Greater San Jose (1951)

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  • @Molly_Belle
    @Molly_Belle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    My family has been here for over a hundred year’s. It’s changed so much even in the past 20 years.I love how all the people used to look so nice.

  • @chrisphariss3075
    @chrisphariss3075 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I grew up in San Jose in the Willow Glen area I watched my dad pour cement for the J C Pennys building couldn't have been more then 3-4 years old My grandfather owned a prune and apricot orchard on Chenoweth Ave near the Hays estate during the summer I cut cots and picked pruns for a couple of hours. I took swimming lessons at Willow Glen High school. The fifties were a great time to be a teenager. A few minutes out of town you were in the country my great uncles had a cattle ranch in the Little Uvas my aunts ranch was in Paradise Valley. I am not much for progress for me it is sad to see the way the valley has grown.

  • @fob1xxl
    @fob1xxl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I grew up there from 1954 until 1964 when I moved to L.A. I went to Belden and Walter L Bachrodt elementary school. Attended Peter H. Burnett Jr High and graduated from San Jose High School. My Mom grew up in San Jose. We moved to Santa Clara in 1961 when my parents bought their first new home. We lived on Stevenson St. All of my mom's family grew up and lived there their whole lives. My Uncle's practically ran "Del Monte" on Jackson Street. Very few of us around now. I'll always remember growing up in San Jose and playing with the neighborhood kids . Always waiting for my mom to call out my name in the evening, "Guy ! Time to come in now ! It's time for dinner !" I have two cousins that were COACHES at San Jose State University, The "PIARO BROTHERS". Sure proud of them ! loved my childhood. It was a great time to grow up.

  • @finestplanet1353
    @finestplanet1353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Glad to see, San Jose has consistently improved its living conditions and quality of life two steps forward and ten backwards.

    • @charlietian4023
      @charlietian4023 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      By this do you genuinely believe life was better back then in every way?

    • @jacktran7024
      @jacktran7024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@charlietian4023 Don't get triggered by @finestplanet1's comment. Life was less scarier especially downtown san jose back then.

    • @nightshade-o7g
      @nightshade-o7g 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@charlietian4023 It was better in most ways lets just say that.

    • @charlietian4023
      @charlietian4023 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nightshade-o7g I mean that's just objectively false if you're not white

    • @charlietian4023
      @charlietian4023 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nightshade-o7g It's also false if you look at objective measurements like relative spending power and average quality of life

  • @tinalaplaca6638
    @tinalaplaca6638 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    My hometown. My parents are buried there. My kids were born there. l went to school there. My last time home was in July 2024. l'm not sure if l will ever return there

  • @dorothypettijohn6228
    @dorothypettijohn6228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I too have great memories of growing up in San Jo! My parents are stilll in the same house 55 years later! Cambrisn park.was my stomping ground. Cosentinos the prune yard, Tower records! Captol drive in! We rode bikes to Vasona, Perk ponds even Lexington Res. I remember driving 17 to the beach , no seat belts, no cement divider between north and south!!! Camden High School,Ida Price Bagby. Then SJCC.
    Leff in 1989.to the sucky valley go buy a house. It's a.differnt town now. Culture shock! Great place to grow up😀

    • @stevenchavez4808
      @stevenchavez4808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God Dorothy, were we neighbors? My older sister attended Camden hs, I went to bagby and helped make the tile mural in front, then IDA price, then Branham hs..graduated 1973...17 to Santa Cruz, no dividers....fishing at the perk ponds, swimming vasona.....picking fresh cherries at various vacant lots.....lived near doerr park, Leigh and rochelle......so many memories.....it's kinda ruined these days.....so very sad.....

    • @elizahhoward3923
      @elizahhoward3923 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      dude i reminiced with you it really is aa great place to grow up but jesus does this city evolve

    • @fmcg5364
      @fmcg5364 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Dorothy

    • @raysousa955
      @raysousa955 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I feel the same. I grew up in the rose garden district and my parents are still there. I miss my home town

    • @uncledamfee2347
      @uncledamfee2347 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@stevenchavez4808 Born in 89 near Doerr on Lexford Ave right off Potrero/Leigh. small world

  • @marthaanderson2346
    @marthaanderson2346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I graduated from James Lick High School at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in June 1970. Had graduation dinner at Original Joe's just across the street from the auditorium.

  • @dgarton28
    @dgarton28 11 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I was there. I had just finished College and had one year of teaching completed. I came back to SJSC several summers to work on a graduate degree and lived in some of the original tract homes in West San Jose. These are great clips. Thanks so much.

  • @mattmurphy24
    @mattmurphy24 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    We've raised our daughter in San Jose Berryessa area. She was born in 2005. She played in the front yard unattended, walked to school, biked the area and rode her bike to friends houses. The sad thing is very few families do this. They bunker in their houses and their kids don't go out and play. They get shuttled to school, activities and a large set of parents I interact with see the boogie man around every corner. Like most of the nostalgic comments here I grew up in Alameda in the 60's and 70's. Complete independence as a child and lots of kids to play with. My daughter takes the bus all over santa clara county, for free, no problem. We have enjoyed alum rock park, quick silver park, the rose gardens, downtown san jose, etc. There is still a lot of beauty in san jose and santa clara county. The population has increased 4x since the 1950's. For sure, It was probably better in 1951 with fewer people and less angst.

    • @silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205
      @silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your kid was born in 05 And you let her play unattended in the yard in San Jose? Is she still with us? I was born in San jo. That’s reckless.

    • @mattmurphy24
      @mattmurphy24 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205 Ha Ha Yes she is still with us and flourishing. She rides the VTA and BART up to SF and Oakland by herself. She has never had 1 problem. What's sad with Covid people in the neighborhood finally got onto the streets with their kids. I never knew there were so many kids in the neighborhood. Stranger abduction is extremely rare! My daughter is half Finnish and spent many summers in Finland. Kids there as young as 6 or 7 walk to schools , go skating, etc alone. What exactly do you think is reckless about letting kids play in the front yard unattended?

    • @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602
      @blainegabbertgabonemhofgoa6602 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born in 2000 and had a similar upbringing in central Fremont a bit up north, close to the Fremont Bart station. Got to walk/bike to school, shopping centers, restaurants, friends houses, parks, and the library. Took AC transit to other parts of Fremont and Bart to other cities. When I was growing up, Fremont was the last Bart stop but now it goes to barryessa. When I was going to San Jose State it would’ve been nice if it went all the way to downtown San Jose. But I guess that won’t be complete until the 2030’s.

    • @geebee380
      @geebee380 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@silkoakranchpitchforkranch1205 she's strapped she good😆

    • @leeslover
      @leeslover 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i was born in 06, also grew up in that area and my parents did the same with me. they always let me and my siblings play outside unsupervised LOL. even now i take the bus alot, i think alot of people think all of san jose sucks, but you just gotta live in the right neighborhoods really

  • @royaltyJkash
    @royaltyJkash 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Damn it’s crazy to see the place you were born and raised 30 years before you touched down. Reminds me of the story’s my grandma use to tell me about when she first came. 🖤🖤

  • @FeaJackie
    @FeaJackie 9 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    wow, its strange seeing so many familiar places from the past and comparing them to the present.

  • @acmc82
    @acmc82 11 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    My mom was right, just like in Cuba, I noticed the women were dressed up just to go shopping, either for groceries or for clothes and things! I'm a San Jose native, now 30 and I dress up to go to the mall. I'm still looking for more videos of San Jose's past!

    • @cargo2206
      @cargo2206 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Check out (San Jose Lights) 1969 and (Snow in San Jose) January 21, 1962

    • @celticfiddle7605
      @celticfiddle7605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@cargo2206 I remember the snow of '62!!!!!

  • @acerockollaa
    @acerockollaa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Now those very tract houses in Cambrian Park go for northwards of $1.25 million dollars.

    • @pen64
      @pen64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The Cambrian Park house I grew up in my parents bought in 1958 for $35K. I just checked and it’s estimated worth is between $1.18M and $1.37M. For a 3 Br, 1 1/2 bath! I would not pay that much for that house if I could...

  • @bluetickfreddy101
    @bluetickfreddy101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Family moved there mid sixties
    What a wonderful town
    Great memories
    Thank you

  • @redfox1900
    @redfox1900 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is a great video. San Jose was a great place to be. The people and the city was very modern, peaceful and sophisticated. Folks were financially well off, were respectful of one another and the city too was prosperous. Thank you for this great reminder of what the city and the people were like in those wonderful times. 😊

  • @625Colleen
    @625Colleen 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    WOW this is awesome .... My uncle was here then & the first time I ever remember visiting was in about 1959
    thank you for sharing this

  • @SCCPioneers
    @SCCPioneers  12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you! We're always on the lookout for more films to share, and appreciate any leads or donations. We hope you enjoy the rest of our channel!

  • @DarbyMessa
    @DarbyMessa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Graduated from Mt. Pleasant high in 1977. I remember as a kid picking apricots .50 cents a bucket then spending it on red barn hamburger’s.

  • @silvermica
    @silvermica 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've lived in San Jose since 2010 (and Silicon Valley since 1997). It's so strange to see recognizable buildings in this 1950s video of downtown San Jose. I pass by these buildings every day .

  • @MC10046
    @MC10046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am so blessed to have been born and raised here ❤such a great childhood, love my city 🌃

  • @stogiechomper
    @stogiechomper 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    My family moved to San Jose six years after this film was made.

    • @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816
      @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol👍

    • @5Neeny
      @5Neeny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We did too! I was 6. We lived in the area of Saratoga Rd. And Prospect Ave. orchards all around our track of homes! Beautiful place to grow up!

  • @GarySinghSJ
    @GarySinghSJ 13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    TWO senior high schools. Good god...

  • @scasey1960
    @scasey1960 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Great to see how the dollar store has replaced “selling nothing but the best”.

  • @Steve95401
    @Steve95401 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    San Jose and Lincoln were the only public high schools at that time. San Jose High was still located at 7th & San Fernando, which is now part of SJSU.

    • @stevenchavez4808
      @stevenchavez4808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you go to the traditional big bone game every thanksgiving between sj high and Lincoln? We went every year when I was a kid....my parents are alumni sjhs.....

  • @johnevoice
    @johnevoice 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a great video!!! What a gem!!!! Thanks for sharing!

  • @michaelterry1000
    @michaelterry1000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My Grandparents / great grandfather grew apricots and prunes from the early 1930s - Mid 1950s in San Jose. I admit it, I watched the video in hopes of getting a peek at them. No such luck.

    • @moryan6447
      @moryan6447 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I moved there in the mid-60’s to go to SJS. Still small town in many ways and orchards all over the valley. My parents had a small restaurant in Los Gatos around 1950. By 1952 we moved back to the L.A. area. Always knew I wanted to move north where I’ve remained.

  • @yosemite2405
    @yosemite2405 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I lived on Kirby Way from 1969 -1973. I went to (sp) Fairmount school not far from Cambell. Moved to the Central Valley

  • @acmc82
    @acmc82 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Are there clips of Hoover Middle School? How about the RoseGarden on Naglee Ave? Oh yeah, and The Alameda back then? I've only seen pictures!

  • @fcinternetmarketing
    @fcinternetmarketing 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this old clips.

  • @seotopbros
    @seotopbros 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Does anyone have a delorian. Take me back to the future. I love watching these old clips.

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When my parents got married in 1956 they rented a house owned by the Ploch family that ran a ranch where Roy M Butcher Park now is just a few blocks away on Ross Ave. When the Plochs wanted to retire and sold off the land to housing developers they moved out of it. But not four years later they bought one of the new 1959 tract houses and that was my home all of my childhood and where both of my parents lived out the rest of their lives. The little house on Ross is still there too and it actually took the city forever to even build an actual concrete l sidewalk around it!

  • @brianholihan5497
    @brianholihan5497 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hart's Department Store was a major retailing institution in DTSJ before it was torn down in the early '70s. I wonder if there are any videos of its interior.

    • @SCCPioneers
      @SCCPioneers  5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Brian Holihan we’ll see if we can find any! If anyone has old film or photos, let us know!

    • @as-pz9ck
      @as-pz9ck 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In 1933, Brooke Hart, son of the owner, was kidnapped and murdered. His killers were found and then thrown into the local jail across the street from St James Park. The community was in such an uproar over the crime that thousands descended upon the jail and pulled the two killers out and strung them up on a tree in the park. Where it was quite a spectacle to see the men hanging and people came from all over the county to observe.
      Jackie Coogan was said to be a friend of Brooke's at Santa Clara University and was one of the men who helped make the nooses.
      No one was charged with breaking out and lynching the two men.

    • @pauletheridge2412
      @pauletheridge2412 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@as-pz9ck My grandfather had taken a photo of them hanging. He was not proud of having taken it and when my grandmother realized that my brother and I were looking at it and wondering what the story was, she made it mysteriously disappear.

  • @manuelnavarro95116
    @manuelnavarro95116 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:30 where's that location now, What streets we're made When all that Land was bought?

  • @rosemarywaldie4958
    @rosemarywaldie4958 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful video ❤️👏

  • @hyderulez94
    @hyderulez94 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hell ya bay area

  • @joeroberts2481
    @joeroberts2481 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would love to know where exactly those newly built "homes of the future" are. Want to see them today.

    • @donaldbush1182
      @donaldbush1182 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Those ranch homes of the future are in the unincorporated area of Cambrian Park. Behind the Cambrian Park Plaza at Union Av and Camden Ave. Drive Wyrick Av from Cambrian Park plaza to Leigh Av and you’ll see that neighborhood. Much of it is still intact, and it still has an open leafy street vibe, but I don’t think it can last much longer. Cambrian Park plaza has got to be just barely hanging on with its 1950s style, and developers salivating at that large property.

    • @tomc642
      @tomc642 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@donaldbush1182I heard that Cambrian Park Plaza will be torn down. I loved San Jose, but it has become too crowded and expensive.

  • @gracegarcia4468
    @gracegarcia4468 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you MR Stevens for selling my grandparents our home on Golf dr. Mckee & white.

  • @AliciaDominguez1987
    @AliciaDominguez1987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I always wonder how many sacred burial grounds they defiled. And other sacred areas.

    • @wiscgaloot
      @wiscgaloot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Excellent point. The entire Bay Area had many hundreds of villages, with several right in the SJ area. Instead of buying up land for "open space preserves" that land should be deeded over to the local tribes.

  • @sfgiantpoet
    @sfgiantpoet 11 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    i wonder what the cops in this shot would think of todays police problems here.

    • @nemass26
      @nemass26 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats an interesting question provided if they are still alive

    • @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816
      @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's very bad I'm scared of San Jose police they are not nice but that depends too but it's currupt

    • @billyregalado
      @billyregalado 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I came on here to say this. Damn u said this 6yrs ago, imagine today lol

    • @jonathanree4524
      @jonathanree4524 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      well this comment didn't age too well

    • @awesomewhiteness1
      @awesomewhiteness1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@billyregalado I think you meant to say it did in light of recent events. Unless you approve of Jared Yuen and Garcia's willfull ignorance

  • @ThePadillaFilms
    @ThePadillaFilms 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man I wish the narrators script included more names and facts about the places and people he was talking about.

  • @MattieCooper10000
    @MattieCooper10000 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    WOW!

  • @SCCPioneers
    @SCCPioneers  11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We have plenty here on our youtube channel, and are always uploading more. Glad you enjoy them! As a reminder to anyone out there, we will digitize home movies of San Jose, whether 8mm, 16mm, or vhs! If historic, we can do so free of charge and provide you with a DVD. Contact us for more info!

  • @joyousegamer116
    @joyousegamer116 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I Liv in Lincoln avenue pretty much were this video takes place on damn looks so wierd back then IAM 13

    • @JAG312
      @JAG312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I lived on Willow Glen Way. The old Willow Glen houses are being torn down to be replaced by McMansions for the Silicon Valley multimillionaires. You are in Willow Glen High School. Rams Rule. I own part of the football field when it was grass and dirt. I bought it with my blood and sweat.

  • @moomoopuppy5810
    @moomoopuppy5810 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Is that Santa Clara st @ 1:09?

    • @JAG312
      @JAG312 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes. Looking East.

    • @randyrichards8952
      @randyrichards8952 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes

    • @xChromerSatanasx
      @xChromerSatanasx 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's 3rd and Santa Clara St. A block away from the Chevron. There is a furniture store on that corner

  • @692ALBANNACH
    @692ALBANNACH 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lived there 94 95 96 west of first street was an area of streets planned out but no houses has anything been built up on them ?

    • @SANxJONERO
      @SANxJONERO 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      I Love Baingan I'm sure something was done.

    • @devinracelis8392
      @devinracelis8392 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +I Love Baingan west of first street is now a city called Santa Clara. At 2:30 in, you see the intersection of Santa Clara + Second Street. Just west of that intersection is the HP pavilion (now called the SAP pavilion) and if you travel westbound along Santa Clara (which turns into El Camino Real), you hit Santa Clara University and the city of Santa Clara.

    • @devinracelis8392
      @devinracelis8392 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      +I Love Baingan fyi the area you mentioned is housing now but stops as soon as you hit SCU. After SCU along El Camino you hit the SC police station and city hall and then several shopping districts.

    • @MultiSinos
      @MultiSinos 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Black Baingan 94 95 96? West of first no houses?

  • @FeedingPetsoftheHomeless
    @FeedingPetsoftheHomeless 13 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    SJ has come a long way. Do you know the way?

  • @ulitalivaa6047
    @ulitalivaa6047 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What was color day

  • @seanp2k617
    @seanp2k617 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    now all those houses cost $1.5m but all the people who bought them in the 70s and 80s pay property tax less than $1k per year while their new neighbors pay $20k. Thanks Prop 13 and Reagan!

    • @miked7304
      @miked7304 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And what do you think would have happened to those people when their property taxes skyrocketed? They would have been forced out of their homes.

  • @franciscogonzales5928
    @franciscogonzales5928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    6:40 ...and stoners from the local High School.

  • @uncledamfee2347
    @uncledamfee2347 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cambrian Park in the house woot woot!!

  • @theophilusthistle1988
    @theophilusthistle1988 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Back when the city was civilized. There was a blue collar middle class who could afford to buy homes. And yes, I grew up here. You could actually drive more than 5 miles without running into a traffic jam. You could walk up Santa Cara St. without being accosted by a drunk or homeless person. Yeah folks, that's what "progress" has done to San Jose!

    • @oscargarciajr4440
      @oscargarciajr4440 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jesus was homeless.

    • @yosemite2405
      @yosemite2405 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      By his choice and only at certain times in his life. He wasn't a drunk, druggie or mentally ill either. Not the same at all.

    • @theilluminedone7896
      @theilluminedone7896 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah but he would empathize with them and heal them. Not mock them and look down on them. The historicity of the biblical jesus is of not dispute to me. His divinity is debatable but he was a better man by all accounts than the best of us. Greed and arrogance are nothing to aspire to.

    • @emilioesquivel5089
      @emilioesquivel5089 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      homeless people deserve respect too. Too many people work like sheep now because people have not forced goverment under control google is going to destroy what is left of san jose

  • @acmc82
    @acmc82 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I went to Lincoln 1996-2000!

  • @theophilusthistle1988
    @theophilusthistle1988 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can anyone tell me why Santa Clara St. looks twice as wide in 1951 as it does today?Don't say they moved the buildings.

    • @candleice891
      @candleice891 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      57beachboy Maybe this was filmed with a wide angle lens? Like the difference between watching tv on a wide screen or regular tv set. Just guessing. This could create an illusion of being wider...or they moved the buildings (lol).

    • @larptroll69er22
      @larptroll69er22 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      57beachboy They moved the buildings.

    • @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816
      @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      No but less building s maybe it was just starting it was small City back then

    • @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816
      @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@larptroll69er22 yes they moved the building s the building s walked away they have legs you know!..lol

  • @nancyschwalen8750
    @nancyschwalen8750 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Santa Clara Mission got better coverage that the Cathedral, which got only the equivalent of a drive-by.

  • @michaelsolomon6594
    @michaelsolomon6594 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What happened? 😢

  • @muradtravels
    @muradtravels ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “Progress never stops. This is an investment of the future as growth is..”
    Us in 2023: 😮

  • @ericschmock2872
    @ericschmock2872 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Old San Jose

  • @cccycling5835
    @cccycling5835 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At least Cambrian Park is still a very nice neighborhood.

    • @uncledamfee2347
      @uncledamfee2347 ปีที่แล้ว

      went from the most affordable part of town to small cozy homes being sold for $1.2 million only to be demolished, and built over into a big of a house as possible...

  • @raymaiden958
    @raymaiden958 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Born and raised-O'Conner-SJC-SJSU!

  • @joycewild9572
    @joycewild9572 12 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I see shopping carts have gotton allot bigger. She looks like she pushing a childs cart.

  • @MrJest2
    @MrJest2 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing how much of this is still here... From Normadin's to the Cambrian development to the Hotel DeAnza. A lot of this still survives to this day, as vibrant as ever. Downtown and the East Side has some "big city" problems, but for a city of over a million people it's still a pretty good place to live.

    • @oscargarciajr4440
      @oscargarciajr4440 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's number 1 in the big city category. Pretty good is not good enough for number 1 on FBI stats.

  • @NickB1967
    @NickB1967 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @GarySinghSJ: In 1940, yes.

  • @KayleeArafinwiel
    @KayleeArafinwiel 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    William Foley? My mom's cousin is named William Foley...I wonder if that's him? O.o

  • @legend_of_louie649
    @legend_of_louie649 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    My father was gonna buy Virginia ave vine all that was trees and my uncle told him it’s never gonna be anything.. look now

  • @chrishuston4445
    @chrishuston4445 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you know the way to …. Um what was the name again…

  • @douglasalbert2535
    @douglasalbert2535 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:47

  • @chrisjusti
    @chrisjusti 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Color Day??????
    and what color were they celebrating?

    • @branon6565
      @branon6565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Chris Justi ....hopefully they were celebrating folks who are WHITE, aka Caucasian, you got a problem with that you racist piece of garbage?!

  • @mk3a
    @mk3a 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:50 LOL those houses will suffer the same fate the Cypress structure did. Wanna bet

    • @JAG312
      @JAG312 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I lived in one of those houses until I was 12. It is still standing today.

    • @mk3a
      @mk3a 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      JAG312 San Jose got lucky in the 1989 earthquake since it didn’t do much damage in that city and most of the buildings were newer unlike Santa Cruz and Oakland

    • @JAG312
      @JAG312 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mk3a I got lucky. During the 1989 earthquake, the house I was living in was one of the old Willow Glen houses built in 1926. However, what saved it was a new foundation we installed in 1986 with the house bolted to the foundation and other upgrades. It still had $85,000 in damage which was all repairable. The house I lived in on Herring Ave. in the Cambrian Park area when I was a small child is still standing. I don't know if there was any interior damage. The house next to my Willow Glen house was a total loss.

    • @mk3a
      @mk3a 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      JAG312 nice to hear. What are your thoughts about A.P. “Dutch” Hamann (infamous city manager who nearly turned San Jose into a mini Los Angeles and died in the Tenerife disaster)

    • @JAG312
      @JAG312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mk3a : How much profanity do you want to hear? I grew up in the Santa Clara Valley. I saw it destroyed, thanks to Dutch Hamann. His policies spread beyond San Jose to include other areas in the Santa Clara Valley. As I said, I saw the Santa Clara Valley destroyed. I'm in Nevada, and I'm planting a lot of fruit trees on my property, just to see a little of what I remember when I was a kid.

  • @NickB1967
    @NickB1967 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @chrisjusti: School colors. Lighten up.

  • @Pompomgrenade
    @Pompomgrenade 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    😂 Yeah, it's not quite like that here anymore...

  • @notisac3149
    @notisac3149 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:07 Well that aged poorly...

  • @SCCPioneers
    @SCCPioneers  13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @IceScreamBaby That's an awfully good start! Got any photos or movies to share with us? You can email us and we can digitize any pictures, negatives, or home movies for you! We convert historic material for free. Shoot us an email at SCCPioneers@Gmail.com

  • @taniamagana559
    @taniamagana559 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I read it looked better before we built a whole bunch of shit and polluted the creeks.,

  • @1940limited
    @1940limited 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How nice. Everyone clean cut and respectable looking. I wonder what it's like today? Filled with homeless encampments welcomed by Gavin Newsom?

  • @LoveLove-mb1sc
    @LoveLove-mb1sc 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    What they did they cant talk about it or people will loose their minds an move

  • @drlovin2032
    @drlovin2032 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    HAHAHa 9:24 Queen of Color Day is a White Girl xD

    • @AliciaDominguez1987
      @AliciaDominguez1987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yep. But those where apparently the great days for all these people lol 😳

  • @jeffreykalb8810
    @jeffreykalb8810 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    San Jose? Democracy? Huh?

  • @cg5876-o1r
    @cg5876-o1r 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow JFK phucked everything up

  • @emmgeevideo
    @emmgeevideo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was pretty corny…. They don’t make narrators like anymore.

  • @francisbusa1074
    @francisbusa1074 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Crackerbox houses.

  • @matthewchang5701
    @matthewchang5701 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Meh

  • @philips7634
    @philips7634 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a bunch of crap

    • @oscargarciajr4440
      @oscargarciajr4440 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Propaganda. Lol. Still nice to look at the pictures. Was there no colored people back then?

    • @JAG312
      @JAG312 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@oscargarciajr4440 : If you are referring to African Americans, then yes. Not many.

    • @MultiSinos
      @MultiSinos 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      JAG312 everyone has a different view or perception of old San Jose, depending on what side of the city you lived.

    • @389383
      @389383 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@oscargarciajr4440 A few, look at 9:24.

    • @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816
      @alisaforesthillscb3brigade816 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's not the skin of color that makes the place it's the attitude of the person..