Thank you for the Sunnyvale footage! @6:20 is the Cattlman's at North Bound Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road, left turn on Fremont, @6:30 that is Fremont High, right on Mary, Cambridge - Lived around there 1961 - 2002 - Thank you!
I grew up on Barstow Ct. near Sunnyvale High School. I was 10 years old at the time these films were made. I used to buy "the best" baseball cards from Dick's supermarket in Lakewood, which seemed like a journey halfway around the world to this former ten year old! My friends and I used to climb under the overpass on 101, watch all the cars pass by, and open our packages of cards, and try to fit all the bubblegum into our mouths all at once. I used to go on day long journeys down Wolfe, Sunnyvale Ave, El Camino, and Homestead....where the first part of this film is shot. Great memories...Thanks!
Fond memories. Thank you. Felt a little twinge of homesickness seeing my high school (Fremont) as I remember it and the turn onto Mary Ave, the old Westmoor Village shopping center. Grew up in the area near there and moved out last year to Nevada to retire. The city of Sunnyvale is a good place, but it was a much, much nicer place to live through the 60s, before the Tech boom.
In 1968, when I was about almost a five years old deaf child in Sunnyvale, Ca; I remembered that old Safeway store on fremont ave. It's where my hearing mom brought comic books for me from the Safeway area in the mall. Rexwell store was there at that sixties era and seventies era. Also I always got hearing aids from that mall as well. It was a very different world of 1960's.
I remember when my dad was working for a roofing company on Lawrence Station Road, and we would drive there from San Jo whenever he had to pick up a check.
I remember the Golden Horn Restaurant in that shopping center...was in Europe: CZ lately and small towns still have restaurants and bakeries that remind one of America in the 60's . Thanks. PS: The Winchell's donut house around corner from Mayfair Mkt. served hot jelly filled donuts at 6AM sunday mornings!
The first drive is around Sunnyvale Saratoga Road, now De Anza Blvd and Homestead and then Fremont Ave and Fremont Union High School, then Mary Avenue. The other drive is in or around Lakewood Village. This is a new one I recently loaded that you might find interesting: ua-cam.com/video/WdrfMcRXWhs/v-deo.html
Thank you for the Sunnyvale footage! @6:20 is the Cattlman's at North Bound Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road, left turn on Fremont, @6:30 that is Fremont High, right on Mary, Cambridge - Lived around there 1961 - 2002 - Thank you!
I lived on mary ave wish i could go back best childhood memories😭
I grew up on Barstow Ct. near Sunnyvale High School. I was 10 years old at the time these films were made. I used to buy "the best" baseball cards from Dick's supermarket in Lakewood, which seemed like a journey halfway around the world to this former ten year old! My friends and I used to climb under the overpass on 101, watch all the cars pass by, and open our packages of cards, and try to fit all the bubblegum into our mouths all at once. I used to go on day long journeys down Wolfe, Sunnyvale Ave, El Camino, and Homestead....where the first part of this film is shot. Great memories...Thanks!
Wiley Cousins That sounds far more constructive than playing with smartphones all day! :-)
Fond memories. Thank you. Felt a little twinge of homesickness seeing my high school (Fremont) as I remember it and the turn onto Mary Ave, the old Westmoor Village shopping center. Grew up in the area near there and moved out last year to Nevada to retire. The city of Sunnyvale is a good place, but it was a much, much nicer place to live through the 60s, before the Tech boom.
Those were the best times!!!!🥹♥️🫶🏼♥️
In 1968, when I was about almost a five years old deaf child in Sunnyvale, Ca; I remembered that old Safeway store on fremont ave. It's where my hearing mom brought comic books for me from the Safeway area in the mall. Rexwell store was there at that sixties era and seventies era. Also I always got hearing aids from that mall as well. It was a very different world of 1960's.
Then this silent film definitely resonated with you
I live in Sunnyvale so its like time traveling
0:44 - Proceeding on Fremont Ave. to Mary Ave. Turning Right ( You can see the Safeway sign - Now Smart & final)
Is the Standard Oil station seen in the opening seconds now the Chevron station at Mary and Fremont?
this was the best childhood growing up here.
I remember when my dad was working for a roofing company on Lawrence Station Road, and we would drive there from San Jo whenever he had to pick up a check.
I remember the Golden Horn Restaurant in that shopping center...was in Europe: CZ lately and small towns still have restaurants and bakeries that remind one of America in the 60's . Thanks. PS: The Winchell's donut house around corner from Mayfair Mkt. served hot jelly filled donuts at 6AM sunday mornings!
Drivers haven't changed much. One car blows a red light. Another pulls out right in front of an incoming car.
Roger M LOL
Well, technically, it was still yellow...but also, after the first 15 seconds a sudden lane change would appear without a directional. :-)
0:24 - That is the intersection of Fremont/ Sunnyvale-Saratoga Ave ( You can see the double ridge line of the buildings
Hard to make out, but on the right before the intersection, I think that's a Gulf station, now a Shell. :-)
Back then everyone called it Highway 9.
Lived in Lakewood Village until August of '68. That's Lakewood Plaza and Dick's Supermarket at 1:26, and the front of Lakewood Elementary at 2:00.
1:34 it looked like that kid was looking down at something like a phone
What a great video. I went to Fremont!
Which graduating class were you?
Thanks for posting. Love it. Look how short the Magnolia trees on Mary ave. are.
Be cool to video the same route you took back then and compare it to now. The South Bay has changed so much since 1968 , not all for the better!
Thank you for posting...great memories.
This is awesome...
Thank you for this.
I wonder if thats Lakewood Elementary at 2:00
Impressions: loges of people in their front yards..big American cars with fins..
Do have San Mateo?
What areas are these? I recognize FHS.
Btw. I was born in 78. But lived in Svale all my life.
The first drive is around Sunnyvale Saratoga Road, now De Anza Blvd and Homestead and then Fremont Ave and Fremont Union High School, then Mary Avenue. The other drive is in or around Lakewood Village.
This is a new one I recently loaded that you might find interesting: ua-cam.com/video/WdrfMcRXWhs/v-deo.html