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The college was founded in 1921, [3] opening its doors as San Jose Junior College to students in September of that year. In 1953, San José Unified School District took over the college's operation from San José State University. The college moved to its present location in the Fruitdale neighborhood of West San Jose in the same year. The ...
Mission San José was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68.
In his honor the local community has established John J. Montgomery Elementary School, Montgomery Park (City of San Jose). [2] Montgomery's last glider, named "The Evergreen", after the San Jose district, was restored by the Smithsonian Institution and is currently on display at the San Diego Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.
This is a list of streets in San Jose, California, with descriptions, historic significance, and name origins. California State Route 85, known in part as the West Valley Freeway and the Stevens Creek Freeway. California State Route 87, known in part as the Guadalupe Freeway. California State Route 130, known in part as Mount Hamilton Road and ...
Express routes. VTA's Express Bus routes operate along many of Santa Clara County's freeways, including Highway 85, Highway 237, Interstate 280 and U.S. Route 101. The buses used on these lines are suburban-style Gillig low-floor buses that have Wi-Fi capability on board.
San Jose is located at 37°20′10″N121°53′26″W / 37.33611°N 121.89056°W. San Jose is located within the Santa Clara Valley, in the southern part of the Bay Area in Northern California. The northernmost portion of San Jose touches San Francisco Bay at Alviso, though most of the city lies away from the bayshore.
SoFA (South First Area) is an arts, cultural, and entertainment district of Downtown San Jose, California.Home to numerous cultural institutions, art galleries, and theatre companies, including the Institute of Contemporary Art San José, the San José Opera, and the Silicon Valley Symphony, SoFA bills itself as "Silicon Valley's Creative District".
San José City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose, California. Located in Downtown San Jose, it was designed by Pritzker Prize -winning architect Richard Meier in a Postmodern style. It consists of an 18-story tower, an iconic glass rotunda, and a city council chamber wing, laid out within a two-block-long public square ...