{"id":25740,"date":"2019-02-02T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25740"},"modified":"2019-02-02T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T21:24:00","slug":"san-jose-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/san-jose-postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose, Postcards from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sjbook.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>San Jose (Arcadia Publishing Postcard History Series) by Bob Johnson with a book review by Craig MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>In 1969, Dionne Warwick won her first Grammy Award for singing the hit song, &#8220;Do You Know the Way to San Jose?&#8221; Today, most people know how to get there but many don&#8217;t realize the town&#8217;s historic significance. Fortunately, Bob Johnson, a retired local history librarian, is helping change that.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewer Craig MacDonald says, &#8220;It will help you better understand the dynamic past of one of the state&#8217;s and nation&#8217;s most diverse, trend-setting cities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/bob-johnson.html\">SAN JOSE<\/a>\u00a0book highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Evolution from the &#8220;oldest civilian settlement&#8221; in California<\/li>\n<li>Founded in 1777 by the Spanish<\/li>\n<li>Provided food for the military settlements in San Francisco and Monterey<\/li>\n<li>Orchards and fields gave way to houses and freeways<\/li>\n<li>Capitol of Silicon Valley<\/li>\n<li>10th largest city in the nation<\/li>\n<li>3rd biggest city in California<\/li>\n<li>More than 1 million residents<\/li>\n<li>Birthplace of Bank of Italy founder, Amadeo P. Giannini<\/li>\n<li>Frontier Village, an amusement park from 1961 to 1980<\/li>\n<li>Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum<\/li>\n<li>Spanish-styled Civic Auditorium<\/li>\n<li>Alum Rock Park<\/li>\n<li>Municipal Rose Garden<\/li>\n<li>Institute of Pantherapy<\/li>\n<li>Vendome and Hotel Sainte Claire<\/li>\n<li>San Jose State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose (Arcadia Publishing Postcard History Series) by Bob Johnson with a book review by Craig MacDonald In 1969, Dionne Warwick won her first Grammy Award for singing the hit song, &#8220;Do You Know the Way to San Jose?&#8221; Today, most people know how to get there but many don&#8217;t realize the town&#8217;s historic significance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25741,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25740\/revisions\/25741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}