[Kerstin]

Anyone out there from San Jose/Santa Clara/Sunnyvale/Mt. View area?

[Joanie]

holy moley I JUST opened DF and saw that you posted this a couple minutes ago, and yes I live here! what are the odds I live in the sunnyvale/cupertino area (at 85 and 280)

[Keezheekoni]

I'm originally from Fremont, but lived in the SJ area for a few years before moving to WA state.

We do go down to visit there once or twice a year.

[morrisma]

Lived in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, and Mountain View. In PA now but silicon valley was a fun place back then.

Welcome here!
Mike

[notme]

Sacramento region here! Hi all you Californians!!!

[Kerstin]

I live in Sunnyvale off Bernardo!!

[shel]

Originally Posted by Kerstin

Anyone out there from San Jose/Santa Clara/Sunnyvale/Mt. View area?

No, but I'm up near Berkeley, FWIW ....

[davef]

Em, I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and ......... it was twinned with San Jose. There used to be (not sure if it's still there) a painting in the Mayor's office which my Dad presented to the Mayor when we bought a company from Chapter 11.

Sorry, tenious link the San Jose, but it's a link

[Kerstin]

COOL DAVE!!! I will check next time I am up there and see if the pic is still there

[morrisma]

Kerstin,
Bernardo was a few blocks from where I lived on Danforth in a small group of townhomes between Las Palmas park and El Camino Real.

One thing I miss (aside from the weather) is the wine & craft festivals that the towns hosted every summer. And the Fish Market!
Mike

[Kerstin]

Mike! I know exactly where you mean! I LOVE Las Palmas park! It has a great dog park and tennis courts and everything you need for a Sunday afternoon family BBQ! And yes, the farmers market every Saturday and the art and wine festivals are really fun. But I miss the SEASONS...like we had in Wisconsin..and I do so miss real winter

[morrisma]

Kerstin,
I fear you only miss winter because you do not have it!

Let's see what else I can drag out my fading silicon valley memory...
Mt View. had a bakery with the best choc cheesecake ever...
Blue Angels were fun at the naval air station (now closed I think)...
Loved the xmas tree that used to be 'planted' on the 280 / 101 overpass before the overpass was connected...
Garlic in Gilroy...
Beach Blanket Babylon at the Club Fugazy in SF...
Getting off flights at San Jose onto the tarmac and walking into the building...
Learning to windsurf at the pond off hwy 17 before it climbs out of the valley toward Santa Cruz...
Fun, fun, fun,
Mike

[Kerstin]

YUP! The pond is Lexington Resivour
Last airshow at Moffett was May 2004..and I was there. I love AIR SHOWS!
Don't know the bakery in Mt View
280/101 overpass..I don't remember a time when it was not connected
Gilroy Garlic
San Jose Mineta International Airport..now much bigger, but as of 6 years ago you still had to walk on the Tarmac for Alaska Airways.
How about....Fireworks over Crissey Field in SF?
Orchards... Olson's Cherry Stand
Santa's Village (gone)
Playland of the Pacific with FunHouse (gone)
Frontieer Village (gone)
Renting horses in Golden Gate Park (no more horses..but they do still have the buffalo)
Moffett field is closed, but NASA is still there as is the "blue Cube" so we still get fighter jets that land there to refuel, and an old green prop jet that flies around in circles. nothing like the old days..with the P3's landing every 20 minutes etc.

[Keezheekoni]

I remember when 880 was the Nimitz Freeway aka Hwy 17. Now it's only 17 after you pass 280 going south.

I remember when Calaveras Blvd. was actually a Blvd. and not a freeway.

I worked at NASA/Ames when Boeing had an office there. Civilians were not allowed to buy cheap smokes from the little store on base, but we could buy anything else!

I remember Frontier Village. In fact I just joined a facebook group dedicated to remembering FV. I loved panning for gold!

I remember when it was Marriott's Great America and not Paramount's. I also remember the day they closed that one coaster that was 8 loops high and redesigned it to only three loops high because someone died when they decided to jump out of it.

I remember when you didn't have to pay for parking around the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk. :p

I remember when it was just farmland all along 880 from 101 north to around Auto Mall Pkwy (oh, I mean Durham!)

I remember when Fry's Electronics used to be Fry's Foodstores. :p

I'm sure that there's more I remember...but it's further north, like when there wasn't a Foster City, it was part of the bay! I remember the old Dumbarton Bridge, as well as the old San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, both have been changed.

I remember what West Oakland looked like when the Cypress Structure was still there...thanks Loma Prieta!

[morrisma]

Moffat Field: Many years ago I was dating a girl whose father was #2 on base. (Very scary.) Anyway, one day she decided we should drive to Moffat & she would show me around. I was amazed when, while driving dad's old astrovan, the guards saluted us and waved us in without a word. Apparently they couldn't afford the reprimand if the admiral was in the van and they hadn't saluted.

Also, her dad had recently been promoted and had to move house from his #3 position house to the #2 house on the little command cul-de-sac. Weird & wasteful but it worked for them.

Years later, I lived in a trailer park adjacent to Moffat and was dumbstruck as the Blue Angels rocketed over the park at 75 - 100 feet. The noise and vibration was intense and scary and wonderful all at once. I still remember how it felt 25 years later.
Mike