Lots 1 and 4 of Pleasanton's Foothill Road contained acreage that once contained 170 acres. I confirmed it with the City of Pleasanton historical museum.
This land was the home of San Leandro's mayor Earl Derry and his wife Stella Derry from 1946 until both of their deaths in the late 1970s.
You see Mr and Mrs Derry had a sense of humor about things. They ran their very own Dairy farm on that site. Derry's Dairy.
The Derry's moved out there when they sold their Superior Avenue home in San Leandro to my Grandparents William and Agnes Greenslade in 1946.
I reading old newspaper archives about the Derrys, I also found out that the Derry's still owned some land back in Michigan. Their property was surrounded on three sides by another property. Oil was discovered on that property surrounding theirs. I would imagine that they had some considerable wealth besides what his real estate and development career had produced. It is imaginable that the Derry's owned the Pleasanton property for several years before moving from San Leandro to retire out at the site of where Stoneridge Mall.
It's interesting to note that the Fenton Family of Fenton's Creamery also lived on Superior Avenue. Was the Derry Dairy one of the locations where the Fenton's got their cream from to make their wonderful ice creams on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland?
Mmmm yummm Fentons.
nuff said for now
