About the Event
40 years ago, the City of Mountain View opened Shoreline at Mountain View. This unique 750+ acre open space area on the northern edge of the city is the result of decades of planning, foresight, and innovation that transformed a neglected bayside dumping ground into a beloved bayside recreation area and nature preserve. The MVHA invites our members and the public to join us on November 12 for our Fall event as we celebrate the milestone anniversary of Shoreline. We are excited to welcome staff from the City of Mountain View’s Shoreline Regional Park division as our special guest speakers. They will share what is sure to be a fascinating and informative slideshow on the history of Shoreline. We hope to see you there!
About the Adobe Building
The Great Depression-era Adobe Building was Mountain View’s first community center. In 1934, government work-welfare laborers used adobe bricks made on-site to construct the building’s walls, giving the building its name in the process. The Adobe has seen many diverse community uses over the years. During World War II, it served as a serviceman’s club and hospitality house for veterans. In the 1940s and 1950s it hosted weekly dances for local youth and was known as the “Eagle Shack,” named after the mascot of Mountain View High School on Castro Street. Over the decades the building has hosted countless club meetings, classes, weddings, dances, and parties. In the 1990s, the MVHA led efforts to save the Adobe Building from demolition. It was seismically retrofitted and restored in 2001 and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The MVHA hosts most of its quarterly membership meetings at the Adobe Building.
