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Novotel is a French midscale hotel brand owned by Accor. [1] Created in 1967 in France, the company grew into what became the Accor group in 1983, and Novotel remained a pillar brand of Accor's multi-brand strategy. Novotel manages 559 hotels in 65 countries (2021). [2] Since 2010, Novotel also includes the apartment hotel brand Novotel Suites. [2]
A patchwork quilt of electromechanical switching equipment handled San Jose calls between 1949 and the 1980s. There were about eight Western Electric Crossbar switches, at least one Number 1 and mostly Number 5. There was a Western Electric 4A Crossbar that took up two floors of the Main telephone exchange. In the mid-1980s, the 4A crossbar was ...
Alum Rock Park, 718 acres (2.91 km 2) in East San Jose, the oldest municipal park in California and one of the largest municipal parks in the United States. Children's Discovery Museum hosts an outdoor park-like setting, featuring the world's largest permanent Monopoly game, per the Guinness Book of World Records. [103]
Almaden Valley (Spanish: Valle de Almadén), [1] commonly known simply as Almaden (Spanish: Almadén), is a valley and neighborhood of San Jose, California, located in South San Jose. It is nestled between the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west and the Santa Teresa Hills to the east, bordering the town of Los Gatos and West San Jose neighborhood.
Herman Krause - Celebrated area designer of premium residential and commercial installations in the San Jose area during the early 20th century. Frank Delos Wolfe - Noted area architect lived in Palm Haven and designed many homes there along with hundreds in the San Jose and San Francisco Bay Area. Work spans late 19th century to 1925.
The Alameda is a historic district of Central San Jose, California, west of Downtown San Jose.The district is centered on an alameda (Spanish for tree-lined street), a historic portion of El Camino Real connecting Downtown San Jose to Mission Santa Clara de Asís, and includes the smaller, surrounding neighborhoods to the north and east, like College Park and St. Leo's.
The neighborhood surrounds and is named for the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden, a 5 + 1 ⁄ 2-acre (22,000 m 2) park with thousands of rose bushes. The Rose Garden is of one of San Jose's oldest neighborhoods outside of the 18th and 19th century downtown core around the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. Several existing Victorian houses in the ...
South San Jose is the southern region of San Jose, California.The name "South Side" refers to an area bounded roughly by Hillsdale Avenue and Capitol Expressway to the North, Camden Avenue to the West, Highway 101 and Hellyer Avenue on the east, the border with the city of Morgan Hill towards the south, and Los Gatos, to the west.