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The "Whiskey Gulch" area was heavily redeveloped over the last few years, but it was somehwere on University Avenue just north of 101.1960s to 1980s
University Village Shopping Center was built at the corner of University Avenue and Bay Road in 1957. Never prosperous, it changed hands several times. It underwent renovation in the late 1960s and was renamed Nairobi Village Shopping Center. A decade later it was a boarded-up, mostly vacant eyesore notorious for loitering and illegal activities. It was finally demolished in 1989.
A Safeway grocery store operated in Whiskey Gulch from 1959 to 1974. Southern Pacific Railroad closed its East Palo Alto track in 1974 due to insufficient business. It was used rarely in subsequent years before being abandoned in 1987. All four of the city's banks left town in the 1980s.