1964-1973

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1964-1973

 1964

  • Planning and ASCC Commissions, Finance Committee established
  • Friends of the Library established

1965

  • Conservation, Open Space, Recreation, Traffic, Livestock and Road Committees established

1966

  • Construction of Ormondale school completed; opened in 1961 for grades 3-4. Corte Madera school had been opened in 1961 for grades 1-2.

Admiring the new Ormondale School

Corte Madera School, Early view

1967

  • Library opens at Village Square
  • Town seal adopted
  • Presbyterian Church completed

1968

  • Annual Town Picnics begin at Morshead Lake
  • AYSO begins

1969

  • Alpine-Portola intersection changed from a curve to a T, creating a 1/2acre triangular area for a park

1970

  • Safeway withdraws application to build a grocery store at Alpine/Portola Road

1971

  • Kelley field (7.67 A.) purchased for $90.000 and renamed Dorothy Ford Park

Tom Ford family

  • Bing Crosby visits Priory

Bing Crosby, Gaylord Perry

  • Halloween Lane on Shawnee Pass becomes official with street roadblocks

1972

  • Highway 280 Opens

1973

  • First undergrounding of power lines, Alpine and Portola intersection costing $25,000
  • 2 Tennis courts built at PVS
  • Nathhorst Triangle Relandscape
  • Town Hall moves to new location

First PV town hall

  • PV Ranch Groundbreaking

fire station 1960's