The German band at Rick's Swiss Chalet where the Goodwill currently is.
The All-American Grocery store where Blockbuster (?) is on the west side of El Camino. Palo Alto Co-Op where Walgreens currently isĭuca and Hanley Meats where Longs currently is.Īt Charleston Center, the Shell gas station on the corner of middlefield and charleston Palo Alto Sportship where Baskin Robbins currently resides. Cristophers and burgers, fries and cherry cokes for lunch Goodwill in a tiny old building with sloping floors where the Wa-Mutual Bank is.Īt Bergmans: paying $.99 for 45s, and $2 for St. Mayfield school (for non-teacher pets) on El Camino, on the lot next to the new soccer fields.Ĭhuck Thompson's swim club next to the winter lodge I attribute that to my early exposure right here in Palo Alto. I still play the violin and remember a little Spanish. I think it's a travesty that formal music and language instruction is delayed until late elementary and middle school now. I remember taking violin classes and Spanish from first grade on. I remember drills in school where we were told to get under our desks and cover our necks with our hands in case of an air raid. I can still point out those homes now and wonder if the shelters are still there and what they are being used for. I remember several of our neighbors building bomb shelters. I was all of 4 1/2 feet tall, and I'd go out there with my red sweater and sign and stop traffic on Charleston so children could cross the street going to and from school. I remember being on the Safety Patrol that Rafe refers to. "Don't you dare tell the kids!" my husband admonished when we moved here eight years ago. I also remember riding bikes down the dry creek beds. I went to Ohlones (yes, with an 'S') Elementary School, where Hoover is currently situated. I lived on Duncan Place from 1961-1965, when my family moved to Boston. Rationing water in the 70's during the drought years. Participating in a peace walk down University Ave. Lots of frogs (toads?) in my Crescent Drive back yard.īuying flowers from Mrs. Magnin, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Blums at Stanford Shopping Centerįun games of hide-and-seek at night on Crescent Drive. The trees burned down in a grass/house fire in the late 80's. I was in the 8th grade at Jordan.Īrastradero road lined with eucalyptus trees.
The day it snowed enough to build a snowman in Feb.
Rapp's Shoe store with the electric train and talking myna bird. Fields herself worked there and cookies were only 25 cents each. Fields cookie shop at the Liddicoat's restaurant mall on University Ave. Liddicoat's Grocery Store (now Z Gallery)
It's still there but I miss it - my parents sold it when they divorced in the 70's. near Waverley that sold delicious caramel corn and candied apples.Ĭrescent Park Elementary school (now a housing tract) Still, much has changed in the 30+ years I have lived here.Ĭandy store on University Ave. Unfortunately I was born after the fields and orchards had been developed - I would like to have seen that. I moved to Palo Alto in 1973 when I was 11 years old. My beloved house on Wellsbury Way that was build new for my parents for $28,000. Riding our Mini Bikes in all the empty fields on Middlefield Road Riding our Stingray bicycles down Matadero Creek You could play Karems or check out a red rubber ball and also put on plays) The Penny Carnival helped finance this. The Recreation Department’s Penny Carnival (Each elementary school – about 24 back then – ran a recreation department during the summer. The Recreation Department’s summertime event where all the kids would camp overnight at the Lucile Stern Center after playing all day and having a marshmallow cookout $4.00 tickets at Frost Ampletheatre to see Santana, Grateful Dead and Tower of Power Eventually, it became, of all things, an attorney’s office Poppycock on Cower and old Victorian house that used to sell candles, incense, “black light” posters. The original Herbert Hoover on Middlefield Road across from SafewayĮddie’s Coffee Shop and their Milkshakes with the Mixing Container A&W Root Beer stand on Middlefield Road – where the Safeway is now
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