"So, where did I come from?" Join Robert Cox, VP of the MVHA, for “Researching Your Family History with Interviews and Records,” tonight (July 23), 6:30pm, at the Mountain View Public Library. It will cover methods of researching ancestry. Registration at

📷.Enjoy these lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer with a pleasant walk! The MVHA will conduct a guided walking tour of @HistoricSites around downtown @MtnViewCA this Sunday, July 27, 2:00pm. Registration required. For information and registration, go to:

It’s in your DNA! Learn how to explore your family’s history by attending “Researching Your Family History with Interviews and Records” on July 23 at the @MtnViewCA Public Library, presented by MVHA Vice President Robert Cox. Info & registration here:

Patently innovative: The MVHA is honoring historic #innovations developed in & around @MtnViewCA -- and the patents they generated -- through poster panels on display in the rotunda of City Hall, through July 21. Come see what local innovators have created over the past century!

Most likely to reflect @MtnViewCA’s history: The MV Public Library is making available, through California Revealed, digitized versions of Mountain View High School’s 1905-1929 “Blue and Gray” yearbooks the MVHA owns. You can view them here: @carevealed

Neither sleet nor snow nor. Today's #NationalPostalWorker Day, honoring those who deliver our letters and packages. One local postal carrier, John Barney (pictured) lost his leg in the 1880s yet continued working, delivering parcels to @MtnView families along his 25-mile route.

Start off your summer strolling season with a history walk! @MtnViewHistory’s first walking tour of the summer will take place this Sunday, June 22, at 2:00pm, taking attendees to #HistoricSites around downtown @MtnViewCA. For info and registration, go to

This #MemorialDay, we pause to reflect on & honor the brave men & women who gave their lives serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. The Mountain View Register-Leader in 1935 published a tribute to those very women & men, from @MtnViewCA & across the nation (pictured). #MemorialDay2025

On this #VEDay, we pause to salute the significant contributions #MoffettField (seen here, under construction) made in fighting and winning #WorldWar2. Victory in Europe was formally declared 80 years ago today. The airfield is still operational today. #VEDay80 #WW2 #USVeterans

A neighborhood is born: Join local authors Kyle Hartzell and Melanie Kaye on Sunday, May 4, at the MV library as they illustrate how Palmita Park evolved from a tract of land in mostly agricultural @MtnViewCA into the friendly neighborhood it is today.

Pour yourselves some tea, milk or whatever beverage you prefer with your almond cookies, because today is #NationalChineseAlmondCookieDay! The Hong Kong Bakery (pictured), a longtime fixture in downtown @MtnViewCA, for decades has sold freshly baked Chinese almond cookies.

Unlimited potential: While many of us are caught up in college #basketball’s #MarchMadness well underway, let’s look back nearly a century, to the 1933 Mountain View High School Unlimited basketball team. BTW, they were no longer shooting into peach baskets by then.😁 @MtnViewCA

Let's get walking! A few spots remain for tomorrow’s walking tour of downtown @MtnViewCA. The two-hour tour departs at 2:00pm from Centennial Plaza. Registration required: Suggested donation: $10 for dues-paying MVHA members, $15 for non-members.

Discovering #history – by foot! Join us for a walking tour revealing 150 years of @MtnViewCA through historic sites in & around downtown. The approx. two-hour tour departs at 2:00pm from Centennial Plaza. Please register (required) by Saturday, 11:00pm:

"Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower." Today's #PlantAFlowerDay, so plant that seed you’re holding & share the flower it yields. Pictured: a 1900 seed catalog from D.M. Ferry & Co. (later Ferry-Morse Seed Co.), which had a @MtnViewCA location for 30 years.

Dress for success – especially today, #NationalDressDay! Nothing says “glam” quite like a stylish dress, just as Georgia Swall donned (pictured, circa 1900). Georgia was the wife of Lester Swall, who operated Swall’s Meat Market, on the 200 Block of Castro St. in @MtnViewCA.

Hollywood! Dah dah dah dah dah, Hollywood! This #Oscars weekend, it’s not just today's A-list celebs we should be feting. Perry Askam (pictured), grandson of @MtnViewCA pioneer Henry Rengstorff, was an opera singer, actor and movie star in the early 20th Century. @TheAcademy

Behold the #strawberry! Today is #NationalStrawberryDay, giving us an opportunity to look back to the late Nineteenth Century when these tasty little tough-ticklers were a “cash crop” many @MtnViewCA #farmers, including immigrants from a number of nations, found profitable.

Innovators, take a bow! Today is #NationalInnovationDay, when we celebrate inventors and their creations. One local innovator, Thomas Foon Chew (pictured), developed a method of canning #asparagus to prevent breakage and enable shipping, earning him the sobriquet “Mr. Asparagus.”

Ready! Set!. #History! #Football could be made at this weekend’s #SuperBowl between the @Eagles and @Chiefs, prompting us to look back at @MtnViewCA’s own gridiron history. Pictured is Mountain View Union High School’s very first football team, which the school fielded in 1903.