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San Jose Must Have An Airport – 1929. In 1939, Ernie Renzel, a wholesale grocer and future mayor of San Jose, led a group that negotiated an option to buy 483 acres (195 ha) of the Stockton Ranch from the Crocker family, to be the site of San Jose's airport. Renzel led the effort to pass a bond measure to pay for the land in 1940.
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art and sculpture collectors, including William Thompson Walters and his son Henry Walters .
Cluster ballooning was inspired by Larry Walters's experience, although his was not the first. [1]On July 2, 1982, Larry Walters (April 19, 1949 – October 6, 1993) made a 45-minute flight in a homemade aerostat made of an ordinary lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons. [2]
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The Institute of Contemporary Art San José (ICA) is a nonprofit art center and gallery founded in 1980, and located in the SoFA District of Downtown San Jose, California, U.S. [1] It supports contemporary artists working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, new media works and site-specific installations. [2]
The museum is known for its collection of medieval art; Marciari-Alexander, who has a scholarly background in British art, is also the museum's first non-medievalist director since 1965. [ 15 ] Under Marciari-Alexander's tenure, in 2015, the museum completed a $30 million endowment campaign started just before the Lehman Brothers went bankrupt ...
San Jose Airport may refer to: San Jose International Airport, an international airport in San Jose, California, United States; Juan Santamaría International Airport, an international airport serving in San José, Costa Rica; Los Cabos International Airport, an international airport in San José del Cabo, Mexico
Juan Santamaria International Airport is the largest and busiest airport in Costa Rica, having experienced a constant increase in traffic since its opening in 1958, boosted by the growing flow of tourists. The airport reached more than one million passengers per year for the first time in 1991 and having a record number of passengers in 2023.