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La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose is a historic adobe structure built in 1837 in Pomona, California. It is the oldest home located in the Pomona Valley and in the old Rancho San Jose land grant. It was declared a historic landmark in 1954 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in April 1975.
Shops at La Placita Tropicana. Stores at Plaza de San José. Restaurants at Mi Pueblo Plaza. The area surrounding King and Story, zip code 95122, is a hub for the East San Jose Community and for Latino culture in San Jose. [2] The neighborhood is sometimes known as Tropicana, after the shopping center on the southwest corner of the intersection.
The original St. Joseph's Church was called San Jose de Guadalupe [2] built on the site of the current basilica in 1803, and was the first non-mission parish built in California for the benefit of Spanish settlers instead of the Mission Indians (Ohlone).
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.
Jurassic Quest, an interactive dinosaur event, returns to the Bayfront Convention Center on July 12-14. Jurassic Wonder drive-thru is set for Wattsburg Fair July 13-14.
La Sabana International Airport was the airport serving the city until the opening of the current Juan Santamaría International Airport. [4] During the decade of the 1960s, the idea of turning La Sabana into San José's lungs was taken up again. With that goal, trees, shrubs, and grass were planted.
Construction of a narrow-gauge railway to the park from downtown San Jose began in 1891. In late 1891, or early 1892, a gasoline powered locomotive built by the Best Manufacturing Company arrived. This was the first internal combustion locomotive built in the western United States, though it was only a limited success and was returned to Best ...
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.