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Ellen Reiko Bepp was raised in San Jose, California’s Japantown community. Bepp was born to second generation Japanese American parents who had ties with their Japanese cultural roots. [ 1 ] She was exposed to Japanese art and culture at an early age, as she was inspired by her Japanese grandparents. [ 2 ]
Sleep, doom metal band formed in San Jose [227] [228] Smash Mouth, pop-rock band formed in San Jose [229] [230] Snow Tha Product, rapper, born in San Jose [231] [232] Skip Spence, co-founder of Moby Grape [233] Stone Temple Pilots, band [234] [235] Eric Kretz, drummer for Stone Temple Pilots, Talk Show, and Spiralarms, born in San Jose
After visiting swap meets in Los Angeles and Paris’ Thieves Market for inspiration, George Bumb Sr. established the San Jose Flea Market at 1590 Berryessa Road in San Jose, California. He bought 120 acres (49 ha) of an old meat-processing plant and remodeled it to create a market with an initial 20 vendors and only 100 customers per day.
San Jose, California – racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop. 2000 [120] Pop. 2010 [121] Pop. 2020 [122] % 2000 ...
Santa Teresa is a neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States, located in South San Jose. Founded in 1834, Santa Teresa was originally established as Rancho Santa Teresa by the Bernal family, a prominent Californio clan. Today, Santa Teresa is largely a residential area, but also home to numerous Silicon Valley tech campuses.
Spanish Colonial Revival also provided California with a new historic architectural mode. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, modernization and further consolidation characterized the downtown core. New growth patterns to the west and south of the center of the city changed the commercial desirability of the downtown core area of San Jose.
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).
Goodwin Avenue — named after San Jose City Manager C. B. Goodwin; Goodyear Street — named after Miles Goodyear, who owned 30 acres in the area. Graham Avenue — named after John (Jack) Martin Graham, a baseball columnist for the San Jose Mercury Herald. The street is where the baseball grandstands used to be. [10]