Periodically, I like to test the memories of those readers who were in and around my hometown of Napa back in the 1940s. I am going to do that again with this little pop quiz.

Here we go. Remember these driving landmarks?

• The Napa Y. That was the name given to the junction of Napa-Vallejo Highway and Highway 12 just east of today’s Napa County Airport. The name also applied to the service station and small store at the junction.

• Rode’s Curve. A wide curve where today’s Old Sonoma Road met yesterday’s Sonoma Highway was dubbed Rode’s Curve. On one side of the curve was a service station and small grocery store. That site is near what is now the west end of the Old Sonoma Road overpass crossing Highway 29.

• Union Station. This was another service station and small grocery store landmark, where yesterday’s St. Helena Highway turned north and headed up the valley. Today, it would be close to where California Way meets Trancas Street, across Trancas from Bel Aire Plaza.

• Sonoma Notch. Prior to the opening of Sonoma Highway, which was, I believe, sometime in the 1930s, the primary route to Sonoma from Napa was via Old Sonoma Road. The route went straight west out of Napa, up the hill, through the pass, on to the Carneros area and then west toward Sonoma. Residents called the pass the Sonoma Notch. (Old-timers still do.)

How about these entertainment venues?

• The Dream Bowl. What a memorable spot that was. It was a very popular dance hall on Napa-Vallejo Highway (today’s Kelly Road) just north of the Napa Y. It held dances most Saturday nights, and frequently the band of the night was one of the big bands of the era. The building is still there and now houses a cabinet shop.

• Soscol House. Just north of the Dream Bowl, on the side facing the Napa-Vallejo highway was the historic Soscol House bar and restaurant. The building was later moved during highway construction to a site with access from Soscol Ferry and Devlin roads. It now houses the Villa Romano restaurant.

• The Old Adobe. This is an easy one because the 160-plus year old adobe brick building is still in the same location and still operating as a restaurant and bar, as it was during my youth. For the newcomers, the Old Adobe, at the intersection of Soscol Avenue and Silverado Trail, was built by Cayetano Juarez on a site that was part of his Mexican land grant.

• The Christmas Tree bar. This could be a toughie ,because it burned down sometime during WW II and some of you may not remember it. It was a popular hangout on Solano Avenue just a short distance south of Union Station.

Or these bygone landmarks?

• The Basalt Rock Company rock tram. This was an overhead tramway that crossed Napa-Vallejo Highway near what is now Kaiser Road. Metal containers that hung from a steel cable transported rock from Basalt’s quarry on the hills east of the highway to the plant on the river. The rocks were loaded on barges and floated down to construction sites from Sacramento to San Francisco. Rocks from Basalt were used in the construction of Treasure Island and most of the Bay Area bridges.

• Shipyard Acres. This was a wartime neighborhood consisting of hundreds of plywood box-like structures built to house worker families involved in the World War II effort. It sprung up early in the war and was dismantled sometime in the mid-1950s. It was on the northwest corner of what is now Kaiser Road and Napa-Vallejo Highway. Some of the structures were moved to the Cuttings Wharf area, resurrected, and are still in place near the marina.

• Railroad tracks down the middle of Third Street. Yep, Napa had railroad tracks that ran from the train depot at Third Street and Soscol Avenue right down the middle of Third to Jefferson Street. They then took off to the northwest and headed up the valley. They were for Napa’s electric train, which ceased operation in the 1930s. The tracks were still there until after World War II. The train transported passengers from Vallejo to Calistoga for many years.

Napa As It Was appears every other Monday, alternating with Betty Rhodes’ Senior Corner.