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Wagon Wheel

Page history last edited by Michael 14 years, 4 months ago

back to Sunnyvale

 

282 E. Middlefield Road, Mountain View (next to "Roger's Deli", at the intersection of East Middlefield and North Whisman)

 

From the Metro Silicon Valley, 1997:

 


Best Place to Drink in High-Tech History

 

Nowadays, Silicon Valley deals are made over decaf lattes and bran muffins, but the high-tech industry was once dominated by a unique species of hard-drinking workaholic rarely seen today. That animal's watering hole of choice was Walker's Wagon Wheel. Now called the Wagon Wheel Casino (since it secured a card-room license in 1995), this restaurant/ bar was once the unofficial office of Don Hoefler, the editor of Microelectronics News credited with coining the term Silicon Valley. This is probably where Fairchild's Bill Shockley cried in his beer about "the traitorous eight" who left his company and spawned the valley's semiconductor industry. This is where ideas that would change the world were scrawled on cocktail napkins and startups took root. In short: Geek Central. It's worth a visit just to sip a cold one where the giants once puked drunkenly into their pocket protectors.


 

but later (from sfgate.com):

 

 


 

... turns out the place got into some trouble over its card room and was eventually forced to shut down in 1997. The city bulldozed it in 2003, despite the faint protests of old-time valley chippies.


 

A "for sale" sign on the fenced-off empty lot gives the telephone number of an attorney's office in Mountain View, on West El Camino Real.

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