Claycord Online Museum

Remember, a steak dinner at Mr. Steak isn’t complete without all five ingredients, one of which apparently includes the waitress. Welcome to…

Here’s a “then & now” of Railroad Ave. at E. 5th St. in downtown Pittsburg. Click on each photo for a much…

52 years ago! Crazy how time flies. Who remembers Tia Maria Mexican restaurant at 1600 Willow Pass Rd. in Concord?

Here’s a somewhat surprising discovery. In 1974, the Pleasant Hill Motor Movies showed x-rated films. The following week, the drive-in theater was…

These coins are from the old Chuck E. Cheese “Pizza Time Theatre” in the Willows Shopping Center in Concord. This location, which…

Thanks to “The Black Knight” for this great piece of history. Here’s what “The Black Knight” said about the item. “I came…

This postcard is from the mid to late-1960s, and it shows the Clayton City Office in Downtown Clayton. Looks nice and cozy. Anybody…

This old advertisement is for the Pine Hollow Gardens subdivision in Clayton. Carol sent us this flyer, along with the following information….…

This is the old sign that used to mark the main entrance to Park-N-Shop on Willow Pass Road in Concord. It was…

Here’s a photo of the old Concord Community Hospital (now John Muir Concord). Did you know? Tom Hanks was born at Concord…

Thanks to Carol Putman for this advertisement for 4-Corners Pizza in Concord. This ad was in a Diablo Valley College (DVC) Ski Club…

Thanks so much to Tim Score for this ticket stub from a 1990 show featuring Frank Sinatra and Don Rickles at the…

This advertisement, which featured an opportunity to travel to the beautiful Mount Diablo Country, was placed in the San Francisco Call newspaper…

This is a postcard from the City of Pleasant Hill. It shows an aerial view of the old Montgomery Ward’s shopping mall.…

Here’s a “then & now” shot of Ygnacio Valley Rd. (back then some called it Ygnacio Valley Freeway) in Concord, near Ayers.…

The top photo shows an article from the Contra Costa Times in 1968. It talks about the Concord Planning Commission’s approval of…

Who remembers when Circus Vargas used to coming to town for a few days every year? They’d set up in a shopping…

In 2012, the McDonald’s on Clayton Rd. in Concord, which stood for over 40 years, was demolished. It was torn down to…

We just can’t get enough of the historic spirit poles (which should be recreated by the way). You might have heard, back…