This exhibit covers downtown Sunnyvale from 1860 to 1949 and is a look at Sunnyvale from “Murphy’s Station” to the Fifties. It opened June 30 and will close October 20, 2019.
In the horse-and-buggy days of the 1860s settlement known at the time as Murphy’s Station, Main Street (now Murphy Avenue) was a dirt road leading to the railroad stop. the first store held windows for the post office, the drugstore, and the general store, respectively.
The museum’s new exhibit includes a series of photographs and maps depicting the slow growth and development of the early downtown, as well as artifacts from the first businesses lining Main Street and the railroad tracks. The display shows tools from the first veterinary office, the first morgue services, items from Del Monte’s cannery, Ryan’s Hotel, Tao Tao’s, the Kirkish store, and much more.
Room Overview
Horse Collar, Buggy and Wagon Jack
Fire truck 1907
Fire trucks in front of the Sunnyvale Fire Station, 1950
Beauty shop card
Beauty shop display
296 W Evelyn, built 1903, demolished 1964, painting done 1962
Evelyn Avenue (caption on photo is wrong)
Sunnyvale Pioneer Bakery
Grocerteria 1920s
Store items
Dayton Mercantile Scale 1911, Countertop Platform Model
Frank Farry Hardware
Hardware store items
Raines Chevrolet 1926
Pioneer Drugs
Whiskey Tooth Paste
1920s Parade
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