Talk:San Mateo, California

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 Francisco Chronicle Story

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.

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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. 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.

ISBN oddity
"San Mateo: A Centennial History", By Mitchell P. Postel; Scottwall Associates, Publisher, San Francisco; 1994.

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.

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)

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)

Does anyone have a picture of the old Fashion Island mall? Back in the late 80's/early 90s, I remember getting a post card sized ad in the mail with an aireal shot that I liked. I thought I had kept this card (and I have not given up finding it yet), but anyone has a pic of Fashion Island, I'd appreciate it as in the 80s, I was a mallrat and enjoyed going to Fashion Island on the weekends. A LOT of memories for me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.15.115 (talk) 20:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Economy
I would vote for this section being removed as it currently stands. Listing a bunch of companies just looks like advertising to me. Who is to say what makes a company "prominent". If you want to keep the section, then someone should write about the economy in general, not just list companies. 76.231.188.74 (talk) 22:26, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Census/Demographics
There was no US Census in 2008. The Population Estimates Program data are not favored over the decennial census in other California articles, and would not, in any case, present the race/ethnicity data as this article did. I'm working off the Carlsbad, California article (for comparison) on the first paragraph and copy-pasting the data from, except for population density (copied from infobox) and housing unit density (left that one alone). I did not touch the second or third paragraphs. 75.111.27.84 (talk) 17:24, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Date of Incorporation
Which is it? 1864 or 1894? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.217.142 (talk) 22:49, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

The date of incorporation was 1894 per the City of San Mateo website. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenwistb (talk • contribs) 17:27, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Photograph of John Parrott house
This photo is pretty cool but I can't find much information on it?
 * "In 1854 Frederick Macondray, one of San Francisco's first merchants, settled in San Mateo. Mr. Macondray acquired a large tract of land on the south bank of the San Mateo Creek and there for several years made his home, subsequently selling to John Parrott, a native of Fairfax Court House, Virginia. This property remained in the hands of the Parrott estate until 1927 and is now being subdivided as the Baywood Subdivision and will probably become one of the most desirable of all of the home locations of San Mateo County."
 * Looks like the Parrott estate (375 acres) also goes by the name "Baywood Estate". "Parrott Drive, named for him, now bisects the land which once made up the Parrott Baywood estate.", "(Baywood Estate was located at) El Camino Real at 120 W. Third Ave." Jooojay (talk) 21:45, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

notable people
Why did you take Graem Whifler out from San Mateo notable people? "Unsourced"? This guy has a Wikipedia page, where it says, he's from San Mateo. Tiki (talk) 09:57, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Notable People: Keith Carradine?
I just read that Keith Carradine was also from San Mateo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Carradine 2601:645:C47F:88B0:98D9:6447:E459:9692 (talk) 04:47, 20 July 2023 (UTC)