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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