Original Menlo Park location demolished?

[DrivingTheFuture]

For fun I was on Google Maps seeing what the store looked like today... It appears it's been wiped from the face of the Earth. How sad. Up until earlier this year you could still see the concrete ramp Tesla added in front to drive cars into the "showroom".

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

If anyone else has photos from inside/ outside they'd like to share as a "memorial" or fond memories/stories from this location I'd be grateful to see/ hear them

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

 

[EldestOyster]

Google Street View has its own "wayback" machine. The box at upper left says when the photo was taken, but if you click there, you will get the interactive history that you see in this screen shot. So there is more to look at. This one is from 2011.

 

[Roadster]

Thx for digging up that video! I honestly didn't want it to end You should definitely add it to the Roadster Videos thread @DrivingTheFuture! Speaking of that thread...

...posting a couple other clips that feature the Menlo Park store here and here.

There's something about the simplicity of just having the ambient walla of the building and the muffled street noise against all those awesome cars that totally captures the nostalgia of early Tesla. The Roadster is still one gorgeous and captivating vehicle!

And finally, a photo of what I believe to be my car parked outside and being taken out for a test drive back in 2011...

tesla roadster cars convertible electric

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

Google Street View has its own "wayback" machine. The box at upper left says when the photo was taken, but if you click there, you will get the interactive history that you see in this screen shot. So there is more to look at. This one is from 2011.
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I knew Google had that but couldn't remember how to access it! Thank you

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

Thx for digging up that video! I honestly didn't want it to end You should definitely add it to the Roadster Videos thread @DrivingTheFuture! Speaking of that thread...

...posting a couple other clips that feature the Menlo Park store here and here.

There's something about the simplicity of just having the ambient walla of the building and the muffled street noise against all those awesome cars that totally captures the nostalgia of early Tesla. The Roadster is still one gorgeous and captivating vehicle!

And finally, a photo of what I believe to be my car parked outside and being taken out for a test drive back in 2011...

tesla roadster cars convertible electric

Thank you! I wish I lived near there... I'd hop that fence and grab a piece of the rubble.

 

[Roadster]

Google Street View as of today has some kind of Back to the Future space/time continuum paradox going on because you can see the old building from some angles but if you proceed up/down the street, the building at 300 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025 appears and then disappears

Google Maps

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

Google Street View as of today has some kind of Back to the Future space/time continuum paradox going on because you can see the old building from some angles but if you proceed up/down the street, the building at 300 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025 appears and then disappears

Google Maps

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Exactly! That's how I accidentally discovered it

 

[gregd]

Curious, what's with the building logo, looking like a pitchfork or small menorah? I presume it was from the building's original owner.

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

Curious, what's with the building logo, looking like a pitchfork or small menorah? I presume it was from the building's original owner.

Actually it wasn't pronounced , just a decorative concrete or plaster exterior feature. The last tenant made it more pronounced by painting it white (the company name is on the side from certain views on Google Street view )

 

[Uncle Paul]

Interesting that Chevy's new Electric SUV is going to be called the Menlo.

 

[Roadster]

Couldn't find anything on what it used to be but here's what it's going to become...

Menlo Park: Stanford revises plans for former auto row

Middle Plaza

https://middleplaza.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/500MiddlePlaza_2019.mp4

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

Couldn't find anything on what it used to be but here's what it's going to become...

Menlo Park: Stanford revises plans for former auto row

Middle Plaza

https://middleplaza.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/500MiddlePlaza_2019.mp4

Ok at least they're replacing it with something beautiful... If the designer was smart he should have put a roadster in the lower right of that picture

 

[slcasner]

Here's a different view of the Menlo Park store. This is the back side; the building in the foreground is the small auxiliary building to the south where the battery and drivetrain were installed in new cars for delivery. The car is my #33 as it rolled out for its first test drive. My wife and I had sat in the car at the end of the assembly line in the Lotus factory in Hethel, England 12 days earlier. The car arrived in Menlo Park by air freight before we returned home from our vacation. We then went to Menlo Park to ask if we could see our car. We were told that was not possible, but we snuck around the back just in time to see our car pulling out of the garage. We asked the driver if it was #33, and he responded, "How did you know?"

 

[DrivingTheFuture]

Here's a different view of the Menlo Park store. This is the back side; the building in the foreground is the small auxiliary building to the south where the battery and drivetrain were installed in new cars for delivery. The car is my #33 as it rolled out for its first test drive. My wife and I had sat in the car at the end of the assembly line in the Lotus factory in Hethel, England 12 days earlier. The car arrived in Menlo Park by air freight before we returned home from our vacation. We then went to Menlo Park to ask if we could see our car. We were told that was not possible, but we snuck around the back just in time to see our car pulling out of the garage. We asked the driver if it was #33, and he responded, "How did you know?"View attachment 446173

I can almost smell that new car smell (I'll never know what new roadster smells like) and look at those pristine brake rotors and that new silky smooth soft top

 

[Roadster]

Adding this awesome thread @smorgasbord posted back in Jan 2013:

CPO Roadsters for sale in Menlo Park

Shot of #1128 from that thread...

...and screen grab of Google Street View history from the same month/year