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Los Gatos Art Bridge An Introduction and Overview with Visual Aids

Los Gatos Art Bridge An Introduction and Overview with Visual Aids Photograph dates are shown where available May, 2011. Main Street, 1949. The Paul Swanson Ford Dealership is now Los Gatos Brewing Company and some various other shops. Mac's Richfield is now the Wells Fargo Bank (1949).

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Los Gatos Art Bridge An Introduction and Overview with Visual Aids

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  1. Los Gatos Art Bridge An Introduction and Overview with Visual Aids Photograph dates are shown where available May, 2011

  2. Main Street, 1949

  3. The Paul Swanson Ford Dealership is now Los Gatos Brewing Company and some various other shops. Mac's Richfield is now the Wells Fargo Bank (1949)

  4. This is a view Santa Cruz Avenue showing the variety of shops and stores prevelant in the late 1940's and early 50's. The upper left shows the second story facade of what is now Mt. Charley's.

  5. Crider's Flying “A” serivce station, Broadway and Santa Cruz Ave., across the street from the town plaza (1960). The gas was selling for 23.9 cents/gallon.

  6. This Mobil Oil service station sat where Cherie Rose's Interior Design studio is presently located, Santa Cruz Avenue and Nickelson (1958).

  7. Across the street from the Mobil station was Rao's Super Market that was eventually replaced by Forbe's Mill Steak House.

  8. This Foster Freeze was located across Main Street from the Los Gatos High School. It was replaced by Dio Deka's Greek Cuisine (1950).

  9. Moore Buick was located across from the Civic Center in what is now the parking lot adjacent to Summit Bikes on Main Street (1963).

  10. This is the Kyle Building being demolished in 1966, being vacant for years. Purrsnikitty is now on this site, 100 North Santa Cruz Avenue.

  11. Though there were several iterations of the Toll House, this is the original that existed into the 1960's, it served as an antique shop among other things.

  12. In the 1950's, Effie Walton developed the Little Village shopping center. Today the building on the right is now called Los Gatos Cafe, previous to that it was the Broken Egg.

  13. Jean Montgomery in front of her business at 262 E. Main Street. She lived in the back. There were many similar antique operations throughout town. .

  14. This is the auditorium of the University Avenue school that became Old Town. This building was recently abandon by Border's Books.

  15. This is the auditorium when it was reborn as the Old Town Theater, home to the California Actor's Theater (CAT) and the Santa Clara Shakespeare festival in the 1970s and 80s.

  16. The 76 station has been replaced with the 7-11 across from the Los Gatos High School. Main Street is curving up to the stop sign at Loma Alta.

  17. This is the Cranberry House, a lady's tea room. In 1980, Chris Benson and Johnny Hannegan turned it into C. B. Hannegan's. Some of the light fixtures and furnishings are still in use at Hannegan's.

  18. More than 35 years before Mt. Charley's name was besmirched by a murder, its restaurant and saloon were one of the most popular spots in the Bay Area and it was a center piece for town. Here the saloon is set up to serve one of the town's service clubs for lunch.

  19. When James Farwell (center) owned the Mt. Charley's restaurant, he would host a summer swim party for employees of the restaurant and saloon, and their families. It was tradition to don period clothes and sit for the “class” picture before the party. Many of these folks are still in the area, being some of the Art Bridgers.

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