Burlingame Brokers Tour

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Getting Around Burlingame

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There are three FREE shuttles that serve the City of Burlingame all managed by the Peninsula Traffic Congestion Relief Alliance.

Burlingame Bayside Area Shuttle
Carries commuters from the Millbrae Station to Burlingame businesses in the morning and evening commute hours during the week. The shuttle stops curbside along Rollins Road, Bayshore Highway and Airport Boulevard.

North Burlingame Shuttle
Connecting the Millbrae Station with the Peninsula Medical Center and Sisters of Mercy facilities along El Camino Real and Adeline Drive.

Burlingame Trolley
Runs Monday through Saturday serving both the Burlingame Avenue and Broadway shopping areas and Airport Hotels.

Currently there is no charge to passengers for the use of the shuttle services. The shuttles are funded by the City of Burlingame, Peninsula Joint Powers Board, San Mateo Transit District, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, City/County Association of Governments of San Mateo County, the Burlingame Avenue Association, and the Broadway Improvement District.

Printed schedules are also available on the shuttle, at the Burlingame Chamber of Commerce, and at the hotels. Times are approximate.

For information regarding the shuttles, contact The Alliance at (650) 588-8170.

For information regarding current bus route schedules, please refer to www.commute.org site.

Third Quarter Lyon-Hoag Home Sales

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Address Price SqFt Sold Date Days on Market
108 VICTORIA ROAD $765,000 1,300 1/31/11 8
217 CHANNING ROAD $1,050,000 1,570 2/11/11 14
133 CLARENDON ROAD $795,000 2,310 5/3/11 15
612 HOWARD AVENUE $899,000 1,682 5/13/11 8
404 BAYSWATER AVENUE $829,900 1,220 5/19/11 21
301 BLOOMFIELD ROAD $775,000 1,230 6/16/11 8
9 VICTORIA ROAD $799,000 1,570 6/24/11 22
717 HOWARD AVENUE $679,000 1,710 6/28/11 21
721 HOWARD AVENUE $729,000 2,150 6/28/11 21
128 CHANNING ROAD $1,249,000 2,840 7/19/11 20
501 BURLINGAME AVENUE $1,248,000 2,740 7/21/11 11
215 HOWARD AVENUE $718,000 1,508 7/23/11 37
17 STANLEY ROAD $999,000 1,440 7/29/11 3
142 VICTORIA ROAD $1,279,000 3,200 7/29/11 13
105 HOWARD AVENUE $678,000 1,640 7/31/11 73
309 HOWARD AVENUE $935,000 1,570 8/3/11 48
101 VICTORIA ROAD $765,000 1,420 8/26/11 7
211 HOWARD AVENUE $748,000 1,170 9/9/11 54
712 BAYSWATER AVENUE $699,000 1,400 9/16/11 15
605 BURLINGAME AVENUE $865,000 1,400 9/21/11 12

 

MLS# Address Price DOM Beds Baths SqFt Lot Size City Age
81118197 33 CLARENDON ROAD $1,135,000 156 5 4|0 2,660 7,850 Sqft Burl 34
81138584 14 STANLEY ROAD $798,888 21 3 1|0 1,275 5,750 Sqft Burl 88
81101861 112 HOWARD AVENUE $759,000 257 4 2|0 1,710 4,738 Sqft Burl 64

Corny Facts
 – Who Knew?

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Americans consume some 16 billion quarts of this whole grain, good-for-you treat. That’s 52 quarts per man, woman, and child.
The peak period for popcorn sales for home consumption is in the fall.
How high can popcorn kernels pop? Up to 3 feet in the air.
If you made a trail of popcorn from New York City to Los Angeles, you would need more than 352,028,160 popped kernels!
Compared to most snack foods, popcorn is low in calories. Air-popped popcorn has only 31 calories per cup. Oil-popped is only 55 per cup.

Carmel Popcorn with a Trail Mix Twist

INGREDIENTS
5 cups popped popcorn
3 cups whole grain oat cereal
1/3 cup raisins
1/3 cup peanuts (or other nuts)
1/3 cup sunflower seeds
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter or margarine
6 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. light corn syrup

1. Stir together popcorn, cereal, raisins and nuts in large microwavable bowl; set aside.
2. Combine butter, brown sugar and corn syrup in small saucepan.
3. Heat until boiling; cook for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Pour over popcorn mixture, stirring to coat evenly.
5. Microwave 3-4 minutes, stirring and scraping bowl after each minute.
Spread onto greased cookie sheet; cool.
7.  Break into pieces and store in airtight container.

• • • Popcorn.org • • •

Halloween Safety
Tips for Your Tween


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• Make sure an adult or responsible teenager accompanies your tween.
• Plan and discuss the route your tween intends to follow. Know the names of all the kids that will accompany your tween on the outing.
• Remind your tween to travel only in familiar areas and along an established route.
• Choose safe houses; kids should only go to homes where you know the residents and have outside lights on as a sign of welcome.
• Make sure your tween knows NEVER to enter a stranger’s home for ANY REASON.
• Instruct your child never to eat anything until you have inspected the treats. Throw away anything unwrapped.
Remind your tween to walk from house to house and not to cross yards and lawns where unseen objects or the uneven terrain can present tripping hazards.
Show respect for the homeowners-pumpkin smashing is NOT harmless and remind your tween to say “thank you!”

• • •  Parenting.org  • • •

History of Hyon-Hoag

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by Alan Canas
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Davenport Bromfield was one of Burlingame’s most significant pioneers. He single handedly shaped the town, including the neighborhood of Lyon-Hoag by architecting the city plans. In the 1890’s he was hired by William Henry Howard to lay out streets south of Burlingame Avenue. In 1905,  Ansel M. Easton retained him to plan the Easton Addition. Five years later, he surveyed for the town site of Hillsborough.

The population was well below 200 in 1895 when Edgar Wakefield McLellan purchased land in the Burlingame area. Edgar’s property became the largest growing complex for flowers West of Chicago with open fields and 13 glass houses. These flowers sold all over the West coast and even as far East as New York. The nursery was dismantled and moved in 1930 because the citizens of Burlingame did not want the smell of manure and other horticulture odors permeating the city. The nurseries were moved to unincorporated Colma, near South San Francisco.

The land around the Burlingame train station became known as “Burlingame Square.” Initially, the square was made up of five wood buildings: a drug store, post office, grocery building, the Husing building, and the Hatch building. The Hatch was one of the first buildings erected in town known as the Salon, a small hotel Southwest of California and Burlingame Avenue. Opening in 1894, the train station (a part of the Burlingame Square)  was and is today the home of so much of Burlingame’s history.

People traveled through the station following the 1906 earthquake to commute to and from San Francisco after relocating.  Historically known for more than just purchasing a train ticket, the train depot housed the Wells Fargo Express, Western Union Telegraph, the Pacific Telephone switchboard, and was Burlingame’s first Post Office. In July 1906, the First Baptist Church held Sunday School and early meetings of the Burlingame Women’s Club. Fox hunting sponsored by Burlingame Country Club began at this station, where red-jacket riders and baying hounds gathered in front to await the call of the hunter’s horn.
Who knew so much history was just a block away from Lyon-Hoag.