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Castro Valley Grows!
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Barns and Tomato fields once stood where the Castro Village Shopping Center (Castro Valley Boulevard at Santa Maria Avenue) now is. The Center, developed by R.T. Nahas, was completed in 1949.
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This aerial view of Castro Valley was taken in 1960. Housing tracts were springing up at the end of WWII,
filling in the former orchards and open fields. In this photo the surrounding foothills and canyons were still empty.

 

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