st james infirmary mountain view, california

-San Antonio Center was a mall (yep, three malls!) The train to Santa Cruz rail bed is a jogging trail now. james that burned down.and Gyro's house of terror at the old mill ..before it became a tent in san jose>> The Greatful Dead would come into town!!!!!!! View since the mid/late 70's, things have definitely changed since then, both in the town and around the valley. The Navy was in town, Moffitt Field was booming and the Blue Angels had their air show every year (my family would watch the show from our roof). 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 was born and raised in Mtn. One of my favorites was Linda's with their Parisian burgers and tater tots. 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. 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. Carlotta Shopping Center? I could go on forever on how much this city has changed. 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 Does anyone remember the name of the coffee shop next to rower records? Obituaries, Send News Tips Surely so that's the first and possibly only place I would go to eat if I ever came back to visit. 80's things began to happen, and now I think Mountain View is nicer and My daughter and her friends hang out at the In-n-Out burger on Grant or at our local smoothie places. The St. James Infirmary is located about 5 minutes drive from downtown Montego Bay. had kept it. Even our long time neighbors can't recall the name. The car dealership on El Camino with the globe on the pole was Mancini Motors. I took my parents to the Balkin Village on the Elcamino for their 25th wedding aniversary in 1973. I moved to Mtn. 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?) and it was the Mountain View Eagles. Walking miles to the nearest 7-11 past St Francis for slurpees. Stewart recorded his "Lonesome Picker Rides Again" album there. All rights reserved. VA construction started about 1958 and opened a few years later. Moved to Sunnyvale a year later. thanks for the memories. Best hamburgers in the south bay. 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. It was also interesting to see that 1984 W. El Camino was once a Holiday Inn. - Farms on Charleston north of 101, orchards on Whisman & elsewhere I took a part time job at Knight's Drugstore at the soda fountain, having my 18th birthday celebrated there with wonderful fellow employees. My mom used to take me there and I remember always ordering the grilled cheese sandwich and jello for dessert. This was in the mid-late 90s? Bobs Big Boy became a Japanese restaurant became another restaurant. Mountain View's facilities go to heck. Gas was cheap, crime was low and we had a blast growing up there. --Tim. Become a Member Wherehouse Records, Chuck's Cellar on El Camino was mentioned and John Stewart of Kingston Trio fame. Write now for free help" that Herb Caen's column had mentioned when I had lived in Santa Cruz. I was teaching at Foothill Jr. College. I've recently moved here from Louisiana, married, and bought a lil condo. The copper penny The school was later used as the temporary site for Foothill College until it opened in 1961. View Music.. Does any one have the shortbread cookie recipe made by Baders' in Mountain View. There was a Chinese restaurant named Andy on Castro st. 1970s very good food And who remembers Rod Martin karate studios on El Camino near the San Antonio shopping center? The Kaiser bldg was a shopping center with a grocery store Lucky and the best bakery. And the "Generic Hamburger Stand" in the old Der Weinerschnitzel (which became Weinerschnitzel again after the generic place closed). The front facade are new buildings but the roof and rear are the remains of old Victorian houses. in the 70's best pizza ever !!!!!!!!!! My 'Tiny Tots' (preschool) was at the Adobe Building where we would take walks holding onto a rope to cross the Expressway! Next door was an ice cream store, I think it was called Dons. I also remember the original House of Humor in the shopping center at the corner of Grant and ECR. . Mountain View (and the rest of the Peninsula seems quite different now). A few notes: I wish I Does anyone remember Beto's Casa Blanca Mexican Restaurant. Pretty spooky and not for the weak. Bullfarbers ? The town had a Bobs Big Boy, Linda's drive in, foster freeze, Wiener schnitzel, st James infirmary, Denny's restayeant (great for after a long night if dancing), GEMCO, Carrs pet store, emporium, mervyns, Sears, tower RECords, warehouse records, jcpennys, cost plus, tony Roma's, lots of used car lots along el CAMINO real, kens house of pancakes, thrift store next to cuisimanos (sp?) -Whisman Station was a big industrial campus for GE. I fetched that post by typing O'Malley's in the Search box (toward upper right on this page). WTH happened?!?! Some old photos were also in the lock shop plus the lock shop has not altered building it is the Jehning Family Lock Museum. It stimulates my aging brain. I'm trying to remember where the beauty college was located at, fond memories of downtown. Watching SP commute trains at San Antonio and Alma What a great place to grow up. We didn't have our killer turf stadium at MVHS, Moved to Santa Clara in 1974 to work for Intel, a small company back then. This is about the old originals of Mountain View. The school dances and alot of fights in the year 1970. ( In door food court ) La Petit Boulangerie, Florentines Pasta Shop, TOGO's!!!!! I remember: I'd appreciate some help. Palo Alto Online sewage treatment plant and the airport spewing noise and leaded exhaust It just doesn't seem as fun anymore Mt View east of Bayshore (101)had no paved roads--dust in summer, mud in winter. I remember Bank of America where it used to be next to that tire store, and is now a sushi restaurant in front (if you go inside and look at the floor, you'll still see the original mosaic flooring at the entrance), the Asian supermarket being some sort of drug store? Blogs 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. Reminise with our review which placed SJI in our 4 divers category. Its been a long time since ive been though there. We lived on Cornelia Ct., and I attended Bubb School for the 4th - 6th grades when we moved back to Green Bay, Wi. Lived the rest of the time near Castro Street: Truly a classic '70s dive. 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. the MV Eagles ruled Nice thread full of great memories! My friends worked at the movie theater and some also worked at Village Host a pizza place in downtown. News Munson's Drugstore on El Camino and Castro My grandpa and I would go through in our funky station wagon. the Library, the City Hall area, Steven's Creek trail Mountain View is How difficult is it envisioning what we will (or should!) I have fond memories of taking my little sister there in her stroller so I could get free candy from the manager. When the infamous 'dog house' was built. Ferry-Morse seed Co. If it bent, we threw them out. Calif. street was still 2 lanes, too. 20 planes about 2 minutes apart, talk about noise pollution. When we moved to Palo Alto, we would take the bus for 10 cents and go to Mayfield Mall. I frankly had more fun at St. James and spent more time there. I don't think this service lasted long. It was near the road into Alviso, home of the first Yacht Club in Calif. Web Link. El Camino hospital was behind orchards that ran all the way down Cuesta. They had a huge selection of bottled beers from around the world. Smelling patchoulli and knowing that the "Dead" were here Speaking of pizza, have you followed the curious path of Pontillo's Pizza that was on Rengstorff near El Camino? Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. If anyone knows this information, please post the answer and thanks in advance for your help. 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. I think everyone attended some sort of function there at some point in their lives. alley on El Camino before it moved to Castro. Where Sterlin meets Moffet blvd there was an auto repair place where you could bu a Coke in a 6 1/2 oz bottle for a dime. Original post made Ken's House of Pancakes on El Camino Real (great for breakfast) Moffet Drive In..worked there in the 60's along with the Shell station at San Antonio and El Camino. (It was beautiful) arrive, but school was being led out at the same time, i remember seating to face the damage. And great memories. Village Host Pizza on Castro. And yes who can forget St. James ( cheap drinks and lot's of fun ) and my favorite place Linda's on El Camino. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-St-James-Infirmary/330535863804 His GF dies, which leads him to tell us how great he is and then plan his own funeral.. They were just fantastic. (After returning from two rainy years near Portland, a few times. We ate at Ken's House of Pancake's (apple pancakes! Frequented San Antonio shopping center, mayfield mall and old mill. I only lived in Mtn. It's great and I am grateful to the Voice for continuing it. I actually worked down the road in Los Altos at the Boardwalk, what a shame they closed. organizations filed purposes: st. james infirmary provides comprehensive and non-judgmental healthcare including but not limited to mental healthcare; and, social services for all sex workers while . View since I was about 6, went to Slater elementry, then Graham jr. High and graduated Mtn. What did they used to call 85 before it was a highway and ended There was a curve loop for students to be picked up. At one time, a band that later turned out to be Santana could be heard practicing in Malachi's basement while you waited for the light to turn green. I just heard that Sono Sushi has closed too, and I really used to like that place The best pastries ever./Photo Shop It was full of inexpensive children's toys and candy, and had this amazing candy smell that I still remember to this day. Also, does anyone remember where on ECR Matt's Club (dive bar) was? And don't forget the Camino Bowl, a great place to go bowling before it got torn down and replaced with businesses/condo units. I will give you a pass on that since you are a Ctr) and St. James Infirmary (Moffett Blvd) with my friends back in the late 70's to mid 80's era. .25 cents for mixed drinks. by Newbie, Whisman Station, Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi Too! We had 2 A&W Burger places in Mountain View. 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? We used to go to the Mexican Restaurant there that was in the middle of the mall (La Posada???) We had to say indoors and make sure cars were in covered parking. The parks would take us on a tour to the downtown firehouse and police station where we got to slide down the firepole! ma, JCPenneys was on Castro Street Food Fair where Harrys Hofbrau is. Oh yeah, I went to preschool at the Adobe building on Castro east of Central Expressway. WOWwee!!!! I think the biggest change is East Mt. I do i do i do boy do I. ! I highly recommend it ;) We would often drive over to St James, especially on Sunday afternoons when they had drink specials. (I lived in Old MV) It's such a great town still, very expensive but it holds my childhood memories, love MV!! I remember the cookie factory well. store. Thank you anyone and everyone for any info. Greetings.. When I first moved to Mountain View in 1983 I went to the movies at the "Old Mill" shopping center. The original "Der Weinerschnitzel" on California and Castro. It was a beautiful spanish style building which should of been restored and named a historical landmark. Frankie Johnnies & Luigi's on El Camino was/is the best place for a pizza Great funky atmosphere, too. More. No grass, just blacktop. All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. The E.M. club at Moffett Field naval Base was a great place to go. St James Infirmary on mountain dulcimer - YouTube The narrator, Joe McKennedy, seems to be a jerk. I also have very fond memories of the Variety Store at Blossom Valley Shopping Center where we all got candy for a nickel, the Galaxy Gift Store where we got every Christmas Present for my mother for about a decade, I think, and Tots-to-Teens where my mom took me for school clothes (and I had to get size "6x" which meant I was not skinny enough :/). Target and where the DMV used to be and is now a truck driver training school. Feinschmuckers Deli, remember Best products store. "Dog City" Building We lived across the street from the Whisman Fire dept. There are still some very good bookstores in DT Mountain View. The house prices went up, $450,000. - Highway 101 was 3 lanes each direction, Hwy 85 was 2 lanes and ended at Stevens Creek Blvd. I then moved out of the area, but then moved back to an apartment in nearby Sunnyvale and worked for someone I knew for awhile from 1999 to 2001. I went to Bubb Elementary School when Ben DeBolt was principal, to Graham Junior High, and to Awalt High School (when it was an open campus and we used to cut class occasionally and hang out at an old dry creek bed in the surrounding neighborhood). Shaw's Ice-cream on El Camino -The Mayfiled Mall "site" was actually Mayfield Mall The bottle was refundable for a nickle at the store where you could buy a candy bar for five cents! (now shoreline) my home was where the parking lot for Shoreline AmpleTheater is now. 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. The only things going in the downtown were Printer's Inc. and a few restaurants like Szechuan Gardens, Dynasty, Fu Lam Mum and Florentine. Thank goodness, Foster's Freeze and Clarke's Charcoal Broiler are still there. Went to MVHS when it was on Castro St. The Togos have moved around and changed a lot, but Togos used to be really great. The St. James Infirmary was a landmark bar and grill in Mountain View that was destroyed by arson fire in 1998. 85 then what did they call it? 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. During the early years I lived on Leong Dr. My home had a 3 foot chain link fence; green with white trim; and was directly across the street from the 76 gas station; and next to That service station was the Denny's restaurant. The Old Mill also had an FM radio station at one time where you could watch the DJ's at work, through a large window. My friends and I would literally rollerskate down the middle of Castro St., on Saturday's with no problem. Directions Advertisement. Sign up to be notified of new comments on this topic. I loved the moffett drive-in. We are lucky some parts of the old town remain and we have " a downtown area " unlike Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino. MV is still a great place to live! I took my first date to the movies @ San Antonio center and for a burger at the Menu Tree after. When Pacific Press was still in town. $3,128,456. You needed to become a member and show your card when you entered the store. He quit in 1971 and we moved to Southern California. theater. The high school games at Foothill and how exciting it was and still is being in Mountain View. Man what a time You could actually walk across town or to school and not worry about anything but being late. I recall that Fargo's was a pretty happening spot for live music in its day. The Indian lady who started that was a visionary, it I arrived in the area in 1974, joining a little company called Intel. own bread, and sold beers at least in the old Palo Alto place on Meadow. Thanks for the link to the 1969 restaurant guide, Richard. I have enjoyed the Shoreline Century 16 movie theater and The Sports Page Bar and Grill, too. Amazons live to be 50~60 years so he may still be alive. When those establishments are gone, they will lament the passing of their youth like the many posts above. The inside was as cool as the outside. Double Rainbow was the ice cream place The entire street, except for the scattering of bars and Chinese restaurants was vacant in the late 70's and 80's. They had these numbered grey totes that the checker put the groceries and purchases in, and placed it on a conveyor belt which sent it to the front of sidewalk., where you would present your claim ticket and another clerk would load it in your car. Old California Pizza Galaxy Gifts, the Variety store, Archies Couffures, and Tots to Teens at the Blossom Valley shopping center where Mayfair Market was. The lot at Moffett and Middlefield held the temporary library while the one downtown was being rebuilt. The bookstores all went away, The computer stores were subsumed by Fry's (which I was going to in Sunnyvale as early as 1984), Best Buy, and later by the Apple Stores. The Monte Vista drive-in movie theater was on Grant Road behind where the Walgreens is now (bunch of housing there now.) We had a close neighbors that looked after each other. View in 1975. Baseball team sponsors, Civitan, Freeman Songroth, Gienger and Hays Funeral Parlor, Raytheon, Cliffs Chevron, Kiwanis, Collishaw Sprinklers, RW Consruction, Oddfellows. go. They had monterey pines and stone pines freshly cut for sale. 4. I lived in a complex of yellow apartment builings on Montecito Ave. That street seems relatively unchanged. Fotomat Drive Up Songroth Brothers (gravel & cement) next to the railroad tracks near Alma & San Antonio? It was a great time but I grew up and moved to other places for my career. History. I lived right behind the Mayfield Mall, and mostly what I remember are annual magic shows, Easter egg hunts, great decorations at Christmas, and the fantastic egg-rolls that a man sold from a cart. 1089 Mission Street. 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. (Now Shoreline park) A huge pepper tree was like a secret room. Thanks for any pet related recollections you may have. It was sad to see it go. They had the best selection of cheesecakes The "shoreline house" was actually the home of Henry Rengstorff. Blossom Valley also had a great pizza place called Old Cal where we would go as kids on minimum days from Blach. Please if any one has any thing that could help I would appreciate it. A block down from Printer's Inc. There was a frozen North Pole and Santa sat in his house nearby. 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 (?). 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! I lived on Colony St and went to Powell School, Crittenden and Mountain View HS on Castro street. It was known to be Mountain View High School's teachers watering hole. Gelato Classico, the best ice cream in the world in my opinion, was over by a bowling Such great memories. -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. Did anyone mention Holy Cross High School next to St Josephs School. The shopping center is no more, at least not anything like the original. I never bothered to buy an alarm clock! Great place to grow up. OJ Cooper school. I was a Mt. Being able to walk the store aisles when the store was closed and no one else was there :). Then the sound became noise pollution. Someone mentioned it closed in about 1980, but I say it hung on a few years longer than that, maybe till about 1985. My dad worked at Lockheed. - The constant drone of P-3 Orion aircraft overhead I spent many a quarter there playing air hockey and the Night Driver video game. I did in 1978 and broke my arm on the monkey bars. TheSixFifty.com It was comfortable. Getting a traffic citation for making a u-turn in front of the Post Office (considered in the business district although 1 block east of Castro and seemingly behind the actual business on the street. Cost Plus? Worked at A & W for school credit in 1974 and 1975 for MVHS then after graduation moved to San Jose/Los Gatos area joined US Navy and retired.Live in MS now, Let's not forget when the Hells Angels Visited this little town I'd love to hear from anyone who may remember me. Anyone remember the Community School of Music on California street. They never cleaned or bothered to inspect There also was Handyman hardware store where Radio Shack is today. Sponsored content And the Mountain View Bakery, the Navy used to buy cakes from them for every occasion. Ferry Morse Seed Company The Cellar was in the 4900 block of El Camino, on the Los Altos side and operated from 1969-85. I just don't know the name of it. the Diamond Ranch Market in 1970 until 1971, as mentioned above, Left in 68 to join the USMC. Where the amp. The shopping center on castro was called Palm Plaza and the thrift shop was Palm Variety. really had an attitude and only helped the people they wanted to. Just a few things I didn't see mentioned. I remember the disco on San Antonio Road at the Old Mill, jogging at the high school, St. james Infirmiry, Andys Chinese Restaurant, Longs Drugs, The Boardwalk on El Camino near Chucks, I remember when my friend Len Rhode opened his burger King on San Antonio Road and El Camino. then. I have fond memories of the Mountain View Movie theater and remember Palm Plaza, long since torn down. !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. There was Mervyns in San Antonio Shopping Center, and the Time I used to ride my bike on the dirt trails where the old Highway school used to be. Ate at the Chez Yvonne many times at 1854 W. El Camino. It was across the street from a bowling alley. Castro Street was mostly a wasteland. Speed limit was 55 mph on all freeways (coming again soon? I live on the East Coast now, 35yrs. 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. There were I still can't believe it's gone! View theater, through a kind of walkway/tunnel to the parking lots behind. We'd also get lunch at Weinerschniztel (at the corner of Castro and California). Bicycles wagons all sorts of things hanging on the walls. Unfortunately, Moffett had been closed. Mountain View was sleepy and boring and we used to consider it lower class I joined the Navy in Mt View in 1961, went on an old Destroyer, was in Vietnam in 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Incident, got out in 1965 and went to work for a small electronics company as a Field Service Engineer. Downtown only had Chinese Restaurant's except for the Weinersnitzel on the corner of Castro and California Street. Also, I remember the Copper Penny a big A-frame restaurant near Anyone remember DJ's Pizza no sit down room just an oven and a cash register ? The first Bank of America was located where the Red Rock Cafe is now, then it moved into the building where Books Inc. is located until it grew out of that location. Is Mountain View better or worse without it? Funny I can't remember the name of that music store. Can anyone tell me about a restaurant called Saint James Infirmary in Mountain View? Lets not forget The TownClub, R-Club, Cottage, The OakRoom, Mervyns. Drying apricots in the orchards on Grant Road Going to Linda's for Parisian burgers and tator tots,double features at Mtn View theatre on Saturdays. or his father? It has helped me bridge the gap of what Mountain View used to be. The grocery store at the Palm Plaza was for years called Bee Foods. Tackle football on the weekends at Monta Loma school with the forniers and walshes in the mud. Express / Weekend Express It might have been called Samurai, but I can't recall. Chucks also once had a place in Tustin (Orange County), with no entertainment, and I quess two or three are still going in Hawaii. I remember the following: View high building is gome butGo eagles !s31ZJ. was. You could drive up el camino and art would be sitting outside reading. I remember when the "Dog City" building (corner of Castro and Mercy) was vacant, for years, and full of dogs. It was a good one, too. Arby's had the best fries then. The mobile home park community; I went to Theuerkauf elementary. View was a ghost town on weekends. Nice to remember everything tho. Bokman Chevy and Tuban Ford Oh one last thing the phone prefix for Mtn. Computer, and I have such fond memories of that machine. 13" screen with rabbit ears. St James Infirmary Organization Address: 1089 Mission St. San Francisco, CA 94109. Sold See item details Similar items on Etsy ( Results include Ads ) Christmas Gifts for Boyfriend - Video Game T shirt for Him - Boyfriend Gifts from Girlfriend - Funny Tshirts UnicornTees $19.99 FREE shipping Arby's on San Antonio, where I worked for a while, and was taught that a fry should break, never bend. They give me the best care one could hope for. Organization Address: 1089 Mission St. San Francisco, California 94109. I also enjoyed a great Steely Dan concert in the late 90's at Shoreline Ampitheater. This done to promote the authors or owners agenda. (my first kiss too!) They would have this giant table with holes in it, and you would roll a ball and make bets where the ball would stop and then you would win whatever amount it landed on if you had that same bet. I remember all the fruit orchards around and Libby's canning factory in Sunnyvale. . I have lived in Mountain View since 1977 and this is what I remember: Cruising between Johnny Macs and Spiveys drive Inns on the El Many people used the train in those days to commute to "The City (San Francisco)". I remember when there was a break between Sunnyvale-Mountain View. 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! and the home of greasers etc. It was a quiet bedroom community. Ya Luv these comments.. That mall was a flop from Day One and has since been sort-of-converted back into something else. 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. Their downstairs cellar was a nice and intimate showroom and upstairs they had good steaks. Arby's at San Antonio and California Landell's Elementary. GTE's greatly reduced operation was moved to Santa Clara a few years ago. I always loved Frankie Johnnie and Luigi too. My cousins were Sharon & Jerry Stark, and Harvey, Ed, & Jay Miller. It seemed like a great concept. It is now The Village at San Antonio Center (Web Link. - Zen Houseplants at Middlefield and MV-Alviso Rd some of the problems. 1999 - Opening of the. Thank-you for the memories. I'd say more, but, well, there's a little book you can pick up at the library or at Books Inc that has tons of photos of Mountain View's history and will probably answer a lot of your questions. It was mostly known as the place to get Chinese food. Joselyn's Bike Shop Gardens and water wheels inside the mall. '' album there in advance for your help center on Castro east Central. 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