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Doug Harrop Photography • April 12, 1975
A westbound Southern Pacific train rolls past the old SP depot in Pleasanton, California. This trackage is part of SP's Niles Subdivision, abandoned in 1986. Today, the right of is part of the Iron Horse Regional Trail.
The former SP depot was sold to Pleasanton Glass. The structure still exists, and was moved to a new location in Pleasanton. The glass company is still in business, but in a different building.
Does anyone know the street/crossing Doug shot this photo from?
Fomer Romleys Market located at 3550 Bernal Ave. in Pleasanton,CA. The building was constructed in 1978 for Flair Markets. This was the first Flair to be built from the ground up as every other location throughout the East Bay Area had orignally been a P&X Market. The store was sold to the Romley family in the mid 1980s marking their return the to the Tri-Valley after they closed their successful Dublin store after Highway 580 was realligned. While the Flair name has been largely forgotten by many longtime residents of the East Bay the "Romleys" name is still remembered more than fifteen years later since the Romley brothers closed their last store. The Pleasaton location successfully operated until 1992 and was the last Romleys Market to open, the Castro Valley location (which was the first) closed in the mid 1990's. For a few months after Romleys closed the building was acquired by a middle-eastern man who claimed that the Romley family neglected the building forcing him to close. The Romley family (rightfully) ignored his claims and focused on their Castro Valley store. I must add that by the early 1990s the Romley brothers were reaching their 70s. The Pleasanton store was abandoned by 1996 as the middle-eastern man who despite his claims (in my opinion just wanted money from the Romley family) gave up and closed the store. In 2004 the shopping center was abandoned except for a cleaners and a beauty salon. There was a proposal for a Bonfare Convenience Store to operate a 24 Hour store in the building but the idea was met poorly (to say the least) with the residents of the area which make far more than the average household income. I was amazed that a neglected shopping center remained standing despite this fact, but the cleaners and salon WERE NOT going to leave thus preventing demolition. In 2007 the property was purchased by a new realty company and while a few modifactions were made to the shopping center in 2008 nothing major had yet to happen. Then during the Spring of 2009 the shopping center was drastically remodeled with the hopes of attracting tenants to the newly redeveloped center. The remodel proved successful and as of September 2010 one half of the storefronts are occupied. Unfortunately the building orignally housing Romleys is still vacant but hopefully that might change with the dedication and money the property owners have put into the site.
In 1978...
www.flickr.com/photos/romleys/1351613677/
In 2002...
www.flickr.com/photos/romleys/2025157469/
In 2004...
www.flickr.com/photos/romleys/1350307305/
www.flickr.com/photos/romleys/799147434/
In 2007...
www.flickr.com/photos/romleys/1818931296/
www.flickr.com/photos/romleys/1818092201/
UPDATE: On May 15th 2013 the building which had been vacant for close to 25 years is now occupied by the Santa Cruz based chain known as New Leaf Community Markets. The company made its first expansion out of the Central Coast by expanding in 2008 to a former Alpha Beta Market located in Half Moon Bay which has been an extremely great addition to the town. I hope New Leaf will be successful in this long abandoned shopping center and be a valuable asset to the community!
I walked by this historic Pleasanton Hotel on Wednesday and discovered that it was closed. This is a well known haunted hotel in our area. Legend had it that a prostitute was murdered inside the hotel in the year of 1870. Since then, her spirit have been lingering in the hallway of the second floor. Her ghostly figure was captured by one of the visitors' camera and was featured on the local news.
patch.com/california/pleasanton/spooky-figure-may-be-infa...
Lens: TTArtisan 28mm F5.6