A block down from Printer's Inc. I haven't used it, but you might be able to find some helpful resources there. He had more cattle up off Skyline and near Half Moon Bay Halloween was a must every year. 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). Left in 68 to join the USMC. It was a hofbrau or road stop kind of place. Mountain Mike's Pizza miss those days. This was back in the first days of the home computers. 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. My wife was on-call as a dietitian at the nursing home there in the early 80s. TV was black and white till them -Shoreline Park was a landfill. Did we grow up OK? I used to love to go in there and watch the monkeys and dream about having one of my own. When I lived on Park Dr I used to walk over on Saturday mornings. After the station was gone. 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. View across the street from I just heard that Sono Sushi has closed too, and I really used to like that place The bottle was refundable for a nickle at the store where you could buy a candy bar for five cents! As for the tire store it was located where the bead store is now. View was 'Yorkshire' and all numbers began YO7-xxxx. [emailprotected]. Directions Advertisement. My parents lived on View Street which is 2 blocks from Castro Street. And great memories. That was Many mini motels, and lots to do. 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. Hello Father, we would sayHello boys..his response..Keep the memories coming . There was a Pier One in the underground area and the Mall had a good record store. Going into the back of the store was always a scandalous adventure as a child My dad worked at Lockheed. This barely scratches the surface of my experiences in Mt. I also remember the original House of Humor in the shopping center at the corner of Grant and ECR. Linda's was my favorite place for take-out as a child (I LOVED the tator tots!) Moffett Food Center owned by Sam Leong and his family. Cuesta Park has an artificial lake. It was near the road into Alviso, home of the first Yacht Club in Calif. 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. I also forgot to mention Castro City Market on Rengstorff west of Central Expressway right by the Amtrak commuter train stop at the same location. The park behind the high school were we cut classes all the time. Neither are there anymore. 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 only other big event was the art and wine festival and a chinatown. - Farms on Charleston north of 101, orchards on Whisman & elsewhere Hofbrau and then office buildings or something now. Thanks for the memories people. Its where the first IC was made by Noyce? Loved that park. And don't forget the Camino Bowl, a great place to go bowling before it got torn down and replaced with businesses/condo units. Carlotta Shopping Center? -Housing was affordable and the city was considered working class. There was an underpass that allowed children to go beneath the busy road to get to school. Mayfield Mall Construction went on for quite a while and the place was really novel with JC Penny holding the anchor spot. Who remembers Frankie, Johnnie and luigo too, before major expansion, on Friday and Saturday nights the line to get was so long. The "new" MVHS used to host a carnival in its parking lot on Bryant Avenue in the 80's and there was also one that stopped at the Sears parking lot on San Antonio Rd. 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. (0.37 mi) Plaza Resort Club Hotel (0.21 mi) Legacy Vacation Club Reno Studio Suite, SUNDAY Check-In (0.23 mi) Stunning Views On Riverwalk Wow Factor 1BR 2BA (0.21 mi) Legacy Vacation Resort Reno; View all hotels near St. James Infirmary on Tripadvisor Went there many times in the 1975-80 period. I also enjoyed a great Steely Dan concert in the late 90's at Shoreline Ampitheater. Tire Store It was farmland with a few ranch homes. I lived there 24 years and Neal lived there 30 years. GTE's greatly reduced operation was moved to Santa Clara a few years ago. There were also Tower Books, Printer's Inc. in Palo Alto, Stacey's, Kepler's, Books Inc. in the Stanford Center all of them with much bigger and more fascinating selections than one sees now. There was a motorcycle suspension shop on Leghorn called Simon's it later morphed into Roxshox. Renamed it La Problem Eata. 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). The hobby shop was really packed on weekends from 1966-1968. View from '56 to '79 with a detour through the USMC abd SE.Asia. More details in a comment posted to this local 2012 article: Web Link. Back over across Magical Mountain View [looking back--] One of the things I really liked about the area was that there were small artisan shops, whether they were small restaurants with health food items on the menu, sprouts and tofu, or if they were jewelry and clothing shops, privately owned. The World Famous St. James Infirmary .. Mt. I think the Old Mill closed in the mid to late 80s? Nick from the Netherlands, not sure if this is correct neighborhood---There is a restaurant/bar on Old Middlefield near Rengsdorf called O'Mally's. no one mentioned Continental MKT. Bubble gum was the best flavor. The King of Clubs was a big Navy bar and we used to go to Denny's across the street. The other was located after you pass the train tracks going towards Moffet on left side near the corner of Moffet and Sterling. 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. Linda's Hamburger Joint on El Camino Target and where the DMV used to be and is now a truck driver training school. 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. ----Imagemakers Hair Salon/Vicky's Hair Salon. What a great time! a fruit/vegetable stand. We lived on Parker Ct. Everyone knows who owns big chunks of that land now. Carpeteria 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. When did the Old Mill close down and whateve happened to the best pizza place that I knew of Fargo's? What a story that was. I used to ride my bike on the dirt trails where the old Highway school used to be. The crowds on Castro used to be nicer and more polite and drivers used to drive better. Kragans Auto? I think that space is now occupied by a Chinese restaurant. The owner had a old pick-up. 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. Downtown / Midtown Cross Street. everything I knew is gone. I have fond memories of taking my little sister there in her stroller so I could get free candy from the manager. 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. Sponsored content 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 :/). train go by when you were watching movies in the Old Mill Theaters. Does anybody remember the Sunnyview Family Club, down on Esceula? House of Yee on Castro. Jerry Reed(1937-2008) was a country music singer, songwriter, and actor, who specialized in a variety of novelty numbers. S.R. I forgot something! We'll see if the condo development goes through for that location. 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. View was a ghost town on weekends. The Togos have moved around and changed a lot, but Togos used to be really great. What wonderful memories!!! that you could buy, TV going on. View High in 78 and remember all the places mentioned. Embarcadero Media Jocelyn's Bike shop started in Midtown Palo Alto didn't it? Remember the P-3s that used to fly over on their quests to track Soviet I grew up there in the late 70's when my grandfather retired from TWA we moved from Mountain View to Florida. The redwood in front of city hall wasn't merely damaged, but actually accidentally cut down and then someone said "whoops!" We could see Monte Vista drive in from our roof . There was a Red Barn Hamburger place on El Camino @ Rengstorff There was aWhisman Gramer School on the corner of Sterling and Charlston Rd.It had 4 class rooms with two grades each room. Flower Shop I was part of the last graduating class of old Mtn. Oh, how I long for the old days!!! [melissabee, 11/08/2009] Uniroyal Gal - Confirmed Gone All sources list the location of St. James Infirmary Bar & Grill as 390 Moffet Blvd. Castro Street in the 70s was a ghost town. Had a friend that called and asked me the name of the furniture store and I have forgotten. My friends worked at the movie theater and some also worked at Village Host a pizza place in downtown. Shoreline Blvd was Sterlein Rd the entire length. the Library, the City Hall area, Steven's Creek trail Mountain View is People reminisce, for example, about Linda's. They are planning to move soon to San Jose area. BIG difference. Castro Street was mostly a wasteland. The movie theater was pretty small.I recall we usually chose the Varsity Theater up in Palo Alto over the small MV theater. The persimmon tree in "our" front yard and the people who would drive up and try to strip the fruit. The parks would take us on a tour to the downtown firehouse and police station where we got to slide down the firepole! "Continental market" was at the old safeway on california/San Antonio road. That area around Middlefield/Ellis was where Raytheon? KEEP ALL THE GOOD MEMORIES COMING.. ONE OF THESE YEARS I WOULD LIKE TO WRITE A BOOK ON THE SCHOOL CAFERTERIA'S - FOOD I RECALL EVERYONE USE TO RAVE ABOUT THE FOOD ( LAUGH ) SOME OF IT WAS PRETTY GOOD ! I bought a hamster for my kids there. For some, the 70's kicked off in Mountain View with a homecoming float featuring a huge EAGLE. The Huntingdon Apts $125 a month rent now When the infamous 'dog house' was built. 85 was Central Expressway Turned out there was a mistake and the permit was supposed to be to have been issued for his small pepper tree instead. Riding the old plow horse Dolly in the field next to St Joseph's, little league games at McKelvey park,helping Levy in the concession stand . Arby's on San Antonio, where I worked for a while, and was taught that a fry should break, never bend. Ahh, the way it was I lived there from the '50s thru to 1984. There was also a pizza place called Fargo's that had live music on weekends. 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. Steve don't be such a downer you must be a transplant people like myself who happen to be a 4th generation MV resident like hearing old stories of MV stop clicking on the link. I think it was White something. where Heritage Bank is on El Camino It was officially opened by Portfolio Minister . Rite Aid was called Thrifty then Payless with Alpha Beta Gocery Store next door. from 1973 to 1978. 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. I read someone's mother and relatives used to work at that bakery and I was wondering if they remember and would like to share and bring a little of joy to others. The Moffett Drive In was our cheap entertainment. Juice Time was next to the cleaner's Shoreline made us known in the area as thousands came to listen to music. Having just gone to Watsonville for the first time a few months ago, I was PT, I don't think it was a library. Posted by Elizabeth, a resident of the Whisman Station neighborhood, on Feb 22, 2011 at 3:15 pm 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. Many of the streets were unpaved and had chickens and peacocks roaming around. Seeing Whitesnake at Shoreline Amphitheater and then being there when they had to close it down to clean all the methane (because flicked lit cigarettes were flaring up) lolgood timesgood times, Thank you everyone for the 60's memories my family and I lived on stierlin rd. My cousins were Sharon & Jerry Stark, and Harvey, Ed, & Jay Miller. These factors are similar to those you might use to determine which business to select from a local Yellow Pages directory, including proximity to where you are searching, expertise in the specific services or products you need, and comprehensive business information to help evaluate a business's suitability for you. View. Pollo Loco. I wished Id taken more pictures , than what I have. Dreamed of a jet in a small group colliding with a tree, a few days before the Blue Angels had their first (?) The "shoreline house" was actually the home of Henry Rengstorff. And regrettably been here ever since. Music Store Antipasto salad to die for, (Hold the anchovies please) That furniture place on El Monte/El Camino that sold unfinished pine furniture became Office Max? where Rengstoff and El Camino split off with El Monte .. that was a dirt Does anyone know what bakery I'm talking about? Primary Menu Newsroom; Public Meetings; About HCAI; Subscribe; Careers; Log In; Scroll navigation Left Building Safety & Finance. more forward thinking than Palo Alto and I am sorry I moved to Palo Alto i sure spent a lot of money on books and cartridges for Red Barn for a Barnbuster They give me the best care one could hope for. It was crazy but totally fun!! It is bustling, vibrant, filled with great restaurants. -Paul Portola Elementary, Egan JH Los Altos High '78 Foothill 78-80 I cannot believe I am reading this article still. Website(s): Main Website. South Palo Alto, I attended Wilbur Junior High on East Meadow, class of 1957 and Cubberley class of 1960 on Middlefield Rd just before San Antonio. The lumber yard and hardware store on El Monte near El Camino was called Hubbard & Johnson; I used to do a lot of business there. Their downstairs cellar was a nice and intimate showroom and upstairs they had good steaks. Ken's House of Pancakes' German Babies souffl pancakes with powdered sugar & lemon wedges. It's called, "Images of America: Mountain View." I heard that Tai Ming Lo was a really good restaurant. I took my first date to the movies @ San Antonio center and for a burger at the Menu Tree after. Clarke's is great. View, either the Old Highway School or the newly completed (back then) Mountain View High. I fetched that post by typing O'Malley's in the Search box (toward upper right on this page). 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. It is the second left turn from the Cornwall College playground and is erected on the Albion property. Mountain View High School was on Castro Street. ----Woolworth's/Wells Fargo Bank/ Long's Drug Store They Does anyone remember Beto's Casa Blanca Mexican Restaurant. First on Pear Ave, where we raised chickens and exotic birds. Cruising between Johnny Macs and Spiveys drive Inns on the El I also worked at the Ferry Morse Seed Co. in 74-77. YP - The Real Yellow PagesSM - helps you find the right local businesses to meet your specific needs. Didn't see any mention of Monte Vista, or Moonlight Drive-In theatres. Landell's Elementary. Does anyone remember the old building along the Mountain View-Alviso Road (237) that was on the corner of either Maude or Middlefield? He moved his business and family out of state in 2001. I think it may have been some other kind of supermarket in the interim. The Old Mill shopping center was kind of cool. Linda's and the Red Barn View in 1975. One thing for certain, everything changes. The lot was empty for several years. 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. My apartment($125/month) at 515 Central looked out over onion fields in 1966. Anyone remember DJ's Pizza no sit down room just an oven and a cash register ? JC Penney's was where Meyer Electric is now. It also had a smallish, old-fashioned PBX switchboard with plugs and cables. First I rented in a duplex on Sierra Vista: I spent the first 30 years of my life living in what is now called 'Old Mountain View.' Thanks for an interesting trip down memory lane. I remember the A&W chain next to the Social Service Agency. It once comprised 7 buildings, of which only two still stand. Which is something we would'nt likely have done in the 70s. Bay Meadows was fantastic right next door in San Mateo; won 21 to 1 odds on Bridgetwister!!! 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. 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. Old Mill on California Street where the Crossings housing is now located. When Mancini motors (Dodge dealership) was on the corner of Castro and El Camino. also went to Cubberly High school in 50s-60s. What a great place to grow up. then. The public library on Franklin Street, where Miss Marion the Librarian and Miss Meta Antisdell were like surrogate parents to me. There are several stains scattered on the shirt. ma, My first job was at Menu Tree and after that I worked at Gemco. The Menu Tree had quite the selection. I assume the owners knew about the misspelling and either enjoyed the humor of it, or just didn't care. The field where they sold Christmas trees and fireworks on El Camino Real east of Calderon (across from Tuban Ford). Oh, and back when 85 was only 2 lanes where I got my first You could buy beer by waiting outside Mayfair Market for someone "cool" to walk in and ask them to score you a six. 2 talking about this. Does anyone remember the little italian restaurant right across the street from Graham. Bullfarbers ? View for a bit over a year, but that is one memory of mine. Here is some details about the Mountain View I grew up in. yes,st. The old Highway school on the corner of El Camino and Calderon. I'd appreciate some help. Went to Landels Elementary and Graham Junior High. It might have been called Samurai, but I can't recall. Great Western Savings And San Antoinio Mall where Menu Tree was located. 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. The tire dealership on Castro was called Paul Auger's Tires. omg Togo's turkey and Avocado. Was the Rumpus Room ever "topless"? My folks moved to Mountain View from San Bruno in 1962 when I was 4. Hello California! . From Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 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. 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. San Francisco, California, United States. I loved their apple and blueberry pankcakes. I don't remember if it was in Mountain View or Palo Alto. similar to The Cheesecake Factory. Mountain View Library centennial celebration 1905-2005 I recall that Fargo's was a pretty happening spot for live music in its day. 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. There would be like 50 bikes out front on those days. Across the street from the school was a small gas station store that sold penny candy. Web Link State Delicatessen. 5 cents/10 cent Woolworth ice cream cones at woolworths in the San antonio shopping center. This was before 237 was an expressway. 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! (I worked there from 1976-1984). History. 1999 - Opening of the. 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. Boy, talk about kids in a candy store. The ward was a joint initiative between the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the St. James Municipal Corporation. Graham middle school is known as Graham junior high. Drinking suicides through red licorice as our straw. The copper penny There was Rainbow Record Store at the light on Grant Road as you approach the shopping center. I remember all the fruit orchards around and Libby's canning factory in Sunnyvale. 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. 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?? Does anyone remember the helicopters flying overhead (every Monday evening, if I remember correctly) spraying Malathion? . Does anyone remember Mountain View X-mas Tree Farm? - The constant drone of P-3 Orion aircraft overhead Gemco was called Bazaar. This was a Navy town back then. . Don't forget Fairchild. I remember St. James Infirmary, but I was too young to go inside, but I do remember eating some leftover hot wings my sister brought home and lovin it. in the San Antonio Shopping area. 13" screen with rabbit ears. Are you thinking of White Front in Sunnyvale by Toys R Us. Before it was torn down, did the community come out to stop development, like they did for the Milk Pail? They had the best selection of cheesecakes Nob Hills previous location across the parking lot was called Fry's Food Store, then Food Fair, which had relocated from El Camino and Bonita Av. Ken's House of Pancakes was the best (and maybe the only) middle of the night meal in town. There was also Fargo's Pizza at the Old Mill. It had a big room full of mechanical switching relays which were constantly clicking. 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. Mesquite grilled - best BBQ chicken Now its an India restaurant. If it's boring you, CHANGE THE CHANNEL! 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. Now our old house is appraised at 1.5 million + and apparently the Mtn View I knew and loved is no more. traffic ticket as a kid and never thought I could feel so bad! Also had an acre of land. For the longest time on ECR (80's) there was a great little store selling seat covers (I think it was near Castro). Oh, I miss that barbecue Well at least Clark's burgers is still around! We used to eat at The Menu Tree and the kids got the $1 burger basket. I was a kid here in the 1960's, My family moved here in 59. I remember the following Downtown was a quest area with a few Chinese restaurant. 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. I think everyone also remembers the Menu Tree there as well, so that has to be mentioned. I remember in the 70s, the Monte Vista drive-in. And Clarkes had the best burger in Mountain View, Amber Lantern had build houses so close to the train tracks. I live now in Kiseemmee Florida,but I travel to Mountain View When we moved to Palo Alto, we would take the bus for 10 cents and go to Mayfield Mall. Hubbard and Johnson was on the corner of El Monte and El Camino, where Longs and Starbucks are today. Great times when Mountain View really felt like families where the heart of the community not transplants!!!!!! the best Chicken place in the area, Pollo Loco! Thank you, this is definitely the place I remembered along 237 (The Beer Garden) but I'd forgotten about the old date palm. Aikido lessons in a hot second floor dojo above Castro Street. (Probably "Looking Back") Don't forget Bob's Big Boy and Linda's on El Camino. And to this very day, Prince's music reminds me of how happy I was to have discovered Mountain View! Where the amp. Arby's had the best fries then. I worked at the Sav-Mor food store on Calderon an Church for about 5 years, along with my Brother. My mom was a single mother of 4 and she was able to afford to feed all of us occasionally at the Menu Tree and Bobs Big Boy. Harry's Hofbrau was the Food Fair Market. and may again, but why don't people do their jobs when they are Mr Knight was a wonderful employer and friend. Eddy's Sport Shop on Castro, where I bought my first baseball glove (Bobby Bonds model). I just don't know the name of it. 2. View high. Hope that you find something on the internet about it? on the discussion! ----Great Western Savings/Home Savings/ Westwood Childcare Center Even our long time neighbors can't recall the name. Downtown Mtn View was a vital business district for everyone. 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. It was across the street from a bowling alley. Everybody actually went to Shakey's Pizza in P.A. Other notable Mt. 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. The first 2 years of St. Joseph's School were held in the old classrooms of at what is now St. Francis High School. It opened in 1970 and closed in 1995. View- was also a mailman there for a couple of years in late 60's. I'm trying to remember where the beauty college was located at, fond memories of downtown. Did anyone go to Crittenden for elementary school?! 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. Across the street on Evelyn (which was a dirt road in places) was Ferry-Morse, but HP more recently occupied the site. I enjoy reminiscing the things that made Mountain View so great. Location. I remember when the "Dog City" building (corner of Castro and Mercy) was vacant, for years, and full of dogs. Contact Us But then maybe younger people know where all the new nightspots are. And GTE @ the Central Park Apts. My Mother, brothers, and I moved to Mtn. Dances on friday night at the rec center were great.. Eagles Rule!!! later and let me tell you, Mountain View was fantastic in the 1ate 1970's and early 80's when I resided in the area. Don't forget the Red Barn with 19 cent burgers, Taco Tico and I saw someone else mentioned El Zarrape (the best). Oh gosh! It has helped me bridge the gap of what Mountain View used to be. St James Infirmary. $3,592,796. On the corner of ECR & 237?? Home & Real Estate Website. View Jailon's full profile. Terms of Use So by posting to this thread, you inadvertantly ensured that it will continue to grace the front page. 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