Santa Clara, named for the prosperous Spanish mission founded there in 1777, lies in a place once called the “Valley of Heart’s Delight.” Its black fertile loam produced thousands of acres of bright flowers and vegetables for the largest seed farm in the world, and much of the rest was blanketed in springtime with fruit blossoms. The wealth of its pre-eminent tanning, wood manufacturing, and fruit packing industries gave way to another type of opportunity in the 1950s with the emergence of the semi-conductor. The tiny chip that transformed the world of communication spawned new companies here like Intel, National Semi-Conductor, and Applied Materials, which earned the now urban economic powerhouse a new name, Silicon Valley.
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Just as residents and visitors forge a link to their past when they hear the old mission bell toll from the tower of Santa Clara University Mission Church, local historian Bea Lichtenstein, at the forefront of efforts to save historic structures, artifacts, and photographs in town for over 20 years, now makes Santa Clara’s history come alive through fine images from the Headen-Inman House Museum, the Santa Clara City Archives and Library, and the Santa Clara University Archives.
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Home Town Memories,
This review is from: Santa Clara (CA) (Images of America) (Paperback)
This book gave me a lot of information on my HomeTown that I did not know about. And it also brought back a lot of memories from when I was growing up there. I found only one flaw and that was the fact that when they refered to the Youth Club the called it the "Watzit" and the correct name for it is the "Wutzit Club". I also question some of the information on the Franck Mansion but it is only that we called it the Johnson House when I was growing up, And I believe that was Caroline's married name. So that is why in the 30's and 40's it was know as the Johnson House.
All in all it was a very good book. Lorretta Woodard
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Images...of Santa Clara,
This review is from: Santa Clara (CA) (Images of America) (Paperback)
This is a really good book, full of descriptions and pictures of many of the stores and buildings in Santa Clara before "urban renewal" took it all away. Though I would have liked to see more of the stores, offices and buildings, maybe in more detail, it's still a very nice memoir of the Santa Clara that used to be. It also discusses some of the architecture of the buildings in town, which, of course, were lost on me as a child and taken for granted as an adult! It also includes facts and history of some of the people and families prominent in Santa Clara history, and the businesses they worked in or helped establish. A nicely done book worth adding to your keepsakes of the small town we used to know.
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Spanish explores coming into the bay area in 1769 found the native population, later named the Ohlone, living in small groups or tribelets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Santa Clara, Bea Lichtenstein Collection, San Francisco, San Jose, Luis Antonio, Courtesy of Warhurton, Franklin Street, Courtesy of Mary Pascoe, Odd Fellows, Eberhard Tannery, Jefferson School, Alice Hare, Benton Street, Frederick Christian Franck, Homestead Road, Irene Inman, Main Street, Ramon Arguello, Millikin School, Notre Dame Academy, Clyde Arhuckle Collection, Courtesy of Elayne Franck, Courtesy of Kenyon, Guadalupe River, Margaret Jenkins New!
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Spanish explores coming into the bay area in 1769 found the native population, later named the Ohlone, living in small groups or tribelets. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Santa Clara, Bea Lichtenstein Collection, San Francisco, San Jose, Luis Antonio, Courtesy of Warhurton, Franklin Street, Courtesy of Mary Pascoe, Odd Fellows, Eberhard Tannery, Jefferson School, Alice Hare, Benton Street, Frederick Christian Franck, Homestead Road, Irene Inman, Main Street, Ramon Arguello, Millikin School, Notre Dame Academy, Clyde Arhuckle Collection, Courtesy of Elayne Franck, Courtesy of Kenyon, Guadalupe River, Margaret Jenkins New!
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- The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area by Malcolm Margolin on page 1
- Native Americans (Threatened Cultures Series) by James Wilson in Front Matter
- The Civil War: The Vindication of Richard Atkyns, Esq and the Military Memoirs of Captain John Gwyn (Military memoirs) by Richard Atkyns on page 21
- Cemeteries of Santa Clara (Images of America: California) by Bea Lichtenstein on 8 pages
- Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation by Steven Muchnick in Back Matter
- Artifacts: An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley by Christine A. Finn on page 28
- Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing by Hersh Shefrin in Back Matter
- The Chosen Island: Jews in Cuba by Maritza Corrales on page 238
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