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City of Mountain View company history timeline

1905

1905 – Farmers and Merchants Bank opens on Villa and Castro Streets.

1915

1915 – California Supply Co., a pickle-packing plant on Franklin and Villa Streets, opens.

1920

1920 – Hoping to create a major Bay Area port, South Shore Port Co. dredges slough at the old Jagels Landing.

1924

In 1924 a new school designed by noted architect William Weeks opens on Castro Street.

1925

The elaborate port project includes an amusement park and large saltwater swimming pool called Kingsport Plunge that opens in 1925.

1927

The venture fails and the company declares bankruptcy in 1927.

1933

In 1933 Moffett Field Naval Air Station opens.

1939

1939 – Flight research begins at the Ames Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA, the predecessor of NASA).

1951

1951 – Ferry-Morse Seed Co. opens plant on Evelyn and Highway 237.

1954

About Us Founded in 1954, the Mountain View Historical Association is a non-profit, volunteer-run organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the rich history of Mountain View, California.

1956

1956 – William Shockley opens Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View.

1966

1966 – Mayfield Mall opens.

1991

1991 – Moffett Naval Air Station closes. $44.5 million City Civic Center and Center of Performing Arts is completed.

1995

1995 -Netscape is founded in offices inside the HP Campus: 466 Ellis Street, Mountain View

In 1995 the first feature-length animated movie to be entirely computer-generated, the Disney Company’s Toy Story, was created with SGI’s computers.

1999

1999 – VTA opened the Tasman West light-rail project, which extends trains from Santa Clara to downtown Mountain View.

2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquired Silicon Graphics International in 2016.

2018

© 2018 Mountain View Historical Association P.O. Box 252 The Mountain View Historical Association is a registered 501(c)(3).

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