Menlo Park Planning

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Photo account for the City of Menlo Park Planning Division. Most photos unearthed/scanned as part of 2016-2017 Administration Building remodel project. Please feel free to tag pics with location details, and add memories in the comments! Where "Date Taken" shows pre-2016 dates, the entries are from markings on the slides/negatives/photos- they may not reflect the actual day/month the picture was taken, but they should be pretty close. Photos are Public Domain, so feel free to use them as you wish, although we appreciate attribution!

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Menlo Park 1968: Santa Cruz Avenue - North Side, front

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  • Richard Clark said:
    There was a guy cutting hair here in the 70s who looked like Wolfman Jack.

Menlo Park 1968: El Camino Real, West Side

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  • Morgan Wade said:
    Alec’s! Loved that building as a kid. The ramp was filled with flowers. But that was after when Alec’s was no more and it was Payless Drug.

1983-04-20

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    This is a Tesla bucket truck. (No relation to the modern electric vehicles.) Because of the Exempt plates, it must've belonged to city Public Works. May have been for oak tree arborist work. That's a stout boom. Other ideas welcomed.

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