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In the 1970s, he donated the exhibits to the City of San Jose. For a while they were set up on the lawn where San Jose's original City Hall used to be, at the intersection of First and Mission Streets. The City of San Jose and a non-profit (Christmas in the Park Inc) worked together to host a 2.5 acre holiday celebration. [citation needed]
The San Jose Holiday Parade tradition began in 1981 at the opening of the Christmas in the Park display at Plaza de Cesar Chavez, in Downtown San José. In the first year the parade consisted of a couple of fire engines, City of San José vehicles and Santa. [citation needed] The next year, the parade became the Christmas in the Park Parade.
The Plaza de César Chávez is an urban plaza and park in Downtown San Jose, California. [1] The plaza's origins date to 1797 as the plaza mayor of the Spanish Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, making it the oldest public space in Northern California. The plaza was rededicated after Californian civil rights activist César Chávez in 1993.
California Theatre, downtown San Jose; City National Civic Events, San Jose; Event Center Arena, downtown San Jose; The Flint Center for the Performing Arts, Cupertino; Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara; Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto; Montgomery Theater, San Jose; San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, downtown San Jose; San Jose Civic Auditorium ...
Purchased by the City of San Jose in 1966, the adobe building was restored, and the surrounding park completed in 1976. The Peralta Adobe is San Jose's Historic Landmark #1, California Historical Landmark #866, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition, the adobe was the first site certified as a component of the ...
St. James Park is a 6.8-acre (2.8 ha) park in downtown San Jose, California. Originally laid out as St. James Square in 1848, local newspapers dubbed the site a park in 1885, shortly after a fountain was installed in the center of the area. In 1933, two men who were accused of kidnapping and murdering Brooke Hart were lynched in St. James Park ...
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The San Francisco Bay Area's largest news organization, The Mercury News, is headquartered on St. James Park. Downtown San Jose has a large concentration of hotels and hospitality services in San Jose, including The Westin San Jose, the Hilton San Jose, Marriott San Jose, Sheraton San Jose, largely concentrated near the San Jose Convention Center.