads him to tell us how great he is and then plan his own funeral.. I remember seeing military officer's/personal around the community (the base was on the other side of the free way overpass) felt like the norm. I spent my early childhood in Mountain view in the 1970s. Being able to walk the store aisles when the store was closed and no one else was there :). I used to love to go in there and watch the monkeys and dream about having one of my own. My grandpa and I would go through in our funky station wagon. Oh, how I long for the old days!!! workshirts in high school early 70's. In around 1982-86 I was living in The Americana, a large apartment complex at Highway 85 and El Camino Real. When Pacific Press was still in town. Was the Chinese restaurant Qui Hing Low? View. There was a pedestrian tunnel under the El Camino at Calderon for the kids going to Highway School. I also remember another Japanese restaurant on El Camino west of San Antonio that did teppan style (similar to Benihana). Grant Road was only 2 lanes with no sidewalks! You could buy beer by waiting outside Mayfair Market for someone "cool" to walk in and ask them to score you a six. Slot car racing at a small shopping mall on san antonio road. In addition there was a healthy contingent of military families, many lived off-base in addition to the those in on-base housing and unmarried military in barracks and off base as well. Brentwood Market Unfortunately, Moffett had been closed. When Shoreline was still Bailey Ave. and it was just a 2 lane road. 85 was Central Expressway 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. The nightclub at the Old Mill was called Fargo's. disgusting, particularly the ones on Terminal Ave that went without I forgot something! I lived there 24 years and Neal lived there 30 years. I remember St. James Infirmary, but I was too young to go inside, but I do remember eating some leftover hot wings my sister brought home and lovin it. It was comfortable. Great funky atmosphere, too. The car dealership on El Camino with the globe on the pole was Mancini Motors. It was a great place to go and drink and dance. We would then prowl the theater for carloads of girls to party with. Town dump at the end of Stierlin road. Creek Place Cuisine. 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. ST JAMES GATE BAR AND RESTAURANT - 255 Photos & 339 Reviews - 1410 Old County Rd, Belmont, CA - Yelp Restaurants Home Services Auto Services St James Gate Bar and Restaurant 340 reviews Claimed $$ American (Traditional), Bars, Breakfast & Brunch Edit Open 11:00 AM - 1:00 AM (Next day) See hours See all 261 photos Write a review Add photo Save Menu And our wonderful married life started in a beautiful and wonderful place named Mountain View CA and Moffett Field Naval Air Station! This my wife's quest and wants to know where he went. where The only things going in the downtown were Printer's Inc. and a few restaurants like Szechuan Gardens, Dynasty, Fu Lam Mum and Florentine. View from '56 to '79 with a detour through the USMC abd SE.Asia. We had to say indoors and make sure cars were in covered parking. Calif. street was still 2 lanes, too. 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. No cell phone, no internet, no answering machines, just good friends, good times. Everyone knows who owns big chunks of that land now. I remember the Balkan Village with its Greek themed architecture. I live now in Kiseemmee Florida,but I travel to Mountain View Shoreline Park is much nice than Byxbee Park in Palo Alto with the stinky (Now Shoreline park) Does Anyone Remember the La Cabana? The front facade are new buildings but the roof and rear are the remains of old Victorian houses. I live in Florida now, but I keep checking this on-going trip down memory lane. There is a Historic marker in front of a small building on Charleston just before it crosses San Antonio. At corner of Castro/El Camino where Wash. Mutual located, Mancini Motor (Chrysler Dealer)had world globe on a top of round column, that column with globe came from Treasure Island World Fair in 1930's. Another pizza place I remember was Boswell's Pizza Company on Castro near California, probably more 80's than 70's. Posted by Elizabeth, a resident of the Whisman Station neighborhood, on Feb 22, 2011 at 3:15 pm The Menu Tree had quite the selection. the MV Eagles ruled st james infirmary 504 greenwich street, san francisco, ca 94133. total revenue. own bread, and sold beers at least in the old Palo Alto place on Meadow. Where that big El Camino Medical group complex is at 85/El Camino used to be the Emporium Capwell department store. I was born in Lost Altos and lived there until 1971. (Jason Williams) I remember the Weinerschnitzel on Castro St. The copper penny The first time we saw "Great America" parkway..and all the drive in movie theaters and how we would sneak are friends in and have great ol' times. And regrettably been here ever since. There also was an ElZarape Resturant on San Antonio Road. Smelling patchoulli and knowing that the "Dead" were here Mountain View's facilities go to heck. 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. In Mountain View. There was a movie theater on Castro, but it only seemed to show Chinese or Mexican films and nobody went there. The school was later used as the temporary site for Foothill College until it opened in 1961. Moved to Mountain View, in the Americana apartment complex next to Emporium/Capwell, now PAMF at 85 and ECR. at Steven's Creek? Anybody remember Gemco? I lived in Mtn. You may also email me at [emailprotected] Thank you! 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. And San Antoinio Mall where Menu Tree was located. The wait to eat inside is a little much, though. Still had the bumper sticker "Can't read? And I have seen quite a few Tower Records; in the Bay Area, L.A., Orange County and even London. Also worth noting but less strategic is NASA Ames research center, which was doing key research on human physiology and support systems in space and wind tunnel research. 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