Talk:San Mateo, California
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[edit] Hillsdale Inn picture
While the picture (Hillsdale Inn, Honeymoon Suite) for San Mateo is interesting, the stucture was torn down a few years ago. (I addeded this anon a while back) Schmiteye 03:30, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Ah ha! Found it! April 5, 2001 it was torn down. --Schmiteye 02:00, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
SAN MATEO Honeymoon Over For Hillsdale Inn Tower
Friday, April 6, 2001
San Mateo's odd honeymoon suite on stilts, which loomed over Highway 101 near the Bay Meadows racetrack for decades, was toppled yesterday.
The Hillsdale Inn Tower had not been used since the mid-1970s and had fallen into disrepair.
In its heyday, the suite-in-the-sky was a coveted honeymoon spot. More recently, some area residents thought of it as a landmark while others said it was an eyesore.
This past winter, San Mateo building inspectors deemed it structurally unsafe. Instead of repairing it, the hotel's owner decided to have it demolished.
[edit] Neal Schon's birthplace
Neal Schon's official website has some details (birthplace, for example) that are different than what is written in this article [1]. He definitely LIVED in San Mateo, California. Schmiteye 03:28, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
Removing reference to "Stanford chemist Alex Aycinena" who only shows up on Google as a student running in track meets at Serra High School. The most notable entry for the contributor (128.12.38.201) was vandalism to the Planned Parenthood article.
[edit] ISBN oddity
"San Mateo: A Centennial History", By Mitchell P. Postel; Scottwall Associates, Publisher, San Francisco; 1994. ISBN 0-942087-08-9 (HBK)
Note: Apparently another book, by the same publisher, has this same ISBN for some reason. One of the external websites listed "HBK" after the ISBN for the San Mateo, California book.
[edit] Paris of the Peninsula ?
I've lived in the SF Bay area for over 15 years and I've never heard San Mateo referred to as the "Paris of the Peninsula". I think this was added as a joke and should be removed from the Wiki. The only reference to "Paris of the Peninsula" I can find on Google is the one below.
http://www.yelp.com/user_details?userid=U3B-rhPcQWZQFueQW0bzUQ
- I've lived in San Mateo OVER 50 years and never heard it called this either. I will research a few books before I delete it. 207.62.247.81 22:04, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Fashion Island
I'm from San Mateo originally and found the wiki page listing Shopping Malls in the U.S. and was suprised to not see Fashion Island listed (I added Hillsdale Shopping Center). Was Fashion Island in San Mateo or Foster City? Does it still exist? There isn't a wiki page for it. Thanks for any help. --Mjrmtg 17:59, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
- Fashion Island was completely demolished (except for the skating rink) and replaced with a different kind of shopping center called Bridgepointe. Technically it is in San Mateo. Schmiteye 06:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
