Comments on: Highway 35: Alice in Skylonda Land

By: Jay Port

Jay Port — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 10:09:26 +0000

In reply to Janet Fergusson. Great info, Janet! Thanks for sharing.

By: Janet Fergusson

Janet Fergusson — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 05:18:40 +0000

I also grew up in Sky Londa !!! Alice’s was then called Tad’s Station !!! My father was chief forest ranger @ the county fire station there !!! We called it the junction !!! It’s where we get the school bus to go down the hill to Portola Valley & later to Woodside Hi !!!! In hi school I worked at the skyline cafe next to the market !!! I know almost everything there is to know @ every inch of this area between 1954 thru 1968 !!! What a grand & adventurous place to grow up !!! Sincerely & fondly !!!!

By: Katie Miller Hendrickson

Katie Miller Hendrickson — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 20:00:26 +0000

We often stopped here on our motorcycle adventures. Nice to read about its history. Wayne Hendrickson

By: Stephen Homan

Stephen Homan — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:26:51 +0000

Will, it is NOT the one from the song….

Alice, and the restaurant, from WIKIPEDIA

The Alice in the song was restaurant-owner Alice Brock (born c. 1941), who in 1964 used $2,000 supplied by her mother to purchase a deconsecrated church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where Alice and her husband Ray would live. It was here rather than at the restaurant—which came later—where the song’s Thanksgiving dinners were actually held. The restaurant is currently Theresa’s Stockbridge Cafe on 40 Main Street in Stockbridge, located in back of a row of stores, as stated in the song lyrics; at the time, it was located directly underneath the studios of Norman Rockwell.

By: Mobile Ranger

Mobile Ranger — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:07:16 +0000

Thanks for posting that Will Scott.

By: Will Scott

Will Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:17:55 +0000

this i took in the late 1970’s

By: Will Scott

Will Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:16:22 +0000

it is the one from the song…heh

By: Will Scott

Will Scott — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 16:15:25 +0000

I grew up there 🙂

By: Chris Prendergast

Chris Prendergast — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:25:38 +0000

I stopped at the ‘Skywood Center’ on a trip to CA a few years back to get a cup of coffee on my way to SF. I was intrigued by Alice’s Restaurant, and remember researching to see if it was THE one from the song. Interesting to see it posted here, and to know I wasn’t the only one to confuse it with the song! Lol!

By: Narda Tomlinson

Narda Tomlinson — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 06:19:21 +0000

Let’s go there the next time I’m down there

By: Michael Lutus

Michael Lutus — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 03:13:38 +0000

Great story Stephen..!

By: Ranger Gaudinski

Ranger Gaudinski — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:59:21 +0000

In reply to Stephen Homan. Thanks Stephen. The unlabeled bad boy bench. The Group B Bench!

By: Stephen Homan

Stephen Homan — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:58:00 +0000

It was not labelled so, but there was a similar bench at the Oakland Army Induction Center in the early 1970s. During our draft physicals, several of us from Leigh High School were mouthing off. We got sent to sit on the bench and think about it. When they brought us back, in about an hour, we got our vitals checked even more thoroughly the second time. We learned to shut up the rest of the day…I was lucky in that I was too overweight to be drafted. I was told to lose weight and come back in 6 months. Right.

By: Assembling Our Histories

Assembling Our Histories — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:22:56 +0000

A “Group W” bench on Skyline Boulevard. Pretty Crazy.