News & Notes
President’s Message
By Nicholas Perry
This newsletter is published four times a year by the MVHA President
MOUNTAIN VIEW HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 252, Mountain View, CA 94042
www.mountainviewhistorical.org
MVHA Board of Directors
President: Nicholas Perry
Vice-President: Robert Cox
Secretary: Jamil Shaikh
Treasurer: Emily Ramos
Past President: Candace Bowers
Historical Data: Melissa Wright
Membership: Lisa Roquero Garcia
Newsletter: John Cortez
Ways & Means: Mark Perry
Director-at-Large: Marina Marinovich
Director-at-Large: Gil Lane
Newsletter Copy Editor: Cynthia Hanson
Newsletter Graphic Designer: Nick Perry
Since it was built in 1934, the Adobe Building has been a center of
community life in Mountain View. If this venerable structure’s old adobe-
brick walls could talk, they’d tell stories of World War II servicemen
getting some much needed R&R before deployment, joyous wedding
celebrations, numerous fraternal club and non-pro it meetings (like
ours!), birthday parties, anniversaries, classes, dances, and more.
Chances are if you’ve lived in Mountain View long enough, you have
at least one memory inside the historic Adobe. The snapshots above
capture a few from my own family’s history. Pictured on the left is
my grandparents’ surprise 25th anniversary celebration in 1973. It
captures the moment they walked into the Adobe and the joyous look
of surprise on their faces as they were greeted by dozens of family
members and friends. The photo in the center shows them again at the
Adobe, this time at my uncle’s wedding, walking him down the aisle in
the Adobe’s garden. And the photo on the right shows my grandma and
her brother at the MVHA’s Summer BBQ in 2014, the last of many events
she attended at the building.
I treasure the happy memories I’ve made in the Adobe and I hope
you’ll join me to make some more as we pay tribute to the building’s
historic role as the “Eagle Shack” at our Sunday, October 6 event and
membership meeting. For the generation of Mountain View High
School alumni who lived here in the 1940s and 1950s, the Adobe is still
fondly remembered as the Eagle Shack, where teens from the city and
surrounding countryside gathered on Saturday nights for live music and
dancing. Our “Back to the Eagle Shack” event will be a tribute to that era
with a special focus on the spirit and history of old Mountain View High.
And while we hope a large “ lock” of Mountain View High Eagle alumni
will join us as part of the larger “All Eagle” annual reunion weekend*,
this event is open to all and free to our members. So whether you were
a Mtn. View/Awalt Spartan, a Los Altos Eagle, a St. Francis Lancer, (like
me!) or graduated from another alma mater, I encourage you to muster
some old school spirit and come to the Adobe for what is sure to be a
memorable afternoon of music, dance, food and fun.
MVHA Board of Directors
Email: [email protected]
Voicemail: (650) 903-6890
See you at the Adobe!
—Nick
*According to our sources on Facebook, the annual All-Eagle alumni picnic will be
held on Saturday, October 5, the day before our event, at the Cuesta Park picnic
grounds from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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