Gas was cheap, crime was low and we had a blast growing up there. Which is something we would'nt likely have done in the 70s. DV. Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. Get used to it. -Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. Not just the Gemco in Mountain View, but all the stores in the Gemco chain across California were bought out by Target. I CAN STILL VISUALIZE THE BILL BOARDS ON THE WALL.. The restrooms in the parks are View St James Infirmary (www.stjamesinfirmary.org) location in California, United States , revenue, industry and description. Name of the bowling alley near Cherry Chase Golf Course? When Shoreline was still Bailey Ave. and it was just a 2 lane road. Can anyone tell me when it changed names and the history? County: San Francisco. Mr Knight was a wonderful employer and friend. Malachi's was a little "head shop" that sold beads, incense and other weird stuff in a little stucco building on the east side of El Camino when you sat at the El Monte and El Camino stop light. Went into Intel before D2, their first modern Fab area was built--have been to all Intl site in western part of US, Oregon, New Mex, Ariz. The house prices went up, $450,000. they were the "reject" cookies, but as kids, we didn't care if it was missing a corner or had a funky shape, as long as the cookie was warm and melted in your mouth. Imagine. Facilities include two wards for males and females, an administrative block, a chapel, staff quarters and a separate dwelling for street people. that machine that cheapie simple stuff was really expensive back We'd see it on the right side of the road when we drove from Mountain View to Alviso or Milpitas. Boy, talk about kids in a candy store. Does anyone remember the gas station on the corner of Castro and California Street. My dad worked at Lockheed. Blogs funniest dance place ever! Free suicides after the little league game. 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'. and it is too bad that someone did not foresee all the changes coming and head off Web Link That page includes comments from the new owner. House of Yee, an old movie theater, TAP Plastics, a good Mexican place down at the train tracks end. Many of the streets were unpaved and had chickens and peacocks roaming around. Another pizza place I remember was Boswell's Pizza Company on Castro near California, probably more 80's than 70's. We lived across the street from the Whisman Fire dept. Thanks for any reply, O'Malley's Sports Pub (under that name) isn't quite three years old according to Elena Kadavny's blog post on this website, reporting the sale, remodeling, and renaming of what for some years had been Francesca's. Printer's Inc. Welcome to THE VINTAGE MOUNTAIN VIEW SHOP, your one-stop shop for apparel and gift items commemorating long-gone spots in and around Mountain View, California! That place could get really crazy. I remember the big white-and-red sign very well. Juice Time was next to the cleaner's A huge pepper tree was like a secret room. ----Great Western Savings/Home Savings/ Westwood Childcare Center The little lady in the kitchen i think her name was "short" best tacos for 25 cents. Shop for canvas prints, framed prints, posters, greeting cards, and more. Zone video game place. And the Old Mill was really nice, and seems like it was a terrrible place to The Camino Medical Group building at El Camino and 85 is on the site of the defunct Emporium-Capwell store. Was the Chinese restaurant Qui Hing Low? The Kaiser bldg was a shopping center with a grocery store Lucky and the best bakery. The car dealership on El Camino with the globe on the pole was Mancini Motors. fast food place in Palo Alto on University. $3,592,796. Join to view full profile. You needed to become a member and show your card when you entered the store. As a community, Moutain View is far better off having had such people as molders of what we have today. arrive, but school was being led out at the same time, i remember seating to face the damage. View High in 78 and remember all the places mentioned. The Japanese teppan place I was trying to think of was called Shogun, on El Camino west of San Antonio. 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. When they closed, it became Jenny Craig, and then Prudential Real Estate office. And to this very day, Prince's music reminds me of how happy I was to have discovered Mountain View! It is the second left turn from the Cornwall College playground and is erected on the Albion property. There are several stains scattered on the shirt. Are you thinking of White Front in Sunnyvale by Toys R Us. Any recall/information about the Mountain View Ice Company? I have lived in Mountain View since the mid 70's. Woody's was a real old-school place, with all the breakfast dishes or sandwiches available for ordering written on tiny chalkboards behind the counter. It was officially opened by Portfolio Minister . Spiveys was in the shopping center too. I went to St. Joseph's Elementary and we had to buy our burlap pants and sweaters at the J.C. Penney store on Castro. Foster freeze was my go to for French fries and fried burritos and shakes. 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. 10 8 8 comments Best Add a Comment LaoFuSi 2 yr. ago 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. Mountain View was home to the St. James Infirmary Bar & Grill. on Castro back before that. Going into the back of the store was always a scandalous adventure as a child I cannot believe I am reading this article still. My wife was on-call as a dietitian at the nursing home there in the early 80s. It was a quiet bedroom community. Went to Landels Elementary and Graham Junior High. And great memories. He had more cattle up off Skyline and near Half Moon Bay Contact Jailon directly. It has helped me bridge the gap of what Mountain View used to be. Oh gosh! A family run business- all their first names started with "D" Dean, Don, Dale, Dennis, etc their last name was Steinke. It was replaced by the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. The sign for the shop was misspelled as "Sheespkin House", and as a teenager I giggled every time I drove by. Neither are there anymore. The place was torn down when 237 was rebuilt years ago. I think the Old Mill closed in the mid to late 80s? at Steven's Creek? It was good but expensive, but worth it. Loved that park. Target used to be a store called Gemco. 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). A friend of mine had a bad experience at Kirk's Steakburgers and turned vegetarian. We are peer based occupational health and safety clinic for current and former sex workers - we. "NEWBIE" now sits. There was a big cattle ranch out there too. Then the sound became noise pollution. We moved 12 years ago. Sun and SGI were a couple of the large employers, fighting out the workstation market. I found a few shell beads and many small shells from their food scavenging at the bay. ), I remember moving to Mtn View in 1965 from Sunnyvale so that my dad could live closer to his clothing store that was located on Castro St. Thanks for any pet related recollections you may have. similar to The Cheesecake Factory. I haven't used it, but you might be able to find some helpful resources there. I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. ----Jocelyn's Bike Shop. Now it is a Karate Studio. I went to San Ramon, Monta Loma, Crittenden and Mountain View (72-74). And Clarkes had the best burger in Mountain View, Amber Lantern had Those were the days !!!! was. Sponsored content Landell's Elementary. A man named Chester F. Awalt donated 40 acres of orchard land to MVLA High School District for a much needed third high school; they named the school Chester F. Awalt HS. The movie theater may have stuck around a little longer than the mall. As a kid my friends and I would like to knock on the windows and aggrevate them. You could buy fresh ravioli at the old State Street Deli on Castro and State. 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. The old Nob Hill was Fry's Grocery Store. Linda's Hamburger Joint on El Camino I remember the following Imperial Gardens even had a water wheel going in their back yard. Remember???? There was a movie theater on Castro, but it only seemed to show Chinese or Mexican films and nobody went there. We had to say indoors and make sure cars were in covered parking. store. Is this bakery still in existance? The Menu Tree.. spent many days there.. Watching SP commute trains at San Antonio and Alma El Camino was the best I've ever tasted, and is sadly long gone now. I developed a routine I still remember fondly. Also had an acre of land. Mountain View was a very different place back then! Mayfield Mall and Old Mill for shopping Centers I assume the owners knew about the misspelling and either enjoyed the humor of it, or just didn't care. They had monterey pines and stone pines freshly cut for sale. on the discussion! But the biggest thing to miss STIGS bakery and the pink box those treats came home in!!!!!!!!!!!! ----Imagemakers Hair Salon/Vicky's Hair Salon. Karen, thinking how much it reminded me of Mountain View of the 70's. Hello California! Does anyone remember Mountain View X-mas Tree Farm? Thanks for taking me on a trip down memory lane! Since I was so young I am not sure about the cities for these places. There also was an ElZarape Resturant on San Antonio Road. There was no parking garage. 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. WTH happened?!?! All the neighbors would then come out and talk. St James Infirmary 445 California Avenue Reno, NV 89501 775-657-8484 (Click here to view map) Neighborhood. Stigs plus also a mens clothing store, dry cleaners and a small store that sold home items. in Downtown Los Altos 88-96. As mentioned above That's the closest address my childhood brain can come up with. 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! 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. Left in 68 to join the USMC. When Bloomingdales moved to their smaller store built in the mall parking lot, the old building was torn down to make more smaller independent stores since large department stores have lost their appeal. Oh one last thing the phone prefix for Mtn. VIEW HISTORICAL SPOTS IT TIME TO MOVE ON. Blossom Valley Shopping Center was an orchard; as was most of the surrounding land. but others are not Fairchild, Atari, National Semi, Intel All these parts but no real use until the computer, more jobs more people. 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. for me. i sure spent a lot of money on books and cartridges for Remembering that when our family drove to First Baptist Los Altos we went up Castro St. to many times and saw Doberman Pincher dogs inside as guard dogs at the newly built High Rise down town, dog poop on the vacant expance of concrete floors when you look into the windows here BoofA is currently standing . as it was completely VACANT. Castro Street in the 70s was a ghost town. I'd appreciate some help. Main Phone Number (415) 554-8444. Hubbard and Johnson was on the corner of El Monte and El Camino, where Longs and Starbucks are today. Michelle again. View, CA .. 1967-1998 .. A Fan Page For Those Who Loved This One Of A Kind Place! alley on El Camino before it moved to Castro. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-St-James-Infirmary/330535863804 Does anyone know what was at the northeast side of the Moffett and W. Middlefield intersect? It felt like home . Bowling Alley on El Camino 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. (I worked there from 1976-1984). A&E Fosters Freeze and Linda's were a treat. 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. The Golden Wok was good too, but suddenly closed and never reopened. Palo Alto Online (Jason Williams) I remember the Weinerschnitzel on Castro St. But then maybe younger people know where all the new nightspots are. I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. Went to Crittenden in the 80's, Graduated from Los ALtos High. Old Mill on California Street where the Crossings housing is now located. Echos of Don Sherwood and Superfrog live on in Maine. -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. View high. My father liked Indian history and so I did too. Town dump at the end of Stierlin road. Bokman Chevy and Tuban Ford All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Blossom Valley True Value Hardware He explained that this was restraunt row, and it kind of came with the territory. fatality. best city in Northern California.I attended MVHS AT Castro street. I lived there from the '50s thru to 1984. Freedom. Original post made by Richard Gambatese, Old Mountain View, on Feb 6, 2009 I was a couselor at the Mt.View Methadone Clinic which was in the County Building at the intersection of Stirlin Rd and Moffett Blvd. It was worse than going to the Apple Store today though the geniuses Mountain View Hight was located in downtown M.V. View since 1992I live on the East Coast now. It was sad to see it go. My Mother, brothers, and I moved to Mtn. I made it clear that I wasn't interested. The others were demolished in the 1990s for the present-day Whisman Station development. TownSquare Some old photos were also in the lock shop plus the lock shop has not altered building it is the Jehning Family Lock Museum. There was an A&W Root Beer, Bob's Big Boy Hamburgers, Bowling Alley, Gelato ice cream, Foster's freeze ice cream, Mike's Pizza, were on El Camino Real. 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. I think Rambus occupies that site now. Thank-you for the memories. A search for "Dublin Inn" gave just a pointer to a late-2015 comment earlier on this same recollections page, signed by one Bill242 (same Bill who just asked? It was later disclosed that this was one of two centers where the US controlled their defense satellites, and downloaded intelligence. Get introduced. I ALWAYS START WITH THE SURROUNDING TOWNS TOO.. THEN WORK DOWN TO MTN VIEW.. It used to be called the Dublin Inn as I recall from 50's, 60's and later. I think everyone also remembers the Menu Tree there as well, so that has to be mentioned. BF, "the spooky old house standing alone somewhere along Shoreline." Search on line for "Rengsdorff house". Hah, when I was going to Foothill I loved just down Bonita from the Food Fair Market I moved to Old Mtn View in the late '70s.remember Gemello Winery? So sad to see all this go away.. Perhaps one day they will some how rebuild things.. You never know.. !the jack in the box at shoreline & montecito was a gas station>>> the deli at baily park was owned by a former wrestler.. who cut turkey sandwhiches w/ an electric carver as you ordered>> where I practiced graffiti.. god bless IN&OUT BURGER. I delivered San Francisco Chronicle and Mountain View News Herald papers along Thompson Ave and Alvin St as well over in Del Medio area. 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. Ya Luv these comments.. Red Barn for a Barnbuster Any one work with/through the Youth Opportunity Program (high school students) at the Mountain View Post Office? Next door, was a Gelato ice cream shop. Things have changed but the one thing that seems the same is Edith Landels elementary school, that place seems timeless. Payless Drug Store, which is now Rite-aid This was a Navy town back then. I was teaching at Foothill Jr. College. We had a wonderful wholesale bakery in that neighborhood, where you could buy a big bag of shortbread cookies for a $1. I live now in Kiseemmee Florida,but I travel to Mountain View Wow. It was across the street from a bowling alley. My parents still live there, and I visit them often. Like to give a shout out to all the families that participated in making Mtn View such a fun place to grow up. I'm was 12 years old. I was born and raised in Mtn. The live music downstairs John Stewart of "California Bloodlines", Crystal Pistol (3 girls, violin & guitars) This is about the old originals of Mountain View. I miss Old Cal Pizza and Stuft Pizza on Castro St. Where was Stuft Pizza located again? I remember delivering flyers announcing store-opening specials (and being paid the handsome wage of 35 cents! It was a hofbrau or road stop kind of place. People reminisce, for example, about Linda's. And across the street where Longs Drugs/Starbucks/Blockbuster is was a lumber yard/home improvement type of place, forgot the name. I graduated from Mtn. Eddies Sport Shop, The Instep for Addidas. There was a frozen North Pole and Santa sat in his house nearby. but I sure do miss Uncle Otto's Cheesecake and Stigs Pastry shop on Castro. I was a Mt. San Francisco, California, United States. Did anyone go to Crittenden for elementary school?! Born 1978 @ the El Camino hospital. was a great a place to do one's laundry and occasionally meet people. First things first. in the 70's best pizza ever !!!!!!!!!! Original post made by Richard Gambatese, Old Mountain View, on Feb 6, 2009 I was a couselor at the Mt.View Methadone Clinic which was in the County Building at the intersection of Stirlin Rd and Moffett Blvd. St. James Infirmary suffered a huge fire in late '97. There were two chains, Pollos and Pollo Locos. Mountain View has changed a lot in 29 years, so my recollection of where things were may be off (esp. Does anyone remember the name of this place? Great funky atmosphere, too. I now live in Napa Valley and I haven't found anything like that here. I'm thinking across from I remember The Beer Garden having a very old, tall, date palm tree in the parking lot. It was unmanned but still wired in. Downtown only had Chinese Restaurant's except for the Weinersnitzel on the corner of Castro and California Street. There's a Residence Inn there now. Please keep the memories alive. Bicycles wagons all sorts of things hanging on the walls. The water tower at Questa and Grant Road was routinely vandalized with painting by person(s) unknown (before tagging was a term). Now, did anyone mention Frankie Johnnie & Luigi Too!? Where the amp. DO YOU REMEMBER SHAWS, EL ZARAPE, CHEZ YVONNE, RUMPUS ROOM, WAGON WHEEL, ANDY'S CHINESE REST, CLINTS, SPIVEYS, ST JAMES INFIRMERY, CHUCKS OF HAWAII SOME REALLY FAMOUS SINGERS SHOWED UP THERE.. Dreamed of a jet in a small group colliding with a tree, a few days before the Blue Angels had their first (?) Great Western Savings There was Rainbow Record Store at the light on Grant Road as you approach the shopping center. 13" screen with rabbit ears. This was such a great place in the mid to late 70's - the Baylands Park, the old white house near Shoreline. Mountain View was the southernmost town with the 415 area code. now. The recreation department was second to none. The library had only one story and was overcrowded. 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. Lets not forget The TownClub, R-Club, Cottage, The OakRoom, Mervyns. 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"? Oh yeah, I went to preschool at the Adobe building on Castro east of Central Expressway. We tried to be a Palo Alto, thats why people eat in parking spaces on Castro street! There are a lot of restaurants that I remember. Redwood City Pulse, 2023 Mountain View Online really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. I was born and raised in Mountain View and, except for about 6 years out-of-state for college, I've spent my whole life here. We thought we were in heaven and loved our life there until one night John came home and told me his division was being transferred to San Diego North Island and the aircraft carrier USS Princeton CV 37. There was actually a gun shop (Eddy's) on Castro and El Camino which first moved across the street then finally went out of business about 6 or 7 years ago. My folks moved to Mountain View from San Bruno in 1962 when I was 4. I was just there several days ago to meet with some friends at Shiva's, an upscale Indian place with a reasonably-priced buffet lunch ($15). their facilities. Unfortunately, Moffett had been closed. It also had a smallish, old-fashioned PBX switchboard with plugs and cables. Cruising between Johnny Macs and Spiveys drive Inns on the El In 1967, one of the boys got killed in an accident, and the business went down hill after that. They had a neat stairway with upper level seating. I took my parents to the Balkin Village on the Elcamino for their 25th wedding aniversary in 1973. Mountain View had that," Small Town USA " feel . Qui Hing Low and Andy's best chinese food ever! doing well. Mountain View Library with great new book selections inside the entrance usually getting no farther than that to stop and read. - Zen Houseplants at Middlefield and MV-Alviso Rd Car dealership n Castro and el CAMINO. on Apr 13, 2008, There's a good DVD at the public library on the history of Mountain View. Go Eagles!!! Nothing here to do about old places in Mtn. It was across the street from a bowling alley. Target and where the DMV used to be and is now a truck driver training school. Standard Brands was built on the corner of 237 and El Camino Real, so many open fields built up. I have another memory I haven't seen mentioned yet: a restaurant called Woody's that was on Middlefield (or Old Middlefield?) Thanks for any insight! i went to monta loma back in 1979 then i moved to oakdale. My sister worked at Handy Man and also payless donuts. or his father? Apt. The year the Circus came to Mountain View high school field and the carnivals the school would have. The Monte Vista drive-in movie theater was on Grant Road behind where the Walgreens is now (bunch of housing there now.) Jocelyn's Bike shop started in Midtown Palo Alto didn't it? The Shenandoah military housing is adjacent to this site. A movie theater, not much else. 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 Linda's drive-in had the BEST hamburgers (Parisian burger) and fries in town. It was located off Middlefield near Ellis Street. I only lived in Mtn. 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. A block down from Printer's Inc. TG&Y between Safeway and Walgreens. JCPenneys was on Castro Street Later on. Two Guys from Italy Rest. Open fields around the neighborhood were great places for playing baseball and hide and seek. 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. What about the holiday decorations in both the Mayfield Mall and Old Mill Mall and shops like that jelly belly booth with every imaginable flavor I so enjoyed. Chucks also once had a place in Tustin (Orange County), with no entertainment, and I quess two or three are still going in Hawaii. The Dublin Inn on Middlefield and Rengstorff I also remember the original House of Humor in the shopping center at the corner of Grant and ECR. ST. JAMES INFIRMARY Hospitals and Health Care San Francisco, California 403 followers It is our mission to meet the needs of people engaged in the sex trade through advocacy, direct services . Theatre is now standing. Thrifty's at the San Antonio Shopping Center for ice creams I used to love to go in there and watch the monkeys and dream about having one of my own. That place was great too. Nice thread full of great memories! -The Mayfiled Mall "site" was actually Mayfield Mall And the Navy was the major employer of the city, at least when I was in elementary school. I haven't been to Mtn. Website. Mountain View was obviously a bigger success.) train go by when you were watching movies in the Old Mill Theaters. It was off of Castro Street by the RR Tracks near the alley. Albertson's bakery had the best brownies i've ever tasted. Mountain Mike's Pizza I think the biggest change is East Mt. On Saturdays I'd drive up El Camino. Thanks for the link to the 1969 restaurant guide, Richard. O'Malley? Went to MVHS when it was on Castro St. People came from miles to have New York style pizza/dinners. I could go on forever on how much this city has changed. The "shoreline house" was actually the home of Henry Rengstorff. chicken. The Infirmary was destroyed by an arson fire in 1998. . The school was later used as the temporary site for Foothill College until it opened in 1961. Oh, how I long for the old days!!! I am looking for any one who might possibly have any information on who owned The Rumpus Room and or The 101 Club back in the 80's???? Can't remember for sure, but I think they had sound to outside. Gunn Highschool across Charleston used to be a field full of cattle. Its been a long time since ive been though there. There was a night club called The Infirmary lots of fun. Gardens and water wheels inside the mall. There was also another night club on the other side of the freeway, next to Safeway- can't remember the name- that was more of a dance club. Dear Newbie- I remember my mom and grandma shopping at the Purity grocery store where Golden Wok now sits, it was one of the first grocery stores in town and had smaller shopping carts for the kids to use. Walking to the pet shop by the laundry where the lpressing shirts would wave at us. You could buy beer by waiting outside Mayfair Market for someone "cool" to walk in and ask them to score you a six. Had a fun summer vacation visiting my dad and his partner, they owned disgusting, particularly the ones on Terminal Ave that went without But as for Mountain View, it is better than ever. -Paul Portola Elementary, Egan JH Los Altos High '78 Foothill 78-80 Drying apricots in the orchards on Grant Road the second crash in as many years. Greets. Ferry Morse Seed Company And I second the notion of Web Link being a AWESOME place on the web to see the rich history of Mountain View. Navy jets flew overhead constantly, then it was the Orion P-3 submarine chasers. In the middle of the rows of corn was a large plot of pot, strictly for medicinal purposes of course. I don't think this service lasted long. I used to ride my bike on the dirt trails where the old Highway school used to be. These all mostly faded-out by the late 1990s. Frequented San Antonio shopping center, mayfield mall and old mill. The shopping center is no more, at least not anything like the original. The San Antonio Shopping Center had that church single's group that met every Sunday morning in the upper floor of the Menu Tree. Try to find a gun shop in Mountain View today. I grew up next to Therekauf/Stevenson school. 1998 -Arson fire destroys St. James Infirmary, a popular bar and grill that opened in 1967. Mountain View's facilities go to heck. build houses so close to the train tracks. It was a great place to go and drink and dance. My 'Tiny Tots' (preschool) was at the Adobe Building where we would take walks holding onto a rope to cross the Expressway! 5-1 or 3-1 etc.. fumes overhead. Fremont Fire Dist. Gelato Classico, the best ice cream in the world in my opinion, was over by a bowling Great place to grow up. Mayfield Mall Construction went on for quite a while and the place was really novel with JC Penny holding the anchor spot. Trying to locate a Amazon parrot that was left at a store in that time frame. own bread, and sold beers at least in the old Palo Alto place on Meadow. 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 also interesting to see that 1984 W. El Camino was once a Holiday Inn. 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