"Museum on Main Moments" are a series of short videos on a variety of topics related to Pleasanton history. You can find more Museum on Main videos at our YouTube channel.

Latest: Pleasanton Loves A Parade!
Enjoy photos from over a century of Pleasanton parades for all kinds of occasions, from Independence Day parades of the 1890s to the Alameda County Fair cattle drives of the late 2010s!

#1: John Kottinger: The Early Years
Our first Museum on Main Moment looks at town founder John Kottinger's journey from Austrian schoolteacher to wealthy Californian farmer, lawyer, and real estate developer.

#2 Let's Go Shopping at Fiorio's!
Armed with an interior photo of Fiorio's Market in the early 1940s, we explore the brand-name foods and household products Pleasanton shoppers of the era could buy there. 

#3: The Pleasanton Hotel(s)
Three different Main Street establishments have claimed the "Pleasanton Hotel" name over the years, creating no small amount of confusion for people looking back at our history. In this video we clarify the wheres and whens of the Pleasanton Hotel brand, and what all three sites are like today.

#4: Hopyard History
For nearly two decades, from the early 1890s into the 1910s, the Pleasanton Hop Company ran a huge operation in what is now northwest Pleasanton, bringing several hundred pickers in every fall to gather a crop that sold to brewers around the world. Here we briefly chronicle the company's rise and fall.

#5: From Phoebe's Castle to Castlewood
A brief history of Phoebe Apperson Hearst's estate Hacienda del Pozo de Verona, its transformation into a country club and vacation resort, and the club's resilience after a 1969 fire destroyed the original mansion.