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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ccess MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 April 2016 Uncovering the essence of San Jose Contents From orchards to Apple: From orchards to Apple: More than 200 years of San Jose history 3-5 San Jose sports trifecta timeline 6-7 More than 200 years of The Greek system 8-9 San Jose history Japanese Americans 10 ACCESS STAFF A classical man / Playing with words 11 Article by Kimberly Johnson In order to achieve our goals for Background photo: Courtesy of the SJPL the future, we must examine what took Spring 2016 What a tease! 12 California Room from the Historic Map and On a mission Atlas Collection place to get San Jose here. We must look Trail blazers almost two and a half centuries into an Jose, a city of 1 million people, the past. Editor-in-Chief: Raechel Price The El Camino Real is the 600- is a place where diversity is Historic Route or Auto Tour mile trail taken by the first commonplace and technology is Settlement Route currently demarcates Managing Editor: Rain Stites S Spaniard expedition through hardwired into the community. This is Before the Spaniards came up through the trail Bautista de Anza and From the editors California beginning at the Mission Sharks territory. This is the land of Apple what is now called the El Camino Real, his men in the second Spanish Creative Art Director: Ines Ben Cheikh San Diego de Alcala in San Diego Inc. This is the Silicon Valley. the Ohlone people inhabited much of the expedition took from the Arizona- A garage is a birthplace of ideas. It is the site and ending at the Mission San San Jose has defi ned itself as a city area between San Francisco and Big Sur. Mexico border to northern Sports / Commentary Coordinator: Jeffrey Velacion of many origin stories, from platinum albums to Francisco Solano in Sonoma. The of innovation and progression with a Anyone who has driven the long stretches San Francisco. One can personal computers and beyond. trail connects the 21 missions, global impact. As part of the greater of Highway 101, a major portion of the drive, ride horseback Arts & Entertainment Coordinator: Matthew Dziak Just up the road in Los Altos, Steve Jobs’ presidios and pueblos they Santa Clara County, San Jose has been El Camino Real, has seen the wide open or hike part or the vision for a company to sell computers came to life. spaces and untouched hillsides that look Lifestyle Coordinator: Marquerite Tuufuli established along the way. the home to some of the greatest minds entire 1,200- Much like Apple, the cultural identity of San Jose is Today, distinctive bells and universities in the world. It is where very similar now as they did then. mile trail. still a work in progress. Because it comprises many Design / Copy Editor: Marissa Trigos have been placed the future is the focus of collaborative Mexico won their independence from differing ideals, interests and cultures, we have yet along the trail to efforts. Here, we strive for the next Spain and took control of their settlements, to come to a conclusion about who we are as one. Copy / Social Media Editor: Kimberly Johnson commemorate best thing. including the missions, along the stretch Rain Stites Raechel Price Our origins are as diverse as our population. The their journey. More than two centuries ago, however, of land we call California. Photo by Coolcaesar / en.wikipedia.org Photo Editor: Raven Swayne contrast of new and old contributes to the rich history apples were just a fruit and sharks were It wasn't too long, however, before of this city. San Jose is a mixed culture with a mixed predators of the sea. Before highways and the U.S. forces fought for that land in the Editorial Adviser: Scott Fosdick identity. Not one thing defi nes it. While we have a contrast between technology Google Maps, California was a vast land Mexican-American War and won. After and agriculture, we all are affected by the things that make up our city; we have of uncharted terrain. San Jose was built their victory, they named the city around Design Adviser: Tim Mitchell adapted to each other’s differences. by determined and dedicated pioneers of the already established Spanish Pueblo As residents of San Jose, the Access Magazine staff has uncovered what a diff erent time who paved the way for the de San Jose Guadalupe as the fi rst capital characterizes our city and its people. future of our glorious home. of California as it became the 31st state. San Jose and the greater Bay Area is all too familiar with apples and Apple. Thus, San Jose was born. Continued on pages 4 & 5 Kimberly Johnson explores San Jose’s transformation from rich agriculture to the Photo by Ewen Denney / en.wikipedia.org infl ux of technology. Growth and change are not constructive unless we know how it originated. Jose Joaquin Minn’s Evening Normal Jeffrey Velacion steps inside the world of two Japanese American sisters placed Moraga establishes San Jose becomes School teachers college, The electric light Pueblo de San fi rst state capital of ultimately SJSU, established tower is erected in the internment camps during World War II. 1846 1851 1872 Jose Guadalupe California in San Francisco in downtown These are only a few of the stories rooted in the pages of this issue. Join the The U.S. Forces San Jose Weekly Access Magazine staff as we uncover the roots of San Jose’s past. 1777 1849 1857 The San Jose Fruit 1881 assert control after the Visitor, later renamed Packing Company is Mexican-American War the San Jose Mercury established and Alum News, is established Rock Park opens Access issue 2 April 2016 3 Growth Scandalous Tech-tock. local history Cultivation Migration Tech-tock. arming was the seed that sprouted San Jose Something about the Valley of Heart’s Delight was very May 28, 1896: Campbell from a pueblo to a booming capital. Santa appealing to East Coasters. The refreshment of wide open resident James Dunham F Clara Valley was nicknamed the “Valley spaces and the prospect of farming the land as a way of life murdered his wife, stepfather, of Heart’s Delight” and San Jose was called The was attractive to some. For others, as Campbell resident mother-in-law, brother-in-law, Garden City. Fina Hardin said, it was the weather. maid and farm hand at the Boom! Prunes and stone fruits, especially apricots and peaches, Hardin, 62, was born in Brooklyn to Sicilian parents. McGlincy home. He fl ed the were among the most popular crops throughout the county. Her father, Anthony Sanfi lippo, was trained in mathematics scene and was never caught. The technology harnessed for packing this harvest enabled and engineering. In February of 1955, he was asked by Trans His motive is still not known. Computers the canning industry to be a source of income for many World Airlines to come to San Francisco and repair a tricky Memorial Day, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Stanford entrepreneurs and factory workers. As the orchards and airplane engine part, as that was his specialty. While he stayed 1933: Allene Lamson was Lick Observatory graduates of 1935, developed their HP200A in a fi elds disappeared, so did the factories. in San Mateo, he drove through Santa Clara County and fell bludgeoned to death in her Entrepreneur James Lick gave a Palo Alto garage in the 1940s. However, crops weren’t eliminated immediately with in love. Stanford campus home. Her philanthropic donation to science of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the the tech boom. Orchards and fi elds were still abundant until Sanfi lippo called home to check in on his wife, Franca, husband, David Lamson, was 1888. He donated $700,000 (the modern Apple 1 out of Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos. the 1960s and 1970s. Campbell resident Carol Barnett, 68, and his 2-year-old daughter. Franca hated Brooklyn’s winter arrested and put on death equivalent of approximately $22 million) Its keyboard for input and TV screen for output remembers in an email the summer days in 1962 when she blizzards and asked him how the weather was in California. row at San Quentin. After for the construction of the Lick Observatory, started a revolution in computer operation. One of and her friends cut cots to pay for school clothes. He said it was about 72 degrees. Franca was baffl ed. He told three years of controversial under which he is buried. It still serves as the last models is on display at History San Jose. “We received 35 cents per tray. The tray was about 4’ by her the weather here is like Sicily. Trans World Airlines trials and appeals he was a facility for testing technology related to Construction of the airship Hangar No.