where (I worked there from 1976-1984). ft., two level restaurant that featured live rock and roll music on the weekends.An average attendance was 500 a night, with it topping 800 on too many nights to remember. So to that, I say, thank you :) BF, "the spooky old house standing alone somewhere along Shoreline." Search on line for "Rengsdorff house". I saw "Purple Rain" at the movies that weekend. View was a ghost town on weekends. some of the problems. 14. I have also taken several nice walks in Shoreline and Cuesta Parks. Thank You all for your shared memories. It is bustling, vibrant, filled with great restaurants. Lots of good memories there I think it is like over $3000 for a studio. GTE's greatly reduced operation was moved to Santa Clara a few years ago. I liked Highway School had large wood paned windows, oak floors, wide halls, and huge cloakrooms! The Handyman store on Grant road It was comfortable. There were a few other places in Sunnyvale, but Friday night at the Jack in the Box parking lot on El Camino by Grant Rd was where me and my gearhead buddies stopped to watch the show and surreptitiously quaff a brew or two. General Electric and the "big" Orange Pumpkin 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? I always loved Frankie Johnnie and Luigi too. Echos of Don Sherwood and Superfrog live on in Maine. Chucks also once had a place in Tustin (Orange County), with no entertainment, and I quess two or three are still going in Hawaii. Or, taking a local bus home from San Francisco Airport, down El Camino to my street (View), and rolling the bag home. Going to Linda's for Parisian burgers and tator tots,double features at Mtn View theatre on Saturdays. 2002 - 2006. Mountain View in the vintage 70's and 80's years was a haven. I cannot believe I am reading this article still. How about the California Bakery and the Beauty College right in town and how you always took out of town visitors to Andy's restaurant for the best chinese food or Linda's for the magnificent Perisian burgers and tater tots. This is about the old originals of Mountain View. Fargo's was a 10,000 sq. We heard every announcement. I've spent my lunch hour - and beyond - catching up on the memories and history of the city I now call home. "Continental market" was at the old safeway on california/San Antonio road. My friends and I would literally rollerskate down the middle of Castro St., on Saturday's with no problem. On El Camino near Mathilda was this huge langendorff bread sign that sliced bread of buttered the slice. Mtn view has come a loooog ways but I loved it better when it was smaller and slower. I am not sure it was called Loved the tater tots at Linda's. Stewart recorded his "Lonesome Picker Rides Again" album there. First things first. And Mountain View Surplus where I used to get my blue jeans and blue Local: (719) 473-5540. There were a lot of Country Stores throughout the bay area, little shops. What a great place to grow up. Mountain View was and still is a great city. Ive had both knees replaced there and the VA health care system gets a 5 star rating from me. Fremont Fire Dist. You could bring your empty bottles and get them filled. The movie theater was pretty small.I recall we usually chose the Varsity Theater up in Palo Alto over the small MV theater. The difference between Fargo's Pizza Co. and those other guys is practically everything! One of my favorites was Linda's with their Parisian burgers and tater tots. We had a wonderful life the short time we lived there and treasure the memories and friends there. Great times when Mountain View really felt like families where the heart of the community not transplants!!!!!! Compliment your dinner choice with a beverage from our tap beer and wine selection and fountain drink menu. Baseball team sponsors, Civitan, Freeman Songroth, Gienger and Hays Funeral Parlor, Raytheon, Cliffs Chevron, Kiwanis, Collishaw Sprinklers, RW Consruction, Oddfellows. I still can't believe it's gone! If it's boring you, CHANGE THE CHANNEL! Also the Time Zone Arcade. The Huntingdon Apts $125 a month rent now It is a lovely thread to read and I am pleased to see it is still getting new posts after 5 years! I remember when there was a break between Sunnyvale-Mountain View. By then, St. James and Fargo's had both closed, but Mountain View had really developed an impressive downtown that I have enjoyed (especially considering it is a suburb of Silicon Valley). Does anyone know what was at the northeast side of the Moffett and W. Middlefield intersect? They took their hard earned allowance and bought an ice cream. (my first kiss too!) The mobile home park community; I went to Theuerkauf elementary. Those days of MV being a quiet, bucolic suburb are over. My grandmother and stepmother both worked at Liberty House in the San Antonio Shopping Center, and the Menu Tree was the best place ever ever ever (besides the fantastic Hobby Shop). In around 1982-86 I was living in The Americana, a large apartment complex at Highway 85 and El Camino Real. It was my grandpas restaurant!!!! I have lived in Mountain View since the mid 70's. Fond memories of Palm Plaza buying candy there on days we walked to church, buying comic books once a week at store on Miramonte? so YOU can make the salad YOU have been waiting for! Only after it became a mainstream cliche did the various after-the-fact suppositions and misconceptions begin, wrongly associating the term's origin to this region's far longer history of technology firms, already underway by the 1930s (long before not just the semiconductor industry, but other technology firms such as Hewlett-Packard, which some people, especially around Palo Alto, like to conflate today with "silicon valley" origins). Web Link That page includes comments from the new owner. Dont forget about Rhodes department store, Roos Atkins, Purity Super Market at San Antonio Center. I think the Angels had several social functions there. I remember 4th of July at Rengstorff Park with fireworks. Pioneer Park behind the library was named that because there were once graves of pioneers there. Arby's on San Antonio, where I worked for a while, and was taught that a fry should break, never bend. I was here in the 70's though I lived in Palo Alto. Played Little League for Johnny Macs the first year of the league -- 1955? I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. similar to The Cheesecake Factory. Minton Lumber (gone now) There was also a Kelly's at Stanford Shopping Center before it went so upscale. I think everyone attended some sort of function there at some point in their lives. Los Gatos and Mountain View have SV's best downtowns IMO. And all the great air shows at Moffett and yes when the Blue Angels came to town one place they would hang out was St. James. Where the amp. 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. I asked the owner, who by the way, is third generation, why? You could get excellent fresh artichokes at a reasonable price back then. OJ Cooper school. I'd appreciate some help. Last year, Voice readers and foundations contributed a total of $84,000. My mom used to take me there and I remember always ordering the grilled cheese sandwich and jello for dessert. Wow--Been here since 1966--On Hwy 237(Mountain View-Alviso Rd) there was a place called the Heidle Beer Garten--Best burgers and beer in the city. ( In door food court ) My co-workers and I would go to lunch on Castro St. every day--we loved Florentine (great pizza bread), Mekong (run by a former Vietnamese diplomat), and the Blue Sky Cafe, where I believe I had my first tofu sandwich. Rexall drugs was our downtown drugstore. The Monte Carlo Restaurant was the Movie theater for the town I only lived in Mtn. I remember visiting it during a shadowing exercise as a student at Crittenden. I remember the Balkan Village with its Greek themed architecture. Flower Shop About where the Hausner Day school is now on San Antonio between Middlefield and Alma, there was an Indian mound (Ohlone--pre Spanish era) camping/living area. I was a kid here in the 1960's, My family moved here in 59. Home Menu Reviews About Order now. In the mid 80's is when everything started to change..I have a little memory of downtown, I'm a Castro City resident, so I remember San Antonio and the Old Mill more. Moved to Mountain View, in the Americana apartment complex next to Emporium/Capwell, now PAMF at 85 and ECR. Thanks to all your memories of place & business names I had forgotten. Web Link. My Grandma used to take me to Mervyn's downtown when it was still a diner, and not a bar. Watched movies at the old mill and don't forget the Moffett Drive in (shoreline blvd) 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. Andy's Chinese Restaurant. The year the Circus came to Mountain View high school field and the carnivals the school would have. All the neighbors would then come out and talk. Chuck's Cellar on El Camino near San Antonio. Target used to be a store called Gemco. Let me just add to notable places, Susie's Diner and El Zarape on El Camino. This thread keeps me coming back to the site each day to see what new memories have been posted. Liberty House department store at the old San Antonio Shopping Center. The only other big event was the art and wine festival and a chinatown. I think the biggest change is East Mt. Was it part of 237? Los Altos Travel 4. La Petit Boulangerie, Florentines Pasta Shop, TOGO's!!!!! Remember Freeman - Sondgroth paving, where Old Mill was built (and eventually razed) had kept it. My dad worked at Lockheed. Privacy Policy Wow we can't forget Art's chili bowl on el camino real. There were View memories of that era: Dog City on Castro, Linda's Drive In, a favorite from the early 60's when I attended high school in Palo Alto, Susie's Diner, and next door- Art's Chili Bowl- where you could get 5 way chili while Art snoozed in his recliner in the middle of the room, and for pizza, Frankie, Johnnie and Luigi too- the only place still in business after 50 years! View all details. I lived on Sterling RD. The Best Pizza & Chicken In Downtown Fargo. Wasn't there a Card Room called SUTTERS on 237? The jet that crashed into the Salmi house in downtown Mtn View in 1956. Camino. Greetings.. Food Fair turned into Harry's Spectra Physics Lasers started up 1961 in Mt. I live in Mountain View from 1958-1976 it was and still is one of arrive, but school was being led out at the same time, i remember seating to face the damage. I live in Florida now, but I keep checking this on-going trip down memory lane. Is Mountain View better or worse without it? The Menu Tree had quite the selection. I remember the P-3s flying over, often with a prop feathered for training. Mt View in the 60-70's was the best No grass, just blacktop. Jocelyn's Bike shop, Movie Rental Place next to the post office, and Jack "n" Jill kids clothing store was there, I think close to the Vacum Cleaner sales and repair place. Ming Pan Florist and the Moffet Drive-in Theatre too! The original Emporium at Stanford was taken over by Bloomingdales. - Highway 101 was 3 lanes each direction, Hwy 85 was 2 lanes and ended at Stevens Creek Blvd. D.V., when you mentioned Baeders cookies I knew it was you cuz. I lived in a complex of yellow apartment builings on Montecito Ave. That street seems relatively unchanged. Just east of Cooper school on Eunice was a big dip in the road where it was county property, as was all the neighborhoods with no sidewalks. The concession stand at McElvey Park was run for ever by an old guy named Levy, who loved baseball. The Eagle was simply left at the old MV High football field. The public library on Franklin Street, where Miss Marion the Librarian and Miss Meta Antisdell were like surrogate parents to me. features. I also briefly had a place in your fair city. Chevy's occupies that site today. The atmosphere is casual, so come as you are, and bring the whole family! mmm) on El Camino. Someone said that Linda's sold horse meat burgers. Full Hours. The water tower at Questa and Grant Road was routinely vandalized with painting by person(s) unknown (before tagging was a term). every year.GO EAGLES. Charlie. Our Mom would send us to Hap's Grocery on Calderon with a quarter to buy a loaf of bread and tell us to keep the change! Printer's Inc. I have seen several of those trees over the years and they werent accurate as far as the 1950s and 60's are concerned Hewlett/Packard and Varian werent on one of them which indicated the authors lack of knowledge and research efforts. Mtn View seemed the same right in old downtown but the shops were all different. At halloween time, they had the best selection of wax whistles, plastic lips, and dracula teeth. We had to say indoors and make sure cars were in covered parking. Mountain View Surplus sold all the clothes I needed at the time old surplus blue jeans Don't forget the Bickell Brothers Lumber on San Antonio and Freeman-Sondgroth Paving Company (the gravel factory) making noise and causing cracks in the windows and drywall of everyone's homes. I do not know what the atmosphere is now. Nostalgia is great, but I think I prefer the current downtown MV to the sleepy street of the 1970s. -San Antonio Center was a mall (yep, three malls!) There was a "Variety Store" at Blossom Valley shopping center on the corner nearest to St. Francis. A huge pepper tree was like a secret room. My sister made one big donut with the leftover dough at the end of the shift and would bring it to the parties in a big pink box. Every Sunday night we would go to the store after dinner and my father would work on the books. at Steven's Creek? It was more laid back and had more friendly and fewer conceited image conscious people. We'd go to Bee Foods (formerly Lucky) sometimes and grab something for lunch (where Kaiser is now) and there was Palm Variety in that shopping center 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. They (I lived in Old MV) The Redrock Cafe was a butcher. We lived on Cornelia Ct., and I attended Bubb School for the 4th - 6th grades when we moved back to Green Bay, Wi. Many of the streets were unpaved and had chickens and peacocks roaming around. I remember the wonderful Chinese bakery on Castro that had the best black bean buns..I still haven't found any to rival them. That area around Middlefield/Ellis was where Raytheon? Great Western Savings Definitely check out the History Center if you get a chance. As a community, Moutain View is far better off having had such people as molders of what we have today. Wasn't Handyman over there near the Oasis Laundry and what used to be A family run business- all their first names started with "D" Dean, Don, Dale, Dennis, etc their last name was Steinke. After the station was gone. I will give you a pass on that since you are a Any recall/information about the Mountain View Ice Company? Little violets that filled the back shady patio if the landlord was slow to mow. 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. And probably ensures I will make Mountain View a destinationthe next time I visit relatives in the area and patronize the MV businesses so, Steve, it may bore you, but, it's not all a waste! I am a little bummed out that the 1st and last schools I attended, San Ramon Elementry and Old Mt. Did anyone mention Holy Cross High School next to St Josephs School. I've recently moved here from Louisiana, married, and bought a lil condo. 3. I know this blog is a few years old but he ran across it and boy can you bring me down memory lane I'm sure I will repeat a lot of the familiar places in Mountain View but I just wanted to share them as well. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The betting game with the ball at the St. Francis Western Roundup was The Pan Game and it is still played every year at the St. Joseph International Festival on Miramonte. A movie theater, not much else. Had a fun summer vacation visiting my dad and his partner, they owned 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?? that machine that cheapie simple stuff was really expensive back Who could forget WonderWoman on the main floor and (if your male) the "Not tonight I've got a headache" dinosaur in the men's room. It was located off Middlefield near Ellis Street. By then, St. James and Fargo's had both closed, but Mountain View had really developed an impressive downtown that I have enjoyed (especially considering it is a suburb of Silicon Valley). No one can remember them, but they were great for the time when I was young. It was good but expensive, but worth it. It took a long time, but we did walk home. I remember going to both Fargo's (Old Mill Sh. It's time has expired. A few notes: Nothing here to do about old places in Mtn. really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. I know this is incorrect. It's called, "Images of America: Mountain View." I lived on stierlin rd near the dumps lived next to the Capote family. There are many more places I can talk about while I lived in the area. Anyone remember the Hell Angels' moving into the house on 237 and then filming in parts of Mountain View and Sunnyvale? Google, Ebay and others seem to like that area. 5000 Merle Hay Rd, Urbandale IA, 50322 My parents work for the Government Telecommunication Co. GTE. As for restaurants, I was saving my pennies in those years. You might also look at Web Link. My parents owned the store with my father's cousin and wife. were really arrogant and unhelpful probably one of the reasons Apple Then the sound became noise pollution. 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. I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. I believe Bazaar was in between the other two names. Growing up near Blossom Valley and St Francis high school I have some great memories of the annual Western Roundup/Carnival St Francis put on. I also enjoyed a great Steely Dan concert in the late 90's at Shoreline Ampitheater. 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. It's great and I am grateful to the Voice for continuing it. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. View, either the Old Highway School or the newly completed (back then) Mountain View High. Great place to grow up. In the middle of the rows of corn was a large plot of pot, strictly for medicinal purposes of course. By the way, the tree diagram cited in the Nov. 14, 2015 comment above, showing "the true history of early Silicon Valley," does exist in durable forms. There was a fancy hotel with a big fountain in the front. This my wife's quest and wants to know where he went. You can call them via phone number 7194735540. . Not just the Gemco in Mountain View, but all the stores in the Gemco chain across California were bought out by Target. That furniture place on El Monte/El Camino that sold unfinished pine furniture became Office Max? View since the mid/late 70's, things have definitely changed since then, both in the town and around the valley. 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. i went to monta loma back in 1979 then i moved to oakdale. There also was Handyman hardware store where Radio Shack is today. "Dog City" Building *Screen image is simulated The Zelle related marks are used under license from Early Warning Services, LLC. There was a Red Barn Hamburger place on El Camino @ Rengstorff It was the site of the old Highway School. The tulip tree next to it, with bare branches I filled with lights at Christmas while blaring my record of Bach's "Magnificat." Also, does anyone remember Otto's Cheesecake downtown MV? Thanks for the link to the 1969 restaurant guide, Richard. People did there own thing and weren't into $ and status. Phone: (605) 666-4151, Urbandale, IA Here is some details about the Mountain View I grew up in. It was off of Castro Street by the RR Tracks near the alley. But looks aren't everything --- so we offer a choice of twenty-five great pizzas, our special pastas, sandwiches, soup and award winning salad bar . 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. 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. I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. People reminisce, for example, about Linda's. Phone Number: (719) 473-5540. It's an open field now that runs north along W Middlefield. Chez Yvonne was at 1854 W. El Camino, although I never went there. Calif. street was still 2 lanes, too. and those Cinco de Mayo dances that Mountain View high school would have at Rengstorff park or sometimes at the Portuguese hall on Stierlin (boy did you open a can or worms) i could go on and on. Moffet Drive In..worked there in the 60's along with the Shell station at San Antonio and El Camino. There are tons of photos and books, and if you go on the right day, long-time residents and natives from the Historical Association are usually around and they are happy to recount the "old days" - although to most of them, that usually means a couple decades before the 70s. I would like to know what the name of the furniture store was where Wholefoods market is now on El Camino in Mtn. I thought that place was so cool when I was young! VA construction started about 1958 and opened a few years later. What a place to hang-out in the 40's. ??? I also remember the original House of Humor in the shopping center at the corner of Grant and ECR. thanks for the memories. Since I was so young I am not sure about the cities for these places. Computer, and I have such fond memories of that machine. In the 80's Oh, how I long for the old days!!! We also went to Country Gourmet on El Camino (I think it's still there), and of course the food court in the Old Mill. 1) Playing park league flag football in the 3rd grade and getting knocked out cold on a kick off by a "BIG" kid named Rudy. Imperial Gardens even had a water wheel going in their back yard. Bobs Big Boy became a Japanese restaurant became another restaurant. Grew up in Los Altos in the 60s-90s. Poking around the unrestored Rengsdorff house in that surreal setting all sky and wet/flat lands, pre-development and amplitheater. We had a "Food Fair" grocery store on El CAMINO between Castro and grant/237 They are open every day of the week. We would often drive over to St James, especially on Sunday afternoons when they had drink specials. Fond memories of seeing "Animal House" there in around 1978. There was so much land there before, and it devastates me to only have fragments of memory.. Wow, it great to read about MV in the 60's and 70's..I was born and raise in MV. Town dump at the end of Stierlin road. I'm going to add something a little different the Cold War. For the longest time on ECR (80's) there was a great little store selling seat covers (I think it was near Castro). He explained that this was restraunt row, and it kind of came with the territory. I used to ride my bike down El Camino when it was 4 lane, no center divider and no sidewalks. On the corner of ECR & 237?? Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. I took my parents to the Balkin Village on the Elcamino for their 25th wedding aniversary in 1973. HOWEVER, whoever, and I used to know the name because I used to call We would then prowl the theater for carloads of girls to party with. The grocery store at the Palm Plaza was for years called Bee Foods. Spivey's resturant never closed their doors; the Monte Vista Drive-in was right behind it; the Chevron station (across Grant Road) was there, but a whole lot smaller; and an old barn closed off the t-intersection of El Camino & Grant Road, it was an auto repair shop. The Variety Store at Blossom Valley had a great big neon sign (at least I think it was neon.) (Thank you, historic preservationists!). Shagging foul balls at McKelvey for a quarter. JCPenneys was on Castro Street Lockheed was designing and building spy satellites, as well as the submarine based Polaris nuclear missile. My brother and I called it "the popcorn room". Here are the places that I remember on Castro Street: The Old West-themed family favorite restaurant in Colorado Springs will reopen at 5 p.m. Friday at 2910 E. Platte Ave. View your latest FICO score. Mountain View was sleepy and boring and we used to consider it lower class We used to go to a hardware store in what I believe is now The Village. Community Calendar Across the street from the tire store was a five-and-dime store. That night I learned people yelled "Where's The Beef!" Any one work with/through the Youth Opportunity Program (high school students) at the Mountain View Post Office? 701-205-1251 Thursday to Saturday: 11:00 AM - 4:00 AM. Fargo's was a 10,000 sq. 2910 E Platte . Gregg's Pharmacy not too far from San Antonio. The site of Nob Hill on Grant Road was a Hubbard & Johnson hardware store before it's more recent incarnations. Village Host Pizza on Castro. Thank-you 1, Graduated from MVHS in 1975 while working at A&W riding my 125 Honda yep it is Eric. The vibe was great. In 1999 we took a nostalgia trip back to San Francisco and Mtn View and then on to San Diego. Bokman Chevy and Tuban Ford Does anyone else remember this or am I crazy? Posted by Elizabeth, a resident of the Whisman Station neighborhood, on Feb 22, 2011 at 3:15 pm Super Duper market at central and Rengstorff I left the area in 1986 and moved to the Santa Cruz/Aptos area, with only occasional visits. PT, I don't think it was a library. was a great a place to do one's laundry and occasionally meet people. What I remember from my 1982 arrival in Mountain View: The only hardware/nursery store was on the north side of the tracks, on Castro Street. I was told was like the 70's only more people. The old Nob Hill was Fry's Grocery Store. I moved to Mtn. I loved the moffett drive-in. The school dances and alot of fights in the year 1970. Albertson's bakery had the best brownies i've ever tasted. Antipasto salad to die for, (Hold the anchovies please) Does anyone remember Mountain View X-mas Tree Farm? The store located at 85 and El Camino was The Emporium, not I Magnin. 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 sure spent a lot of money on books and cartridges for Dana Elementary School, at Dana and Bailey; closed and demolished. I took my first date to the movies @ San Antonio center and for a burger at the Menu Tree after. My favorite Italian restaurant was "two guys from Italy" on grant and el CAMINO. A&W Root Beer, Also a great soup and salad shop on the corner of Moffett and Central or West Evelyn, maybe California St. can't remember this. And yes who can forget St. James ( cheap drinks and lot's of fun ) and my favorite place Linda's on El Camino. What about driving through The Milk Pail at the corner of San Antonio and California to get your daily dairy? We have a Game Room and specialties for Kids. Anyone remember the drive in theaters? Apt. 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'. It was known to be Mountain View High School's teachers watering hole. Hello. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7780cdeaf87d2c8c On Saturdays I'd drive up El Camino. Baileys Pharmacy, The Menu Tree had that awesome place to get the BEST fish and chips I have EVER had (seriously), Round Table Pizza, The Boardwalk bar and grill disgusting, particularly the ones on Terminal Ave that went without That was Ferry Morse Seed Company Opens Fri at 11:00 AM . I now live in Napa Valley and I haven't found anything like that here. When the infamous 'dog house' was built. Lots of other kids participated did that continue into the '70's? And I remember the candy store at the Old Mill. Oh one last thing the phone prefix for Mtn. I haven't been to Mtn. -Paul Portola Elementary, Egan JH Los Altos High '78 Foothill 78-80 Details of Fargo s Pizza CO. Fargo s Pizza CO is located at 2910 East Platte Avenue, COLORADO SPRINGS 80909, United States. Mountain View's facilities go to heck. Good root beer or delicious wine are waiting for you at this place. Map Amenities. But then maybe younger people know where all the new nightspots are. TG&Y between Safeway and Walgreens. I believe I saw the original JUNGLE BOOK movie at the theater there : ) Did lots of educational games of learning on the 2e ! 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 remember the following: Later on. Two Guys from Italy Rest. Did anyone go to Crittenden for elementary school?! Songroth Brothers (gravel & cement) next to the railroad tracks near Alma & San Antonio? Rhodes had midnight madness sales. By The Peninsula Foodist | 7 comments | 3,382 views, Mom always told me, whenever youre feeling . Fabric store in the Purity Market building (Later torn down) got that right and Commodore is not more. But the best night was seeing the original Limelighters (Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, Glenn Yarbrough). Does anyone remember the old building along the Mountain View-Alviso Road (237) that was on the corner of either Maude or Middlefield? See reviews, photos, directions, phone numbers and more for Fargo S Pizza In locations in Green Mountain Falls, CO. Another place I have enjoyed is Tony and Alba's Pizza. There was Mervyns in San Antonio Shopping Center, and the Time Stuft Pizza But My fav of all was Stickney's BBQ in Paly.. Man I wish The family would bring in back.. my Family knew Red Stickney Good times Keep bringing the memories back ! (I saw Swiss Family Robinson there! 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. There was a music store on Castro Street where I took classical guitar lessons back in the 70s when I was 9-10 years old, and later bass guitar lessons. We were newly wed and I was pregnant with our first child. The original "Der Weinerschnitzel" on California and Castro. You are correct Emporium, I used to shop there all the time. The live music downstairs John Stewart of "California Bloodlines", Crystal Pistol (3 girls, violin & guitars) Add Chicken for $6 * Add Salmon, Jumbo Grilled Shrimp or Seared Ahi Tuna for $9 * Add Bistro Tender Steak for $14. Many people used the train in those days to commute to "The City (San Francisco)". 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. in Downtown Los Altos 88-96. There was a pedestrian tunnel under the El Camino at Calderon for the kids going to Highway School. I use to walk over to buy cookies there too. Then a fire had destroyed a class room module/building (in fragments i remembered either it was used as a science lab or it was actually the computer lab). the second crash in as many years. Surely miss those days, Looking for pet stores in the Mtn View, Los Altos areas in the mid 70's. View, where Google is now, I had some classmate that lived out there and back then it was dirt roads and chicken coops. Now, did anyone mention Frankie Johnnie & Luigi Too!? Bayshore highway was a 4 lane undivided road. View High. Coming home from Foothill College. There was an appliance store in town that had TV in their window and it was on after they closed. on Apr 13, 2008, There's a good DVD at the public library on the history of Mountain View. Almost every VA patient naysayer Ive listened to has problems best cared for in the VA mental department. Web Link People came from miles to have New York style pizza/dinners. View High have been demolished and are now condominiums. It's such a great town still, very expensive but it holds my childhood memories, love MV!! The gas station where Jack in the Box is on Shoreline (sterlin rd) Palo Alto was 'Davenport'. I did in 1978 and broke my arm on the monkey bars. I think it was - Highway 237 had traffic signals; was called Mountain View-Alviso Road Does anyone remember the name of this place? I had only been here for a day or two. When it closed down we started going to the Continental Market on California Street. The old house on Phyllis (the last home on the back side of the shopping center) was originally located in a ring of Redwood trees in the former Handyman parking lot! HOURS. 5-1 or 3-1 etc.. Andys and Qui Hing Lo were the two best restaurants. By Chandrama Anderson | 0 comments | 740 views, Sriracha Salt Some of the best jobs around There's a blocked off driveway off Moffett and an old parking lot inside the area. it used to be. I remember the fun Easter egg hunt; company picnics; dept. I do remember Carr's Pet Store. Co-Op Market by Sears the pool hall on Castro.. the old theater (stinky bathrooms)and double features (25 cents) Wagner's Drugs on Castro Robert Moore Flowers on Castro Parkers Flowers on Castro Moore Furniture on Castro.. Lawrence Tires Sims Shoes Mtn. Can anyone tell me when it changed names and the history? McKelvey Baseball Field/Park . St. James Infirmary was always rockin'. Uncle Otto's Cheescake where I went nearly every day for lunch takeout, and they were the best!Mountain Mikes Pizza..I believe it is still there. It was a nice time and if I could, I would go back; maybe in the near future! 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. It was a good one, too. The house prices went up, $450,000. I have just returned to Sunnyvale after ten years in L.A. 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. "Our" red painted wood duplex and the big empty field inside the block disappeared when the block "went condo" (in '76?). Landell's Elementary. Advertising Info This is such a fun list to read. I haven't used it, but you might be able to find some helpful resources there. One person would drive a car in, and 4 or more would sneak in through the hole in the fence behind the bush on the entrance road. Its been a long time since ive been though there. When Pacific Press was still in town. Taking Amtrak to San Jose train station by dropping off my bags at the Amtrak shelter, driving back home, and walking back the 2 blocks to catch the train. Then I moved to the Monterey area working for an educational publishing company, but try to enjoy Mountain View on occasion when I visit friends and family in the area. Also, I remember the Copper Penny a big A-frame restaurant near We thought the old house (still there) on the corner of Calderon and Church was haunted. 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. I developed a routine I still remember fondly. But so did Thousands of Deadhead fans, noise complaints and traffic jams. fumes overhead. 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. View. I bought my first maternity clothes at JC Penney's near the drugstore on Castro. View for a bit over a year, but that is one memory of mine. I think it was White something. The one in the shopping Center at 85 and Walking miles to the nearest 7-11 past St Francis for slurpees. That remained mainly an electronics trade term for decades, although by the 1990s, general journalism was using it for the geographical area. We frequented Bourbon Street night club in the Old Mill Mall which had again great food and night life. 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 a beautiful spanish style building which should of been restored and named a historical landmark. And who remembers Rod Martin karate studios on El Camino near the San Antonio shopping center? Shoreline Park was the dump for the city There was a Penneys store (now Meyer's), Sim's Shoes, Veglia's Store, Arminini Drugstore and two popular Chinese restaurants: Andy's and Qui Hung Low (?). State Delicatessen. I heard that Tai Ming Lo was a really good restaurant. I truly felt at home. At the time was a 4 year student at the relocated MVHS class of '85. I arrived in the area in 1974, joining a little company called Intel. It might have been called Samurai, but I can't recall. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There used to be that drive in place Linda's that is now Wolfe Camera, I think, or was. A friend of mine had a bad experience at Kirk's Steakburgers and turned vegetarian. Then top it off with one of our old fashion desserts! some highlights, like the Co-op Supermarket which became the old Rite Aid My friends worked at the movie theater and some also worked at Village Host a pizza place in downtown. I remember the funnn cinco day mayo parties there everyone had fun, not all the politicle chaos its become. Is the waterfall still there? Does anyone remember the name of the coffee shop next to rower records? Updated: Jul 2, 2021 / 07:52 PM MDT. You had to have a membership card to get in, I think the card was $1. Mayfield Mall was where The Crossings condos were buildt. Go Eagles!!! Heard the wind tunnel at Ames at night. We'd also get lunch at Weinerschniztel (at the corner of Castro and California). As for the slot car racing place in Mt View, it was called D&S Hobby, in Carlotta Shopping Center, which used to be across from Franciscan Glass, off the west bound loop of the San Antonio Rd overpass. Next door was an ice cream store, I think it was called Dons. Such great memories. Red Barn for a Barnbuster Does anyone remember the gas station on the corner of Castro and California Street. Support local families in need Arby's at San Antonio and California We ate at Ken's House of Pancake's (apple pancakes! The bottle was refundable for a nickle at the store where you could buy a candy bar for five cents! In the 70's, the shopping center went belly-up, stood vacant for years I recall a Frye's market and Cost Plus in there. Does anyone remember the Old Plantation restaurant, just off El Camino, on the Los Altos side of San Antonio Rd? We loved Moffett and Mtn View. View. The crowds on Castro used to be nicer and more polite and drivers used to drive better. I lived briefly in Mtn View from September to December 30, 1952. 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. Tire Store All in all I think it was a better time Nice thread full of great memories! We lived in Palo Alto and it was a completely different world south of San Antonio road, much different from snooty Palo Alto. There's a Residence Inn there now. I used to get a postcard in the mail for a discount. There was a drive in theatre on Grant Road across the street from Erik's Deli. - El Camino Real was just 2 lanes each way in places, some blocks lacking sidewalks, some with diagonal parking remember hanging out at rengstorff park alot, swimming every summer the vampire movies they would show every Ithink wednesday or friday after school (mvhs) for free in the auditorium. 45.63.64.40 Central Expressway stopped at Castro. now sits. And GTE @ the Central Park Apts. ), saying 'two of the "old regulars" didnt believe me when I told them I thought [O'Malley's] had been the Dublin Inn before it was Francesca's. ' Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. The restaurant has been a staple of the Colorado Springs community for 50 years, first opening its doors in . There is a Historic marker in front of a small building on Charleston just before it crosses San Antonio. No one in my family can remember the name of this bakery! Noone mentioned Lenny's Pies on Castro and the Dairy Queen on El Camino Real! I also remember P-3's flying over my house hourly from Moffett Field and the Blue Angels Air Show annually with Fireworks on July 4th 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. Castro Street was mostly a wasteland. Linda's Hamburger Joint on El Camino Phone: (515) 501-2677, Mukwonago, WI Does anyone remember the helicopters flying overhead (every Monday evening, if I remember correctly) spraying Malathion? Before it was torn down, did the community come out to stop development, like they did for the Milk Pail? (Later turned into office parks.it may be where a big CAD company is now located.) and it was the Mountain View Eagles. 5 cents/10 cent Woolworth ice cream cones at woolworths in the San antonio shopping center. There was a frozen North Pole and Santa sat in his house nearby. The little store on Rengstorff and old Middlefield where La Costena I enjoy reminiscing the things that made Mountain View so great. Children can walk at night without fear. calls to this department. It was crazy but totally fun!! Are you thinking of White Front in Sunnyvale by Toys R Us. I think it closed around 1971 and that's when St Francis High School was allowed to enroll girls. and going to Old Mountain View's Castro Street felt soooooo far away! Phone (719) 473-5540 . Not it seems mostly prepared food, but it used to be they cut the meet and did their Change has made the campus unrecognizable. So, you see, we talked about earthquakes, but the real unexpected danger, now thankfully past, was nuclear attack. So, though I now live about 50 miles away, downtown MV has become a kind of Mecca for me. MV was specifically preserving the Casuarins - had a special one in a ramp right-of-way (Central Expressway andEl Monte?). 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