Special Pubs 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. Tater tots and Parisian Burgers! I loved the moffett drive-in. Web Link. My front yard is now the parking of the outdoor amp theater. Hah, when I was going to Foothill I loved just down Bonita from the Food Fair Market Sponsored content This was a hippie/environmentalist type of grocery store. Gonzalez, Morgan Maxwell,Davis, Capote,Addington, Hubner, . (my first kiss too!) 10 8 8 comments Best Add a Comment LaoFuSi 2 yr. ago 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. Thrifty for 5, 10 and 15 cent ice creams in the San Antonio Shopping center and right next to it was Woolworth with the restaurant where you could sit at the counter or the booths while everyone else was shopping around you. The Variety Store at Blossom Valley had a great big neon sign (at least I think it was neon.) It's amazing how many good book stores we had back then. WTH happened?!?! When I was pregnant a few years back, I had a sudden craving for these cookies from my childhood! The house prices went up, $450,000. own bread, and sold beers at least in the old Palo Alto place on Meadow. 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. We had to say indoors and make sure cars were in covered parking. TG&Y, the Red Barn (country Gourmet now). Is the staff stagnant, lazy and amateur. Gemco was called Bazaar. It took a long time, but we did walk home. Can't remember for sure, but I think they had sound to outside. There was an unfinished furniture place called Decor on El Monte near El Camino Rl that became Office Depot. I do remember the French Quarter food mart and the Mexican restaurant was called La Posada. It was my grandpas restaurant!!!! But so did Thousands of Deadhead fans, noise complaints and traffic jams. Palm variety was a store with tons of household knick knacks. The public library on Franklin Street, where Miss Marion the Librarian and Miss Meta Antisdell were like surrogate parents to me. I have fond memories of taking my little sister there in her stroller so I could get free candy from the manager. Actually the whole page is excellent if you want to follow them on Facebook. Frankie Johnnies & Luigi's on El Camino was/is the best place for a pizza There was an appliance store in town that had TV in their window and it was on after they closed. We ate at Ken's House of Pancake's (apple pancakes! I Magnin was at Stanford where the Macy's Men's Store is now located. What a great time! had kept it. Was the Chinese restaurant Qui Hing Low? Gemco was where Target is now. My husband was stationed at Moffett Field and worked in Hangar One daily. 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. Renamed it La Problem Eata. A lot has changed since then. 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! What I remember from my 1982 arrival in Mountain View: . Also had an acre of land. Also, Chef Chu's nearby, my first exposure to high-end Chinese food. St James Infirmary's headquarters are located at 730 Polk St Fl 4, San Francisco, California, 94109, United States What is St James . Linda's drive-in had the BEST hamburgers (Parisian burger) and fries in town. from 1973 to 1978. The downtown was 2 narrow lanes with no parking and there was nothing going Oh Mountain View and how I miss it. MV was specifically preserving the Casuarins - had a special one in a ramp right-of-way (Central Expressway andEl Monte?). . I helped the owner fix his truck once. And don't forget the Camino Bowl, a great place to go bowling before it got torn down and replaced with businesses/condo units. Mountain View in the vintage 70's and 80's years was a haven. Shogun was about a half a block up El Camino from Rambus. There was no Shoreline overpass you would cross the railroad tracks. My favorite Italian restaurant was "two guys from Italy" on grant and el CAMINO. 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! Mountain View was and still is a great city. I remember walking through the construction site where the new Mtn View Police Department is now standing, picked up spent shell casings in the basement level, before it had a roof over it. The original Mountain View location has always been better than the recent chain locations IMO. Is it still good. Best hamburgers in the south bay. I always loved Frankie Johnnie and Luigi too. Someone said that Linda's sold horse meat burgers. st james infirmary 504 greenwich street, san francisco, ca 94133. total revenue. What an interesting question. OK,I THINK WE'VE COVERED ALL OF MT. As a kid I lived mostly in extreme south Palo Alto, but I was oriented more toward Mountain View than anything to the north: Mayfield Mall with its music store and Consumers Distributing catalog store; the San Antonio Center with the Menu Tree, the Time Zone arcade, and the Sears with the candy counter. Mountain View has provided some good times and good memories. Their downstairs cellar was a nice and intimate showroom and upstairs they had good steaks. Fabric store in the Purity Market building (Later torn down) . And I have seen quite a few Tower Records; in the Bay Area, L.A., Orange County and even London. Change has made the campus unrecognizable. I remember the fun Easter egg hunt; company picnics; dept. Rexall drugs was our downtown drugstore. Mountain View Library was very small and crowded. Yes there were also the yearly Navy air shows. Oddgothgirl was the ice cream place you were thinking of Coldstone Creamery by chance? Today, my Aunt, Betty Todd (deCurtoni) passed away at the age of 84. The tree reminded me of home (Florida beaches now it's illegal to grow them in my Florida city). I fetched that post by typing O'Malley's in the Search box (toward upper right on this page). I have happier memories of seeing movies at the Monte Vista drive-in near Mancini Motors' tower and globe. The World Famous St. James Infirmary .. Mt. A movie theater, not much else. the best in Palo Alto. I went to Fremont Hi, but met lots of students from Mt. House of Yee, an old movie theater, TAP Plastics, a good Mexican place down at the train tracks end. Such great memories. I have lived in Mountain View since 1977 and this is what I remember: Crusin with Dave G and the Cuz Glenn. Zone video game place. I think Rotten Robbie's is still on the corner of Whisman and Middlefield, maybe even the Wagon Wheel restaurant next to it. The parks would take us on a tour to the downtown firehouse and police station where we got to slide down the firepole! I won't be going back . Most neighborhood streets were without roundabouts (as they are now) Pretty spooky and not for the weak. Clarke's is great. No cell phone, no internet, no answering machines, just good friends, good times. Later years the Poblanita restaurant on Castro for the Milanesa, yummy! High Way Elementary School on El Camino; it was closed and became the temporary Foothill College; closed and left empty; later developed into a mixed use project; there was a pedestrian tunnel crossing under El Camino there. We heard every announcement. I never bothered to buy an alarm clock! 1999 - Opening of the. There are still some very good bookstores in DT Mountain View. At halloween time, they had the best selection of wax whistles, plastic lips, and dracula teeth. I also remember the original House of Humor in the shopping center at the corner of Grant and ECR. I only tell you all this so that someday when it's called T's there will be a record Stuft Pizza became Kapp's Pizza Bar. The mall with Sears and JC Penney was San Antonio Shooping Center on the corner of El Camino Real and San Antonio Road, across the street from what was Tower Records. The place was on the eastern end of the complex. When I got here in '86 the Shoreline Amphitheater had just recently been converted from the dump and methane fires were breaking out when the garbage caught fire. I took my parents to the Balkin Village on the Elcamino for their 25th wedding aniversary in 1973. The El Camino foreign auto repair/sales where Fred Stengle sold me a rebuilt forest green 1966 MGB for $2,000, and the foreign auto repair guys west of there on Miramonte who later kept it running (re-rebuilding it piece by piece). I think the globe on the building came from '39 or '40 worlds fair(s), but don't quote me on that. In the 50's, MV had a downtown city park on Castro. best city in Northern California.I attended MVHS AT Castro street. Wow, so much has changed. They give me the best care one could hope for. I remember the Menu Treeall you can eat. Chuck's Cellar on El Camino near San Antonio. Mt View in the 60-70's was the best the MV Eagles ruled Linda's on El Camino was the place to go for lunch Paresean burgers $.25 The copper penny Middlefield Mall Thrifty's at the San Antonio Shopping Center for ice creams Super Duper market at central and Rengstorff Red Barn for a Barnbuster 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?) Had a friend that called and asked me the name of the furniture store and I have forgotten. Was the Rumpus Room ever "topless"? It had a flush toilet, but was just a small shed built over the septic tank. St James Infirmary on mountain dulcimer - YouTube The narrator, Joe McKennedy, seems to be a jerk. and the home of greasers etc. I actually worked down the road in Los Altos at the Boardwalk, what a shame they closed. Mountain View was sleepy and boring and we used to consider it lower class Nostalgia is great, but I think I prefer the current downtown MV to the sleepy street of the 1970s. 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. No grass, just blacktop. Landell's Elementary. Bowling Alley I liked 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. doing well. And Mountain View Surplus where I used to get my blue jeans and blue Anyone remember the drive in theaters? And yes who can forget St. James ( cheap drinks and lot's of fun ) and my favorite place Linda's on El Camino. yes,st. Dear Newbie- I remember seeing the Exorcist with my girlfriend at the time in the View Does anyone remember the helicopters flying overhead (every Monday evening, if I remember correctly) spraying Malathion? I developed a routine I still remember fondly. Palo Alto was 'Davenport'. View across the street from There was The old Mill Mall, had nice shops inside and I remember a little coffee and cake shop that you could sit and read in while eating. Does anyone remember the old building along the Mountain View-Alviso Road (237) that was on the corner of either Maude or Middlefield? Anyway it was big. Gas was cheap, crime was low and we had a blast growing up there. Mtn View Dolphins swim team, coaches Sehlmeyer, Perry, and Bosmans. I just heard that Sono Sushi has closed too, and I really used to like that place It stimulates my aging brain. . The restrooms in the parks are Speed limit was 55 mph on all freeways (coming again soon? It was also interesting to see that 1984 W. El Camino was once a Holiday Inn. I do however have two clear memories of this period. I recall that Fargo's was a pretty happening spot for live music in its day. were a lot less photos of people's lives back then. The library had only one story and was overcrowded. No one can remember them, but they were great for the time when I was young. I also remember another Japanese restaurant on El Camino west of San Antonio that did teppan style (similar to Benihana). It later moved to El Camino and lost an "l" to become Pontilo's. Didn't like La Poblanita 'cause I got sick once after eating there. The original "Der Weinerschnitzel" on California and Castro. Any others going further back? 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 lived there 24 years and Neal lived there 30 years. They had the best selection of cheesecakes where Rengstoff and El Camino split off with El Monte .. that was a dirt General Electric and the "big" Orange Pumpkin In the 80's Spiveys was in the shopping center too. But thier pie always worth it. MV was on the USSR's list of early nuclear targets, for good reason. You could bring your empty bottles and get them filled. It once comprised 7 buildings, of which only two still stand. But can anyone please help me remember the name of the pre-school on San Ramon Ave. where The Fountains retirement community is built. Reminise with our review which placed SJI in our 4 divers category. I might be the youngest and recent entry here. It's an open field now that runs north along W Middlefield. Florentine Restaurant ( The only Italian place in the middle of all the Chinese Restaurants ) was located where Xanh now is. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-St-James-Infirmary/330535863804 St. JAMES Infirmary was the name of the dive on Moffett with Muffler Guy and Wonder Woman. Chez Yvonne was at 1854 W. El Camino, although I never went there. the best Chicken place in the area, Pollo Loco! 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. There was a frozen North Pole and Santa sat in his house nearby. Lived on the east side of 101 for many years in the 1970's- rent was cheap and neighbors were weird (imagine they said the same about us). Does anyone else remember this or am I crazy? Fargo's was considered the classier place. I also remember the spooky old house standing alone somewhere along Shoreline, even after the golf course was set up. 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