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- A Major Project: Behind the Restoration of Hangar One ↗How the hangar’s frame was cleaned, repainted and reclad.
- Google unveils historic restoration of Hangar One in Mountain View ↗Officials, veterans and preservationists gather as the restored hangar is shown off after decades of toxic cleanup.
Classic reads
- Community tree lighting brings holiday spirit to downtown Mountain View ↗The biggest tree lighting in the event’s history, outside City Hall.
- Shoreline Lake Celebrates 40 Years of Community and Watersports ↗How a junkyard, dumps and flood plain became Shoreline Park and its sailing lake.
- Thousands turn out for Mountain View’s annual Monster Bash ↗Costumes, zombies and a Día de Muertos exhibit at the city’s Halloween festival.
- Hangar One Restoration Project ↗NASA’s timeline of the hangar, from the 1933 airship base to the completed restoration of December 2025.
- Mountain View considers transforming downtown Castro Street into a pedestrian mall ↗The debate over keeping Castro Street closed to cars after the pandemic.
- That Giant Structure Off 101 Once Housed a Flying Aircraft Carrier ↗What Moffett Field is for today, and the story of the USS Macon and its trapeze-launched biplanes.
- Beckman, Shockley and the 60th Anniversary of the Birth of Silicon Valley ↗How Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory came to a former apricot packing shed on San Antonio Road.
- Where Grant Road Ends, A Farm Lives On ↗A bike route to Deer Hollow Farm and the history of the Grant Ranch.
- Food truck offers its version of the Parisian burger from Linda’s Drive-In ↗A family brings back the burger of a vanished El Camino Real drive-in.
- Parisian Burgers Are From Mountain View, Not Paris ↗Linda’s Drive-In, its secret sauce and where the name came from.
- Mountain View Farmers’ Market ↗A visit to the big Sunday market at the Caltrain station.
- A trailblazer who relished ‘rattlesnake ragout’ ↗Elisha Stephens, the wagon-train captain whose name is on Stevens Creek.
- Mountain View History ↗The library’s History Center and its digitized photographs, oral histories and yearbooks.
- Historical Buildings & Landmarks in Mountain View, CA ↗The Rengstorff House, the Adobe Building, Moffett Field and Hangar One.
- Mountain View History Timeline ↗Milestones from the Ohlone villages and the ranchos to the pedestrian mall.
- Milestones: Birthplace of Silicon Valley, 1956 ↗The IEEE Milestone citation and plaque at 391 San Antonio Road.
- U.S. Naval Air Station Sunnyvale, California, Historic District ↗The historic district of Moffett Field, with Hangar One’s measurements and its orange peel doors.