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The Military Vehicle Technology Foundation was a large collection of military vehicles located in Portola Valley, California.It was founded in 1998 by Jacques Littlefield, and closed in 2018, with its collection being distributed to other museums.
The Northern California Folk-Rock Festival was a music festival held at Family Park [1] in the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, 344 Tully Road, San Jose, California, on May 18–19, 1968 and promoted by Bob Blodgett. [2] It was the first of two such festivals held at the venue, being followed by the Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1969).
The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) is devoted to ancient Egypt, located at Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. It was founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). The Rosicrucian order continues to support and expand the museum and its educational and scientific activities.
In 1992, the CTRC received approval from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to build the San Jose Steam Railroad Museum at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds. The museum would be contained inside the former six-stall Lenzen Roundhouse and turntable which was built in 1899, damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and donated to the museum by Southern Pacific in 1994. [14]
San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around two million residents in 2018. [20] San Jose is notable for its innovation, cultural diversity, [21] affluence, [22] and sunny and mild Mediterranean climate. [23]
The San Jose Museum of Art's permanent collection has grown over the years to include 2,600 art objects as of 2019. [ 2 ] Artforum reported that senior curator Lauren Schell Dickens oversaw the acquisition of works by California-born live simulation artist Ian Cheng and German moving image artist Hito Steyerl in the late 2010s.
Littlefield was born on November 21, 1949, in San Francisco, California. He was the son of Edmund Wattis Littlefield and Jeannik Méquet Littlefield. His father was CEO of Utah Construction Company, his mother is a strong supporter of the arts and a member of the Chairman's Council of the San Francisco Opera. [2]
The San Jose Redevelopment Agency (SJRA, officially the Redevelopment Agency for the City of San José) was a redevelopment agency in the government of San Jose, California. It was created in 1956 and grew into the second-largest tax increment financing agency in the state.