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.

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