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S E THANKFUL THE ^ETERNAL M O U N T A I N S " STILL EMBRACE OUR "EXPLOSIVE VALLEY/ OTHERWISE ALL ELSE HAS L O N G BEEN CHANGED. FOR NOSTALGIC OR INFORMATIVE REVIVAL, W E CAN ONLY Q U O T E HISTORY OR OLD MEMORIES.THE GENERALLY AUTHENTIC CARTOONS A N D BRIEF COMMENTS ARE FOR INQUIRING Y O U N G PEOPLE, INQUISITIVE N E W COMERS AND THE FEW OLD-TIMERS W H O STILL REMEMBER. IF AT TIME5 OUR SUBJECT MAY SEEM LIGHTLY TREATED, BE ASSURED THROU G H O U T THIS ATTEMPTED PRESERVATION AT LEAST W E AIMED FOR THE TRUTH.
WRITTEN, PRAWN AND HAND-LETTERED BY
COPYRIGHT 1964 F. RALPH RAMBO
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PAGE 1 VALLEY DISCOVERY
. . . be low them lay —
2 VALLEY INDIANS . . . i gnob le r e d man
3 PATH OF THE PADRES . . . original p ioneers
4 MISSION SANTA CLARA . . . history in a ga rden
5 HAPPY VALLEY . . . short and sweet
6 PIONEERS COMING . . . good and b a d
7 LOOKING BACKWARD . . . t ransit ion per iod
8 1900 TRANSPORTATION . . . ox cart to Maxwell
9 THE ALAMEDA . . . as it was
1 0 1897 FASHIONS . . . odd as today ' s
11 ALMOST FORGOTTEN . . . i gnorance is bl iss
12 OLD VALLEY ADS . . . be l ieve- i t -o r -no ts
1 3 ALMADEN MINES . . . m a d e U. S. history
1 4 1906 EARTHQUAKE . . . t he morn ing after
1 9 TWO BAD MEN . . . too morbid . Skip it
2 0 MRS. WINCHESTER . . . not as you p ic tured
2 1 COUNTRY SCHOOLS . . . Education, Ltd.
2 4 VILLAGE BLACKSMITH . . . u n d e r the spreading—
2 5 1900 PARLOR . . . whatnot d igni ty
2 6 1900 COUNTRY STORE . . . n a m e it; w e got it
2 7 1900 KITCHEN . . . Grandma r emember s
2 8 1900 CHRISTMAS . . . joyfully s imple
2 9 WHY THE NAME? . . . p ioneers ' "d ic t ionary"
4 7 INDEX . . . p eop l e and p laces
Acknowledgements. . .
This is not a memory book although the producer's residence in this Valley for "three score and ten" accounts for some of the atmosphere, episodes and cartoons. Due credit and thanks Is given the following for their informative contributions or technical aid in reproduction: Frances M. Klune and her Santa Clara Public Library staff, Mrs. Arch Wilson, County Historian Clyde Arbuckle, Laurence Bulmore, Theron Fox, the Muirson Label Company division of the International Paper Company, Ellsworth Zahn, Ronald Rimkus and other kind friends.
For special written permission to consult and refer to their following specified historical material, grateful acknowledgement is given to: University of California Press, "California Place Names" (Gudde). Stanford University Press, "Historic Spots in California" (Hoover & Rensch). Mrs. Fremont Older, "California Missions and Their Romances". Rev- A. D. Spearman, S. J., "The Five Franciscan Churches of Mission Santa Clara'', and California Mission Trails Association, Ltd., "California Missions".
Historical bibliography consulted: "History of Santa Clara County" 1922 (Sawyer). "Atlas of Santa Clara County" 1876 (Thompson & West). History of San Jose" 1871 (Hall). "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" 1888 (Foote). "Death Valley in '49" (Manly). Also collected period newspapers and brochures.
All serious cartoons of historic people or places authenticated by old photographs.
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D i s c o v e r y
^ % \ T E M U S T DEV0TE AT LEAST ONE BRIEF PAGE TO A WHITE ^ j T & f c * MAN'S f//?SrW£WO? THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY. PURELY \ Wr ACCIDENTAL,IT WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT INVOLVED A USELESS
j L X - MAP, A LOST BAY AND IN FINAL SCENES, A DAILY DIET OF MULE MEAT/ y WHILE FOUNDING THE FIRST MISSION IN SAN DIEGO IN ITO^FATHER
SERRA DISPATCHED A PARTY OF EXPLORERS TO REDISCOVER
MONTEREY BAY,SEEN AND MAPPED BY VIZCA(NO IGO YEARS
PREVIOUSLY. THE PARTY CONSISTED OF 64 MEN LEAD BY CAPTAIN
KJRTOIA'WITH FOLLOWERS, FRS. CRESPI AND GOMEZ,SGT. ORTEGA,
SOLDIERS, MULETEERS AND INDIAN SCOUTS. FORTUNATELY FOR US
BOTH CAPTAIN AND PRIESTS KEPT EXCELLENT DIARIESTHEY LEFT
SAN DIEGO, JULY 14,1769 AND THEIRTRIPTOTHE BAY REGION V/E NOW
COUNT IN HQURS,roN5UM6D/W>?/raAm UNTIL THEY REACHED THE RUGGED SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS THEY HUNG CLOSE TO THE COAST.
INDIANS WERE MET BUT GENERALLY FRIENDLY, OFTEN PROVIDING
LIFE SAVING FOOD. V THROUGHOUT THIS WILDERNESS,PORTOLA'AND THE PRIESTS LEFT ENDURING PLACE NAMES, BOTH 5ACRED AND POETlCj FOR INSTANCE, AN INDIAN PRESENTED PoRTOLA) CAMPED
NEAR PRESENT WATSONVILLE WITH A STUFFED BIRD!(EA0LE?) THE: CAPTAIN PROMPTLY NAMED RIVER AND VALLEY "PAJARO?
!"""" (BiRD).y BUT BACK AT THE SANTA LUCIAS THEY HAD TO TURN
, , ^ A ~- INLAND AND CROSS THE SAUNAS VALLEY. HERE WAS WHERE '**'-"^"tt THE TROUBLE STARTED. IHEY MISTOOK THE SALINAS FORTHE
2 ~ % i CARMEL RIVER AND VIZCAINO'S MAP BECAME BITTERLY CONFUSING
^ ^ J | ^ . T O THE DISGUSTED PORTOLA'. FINALLY HE GAVE UP AND PUSHED
^ ^ 5 - ^ R R * N 0 R T H W A R D PAUSING IN ADMIRATIONTO NAME SOME TALL, T»' \^-*JW.STJ?AM6ETREES PALOS COLORAPOS, OUR REDWOODS. V ILL ,
I R F ^ HALF STARVED AND SCURVY RIDDEN, THEY CAMPED NEAR HALF
^ ^ y j C 4 , MOON BAY OR PESCADERO. PORTOLA'SENT TWO SOLDIERS INTO
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THE EASTERN HLLLS ON A DEER HUNT. NOV.2,1769 THESE TWO MEN REACHED
THE SUMMIT OF MONTARA MOUNTAIN AND ENJOYED THE WHITE MANS FIRST
VIEW OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY. EXCITEDLY THEY REPORTED THIS INLAND
PARADISE AND LAND LOCKED HARBOR. DOURPORTOU'WAS UNIMPRESSED
BUT DID SCOUT THE BAY REGION BEFORE TURNING HOMEWARD AND
ANOTHER FRUITLESS SEARCH FOR MONTEREY BAY. (AGAIN BEFORE HIS EYES
FLNALLY//\LL SMELLING FRIGHTFULLY OF MULE*THEY REACHED SAN
JAN,24,I770. FR.SERRA HAD EXPECTED RESULTS ANDTOPORTOLA' EXCUSES FOR THE LOST BAY, HE MADE THIS DRY R E ^ A R K - ^ / *
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V a l l e y I n d i a n s
OurSanta Clara Valley Indian could not be called a"noble red man" He was not noble or red Actually his color w a s " b e t w e e n a dull gray and black* due mostly to dirt. He was lozy;had no military ability and was not ferocious. The padres complained thdtthe majority were too plain stupid to learn the Catechism, Main reasons fortheir degenerate state w a s t h e temperate climate,fertile soil andabundantfbod. TheCoyote,Guadalupe and other creeKs ran year round and were alive with trout and salmon. Small^ame abounded, with antelope, deer and bear in The mountains. The Alviso marshes had ducks, clams and mussels procured from crude tule rafts. Great oaks covered all the valley
.floor and hence cametheir staple diet of acorn f lour mush flavored with rabbit mea^fleld mice, and dried cjrasshoppersJhen inthe spring they
turned vegetarian, feeding like cattle on grass and herbage'4 (Remember our Indian lettuce, wild mustard and turnip today) Despite all this provender, they were so confounded lazy they preferred spoiled food to fresh/ © Historians vary in opinion as to their mysterious origin and are divided between the Aztec and Asiat ic-Aleutian Peninsula theories. Some did have an oriental appearance. © T h e race averaged 5 feet 8 inches in height with low retreating foreheads, black eyes, wide nostrils and hair Kept short by singeing. They plucked their whiskers with split twigs or clam shells and painted or tattooed thei r bodies. The red cinnabar from caves in Almaden hills was their favorite cosmetic even i f i t did salivate them. @ Clothing amounted to little or nothing? as Fr. Crespi notes v
in his diary "most of the men were naked as Adam'
Women wore bucfeKin, rabbit or deerskin capes in winter or settledforan abbreviated tule apron insurniner.iiTheirunfiirn ished homesorwikiups could be built in two hours. When
the fleas and other t i l th became unbearable they set fire to"home"and moved on. Tlwsweathouses oxtemesca/sM relieve skin troubles and rheumatism but that afterward cold plunqe in creek often proved fatal when vhite men in troduced measles and smallpox. © Their language was
''copious,eleqant, abundant"wrote Fr. Cuesta,noted linguist. There were 135 dialects in California and several in this Va I ley. Like these gentl e people,thei r words were poetic and sentimental. § | what became of these
"Children of Nature"astne Padre6 called them? We could say they were swallowed by the wave of civilization. Not exactly. The Catholic Fathers gave them f ood,clothes ^ and salvation. Our early settlers gave ^ t h e m whiskey.venereal disease and smal lpox . E x i t Vd l ley Indian.
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M i s s i o n
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QUADRANSLE TOUR
JfcHE YEAR 17T7 TWO RWERSJWO MEN SEPARATED BY AN UKNOWN CONTINENT AND TOTALLY UNAWARE OF THE OTHERS EXISTENCE; GE0R6E WASHINGTON AND THE DELAWARE, FRXOM/&DELAPENA AND< : " GUADALUPE, HERE THE LATTER ON JAN.
l2,l7rr,CELEBRATED THE FIRST MASS IN A''PUNGENT LAURELTH1CKET"NEAR THE BANKS OFTHIS RIVER. HERE MARKED THE FIRST MISSION SITE TO BE FOLLOWED BY 4 OTHER
LOCATIONS(SEE MAP)?THE EXACT SPOT LOCATION OF THE FIRST TWO,APPROX1MATE.
AFTER THE CRO55,AN EMBLEM OFTHE MISSION MIGHT WELLBEAPHOENIX,FORALLTHE
RELOCATIONS OR REBUILDING WAS NECES:' WTED BY THE RAVAGES OF FL00D,(L779)
EARTHQUAKES(l8l l8-'fc8) AND FIRE(l926). IT HAS SURVIVED ATTACKS 0V RENEGADES, MILITARY, CIVIL AND GOVERNMENT IMPOSITION [BOTH MEXICAN ANDU.S), PLUS THE DESTRUCTIVE SECULARIZATION ORDEAL HEREWASTHE FIRST VALLEY ORCHARD THAT FURNISHED FRESH, FRUir",PEACHES,APPLES,APRIC0TS,R6S AND
' GRAPEST0THEARGONAUTS0F 9.lNI8O0HERE ONE OFTHE LARGEST INDIAN POPULATION OF ANY MlSSION,E^28. EACH WEEK 24 OXEN WERE SLAUGHTERED FOR FOOD. IN 1845 DISCOVERY OF QUICKSILVER IN THE ALMADEN MlNEHERE WAS SCIENTIFICALLY CONFIRMED HERE THE SAINTLIKE FR.MAGIN CATALA' WHO CLOSELY APPROACHED FR.JUN1PERO SERRA IN ASCETICISM, DEVOTED 35
YEARS OF HIS LIFE IN 1851 FR.NOBILI WITH 12. STUDENTS AND # 1 0 0
FORMED THE COLLEGE WHICH LATER WAS TO 8E THE UNIVERSITY OF VINTACLARA.
TOURISTS ARE MORE FREQUENT VISITORS TO THE GARDENS THAN LOCAL RESIDENTS.
FOR PEACEFUL ESCAPE FROM TODAY'S FAST PACE ^
TAKE A STROLL AROUND THE INNER QUADRANGLE.. . . . *
HERE IS MORE ORIGINAL PLANTING THAN ANY MISSION.
HERE PROBACY THE OLDEST AND LARGEST BANKSIA
ROSE AND WISTERIA IN THE W0RLD,0VER EIGHTEEN
INCHES IN DIAMETER ANCIENT OLIVES WITH
TRUNKS 10 FEET IN CIRCUMFERENCE AND TOWERING
PALMS, PLANTED FROM 1822TO 1826...EXPOSED
ADOBE CONSTRUCTION OFTHE SAME PERIOD..
AS YOU LEAVE THIS QUIET RETREAT,
% ADDED SIGNIFICANCE HAS 8EEN GIVEN THE
|: INSCRIPTION ON 1717 ENCASED WOODEN CROSS
ATTHE ENTRANCE, FATHER PENAS ORIGINAL
GUADALUPE RIVER FOUNDING CROSS , i
"HE THAT SHALL PERSEVERETO THE END,-
HE SHALL BE SAVED! 1 \ ^ = J E ' 9 * ' A ^ M
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MISSION LOCATIONS
HIS PAGE MAY APPEAR TO HAVE LEFT OUR VALLEY BUT FORTUNATELY WE EMBRACE TV/0 LINKS IN THE COASTAL CHAIN OF MISSIONS, SANTA CLARA DE A5IS AND SAN JOSE. THE LOCATION DIAGRAM ON THE RIGHT IS WORTH TWO COMMENTS. FIRST,THE PRIESTS WERE BY NECESSITY, PEDESTRIANS. FBR COMMUNICATION AND SAFETY,NOTETNE MISSIONS SPACED ONE PAY'S WALK APART. SECONDLY AND EQUALLY IMPORTANT, NOTE IN YOUR TRAVELS,THE KEEN EYETHESE FATHERS HAD FOR FERTILE LAND, PASTURAGE
AND WATER. ALLTHIS MEANT FOOD AND THEY MAY HAVE FIGURED ONE WAYTO AKEATHEN'S SOUL WAS VIA HIS STOMACH. THE PADRES OFFERED FOOD.CLOTHES AND SALVATION.
N RETURN THEY EXPECTED DEVOTION AND WORK. THIS LAST WAS A NEW AND REPULSIVE EXPERIENCE FOR OUR NATIVES.T6 MANY IT WAS SO REVOLTING THEY FLED TO OLD HAUNTS AND WAYS OF LIFE. BUT TO THE MAJORITY, THI5 CHANGE WAS ATTRACTIVE, MOST RETURNED TO THE STRICT BUT KINDLY PRIESTS,BELLS, BRIGHT CLOTHESJMUSIC
AND FROM ACORN MUSH TO THAT DELIGHTFUL FIRST TASTE OF BEEF,VEGETABLES AND FRUIT.
N 1769 FATHER SERRA FOUNDED THE FIRST OFA CHAIN OF 21 LARGE MISSIONS,. WLTHTHE BOUNDLESS ENERGY AND DETERMINATION OF SUCH MEN AS SERRA,PALO'U,LASUEN,CRESPI ANDCATALA'THESE MISSIONS WERETO PROVE MIRACLES. FROM A W1LDERNE$$,-WEALTH AND PROSPERITY COULD BE CREATED? BY RAW INGENUITV MISSIONS WERE BUILT; GREAT HERDS AND MILLIONS OF CULTIVATED,BOUNTIFULACRESACCLAIMED CALITORNIATHELAND OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE TIDE OF HUMANITY THAT FOLLOWED. THE PADRES WELL KNEW OF THE WAITING GOLD IN THIS STATE DECADES BEFORE THE PAYS OF 49- THEY WERE ONLY INTERESTED IN CONVERTING THE INDIAN, IN FINALITY AMOUNTING TO OVER 90,000.
THIS MISSION ERA HAD AN AMA2INGLYSHORT UFE,I7G9TO 1832. BUT IN THIS HISTORICAL INTERVAL WE WERE LEFT A PRECIOUS HERITAGE. STILLAUVE AREHUNDREDSOF MUSICAL, POETIC PLACE NAMES, A TYPICAL REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND A WAY OF WESTERN LIFE THAT REFUSES TO FADE.
4 WHYTHEN,THE PERIOD OF MELTING RUINS,DISCOURAGED PRIESTS AND BEWILDERED INDIANS WITHOUT LEADERS? THE ANSWERrA LOWWQRD-SECULARIZATfON, IN I83S,MEXIC0 PASSED A LAW TRANSFERRING TO THE INDIANS ALLTHE LANDED MIS5I0N V/EALTH. GOVERNOR FJGUEROA'S LONG RANGE PLAN OF ADMINISTRATION WAS PRACTICAL BUT HE DIED IN 1835 AND THE CONTROL FELLTO GREEDY POLITICIANS. THEY DIVIDED THE LAND INTO VP&TRANCHOS, PARCELLING ORBYTHEKlNG'SGRANTTO RELATIVES AND FAVORITES. MlSSION DAYS WERE ENDED. ^ BUT ALLTHIS 15 PAST HISTORY NOW. RESTITUTION, TOGETHER WITH PUBLIC AHD STATE APPRECIATION HAS FURNISHED TIMELY RESTORATION-&THE ORIGINAL, OLIVE ,PALM
AND PEARTREES FLOURISH AGAIN,THE CASTIUAN ROSE STILL BLOOMS AND THE OLD SPANISH KING'S BELL PROUDLY PROCLAIMS THE UNDV1NG SPIRIT OF OUR MOST FAMOUS CALIFORNIA LANDMARKS.
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CABAUERO
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THEY ATE WELL
XHIS HAPPY VALLEY PERIOD OR SPANISH-CALIFORNIA ERA WAS AS SHORT IN
DURATION A5 THE DAYS OF THE MISSIONS. IT FOLLOWED SECULARIZATION AND ENDED WITH THE GOLD RUSH AND ARRIVAL OF AMERICAN SETTLERS.THIS CARE-,. FREE POPULACE CONSISTED OF CASTILIAN5,SPANISH-INDIAN AND MEXICAN-IND1AN MIXTURES PLUS THE ORIGINAL ABORIGINES FOR EVERYTWO-STORIED HACIENDA THERE WERE 40 SQUAT ADOBES. LAND OUTSIDE THE PUEB-J LOS WAS WORTH LITTLE EXCEPT FOR GRAZING PURPOSES. A 5QUATTER WAS RARELY DISTURBED UNLESS HE. TOOK MORE THAN 50 ACRES THE LAND WAS TREMENDOUSLY FERTILE,CROPS ENORMOUS AND HERDS OF CATTLE INCREASED SO FAST A YEARLY SLAUGHTER WAS NECE5SARY.THERE WERE NO FENCES
AND A STEER COULD STRAY 40 MILES FROM HOME. ANNUAL ROUNDUPS AND
DIVISION BY BRANDS SOLVED THIS. JOAQULN BERNAL,6 MILES SOUTH OF SAN
JOSE ON HIS SANTA TERESA RANCHO, BRANDED SOOO HEAD YEARLY
HIDES AND TALLOW WERE THE ONLY EXPORTS AND THEN ONLY AS TRADE GOODS
WITH SAILING VES5ELS TOUCHING MONTEREY OR SAN FRANCISCQ.THE FAMOUS 'SRANISH'SILK SCARFS,FANS, SHAWLS, CARVED CHESTS AND JEWELS CAME FROM
CHINA/ FOOD WAS PLENTIFUL WITH BEANS AND MEATTHE MAIN DIET
SO EXTREMELY HIGHLY SEASONED MANY A YANKEE VISITOR ON FIRST BITE RUSHED
FOR THE WATER BUCKET. T R A V E L E R WOMEN) WAS SOLELY BYCARRETA
OR OXCARTS. MEN RODE ONLY THEIR HORSES. THEY WERETHE WORLDS GREATEST HORSE
MEN. H0R5E AND SADDLE WERE HIS MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS. A LEAGUE/4,400 ACRES, WAS NOT TOO GREATA PRICE TO PAY FOR AN ORNAMENTED SADDLE WLTH 4OLNDIANS
FOR EVERY SPANI5H-GAUF0RNIAN THE LABOR PROBLEM WAS SOLVED. NO ONE WORKED BUT
THE INDIAN. HE WAS NOT ENSLAVED, IN FACT WELLTREATED THE FRIENDLY HOSPITALITY
OF THESE KIND PEOPLE WAS UNBOUNDED. A MAN COULD TRAVEL THE LENGTH OF CALIFORNIA WITH
OUT SPENDING A CENT FOR FOOD OR L0DGING.T6 PROVE THISJHERE WERE NO HOTELS/..,..V^AT
ENDED THIS HAPPY HISTORICAL INTERLUDE? SEVERAL REASOHS.THEYRECOGNIZED ONLY THEIR SMALL WORLD. PREYING^RINGOS* TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THEIR DISREGARD FOR MATERIAL POSSESIONS,
THEY-GAMBLED DAY AND NIGHT AND R
BORROWED FROM THE YANKEE AT \Z%% ^
A DAY. GRADUALLY THEIR EMPIRE OF
LEAGUES SHRANK TO SCRAWNY ACRES.
THAT "MANAN A "WHICH NEVER WAS TO
"'COME HAD ARRIVED. A N D SOFADED
«*^" THE HAPPIEST AND MOST FASCINATING
ERA IN OUR VALLEY'S HISTORY.
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1 8 3 u IN ALL SPANISH-CALIFORNIA THERE WERE ONLY A HUNDRED 'AMERICANOS*
IN SANTA CLARA VALLEY, ONLY 4 WERE RECORDED, JOHN GILROY, FIRST, 1814, ASCOT WHO
DESERTED SHIP. HE WAS FOLLOWED BY DON ANTONIO SUNOL,PHIL1P DOAK, WHALER, AND MATTHEW FELLOM.A DANE,WANDERED INABOUT i s z a . INTHE NEXT
DECADE ONLY A SCORE MORE APPEARED. OVERLAND TRAVEL DID NOT START UNTIL 1841 WITH JoSIAH BELDEN THE PILOT, MARTIN MURPHY IN 1844 AND IN 1846 MANY OF THE ILL FATED DoNNER PARTY SURVIVORS THE SPANISH-CALIFORNIAN POPULATION WERE SLOW IN REALIZING THE SIGNIFICANCE 0FTHIS ONCOMING T IDE. MEXICO WAS A DISTANT AND IRRESPONSIBLE MOTHER. EXCEPT
FOR A FULL QUOTA OF SWINDLERS,THE NEWCOMERS WERE FRIENDLY; IN FACT MANY
BEC AM E THE DONS* SONS-IN-LAW! GREAT HERDS NO LONGER ROAMED AT WILL.
REDWOOD PICKET FENCES, GRAIN FIELDS AND VINEYARDS SPREAD ACROSS THE VALLEY.
STAGE COACHES, HORSE-CARS AND BUGGIES REPLACED THE CREAKING CARRETA.
THEN CAME THE CRY OF GOLD AND A DESERTED VALLEY, EXCEPT WOMEN,
CHILDREN AND OLDSTERS LEFT I NSANJOSE FOR SAFETY. THE NEWLY PLANTED CROPS OF to WERE LEFT TO THE HOGS AND CATTLE. A FEW OF THE FORTUNE HUNTERSRETURNEP WEALTHY, THE OTHERS FIND1NGTHEIR GOLD LATER IN THE VALLEY'S OWN PRODUCTIVITY.
THE FRENCHMAN, LOUIS PELLIER HAD ARRIVED IN i84v BRINGING STARTS OF AFRUIT
THAT WOULD MAKE OUR VALLEY WORLD FAMOUS-THE PRUNE, (AND ALSO SUPPLY
EVERY U.S. BOARDING-HOUSE WITH DAILY DESSERT)...TELEGRAPH CAME IN 1853 .
INDIANS AND MEXICANS, STARTLED BY THE LONG LINES OF POLES WITH CROSS
PIECES,ASKED IFTHE*CRAZY GRINGOS* HAD SUDDENTLY ALL TURNED CATHOLIC?
FIRST WOODBURNING,DIAMOND-STACK LOCOMOTIVE PULLED INTO SANJOSE IN
1864 FROM S.F. WE WERE FINALLY LINKED TO THE NATION. THEN CIVIL WAR. SOUTHERN SENTIMENT RAN STRONG IN THE VALLEY
BUT CALIFORNIA AS A WHOLE MADE CONTRIBUTION OF NEWLY MINED GOLD
I N SUCH LARGE AMOUNTS THAT THIS COULD HAVE
BEEN A DECIDING FACTOR IN PRESERVING THE
( UN ION S K I P ANOTHER IOO YEARS. T H E
"PIONEERS" ARE ST/IL C O M I N G / T H E Y RIVAL
THE 49 'RS IN NUMBERS BUT THEIR OBJECTIVE
IS ABOUT THE S A M E T (PLUS'CLIMATE)
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LN I899,m ALL THESE UNITED STATES,THERE WERE LESS THAN 8000 AUTOS AND ONLY 134 MILES OF PAVED ROADS.THE NEWYQRKTIMES VVARNED"MAHLOVES THE HORSE AND HE IS NOT LIKELY TO EVER LOVE AN AUTOMOBILE.' HoR WILL HE GET USED, IN THIS GENERATION,™ SPEEDING ALONG THE ROAD BEHINDVV07WM?/"
(WOULD THAT THIS SCRIBE COULD HAVE ENVISIONED5TEVENSCREEKBLV0. AT 5 RM./)
CARRETAS CREAKED \ . ABOUT THE VALLEY -J FOR FIFTY YEARS, f/^j OUR LOWEST FORM \\iJj^ OF TRANSPORTATION. VN ,.
;SPEED?3 MILES PER HR...'=
NEARBY COUNTIES AND v (THE GQOD 5HlpALVlS0,y-7 A STERN WHEELER, A l
VMADE DAILY FREIGHTANQ "_ , (PASSENGER TRIPS - ^ O ^ f r \-TQ 5AN FRANCISCO.A ^ '-~j?-
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"B IKES 'HA^ENV^- - ^^ ) :HANGED MUCH IN 70 YEARS -~*V
BUT THE RIDERS HAVE.
[ THE *SAN MATEO'! -y f AN AFTERNOON TRAIN H VLEAVES M.MWKET ST. DEPOT, ( FORS.F. THIS WAS SOO fAFTERFIRSTTRIPlNlS64>|
(FROM AN OLD PHOTO)
f PRAIRIE SCHOONERS -0 k ^ BROUGHT US MANY J t"
EARLY SETTLERS,9vJv^ AS EARLY AS 1846. *\ SURVIVORS OF THE gg ' DONNER PARTY _Tl SETTLEOHERE.// ^
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ONCE UPON A TIME,5$ STREET CAR SERYICE WAS AVAILABLE ON ALL SAH JOSE STREETS AND INTHE EARLY 1900s, BIG, FAST, LOW FARE INTER-
URBANS RAN TO CAMPBELL OSGATOS ARATOGAJCUPERTINOANDSTANFORD. WE HAD REACHED THE PER CAPITA PEAK OF GOOD PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION .
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Bi ETWEEN MISSION SANTA CLARA AND THE PUEBLO OF SAN JOSE TRAVEL WAS DIFFICULT, EVEN DANGEROUS. NUMEROUS LITTLE BROOKS,MARSHES AND SMALL LAKES HINDERED THE PEOESTRIAN OR HORSEMANAND BOGGED DOWN THE HEAVY CARRETA WHEELS. ADDED HAZARDS WERE THE BANDS OF WILD CATTLE THATROAMED THIS UNFENCED TERRITORY, AT TIMES A FOREST OF YELLOW
MUSTARD IOTO 12 FEET HIGH. IN WINTER A DETOUR OF 6 MILES TO THE WEST WAS NECESSARY. $0 WW BORN THE PLAN OF FATHER MAGWCATALA'/'HOLY MAN OF THE SANTAG-ARA MISSION? FROM THE BANKS OF THE GUADALUPE HE TOOK BLACK WILLOW CUTTINGS
AND STARTED A NURSERY OF THOUSANDS. FOR TWO
. YEARS HE TENDED THEIR GROWTH. THEN, IGYEARSAFTER
1 / MISSION FOUNDING, IN 1795, WITH TWO HUNDRED INDIAN
R NEOPHYTE HELPERS, HE STAKED OUT AND PLANTED
THE ENTIRE 3 MILES OF OUR ALAMEDA.(MEANING:
A GROVE OF SHADE TREES.) IRRIGATED BY DITCH DUG
FROM THE GUADALUPE,THEY FLOURISHEDJHEIRTOP
BOUGHS EVENTUALLY MEETING TO FORMANATURALCAN-OPY. FOR 75 YEARS THEY REMAINEO UNOESPOILED.
*MANY PASSED,THE NAKED RED MAN,THEDARK,SLOW
MOVING DON AND THE BLUE EYED GRINGO" BENEATH
THEIR SHELTER PASSED THE SAINTLY FATHERSERRA
AND THE BANDIT SINNER, VASQUEZ; BEAUTIFUL
SENORITAS, CABALLEROS, PIONEERS, GOLD HUNTERS, WEDDINGS, FUNERALS, PARADES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FROM THE PRANCING, VICTORIOUS JUAN PR ADO WITH THE HEAD OF THE RENEGADE INDIANYOSCOLO ON APOLE,DOWN TO OUR ALMOST FORGOTTEN BUT LOVELY FlESTA de l as ROSAS SPECTACLES.... ASTRAFFIC INCREASED,RAIN
MADE TRAVEL ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. IN I856,CRANDALL BROS, STARTED AN OMNIBUS LINE. FROM i8fe8T01878
THE SAN JOSE& SANTA CURA HORSE RAILWAV CO. MADE
ITS SLOW BUT SURE WAY AND IN 1870 WAS GRANTED RIGHT
TO USE STEAM,P0NY,0R PNEUMATIC POWER1.' AH ATTEMPTED UNDERGROUND TROLLEY SYSTEM HAD BEEN SOON FLOODED
OUT IN 1886 . WITH ADVENTOF ELECTRIC STREETCARS
IN 1887 CAME DESTRUCTION OF THE CENTER ROW OF
TREES. (DUE TO PUBLIC INDIGNATION, DONE DURING NIGHT")
GRADUALLY THESE AGED SENTINELS MARKING OUR
MOST HISTORIC AND ROMANTIC HIGHWAY HAVE FALLEN
BEFORE THE MARCH OF T IME OR PROGRESS. TOD AY,
1964, I SEE ONLY ONE BRAVE ANO HEALTHY SPROUT
STILL SPARED FRONTING THE SANJOSEINN.
THE PEN AND INK DRAWING ABOVE WAS SKETCHED FROM
AN ORIGINAL PHOTO TAKEN BETWEEN 1868-78. *1HE CAR IS ON EAST SIDE OF THE ALAMEDA RETURNING TO SAN
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ij^His WAS AN EASY PAGE. AN OLD 1897 DELINEATOR MAGAZINE FURNISHED INSPIRATION FOR AaTHESE AUTHENTIC ILLUSTRATIONS. ONLY THESHOESCAME FROM BOYHOOD MEMORYFILES. SwiLE IF YOU MUSTATTHIS OLDVALLEY FINERY OFTHEJJAY NINETIES* BUTREMEMBERJ-A LATER GENERATION WILL LAUGH AT STYLES OFTHE SILLYSIXTIES!
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FROM THE SCOTTISH WORDSAED'MEAHIHG HEAVY. "SAD"?iT5. THEY WERE HEAVY. SOME WEIGHED 25-LBS.'
FOR BLUE MONDAY.ABOVE WASTHEMOST POPULAR APPLIANCE INTHEVAU.EY.THIS MODEL REMAINED UNCHANGED FROM 1891 TO 192.9/ M5TRUCTI0HS CLAIMED 0HLY3HR&fDRWA5H.'
ABOVE WASTHE INSPIRATION FOR THAT HOARY OLD JQKE"LQQKOUT,MAMA,DONT GET CAUGHT INTHE CLOTHES WRINGER*
RJR THE GAY NINETIES COFFEE DRINKER ^ WITH THE FASHI0NABLE*HANDLE-6AR"0R SUPER-DROOPERJHERE WASTHEMOUSTACHECUR
JRANOMA REIGNED AS QUEEN OF TNE PIE MAKERS WITH ROLLING PIN AS SCEPTRE (AND WEAPON.) DONT MOURN. MODERN BAKERY AND
COFFEE BEANS WERE ROASTED AND GROUND IN THE KITCHEN.THE FAVORITE BRAND WAS ARBUCKLE'S
FROZEN PIES CAH BE MIGHTY GQOD,TOO. MAYBE
OUT IN THE COUNTRY V/E CRANKED OUT OUR ICE CREAM.
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Five Facts on the New AI ma den Quicksilver Mine* SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
1. The New Almaden was the first workable quicksilver mine in North America.
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2. It was the first mine of any kind in California. Discovered in November 1845, it preceded the Coloma gold discovery of January 1848 by 27 months.
3. It was the richest mine in California. State Mineralogist Walter W. Bradley, speaking at the New Almaden Centennial Observance Dinner on November 17th, 1945, said "New Almaden had produced upward of $70,000,000 in quicksilver. Any California mine that seems to have exceeded this production figure has done so not as an individual mine, but as a combination of MINES."
4. New Almaden broke an international monopoly. Before the discovery of the cyanide process in 1887, quicksilver was the world's chief reduction agent of gold and silver. Whoever controlled the world's quicksilver supply likewise controlled its gold and silver production. Until discovery of the New Almaden mine this monopoly was enjoyed by the English banking house of Rothschild, which operated the fabulously rich mercury mine of Almaden, Spain, with convict labor. Therefore New Almaden's timely discovery saved California's Mother Lode, Nevada's Corn-stock Lode and every other gold and silver mine in the West from domination by foreign capital.
5. New Almaden kept California in the Union. The struggle for possession of the New Almaden mine continued through the courts for years. During the Civil War a group of New York financiers took advantage of President Lincoln's preoccupation with government affairs and tried to use him as a catspaw to gain possession of the mine. But fortunately an 11th hour telegram from Collector of the Port, F. F. Low, of San Francisco, informed the president of the true nature of things. If Lincoln had used military force to seize the mine for these financiers, as they tried to trick him into doing, he would have upset every mining title in California and Nevada, and these states would certainly have deserted the Union and joined the Confederacy.
ABOVE LITTLE KHOWN BUT VITAL FACTS, 6RATERJL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO LE.BULMORE AND CLYDE ARBUCKLE,HISTORIANS.
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UNDREDS OF SANTACLARAVALLEY CLOCKS STOPPED AT EXACTLYI3£MINUTES PAST 5 OH MORNING QF APRIL l8,tP06,ST0PPED BY A DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE UNEQUALLED IN RECORDED AMERICAN HISTORY. Y/lTH INDESCRIBABLE GRINDING ROAR.THE EARTH ROCKED FOR 45 SECONDS,PAUSED FOR 10, FOLLOWED BY AN AFTER WAVE 0F2S SECONDS. MlNOR TREMORS CONTINUED FORWEEKS. AOAIN THE SANANDREAS FAULT HAD BEEN AROUSED. (SEE MAP AT RIGHT). ORIGINATING SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC OFF CAPE MENDOCINO IT CREPT LIKE A SERPENT OF DESTRUCTION 600 MILES SOUTHWARD.
THIS WEAKNESS IN EARTHS CRUST HAS CAUSED OUR COASTAL QUAKES FOR CENTURIES. SPANIARDS CALLED THE BIG ONES WVIAMOTOS AND THE MINOR SHUDDERS,-R£AFA9Z^I5^^^MERCIFULLY,THIS CALAMITY OCC
URRED AT AN EARLY HOUR,SPARING THOUSANDS, GREAT CREVICES AND LANDSLIDES DEVELOPED ALL ALONGTHIS FAULT LINE. REDWOODS HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD IN THE SANTACRUZ MOUNTAINS WERE SHIFTED ACROSS CANYONS OR WHIPPED TO SPLINTERS, 16 WERE KILLED IN SAN UOSE WITH 8ooQ LEFT HOMELESS. THE AGNEWS INSANE ASYLUM'S MAIN BUILDING COLLAPSED KILLING OVER loo, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, ONIY IS YEARS OLD,SUFFERED 5 MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE IN FALLEN STONE AND MOSAIC. HARDLY ABRICK CHIMNEY 1NTHE VALLEY SURVIVED AND MANY PUBLIC BUILDINGS DAMAQEDOR OESTROYEO. ARTESIAN WELLS STARTED FLOWING. THE LOMA PRlETA LUMBER MILL WAS ENGULFED,BURYING NINE MEN. LlTERALLY IN
FEARANDTREMBLING,HUNDREDS OF VALLEY INHABITANTS *V ' U, _ COOKED AND SLEPT OUTDOORS FOR WEEKS AFTER.
IN OUR ORCHARD HOME ON THE WEST SIDE.OUR SMALLFAMILY NEEDED NO ALARM CLOCK T_HAJ MORNING.' I WAS AT THE IMPRESSIONABLE AGE OF IZ.THETHREE OF US,SCANTILY CLAD, SHIVERINGLY EMERGED TO VIEW OUR NEW WINDMILL ANDTANK.AMASS OF TWISTED RUIN. DAD AND \ WHIPPED UP HORSE AND BUGGY TOWNWARD.URGED BY MORBID CURIOSITY AND MOTHER'S FRANTIC ORDER FOR SACKS OF SUGAR AND FLOUR. EVERYONE HOARDED FOOD. (WILL HISTORY REPEAT ?)
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VALLEY EARTHQUAKES THAT RUINED MISSIONS AND ONCE'DESTROYED EVERY IADOBE) HOUSE INTHEVALLEYJ OCCURRED IN 1800,1818,1865 &
1668. OUR DAVID STARRJORDAN OF STANFORD 5UGGESTED ACYCLE -40 YEARS BUT IN FINALITY SA1D,"WE CAN EXPECT MINOR SHAKES AT 1NTERVALSANDA TERRAMOTO
ONCE IN A GENERATION. ~~-FOR THOSE INTERESTED, READ THE NEXT FOUR PAGES PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE ORIGINAL ONE-SHEET PAPER OFTHATSAME DAY. .TtSATRUE, REMARKABLY DRAMATIC ACCOUNT DESPITE HUMOROUS TYPOGRAPHKALERRORS BY A STILL SCARED TYPESETTER.
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S A N F R A i N C I S C O R E P O R T E D D E S T R O Y E D San Francisco destroyed and un
told thousands killed; her populous suburbs laid low; the beautiful Santa Oar Valley a mass of ruins. San Jose prostrate with her quota of dead; one hundred and fifty helpless insane crushed at Agnews; Stanford University wrecked; everything within a radius of fifty miles at least from this city ruined; this only partially tells the tale of the most dread dreadful disaster of modern times.
A mighty earthquake avalanche under the earth-s crust shook the entire Central California coast at 5:14 this morning. Buildings rocked and cwayed and then collapsed, so
,,^?arwas, the force oMhe'migfhy temblror, California's fair metropolis wat converted into a charnal house. Her mighty buildings toppled over like so many card houses, burying their deeping inmates in the ruins. Flames broke out in hundreds of places at once, and soon fiery tongues were eating up those parts of the business section of the city that remained standing. Soon, from reports that seemed to be true, fire raged Unchecked in a region two miles in diameter, with the Emporium as a center.
All communicatiOT with the metropolis has been int rrupted, but the flames and smok from the great conflagration could be plainly seen at Palo Alio, thirty miles distant. A Mercury representative was able to reach Palo Alto about 10 o'clock in an automobile. The roads were re ported impassable further north. Not a soul had been abl** to make his way out of San Francisco. A freight 'rain crew, with an engine
PROCLAMATION I .
In view of the great alamity that has befallen us and for ths, better police and fire protection of the city, and for the better security "f Inland property, I hereby lecomniend *at all the people remain at their homes during the .coming uij>ht, from and after the hour of 7 p. BV.
And I do hereby command that all persons, save and accept only those who have a special business to transact therein, and permirsion so to do, remain away from that part <u~ the business section of the city now wing specially patrolled. All lawlessness will be repressed v&ith a heavy hand.
The co-operation tf all good citizens is invoked in aid of tue enforcement of this order, _.J»iJ* * ' A * G*. -U. WORSWICK, Mayor.
San Jose, Cal,, A'pHl 18, 1906.
and a few empty cars, had escaped from San Francisco, which they reported complttt lo demolished. The trainmen told of thq horrors in San Francisco, now completely isolated, The flaming sky to the' north corro-' borated the story. ' •i: • "
In San Jose evidences of ruin are only too apparent. • The business section is naerly destroyed. What structures remain standing have fracr tured walls and must be torn down. The dead in the city number sixteen. -At Agnews, where the buildings were completely destroyed, the dead, patienls and attendants, number about 125. The work of rescuing the living and their silent companions from the ruins has con tinued unceasing all day, but many are still buried in masses of brick and broken lumber. Hundreds of deputies, hurriedly sworn in, by Sheriff Ross and taken to the scene,
guard the uninjured insane, who are clam ring r>n the lawns in an ectasy of fright and fear.
In San Jose the hospitals that remain standing are, caring for great numbers of injured, many of which are hurt mortally. Immediately after the fearful concussion of the 'quake fires broke out in several quarters ol the city. The El Monte lodging house on Locust street took fire immediately after the collapse. Seven people, two entire families, were roasted to death. Twenty persons were imprisoned in the ruins of the Vendome "hotel annex, but all were reported living with the except rifin of o\ia.. Two-person "ww*. kUl_*. ed in a collapsed building on Market street, just north of Santa Clara. One fireman was killed while at his wort of rescue One woman was killed near Santa Clara by ihe collapse of a water tank on her house. Another woman was found dead in a house on Devine street. Two patienls at the county hospital were killed.
In Palo Alto two university students were killed by the collapse of a dormitory at the college.-The magnificent memorial church- is completely destroyed. The new college structures *ne in ruins. The loss to the university alone is probably five million dollars. Many buildings are down in the towns of Santa Clara, Palo Alto. Mounlain View, Sunnyvale, Mayfield, Gilroy and HolHster, where five were killed. Every locality in Santa Clara County has its finest buildings destroyed, and at least half the structures are irreparably damaged. Fvery farm house, every residence, inside and out of the
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cities and towns, wherever located, suffered more or less by the earthquake.
Tt would be foolish to attempt to estimate looses of life or property in this great holocaust until communication is opened and the range of the disaster known. The destruction of San Francisco, which is almost a certasnty, of Course overshadows all. The disaster here will not be known in'its full extent until tonight, when it is probable that automobiles, at leist, will be able to make their way to and from the metropolis. Railroad communication may not be resumed for some days, as bridges everywhere are reported down. Wires hang from the poles in every part of the county. Linemen are at rfork repairing them.
NOTICE TO MILLMEN. To the e nployees of the Pacific
Manufacturing Company of Santa Clara: " A"L a- aperk1.- meeting this morning of the employees of the above factory in conjunction with Millmen's Union No. 262 it was unanimously decided that every employee report for duty at 8 o'clock a. m. to-morrow, Thursday, April 19, and volunteer his service until the factory is again in running order. All employees are expected to report.
By order of ths president, Th im-as Graham.
AT HOLLISTER. Word was received bv train from Hoi
ister that that town was a great sufferer from the earthquake. Five fatalities are said to have resulted and the loss to property is enormous. Gilroyissaid to have beee more fortunate.
The works of the California Compounding Co on Taylor street were de-111 ilislted, but business was resumed during the forenoon.
. * • HALE'S STORE.
The First-street annex of the Hale store is a total wreck. The roof in its entirety fell through and buried the goods on the shelves and counters. Th*1
San Jose Basket Company's establishment, housed in a small brick building on San Fernando street, was buried under iiB walls and roof.
D E A D In San Jos*—Incomplete.
MR. and MRS. BERT HALEY and two childreu, r Oakland.
MR. and MRS." KERRIGHN and baby, also of Oakland.
MRS. CHARLES COSTA, n9 Norlh _ Market.
MRS. CLAUDE EVERETT, a4i Divine stseet.
PAEL FARRAR, 206 South Fiast. DR. DE CROW, Phelan Building. MRS. HELEN BRANDON, 21 South
First street, MRS. WARDEN, South Second
street. BABY HIGUERRA, 135 South Third. Unidentified man,ri35 South Third. Unidentified girl, . THOMAS O'TOOLE, Hotel Vehdome, At Agnew, approximately 100 dead
and 400 injured. Among dead are: Dr. E. A. Kelley. John Lynch.
Walker, waitress. Gustavus Braden. John Toler.
INJURED. Mrs. Stone, dangerously. Mrs. De Crow, dangerou ly. Miss Bessie Pickering, dangerously.
COUNTY HOSPITAL. DEAD.
— Springer. — Hencelot. Miss Sanders, Meridian District.
INJURED. Seven.
COLLEGE PARK. A number of residences at College
Park were demolished The residences of H. E Dorr, Dr. Eli McClish, Mr. Simpson and Dr. R. D. Hunt are completely wrecked.
East Hall at the University suffered mnch damage. It may have to be completely rebuilt. All the gables at the north and south ends of the building fell in and seams were opened in almost every part of the structure.
Two students, Clarence Pearson and James Trevorrow, were severely injured by falling bricks. They were buried under the debris. No damage was done to the other Wldings on the campus.
. • • Considerable loss of li fe is reported"!)!
Chinatown. Nearly all the buildings are of brick, but as they vere not of solid construction nearly all were destrojed. No fires have yet started.
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The lodging house on the southeast corner of Locust and Santa Clara streets, a rather flimsily consrructed affair, collapsed and the fifty inmates fled for their lives. Seven were unable to escape the falling timbers and were pinioned within. Almost immediately flames burst out and the victims were caught like rats in a trap.
From the proprietor, F. Barlow, it was learned that the names of the victims were Mr. and Mrs. Beri Haley and two very young children of Oakland, and Mr. and Mrs. Kerrigan and baby, also of Oakland. Mr. Haley is a lumberman and Mr. Kerrigan is a printer.
Would-be rescuers heard the cries for help issuing from the heap of wreckage but were beaten back by the names. Mr. Haley died the death of a true hero; although he might have saved himself, he chose to die in the effort to save his wife and babies, and to the last he directed the efforts of those who had escaped in their rescue work. Up to a late hour the budies had not been reictfed from th» ruins.
MENLO PARK. J, W. Britton, assistant agent at Menlo
Park, tells a sad story of the devastation at Menlo. Redwood City and Palo Alto. The trainmen, he says, informed him that when the shock came the cars swaped from one side to the qther until it seemed that the entire train must be thrown from the track. But it finally became steady and they proceeded to Menlo. In that town many of the prominent duildings, including the leading churches, have been destroyed, while at Millbrae the power house was laid flat. At San Mateo also the Convent and schools were destroyed.
EMPIRE SCHOOL. Reports from Berryessa show that the
e irthquake was as severe in that vicinity as elsewhere. All of the county watering tanks were overthrown. Many bridges across the Coyote are ruined. The Lar-irinn residence on the King road is a total loss. Tile Empire School is ruined.
Severe shocks were felt at 2:30 p. 1111 today, lasting a mi n rite.
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at the first shock, burying a score in the ruins. The dead: '-—- Springer. H ncelot. Injured number seven.
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FIRE" ON SECOND STREET. The Dougherty building on Second,
street, was all but demolr-hed by the first shock. Before the occupants of the buildiug could leave the structure the larger part of the front wall fell in.
In a short time fire broke out and completed the destruction wrought hy the temblor. The buildiug with all its contents is a complete loss. Not a thing was removed, and the amount of the dam *ge cannot be estimated. The building was practically full of tenants Hills' Studio oceupiek the fifth floor. On top of the structure was the United States Weather Bureau Station.
Several doctors had their offices in the building, and it was t he-locution of the Worcester School of Music, which sul-fered about $2000 damage.
KINDLED BY FIRE: , The idjoinfng bvilding to theJMrtrt
took fire from the Dougherty building and was not under control until nearly noon. At 7:30 a portion of the front wall fell across the street, barely missing one of the fire engines. The' building was completely gutted, The'Iowea floor was occupied by Denne'sart andGupny's book store. The'stock is a complete loss by fire and water.
The buiMing north of tha Dougherty duildi'ig", occupied by The Fair, was completely destroyed by earthquake and fire.
The adjoining structure, occupied by the Dellwig bakery and a lodging houst-, was aompletely destroyed with its con-eents.
The adjacent building to the north was partially destroyed, the roof caving in.
The Nevada building, on South Second near Santa Clara street, stiff-red by the throwing dnwn i>f a portion of the front wall.
The upper story of the George 1!. Me-Kee building, at the corner of Second and San . Fernando streets, collapsed. But little damage was done to the first floor. CHRtSTAIN CHURCH DAMAGED.
The Central Christian Church on
South Second street >uilered considerable damage. 1 ne rear end collapsed. Portions tf the side walls fell out and lh« root settled.. _
MRS BRANDON KILLED The two upoer sturbyoi the building
at 2i South First street fell in. Mrs. Helen Brandon, mother of Frank Bran, don, was killed, Her si n assisted by Wai, Cosgrove had tl|e s.id fsk of removing her crushed body from the debris. Mrs. Brandon was more than 80 years old and was one of the first settlers in this villey. A man occupying an adjoining room escaped with si arcely a scratch. .Windows in pradcallv every store on
the eyst side of South First street were broken into fragments, a number of cornices fell but the .damage was less than on Second s'leet. On the west side of the street the buildings nearly all were without da mag's with the exception of the Phelan building, the John St-ck b lildin'i and the Conkling Grocery Co,
On Third Street south the re.ir wa-I of the Odd Fellows' building fell out, crushing in the wall of.an adjoining residence,
NORTH SECOND STREET. Second street is as bad north of Santa
Clara a* it is betwe£n£an Fernando and Santa. Clara. The First Methodist Church is cracked from end to end, but is standing. The steeple of the First Presbjterian Church fell across the breadth of the street between two houses occupied as offices for physicians, and all of the frame dwell ngs were completely wrecked. P.irt of the brick Presbyterian Church fell against the side of the Y. M. C. A. Building, and in turn veered against the dwellings next door.
Trinity Episcopal and Unitarian Churches are a total loss, though bo:h are for the most part wood. Portions are falling constantly a*id the streets are being p.uroled by members of the local National Guard. Houses along St. James and St. John streets have fallen.
On South Sixth street a dwelling v as wrecked and Mrs. Warden fatally injured.
Paul Farrar was killed by falling brick on North Market street, as was also the foreman of Hose No. 1.
NATIVE SONS-HALL. The upper story of Nativ Sons build
ing, Third and San Fernando, was tle-mulished. The lower floor, occupied by Santa iflara Valley Wine Co. suffered but little damage.
The R. S. Huukins Machine shop, on San Fernando, was completely wrecked.
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The Carnegie Library building suffered slight damage. The exterior was not injured
The residence of Dr.McNary on South Fifth street is a wreck.
THE HIGH SCHOOL. The High School building is a com
plete wreck. Upper roof fell in. Roof over almost entire building either caving in or sliding off The br.ck walls ,-H around, down to the second floor and in places almost to the ground. The front wall fell out and lies in a tangle ofdebiis in front of the structure. Great seams and cracks were opened in the portions of the wall that did not fa 1. The building will 03 an entire loss.
FREDERICKSBURG BREWERY. The damage to the Fredericksburg
Brewery, on the Alameda, will reach probably at least fifteen thousand dollars.
The Golden West Hotel, on the Alameda, is l>adly damaged, almost the entire front being out, and, although do one was injured, Mrs. Russ is seriously prostrated dythe shock.
Many of the large frame houses on the Alameda were badly damaged, and coming from the Alameda into town every brick building is partially and some completely ruined. ' • OTHER BUILDINGS.
The four or five large brick buildings on First street south, of San Carlos woe demolished, including the Smith auto garage, the National Bakery, the Franklin engine house and many others. The two-story frame residence of Mis. Schwier on Pirce avenue was shaken to pieces, but no one was hurt.
Centrell M. E. Church, Second streets was slightly injured, and St. Mary's Church with the school was wrecked, both being brick. St, Patrick's Church was wrecked com-p eeely.
—— . •* . BANKS CLOSED.
'Will Not Reopen Until Conditions Become Normal.
The bankers of this city met this morning atiri mutually agreed not to open until loral conditions heroine normal again. Under the conditions that *xist today it is impossible to do business, and it will be se\era! days before the public will l>e able to resume their accustomed 'rend. In the meant me it would be useiess to open the banks.
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At 6 o'clock a wild rumor was c rcu-lated that all of the 10H0 imates fo the Agnew Insane Asylum had perished. The terrible report was later minimized to TOO and then verified when a reporter arrived at the scene. The sight was one to make strong men weep. The great buildings were ra«d to the ground and terror-stricken unfortunates were huddled in little gronps beneath the palm trees. Hundreds of unfortunates fell beneath four stori-s of brick and stone and frum the wreck arose the cries of the mortally injured.
The .fatalities will assume a frigliful magnitude. It is impossible at the present timi to give a list of the persons who perished at the asylumr Death wreaked greatest vengeance in the main brick building, which is several blocks in length and four stories high, snrmounted by bree jtowers. The first tremblor at a few minutes past 5 ojlock threw the lowers to the ground and awakened the in-mites. A scene of confusion followed.
It .fftimlants purlbinied many acts of heroism, but all who were in the center 01 the building went down when the final crash came in a few seconds or less after the first rumble was heard.
The outer walls w II stand, but the lloors arc in a mass in the basement and the demented men and womeu hurled to their death. Dr. Stocking escaped down the lire ladder with his wife. The esc >pe of a few other atiendents and offihials Wits made by me.ins of rop:s of knotted .sheets.
The outbuildings, cottages and store hliuses were thrown to the ground, but the. water tanks remained standing, In the graj light of the dawn the scene was terrible. < if the few hundred persons who es;aped injury, many were raving maniacs and help that was needed badly to rescue the buried was taken to rest a n the insane from escaping. Word was s 'nt by horseback, as the telephone wires were down to Santa Clara for aid, and corns after corps of students from the college hurried to the asylum. Physicians «ere needed the most and not enough could be secured to attend tne injured.
'J'nose who eicaped slouil daneil at the catastrophe ami did not know what to d'>. The attendants that were not buried worked TL> shelter the miserable men
and women whoitooil on the grounds, clad only in thTir night garments. When the repofter visited the wreck this morning at 7 o'clock the n. • -work had only been begun, .md it is progressing slower, as the debris to be cleared away before the many dead and injured can be reached.
The massive walls of the asylum are tottering in thei base, but crowds of people from Santa Clara and nearly farms are at work, unmindful of their own danger. Four floors, containing about twelve wards, are heaped in a tangled mass in the basement. From the windows of the cellars the mangled bodies are being taken forth. The cries of the living auiouf the dead were heartrending, and add'-il to the confusion.
The first of the.dead to be exhumed was Dr. E. A. Kelley. one of the head physicians. The next was John Lynch, head attendant, whose home is in Boston, Mass. Walker, waitress in the dming-room. Near her body was that of Gustavus Bradeu, supervisor of the hospital, and John Toler, a head attend, ant. These are on}y a few of thel mauy who were killed by the wrecking of the building, or who will die in the ruins ere they can be released.
Tbe'e i* V^Jj't report 10S0 inmates in the State Hospital for the u. SBiie at Agnew. They were cared fnr by over 100 attendants and'other ptr-soiis employed oa the premises. The greatest number were living in the wards of the main building and arc now buried beneath hundreds of tons of brick One end of the main -building was split in two pieces, one-half crashing to the the ground and the other still 011 its foundations, but threatening to fall at any moment
The dead, as they are taken from beneath the timbers, are laid in rows on the lawns to one side, and after being estammed in hope some breath of life might yet remain, are taken in wagons away from the place td Santa Clara. Little can be said of the terrible loss of life and property. The s*d story has only been disclosed in Its preface, all remains to be said when the total number of casualties is known. The financial loss to the Asylum will undoubtedly be total. No building could stand the terrible tremblorsof the earth this morning. The gre»*ess ioss is confined to the main bulking, whirh is of brick.
Coffee was being innde this morning and given to the injured patients, who stand stricken dwn.b with terror. The various htiiliii'ins on the reservation
from the store house to the female ward numbering ten or twelve, are all in a « reck*'! condition, but not ipiite as bad as the great wAtd, liiutvaj one is in such shape that none can be sheltered. Many inmates are being cared for by ranchmen at their homes, but the great majority of the survivors are on the lawns, covered with what bed clothing it has been possible to obtain.
Fortunately no fire has yet broken out in the ruins and as long as such is the case there are strong hopes of rescuing many. Keliei has been obtain, d from Simta Clara and the Alviso road between the town and the Asylum is crowded with hundreds of people hurrjing to aid in the work at the hospital.
SANTA CLARA. Every building of stone or brick that
was more than one story in height at Santa Clara is now a ruin, but .so far only one person has been reported killed. The biildings of the Pacihc Manufacturing Company are down. One tank in falling from the roof crashed through an humble home nearby and crushed .out the life of a woman who was yet in her l-ed. The machinery is ruined and the financial loss will amount toJmndre.ds of thousands of dollars in Santa Clara and to several millions ivhetf the Agnew As\lutn is included. The same consternation that prevails at the Asylum is everywhere at Santa Clam. No tires have broken forth and a close watch is being kept by the department to prevent a contlavration.
Santa Clara College has suffered considerably, but the dor nitory wai not injured as bad as a number of academic buildings. No one has been killed, but a number are badly I,tin. Most of the College studenis -ire now at the Asylum.
The g ound H as cracked near the Santa Clara woter works plant and tlie immense tanks thruwti to the ground, pait-ly in the ritt in the earth. Nearby places are flooded by the deluge o water.
No less than twelve large residences on the Alameda between l.eu/.en avenue and Santa Clara have been totally destroyed and ,;the residents have esnu>"rf by a miracle. The Hester School is in a bad condition
All store fron's and many dwellings were -wrecked in K.ist S;m lose. The brick luuJii'in- near the bridge o'i bmi Rock avenue was practically demolished and Ea*t San Jose hall and the school house badly injured.
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LH1S IS AN UGLY, PERHAPS UNNECESSARY "BLOOD ANDTHUNDER" PA6E. I SUGGESTTHE GENTLE READER SKIP IT ENTIRELY. SuTTHESE TWO BAD MEN CREATED SUCH VALLEY EXCITEMENT AND MYSTERY THAT CONTROVERSY LASTED FOR YEARS....J|6URCI0VASQUEZ, BORN IN 1035, AT A6E 16,WAS INVOLVED IN A FANDANGO MURDER AND STARTED A LIFE OF CRIME RIVALLING MURIETTA 5ERVED-5 YEARS FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND 4 YEARS FOR CATTLE STEALING. HlS GANG OPERATED MAINLY FROM DIABLOS" CANTAU CANYON. FRIENDS WERE SCARCE;
FEW MEXICANS BEFRIENDED HIM. TlBURCIOWAS SHQRT,WIRY, DRESSED WELL,AMOROUS,COURTEOUS,FRIENDLYTOWARD SOME AMERICANS AND HAD A SWEETHEART IN EVERY CANTINA FROM SAN JOSE TO LOS ANGELES. H E ELUDED ALL POSSES, ONCE RIDING 60 MILES WITH BULLET IN HIS CHEST. HLS PEAK WASATRIPLE MURDER INTRESPINOS, SOUTH OFHOLLISTER.TNESTATE LEGISLATURE APPROPRIATED %,OOO INAN EFFORTTO SPEED HIS CAPTURE. FINALLY WITH 8 BULLET WOUNDS, HE WAS CAPTURED NEAR LOS AN6ELES.
t_^ WOMEN PROVED HISDOWNFALL.HE HAD STOLEN TWO OF HIS LIEUTENANTS' r I; WIVES AT VARIOUS TIMES. ONE, LEIVA.WASTD GIVE FATAL,THOUGH CIRCUMSTANT
IAL EVIDENCE ATTHE MOST FAMOUS TRIAL IN SANTA CLARAVALLEY HISTORY. VASQUEZ WAS EXECUTED IN THE COUNTY COURTYARD, 1875. HlS GRAVE IS PROMINENTLY MARKED IN A SANTA CLARA CEMETERY.
JAMES DUNHAM WOULD FIT ONE OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S TV THRILLERS; MYSTERIOUS MAN, MYSTERIOUS MOTIVES,MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. THE SCENE WAS A LONELY FARMHOUSE NEAR CAMPBELL;(696. DuNHAM.32,WAS RECENTLY MARRIED AND SEPARATED FROM THE DAUGHTER OF COL.McGn NCY, THE FARM OWNER. ONE MIDNIGHT, DUNHAM RETURNED FOR UNKNOWN REASON. HECAREFULLY DE5TR0YED EVERY PICTURE OF HIMSELF EXCEPT AN OVERLOOKEDTlNTYPE.(SEESKETCH*t )THENjWITH NEVER CLEARLY ESTABLISHED MOTIVE, HE BRUTALLY MURDERED HIS WIFE,MOTHER-IN-LAW, AND MAID SERVANT. Ht SPARED HIS BABY SON, PERHAPS IN HOPES HE MIGHT BECOME THE COLONEL'S ONLY HEIR? HEAV1LYAKMED,HE LAY IN WAIT FOR McGUNCY, STEPSON AND HIRED MAN ATTENDING A MEETING IN CAMPBELL. RETURNIN6,HE SHOT THEM DOWN ONE BY
I . ONE. WITH EXTREMELY CRUDE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION AT
DISPOSAL OF THE LAW IN THOSE DAYS, DUNHAM ESCAPED ON HORSEBACK INTO THE NIGHT AND THE UNINHABITED
"EASTERN MOUNTAINS. NEVER WAS HE SEEN OR HEARD OF —-•»• AGAIN...IN OAKHILLCEMETERY,YOUMAY READ THIS
INSCRIPTION ON HIS VICTIMS' MARBLE SLABS "VENGEANCE IS MINE,) WILL REPAY, ,J1
SAITH THE LORD'/
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XHIS WILL NOT BE A TOUR OF THE WINCHESTER HOUSE ,
A"MUSFFOR EVERY TOURIST AND ONLY A FEW MINUTES
DRIVE FROM ANY POINT IN OUR VALLEY. A WELL
CONDUCTED TOUR AWAITS YOUR CURI05.TY. PUBLIC
APPETITE FOR SENSATIONALISM FEEDS ON RUMOR,
TOLERANTLYJSOME OFTHELEGENDS COULD BE LEFT
TO .SUPPOSITION. NEVERTHELESS,THIS ARCHITECTURAL
NIGHTMARE, IN COMPARISON, RIVALS ANY PRIVATE
RESIDENCE IN THE WORLD- 160 ROOMS, 6 KITCHENS, 13
BATHROOMS,3ELEVAT0RS;40 5TAIRWAYS,I3 SAFES,
NONE EVER "CRACKED! (WHAT BURGLAR COULD FIND HIS
WAY OUT?) VISITORS RIPLEY AND HOUDINI MARVELLED.
DUT WHO WAS THE REAL MRS.WINCHESTER? WE LIVED
CLOSE BY AND SAWHER OFTEN (FROM A DISTANCE) MY UNCLE NED R. WAS FIRST WESTCOASTAGENTFORHER
COMPANY. MY FATHER'S FIRST WORK IN CALIFORNIA IN
THE TO WAS TREE PLANTING ON HER NEW ESTATE.
SHE WAS A TINY LADY UNDER 5 FEET AND LESSTHAN IOO
POUNDS. 5HE WAS THIN AND PALE WITH BEAUTIFUL DARK
EYES. SARAH L . WAS HIGHLY EDUCATED,TALENTED AND
SPOKE FOUR LANGUAGES. AFTER HER HUSBAND AND
HER SIGNATURE REPIICA(I9I9)
BABY GIRL'S TRAGIC DEATHS SHE CAME WEST WITH TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS AND A #1000 PERDAY INCOME. SHE GAVE GENEROUSLY TO ALL CHURCHES AND CHARITIES. HER AFFECTION FOR CHILDREN WAS DEEP COLD? AUSTERE? RECLUSE? SEANCES?TOLLING BELLS AND PLACATED SPIRITS? So WHAT? WE THOUGHT HIGHLY OF H ER. FOR OVER 3 0 YEARS THAT#IOOO A DAY WAS
DISTRIBUTED AMONGST VALLEY CARPENTERS,LUMBERMEN
AND TRADES PEOPLE. G\SH WASSCARCE IN 1900 ERA.
SARAH WAS A GRAND SPENDER... HER MULTITUDES OF
^GJJIET, KINDLY ACTS WILL FOREVER REMAIN UNKNOWN.
" N O f ALTHOUGH EXPRESSING DESIRE, PRES.THEODORE
ROOSEVELT ON HIS WAY TO THE CAMPBELLREDWOQDTREE
PLANTING,WAS DENIED ADMITTANCE/ AND YET ONE DAY,
SARAH HEARD A SMALL NEIGHBOR GIRL PRACTISING
PIANO. SHE INVITED HER OVER. AFTER YOUR TOUR,
PICTURE THJS SCENE-THAT STATELY BALLROOMWITH
THETLFFANY CHANDELIER, A TINY OLD VICTORIAN
LADY AND A DELIGHTED LITTLE GIRL, FEET DANG LI N&
HIGH ABOVE PEDALS OF THAT ROSEWOOD GRAND PIANO.'
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GOOD EXAMPLE OF OLD VALLEY COUNTRY SCHOOL ARCHITECTURE IS THE ONE SKETCHED ABOVE,
„ OOYLE...I ATTENDED,STARTING 1900. TAKING THE FULL COURSE, FIRST THROUGH EIGHTH
GRADES. TOR COMPARISON WITH TODAYS "EXTRA SESSIONS* I WAS ONLY PUPIL IN THE
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH SUCH SCHOOLS WERE SPACED THREE OR FOUR MILES APART
ON SOME CROSS ROADS ACRE.,PUPLLS AVERAGED FROM 20 TO 40 IN NUMBER WITH ALL
AGES,6T0 I8...S0ME OFTHESE'BIG BOYS"WERE OLD ENOUGH TO 5HAVE,CHEW TOBACCO,
ROLL A BULL DURHAM AND PLOW. SUCH CHORES AS LAST, LIMITED THEIR ATTENDANCE
AND THEIR ACADEMIC CAREERS TERMINATED AT ABOUT THE FIFTH GRADE. (WHICH DID NOT
PREVENT THEM LATER FROM BECOMING SUCCESSFUL,URGE ACREAGE ORCHARDISTS. ONE
OF THESE NOW WAVES TO ME FROM HIS YEARLY NEW CONTINENTALOR CADILLAC.')....
SCHOOLS SUCH AS DOYLE HAD ONE ROOM WJTH A POT-BELLIED STOVE FOR HEATING.
CONVENIENCE PLUMBING WAS OUT DOORS, WITH "BOYS"AND "GIRLS"AT OPPOSITE CORNERS
OF THE ACRE LOT, A LONG WALK AND WE TOOK 0URTIME IF ARITHMETIC WASTA'THAT
DAY...TEACHERS WERE NICE LOOKING, EFFICIENT LADIES FROM SANJOSE NORMAL THEY,
WORE SHIRTWA1STS,HIGH NET COLLARS AND FLOOR LENGTH SKIRTS PRIMLY COVERING
THEIR TWELVE BUTTON HIGH SHOES.THEIR HAJRWASPDMPADOURED,AIDOFA"RAT? (SEE
DICTIONARY,YOU MODERN.) ALLWORE DEMURE 60LDWATCHES PINNEDT0THEIRDRES5W1TH
A FLEUR-DE-LIS MANY OF US WORE HOME MADE CLOTHES,SPECIALLY UNDER GARMENTS.
FLOUR ANDSUGAR CAME IN IOOLB. SACKS AND THIS STURDY MATERIAL WAS NEVER
WASTED.. CONSEQUENTLY MANY A SMALL BOY!S SHIRT TAIL BORE THE LEGEND " ( X L
GRANULATED SUGAR" AND AN ERRANT BREEZE OR ATUMBLE FOR SOME LITTLE GIRL
MIGHT, ON HER PANTIES, EXPOSE THE COMMERCIALESE AS DRIFTED SNOW''. IT WAS 0 ERA OF SAD,BLACK,DROOPY, COTTON STOCKINGS. BOTH SEX WORE LONG DRAWER5AND
IFTHETIMEDEJECTEDBELLBOTTOMSOFLEGS WERE NOT TIGHTLY WRAPPED, OUR ANKLES BULGED IN UNGAINLY N0B5 YES, STOVE BLACKING OH BARE SKIM TO CAMOUFLAGE HQLES....LUNCHES,ALTHOUGH NOT"DIETETICALLYPREPARED"WERE HEARTYANDPACKED IN LARD PAILS.TOBACCO TINS AND *BR0WNIES"THI5 LAST AN IMITATION LEATHER JOB MADE OF CARD B0ARD..,CHIC THE FIRST WEEK,IT SOON BORE THE STAINS OF GOOD HOMEMADE JELLY, APRICOT JAM, BOLOGNA AND COLD PORKCHOPS-'ICOUNTRYSCHOOL" EDUCATION COMPARED TO TODAY'S ? Mo COMMENT.ToO CONTROVERSIAL. BUT I SHALL STOUTLY MAINTAIN THAT IN TWO THEN PR1DEFUL SUBJECTS, WE DID EXCELLy-HAND-WRVTING AND 5PELLING.,..WHERE IS THE ORIGINAL OLD DOYLE SCHOOL?
TODAY BURIED DEEP BENEATH A NEW FREEWAY CROSSING STEVENSCREEKROAD.
THANK GOODNESS WE CAN'T BURY MEMORIES/
ANCIENT HISTORY This mystic maze all started as a map of the Old Valley with roads,
rivers, etc. An we progressed it simply degenerated into memorable impressions and "atmosphere" of long gone days, places and people. Geographical locations are approximate. Viewers can place themselves on hills back of Los Gatos looking north. The plentiful "corn", caricatures and cartoons are not greatly exaggerated. While local "historians" and old-timers enjoy sporting the errors and omissions, here are a few boiled down keynotes: (1) Actually it wasn't Portola but a couple of his deer hunting soldiers that from about this point in 1769 accidentally had the first view of the Old Valley through whits mens' eyes. (21 Life was easy for our Valley Indians. They were lazy, peaceful and dirty. The Mission padres gave them clothes, salvation and work. Our pioneer forefathers gave them whiskey, "civilized" diseases, and smallpox. Exit Indians. (3) Leland Stanford in 1881 made luxuriant camp for a later tribe of Indians, the Stanford Reds. (4) Firewood, pickets and tan bark for Eberbardt's Tannery [S.C.) were hauled from these mountains by four horse wagons. (5) Capt. Elisha Stevens (creek and "boulevard"] settled in these western mountains ten years before the Civil War. (6| The medicinal spring waters from Congress Springs and Alum Hock claimed cures from hangnails to senility. (7) Moody's Gulch furnished limited gas for early autos and unlimited stock buying opportunities. (8| Mtn. Charley road is named for Charley McKiernon who in 1854 tangled with a female bear in this locale. He survived but his punctured skull was patched with two silver 50 cents pieces. (9] On the good ship Alviso one could take daily trips to San Francisco for a fare of 50 cents. [10) Yes, there actually wai a Battle of Santa Clara. It was fought in 184G near present Lawrence Boad and Highway 101. Casualties, four Mexicans. We won. (11) The author, 1901, debating attendance at Doyle School. (12) Subdivisions and apartment beehives have left too few blossoms for the annual Festival. (13) Forbes Mill and Lyndon Hotel still brave the destructive hand of Progress. (14) Hew Chicago was an early and marshy subdivision. Some mail order buyers might find their lots by row boat at high tide. [15) James Lick built a flour mill and endowed Lick Observatory. (16] The Sarah Winchester we knew (at a distance) was shy, charitable and furnished never ending employment. [17) James Dunham in 1896 really cooked up an unsolved Alfred Hitchcock thriller. For unknown reasons he murdered six of his family and on horseback disappeared into the Mount Hamilton range,— forever. (18) President T. R. planted a redwood here in 1903. (19) Lumbering was an active industry and Old Valley residences were built from native redwood or pine. (20) Spanish grants of vast acreage dwindled- [21] We give prominence to the Old San Jose El act lie Tower, 1B81-1916. It did provide illumination and at least a certain municipal Distinction, (with which the present metropolis is no longer overburdened). (22) Sour childhood memories almost prevented this touching horticultural scene depicting the prune industry, little changed over the years. (23) Lone Hill? Try and find this landmark! (24| Tiburcio Vasquez, our own prize bandit, rivalled Murietta in ferocious exploits. He was the guest of honor at one of the first hangings in the County courtyard, 1875. (25) New Almaden Mines ware world second to the original Almaden in Spain. (26) Stone quarried here for the old Post Office, Hall of Records, Stanford, etc. (27) Once a dinkey steam train ran to Alum Rock past Fllcklnger's Cannery (28) where once all fruit cans were hand soldered. [29) Who was Manly? He was the '49 rescuer of the Bennett party stranded in Death Valley. Fanned at about this spot and had a home on Stockton Avenue in San Jose. (Hist. Marksrl. [30) This original, palatial Hayes mansion burned but the forty acres of landscaped grounds (BO's) have been preserved and now shelter an authentic Frontier Village.
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ANCIENT HISTORY This mystic maze all started as a map of the Old Valley with roads,
rivers, etc. As we progressed it simply degenerated into memorable impressions and "atmosphere" of long gone days, places and people. Geographical locations are approximate. Viewers can place themselves on hills back of Los Gatos looking north. The plentiful "corn", caricatures and cartoons are not greatly exaggerated. While local "historians" and old-timers enjoy spotting the errors and omissions, here are a few boiled down keynotes: (1) Actually It wasn't Portola but a couple of his deer hunting soldiers that from about this point in 1769 accidentally had the first view of the Old Valley through white mens' eyes. (2) Life was easy for our Vallay Indians. They were lazy, peaceful and dirty. The Mission padres gave them clothes, salvation and work. Our pioneer forefathers gave them whiskey, "civilised" diseases, and smallpox. Exit Indians. (3) Leland Stanford in 1881 made luxuriant camp for a later tribe of Indians, the Stanford Reds. (41 Firewood, pickets and tan bark for Eberhardt's Tannery (S.C.I were hauled from these mountains by four horse wagons. (5] Capt. Elisha Stevens (creek and "boulevard"] settled in these western mountains ten years before the Civil War. (61 The medicinal spring waters from Congress Springs and Alum Bock claimed cures from hangnails to senility. [7| Moody's Gulch furnished limited gas lor early autos and unlimited stock buying opportunities. (8) Mtn. Charley road is named for Charley McKiernon who in 1854 tangled with a female bear in this locale. He survived but his punctured skull was patched with two silver 50 cents pieces. (9) On the good ship Alviso one could take daily trips to San Francisco for a fare of 50 cents. (10) Yes, there actually was a Battle of Santa Clara. It was fought in 1846 near present Lawrence Road and Highway 101. Casualties, four Mexicans. We won. [11) The author, 1901, debating attendance at Doyle School. (12) Subdivisions and apartment beehives have left too few blossoms for the annual Festival. (13) Forbes Mil! and Lyndon Hotel still brave the destructive hand of Progress. (14) New Chicago was an early and marshy subdivision. Some mail order buyers might Find their lots by row boat at high tide. [15) James Lick built a flour mill and endowed Lick Observatory. 116) The Sarah Winchester we knew [at a distance) was shy, charitable and furnished never ending employment. (17) James Dunham in 1896 really cooked up an unsolved Alfred Hitchcock thriller. For unknown reasons he murdered six of his family and on horseback disappeared into the Mount Hamilton range,— forever. (18) President T. R. planted a redwood here in 1903. [19) Lumbering was an active industry and Old Valley residences were built from native redwood or pine. (20) Spanish grants of vast acreage dwindled. (21) We give prominence to the Old San Jose Electric Tower, 1881-1916. It did provide illumination and at least a certain municipal Distinction, (with which the present metropolis is no longer overburdened). [22) Sour childhood memories almost prevented this touching horticultural scene depicting the prune industry, little changed over the years. [23) Lone Hill? Try and find this landmark! (24] Tiburcio Vasquez, our own prize bandit, rivalled Marietta in ferocious exploits. He was the guest of honor at one of the first hangings in the County courtyard, 1875. (25) New Almaden Mines were world second to the original Almaden in Spain. (26) Stone quarried here for the old Post Office, Hall of Records, Stanford, etc. (27) Once a dinkey steam train ran to Alum Rock past Flickinger's Cannery [28] where once all fruit cans were hand soldered. (29) Who was Manly? He was the '49 rescuer of the Bennett party stranded in Death Valley. Farmed at about this spot and had a home on Stockton Avenue in San lose. [Hist. Marker). (30) This original, palatial Hayes mansion burned but the forty acres of landscaped grounds (BO'a) have been preserved and now shelter art authentic Frontier Village.
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IMMORTAL POEM. WLLLIAM BAER WAS ONE OF VALLEYS LAST
TYPICAL COUNTRY BLACKSMITHS. I NEVER GREW TIRED OF
WATCHING THIS FRIENDLY,POWERFULMAN AT WORK. USUALLY
BEGRIMED IN A CLEAN SORT OFWAY, HE HAD MUSCLES EQUAL
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THIS SMALL BOY'S ENDLESS QUERIES. WHAT BETTER BUCK-
SMITH SHOP ATMOSPHERE" THAN A BRIEF DESCRIPTION
OFTJETTIN1 OUR OLD NAG SHOD"? UNHITCHED FROM OUR SPRING WAGON OR BUGGY, PRINCE WAS LED INTO THE SMOKEY, DIRT FLOORED SMITHY. TURNING HIS8ACKTO HORSE'S REAR END,OUR SMITH WOULD PICKUP A HIND FOOT AND HOLD IT BETWEEN HIS (MR.BAER's) LEGS, PLACING IT OH HIS HEAVY LEATHER APRON. OLD SHOES WERE PRIED OFF,OLD NAILS SNIPPED CLEAN AND HOOF BOTTOM PARED DOWN SMOOTH ANDWHITE.THEN MR.BAER WOULD SELECT ANEW HORSESHOE FROM THE STACK OF SIZE NUMBERED LITTLE KEGS-.XHEN TOSS ONE INTHE FORGE AND START PUMPING THE HU6E WOODEN AND LEATHER HANDMADE BELLOWS. SLUMBERING CHAR-COALEMBERS WOULD AWAKEN TO EMIT LITTLE SPIRAL CURLS OF PLEASANT SMELLIN6SM0KE. FlNALLYSMALLTONGUESOFDART-j
PICTURED AT RIGHT,THEVIUAGE
CORNERS OF WEST 5LDE,N0W
CUPERTINO. THIS WAS AND IS
THE INTERSECTION OF STEVENS
CREEK R6AD AND SUNNYVALE-
SARATOGA ROAD, (HWY.9)
BAER BLACKSMITH SHOP FAR RIGHT.
SKETCHED FROM 1898 PHOTO LOANED
BY MRS. ARCH WILSON, MY DOYLE
SCHOOLTEACHER.
f l • . , v
1NG RAME ENVELOPED THE IRON BLUE HORSE SHOE BURIED IN THE
COALS. WHEN WHITE HOT, WITH HIS LONG TONGS, MR.BAER WITHDREW
THE SHOE AND PLANTED IT FIRMLY AGA1NSTTHE BARE HOOF. (NO,
PAIN, &ENTLE READER) SIZZLLNG.ACRID SMOKE CURLED UP WITH AH
UNFORGETTABLE SMELL...MR.BAER WOULD THEN CRITICALLY
EXAMINE THE SCORCHED SURFACE. B, BURNED AND UNBURNED
AREAS HE COULD EXACTLY SEE HOW SHOE FIT CONTOUR OF HOOF.
WITH SLEDGE AND ANVIL HE WOULD DELIVER A FEW MIGHTY COR
RECTIVE BLOWS. THI5 OPERATION WAS REPEATED UNTIL BY TRIAL AND ERROR MR.B.WAS SATISFIED AMD AFTER TUB WATER
TEMPERING,NAILEDONTHESHOE.YES,HEMADEANAIL"RING"FOR
ME, AS NATURALLY EXPECTED AS BUTCHER-WAGON TREE B0L06NA.
END OF ACT. DAD PAINFULLY OPENED HIS LONG LEATHER PURSE
AND DOLED OUT SIX BITS OR A SILVER DOLLAR. I FORGET WHICH.
GOOD MEN,- MY DAD AND WILLIAM BAER. BOTH WORKED A
SIXTY HOUR WEEK AT HONEST MANUAL LABOR.WENTTO CHURCH
ON SUNDAY, STILLVERY TIRED. AND THE REV. COLEMANS SERMONS
WERE SOMETIMES LONG AND DRY. CONSEQUENTLY ITTOOK MANY
A WIFELY NUDGE TO HEAD OFF A SNORING OUET,MR.BAER,DEEP
BASS, DAD,HIGH TENOR LONG GONETHE PUNGENT ODORS OF
BURNT HORSE HOOF, SWEAT, CHARCOAL TALETOBACCOSMOKE,THE
MUSICAL CLANK AND CLANG OFANVIL AND WHEEZING BELLOWS.
CAME THE AUTO AGE AND LAST OF THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITHS,
WITH THE EARLY SETTLERS IN SANTA CLARA VALLEY CAME
THEIR MIOWESTERN PARLOR, FOR OUR YOUNGER GENER
ATION THE BEST DEFINITION OFA PARLOR ISTOSAY IT
WAS EXACT OPPOSITE OF TODAY^ RUMPUS ROOM. IT WAS
A PLACE OF DIGNITY WITH BUNDS PULLEDDURINGTHE
WEEK,RAISED ONLYTO BROOM-5WEEP OR FEATHER
DUST.THIS OPERATION SIMPLY MOVED DUST FROM ONE
LOCATION TO ANOTHER AND LEFT A STRANGE,SOLEMN,
. FUNEREAL ODOR, (AND FOR SUCH OCCASIONS OUR
V PARLOR WAS SO USED) ON THE OTHER HAND, THE ROOM HELD JOYOUS SCENES SUCH AS WEDDIN6S, RELATIVE REUNIONS, SUNDAY VISITORS AND OiRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS IT WAS THE FAMILY MUSEUM,
"WHATNOf'AS CENTERPIECE THIS MIGHT DISPLAY AN OSTRICH EGG, BABY SHOE,SHARKSTOOTH EASHELL CONTAINING ALLEGED OCEAN ROAR,STUFFED BIRD/TINTYPES
OF BUS-EYED RELATIVES AND GLASS DOMED CASE WITH A LOCK OF AUNT MARY'S CURLS. ALWAYS A PAIR OF
EITHER KINDLY OR CRITICAL ANCESTORS LOOKED DOWN
UPON US FROM THEIR ENORMOUS FRAMES. A VISIT
COULD BE LIGHTENED BY A ROUND WITH THE STER
EOSCOPE AND LATEST SLIDES OF DEWEYS FLEETORTHE
RUSSOJARANESE WAR. THE FAMILY
ALBUM WASLA5TRESORTANDABOUT
AS EXCITING AS LAST YEAR'S ALMANAC. WEYOUNGSTERS AVOIDED THE LEATHER FURNITURE WITH STABBING HORSE HAIR. YET SOMEHOW I BELIEVE OUR ANCESTORSWOULDENJOY A MODERN LIVING R00M.EVEN A FEW WHO WOULD GO FOR THE RUMPUS ROOM/
C o u n t r y S t o r e
OUT INTHECOUNTRY ABOUT 1900 aC(BEFORE CARS) GET
TING DRESSED, MAYBE EVEN TAKING A BATH, HITCHING
UP ASLOW HORSE AND DRIVING TO SANJOSE MIGHT
CONSUME AN ENTIRE DAY. CONSEQUENTLY,CONVENIENT
LITTLE ONE ROOM "SHOPPING CENTERS* SPRANG UP AT
CROSS ROAO CORNERS AND WERE CALLED COUNTRY GRO
CERIES. THEY WERE NOT CASH-AND-CARRY. ONE COULD
RUN A BILL FOR SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR AND PAY WHEN
CROPS WERE IN. CASH WAS SCARCE AND FOLKS TRADED
'BUTTER, EGGS AND FRUITF OR GROCERIES. STORE STOCK
WAS AMAZINGLY DIVERSIFIED, MUCK OF IT NOW OBSO
LETE AND UNFAMILIARTONEWGENERATIONS.OUR
GROCERY MAN COULD PROVIDE LAMP WICKS, BUTTON HOOKS,COLUR-BUTTONSjSULPHURMATCHES,CELLUWlD GOLLARS(CLEANED WITH A DAMPRAG)FLOWER POTS,BEAN
POTS AND CHAMBER P0TS,WH1PPLE-TREES,KICKING STr?APS,CRUPPERS>COFFEE GRINDERS AND DO-IT-YOURSELF SHOE-MAKER KITS. HE WOULD GLADLY SNIPOFF A YARD OF GINGHAM FROM THE VARIEGATED BOLTS ON HIS SHELVES. THE EDIBLES WERE AS GOOD IN QUALITY AND FLAVOR ASTODAYS BUT LACKED THE VARIETY AND CONVENIENCE. WE SAW NO GAUDY LABELLED CONTAINERS OR PESKY CEI10PHANE.ALL WAS OPEN FOR INSPECTION INCLUDING THE SODA CRACKERS AND DILL PICKLES FOR THE LOCAL POTBELLIED STOVE CLUB. (GROCER QUIETLY ADDED SAMPLINGST0THEIRBILL5.) Nu,lNEVER SAWTHAT PROVERBIAL CAT ASLEEP IN A BOX OF DRIED PRUNES. WE LIVE TODAY IN AWONDER AGE OF PRE-WA5HED PRE-PEELED,PRE-COOKED1ANDPRE-WRAPPED,EVERY
THING BUT PREPAID:'
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FOR MAMAORGRANDMA, HERE THEIR THEME SONG
COULD BECOME ONTHERANGE* COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING IT WAS A HOT, INCONVENIENT PLACE OF DRUDGERY,
FORTUNATEY TODAYS DREAM KITCHEN COULD NOTTHEN BE
EVEN IMAGINED. WHY HERE DESCRIBE THOSE OLD FAMILIAR
DISHES ORTHE UNBELIEVABLE BAKERY AND CANNERY PROD
UCTION THIS SMALL ROOM PRODUCED? WHY NOT MAKE A
6 0 YEAR LAPSE COMPARISON,™ 1NSTANCE,PREPARATI0N
OF A CHICKEN DINNER FOR FOUR? START THE FILM AND (
CRANK RAPIDLY. FLRST,DAD CHASED DOYM A LIKELYLOOKIN°
RHODE ISLANDRED OR PLYMOUTH ROCK. (NO,YOUNGSTER,NO
PILGRIMS INVOLVED). MEANWHILE THE RANGE WAS STOKED
UP TO HEAT SCALDING WATER FOR PLUCKING AFTER THE CHOP
PING BLOCK TRAGEDY. THEN CAME CLEANINQDISJOINTING, WASHLNG,FLOURING AND SKILLET FRYING IN DEEP FAT,
POTATOES WERE DUG,WASHED, PEELED,BOILED, MASHED.
GARDEN PEAS WERE PICKED, SHELLEO AND STEWED.FOR PIE
APPLES WERE PICKED,WASHED,PEELED,CORED ANDSLICED.
FOR PIE CRUST,FLOURSIFTED,SHORTENINGADDED,MIXED,
ROLLED,PLACED IN PIE TIN FILLED WITH 5EAS0HED APPLES
AND ARTISTIC LATTICE TOPADDED. RANGE AGAIN 5T0KED AND
PIES SHOVED IN TO BAKE AT A BY-GUESS AND BY-GOSH
TEMPERATURE,-ELAPSED TIME, 3 OR 4 HOURS AND
EXPENDITURE OF ABOUT FOUR BITS FOR STORE STAPLES.
CHANGE THE FILM ANDPRESS THE BUTTON FOR TODAY,
SO AS NOT TO MISS THAT RE-RUN OF GUNSMOKE OR
WAGONTRAIN,WE CRAWL INTO OUR UNPAIDFOR CAR AND RACE THREEBLOCKS TO THE NEARESTSAFEWAY. WE GRAB FOUR GRANDMA JONES TV FROZEN CHICKEN DINNERS,
A PACKAGE OF AUNTYMARYS FROZEN PEAS AND A MOTHER
IWREE'S FROZEN APPLE PIE. THEN ELECTR/C OVEN FOR
30 MINJ©4OO*. SIMPLE. AND NOTE 6RANDMA.,AUNTYAND
MAMA ARE STILL AVAILABLE/
t£&
1 9 0 0
C H R I S T M A S
*A
'HRISTMAS SIXTY YEARS AGO IN SANTA CLARA VALLEY WAS AS OUYOUSLY AND REVERENTLY CELEBRATED AS TODAY.
IT WAS CONDUCTED ON A MUCH LOWER,MORE RELAXED SCALE
AND TEMPO. I KNOW IN OUR ONE CHILD FAMILYTHEOBSER
VANCE WAS GEARED TO FIT OUR MODEST CIRCUMSTANCES.
\\} THIS DID NOT HINDER ENJOYMENT, IN FACT, LOOKING BACKWARD,
IT WHETTED KEENER APPRECIATION-*^ CHRISTMAS WAS
MORE FOR CHILDREN THAN PARENTS. 'MlNE DID EXCHANGE DULL PRESENTS, USUALLY HOMEMADE AND VALUABLE ONLY FOR THE SENTI MENTAL EXPR&SSIQN. CHILDREN,SPEC!ALLY COUNTRY BOYS LIKE WRITER,,(SEE ABOVE FROM FAMILY ALBUlO WERE NAIVE AND UNSOPHISTICATED. WE WERE UNEXPOSED TO LEGIONS OF FALSE BEARDED SAINTS ON TV AND IN SHOPPING CENTERS. I THINK I BELIEVED IN SANTA UNTIL OLD ENOUGH $ TO SHAVE/feToYS HAD NONE OF THE "SCIENTIFIC* OR THE &
EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF TODAYS PLAYTHING WONDERS BUT,-^ WE WERE HAPPY,—BECAUSE WE KNEW NOTHING BETTER?
small boy was chosen as oneoftheTHREEWlSEMENfora Church Christmas. To his disgust mama made him acosturne;his white nightgown, horri bie cotton beards pasteboard crown. While organ played SI LENT NIGHT the wee THREE WISEMEN^bearingqifts^k, solemnly strode (rfteraStcr^r Ah/ but the WISE MAN ahead of me dropped his gift bag of MARBLES! I became Yoiler-bearincf and I spoiledtheTABlEAUX-ordid I ?
MAMA DIDNT SEEM OVERLY PLEASED WITH DADfc filFT OF A CLOTHES WRINGER
BUT THEN, NEITHER WAS DAD THRILLED
WITH H15 PINK COAT-HANGER. STUFFED WITH DRIED LAVENDER.
I ALWAYS WANTED " A "WEEDEN STEAM
'ENGINE? I FINALLY BOUGHT jQNE. 30 YEARS LATER FOR— ME
A
HARD CANDY" WAS MOST POPULAR. NICETO STUFF IH SOCKS AND LESS "DEADLY'THAN THE HOLIDAY PINOCHE AND DIVINITY FUDGE/
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I GOT A MAGIC-LANTERN /•O-BUT NOT FOR CHRISTMAS.
^ . ^ I SOLD 50 ?Y£S.o*8LUINE >7^vF0R THIS PRIZE. tMAMA t \BOUGHT THE LAST47 PKGS
tea
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N A M E S OF P E O P L E + P L A C E S + E V E N T S = H I S T O R Y
T H E FOLLOWING PAGES CONTAIN DEFINITIONS,FACTS
AND ANECDOTES RELATING TO OLD SANTACLARAVALLEY.
THIS IS A HIGHLY CONDENSED, ALPHABETICAL SELECTION,
SIMPLY INTENDED TO UNEARTH ALMOST FORGOTTEN
INFORMATION AND ATASTE OF LONG GOME'ATMOSPHERE?
NOTE OF ENCOURAGEMENT-. THIS IS NOT DRY DICTIONARY?
HERE: A N D T H E R E W E W A N D E R , — A N D H O W /
A J ^ _ MtiL ^ ^ L _ ^ j ^
Titty t £ e "Home , . , ?
Bur ABRAM AGNEW SETTLED A G N E W : AGNEWS COMMONLY
INTHISTERRITORY NORTH OF SANTA CLARA ABOUT 1873. THE
ORIGINAL'AGNEWS INSANE ASYLUM'SHOWN ABOVE(I894) WAS
PRACTICALLY DESTROYED BY 1906 QUAKE AND OVER 125 KILLED.
ALMADEN: (SEE SPECIAL PAGE) MEANS THE MINE. N EW ALMADEN IS PROPER,BEING NAMED FOR THE OLD ORIGINAL IN
SPAIN,RICHEST QUICKSILVER MINE IH THE WORLD,PKODUClNG 200 LBS. OF QUICKSILVER PER TON OF ORE TO NEW ALMADEHS £0
LBS. VALLEY INDIANS FIRST USEDTHE VERMILION CINNABAR AS
FACE AND BODY PAINT DE5PITE SEVERE SALIVATING.ORE DISCOVERY
IN 1622. WORKED FOR 6OLD AND SILVER BY DON SuSoLm 1824.
No RESULTS. QUICKSILVER RECOGNIZED^ DON CASTILLERO
AT SANTA CLARA MISSION IN i 8 4 5 .
ALMA:(ANDLEXIN"GTON) CHARMING LITTLE MOUNTAIN TOWNS 3 MILES ABOVE LOS GATOS ON THE SANJ05E-SANTA CRUZ RAILROAD. NOW BURIED BENEATH LEXINGTON DAM. BOTH ON STAGE LINE. SHIPPING POINTS FOR MOUNTAIN FRUTT AND LUMBER. 8 SAWMILLS,POSTOFFICES.STORES,BLACKSMITHS.
A L V I S O : 8 MILES N. OFSAN JOSE. ONCE CALLED EMBARCADERO
DE SANTA CLARA . ITARLI EST LANDING POINT FOR FIRST SEA-FARING
SETTLERS, EXTENSIVE SHIPPING POINT FOR OLD VALLEY HIDES.TAUOW^
GRAIN,LUMBER AND QUICKSILVER. SLTE OFA HOPEFULNEW CHICAGO?
AMARSHY SUBDIVISION^ WET,MAIL:0RDER BUYERSFOUNDTHEIR
LOTS BY ROW-BOAT. NAMED FOaOON IGNACIO ALVISO WHO ARRIVED WITH DE ANZA IN 1776. SETTLED HEREIN 1838. ONCE THE SITE OF LARGE SHIPPING WAREHOUSES, CANNERIES,OYSTER BEDS PLANTED WITH EASTERN OYSTERS, ASPARAGUS FIELD5, POULTRY SHELL PLANT. HEART OF THE ARTESIAN WELLSECTION. FIRST PLANTING OF VALLEY PEAR ORCHARDS.
AGRICULTURAL PARK OR FAIR GROUHDS ON THEALAMEDA
WEST OF RACE STREET TURN. 76 ACRES BOUGHT IN 1859 FROM GEN.NA6LEE FOROOO.BlCYCLE RACES, BALLOON A5CENS10NS,BUFFALO
BILL.GEN.GRANT WATCHED LELANDSTANFORDS HORSE RACE HERE.AND
THR0U6H A KNOT HOLETHE WRITER AT A TENDER AGE WATCHED
BARNEY OLDFIELD BREAK THE WORLD'S AUTO SPEED RECORD
AT A HAIR-RAISING 6 0 MILES PER HOUR.
ALUM ROCK:CITYPARK NAMED'FOR CLIFF AT CANYON ENTRANCE CONTAINING ALUM MINERALF0UNDEDI872.SERVEDATVAR-IOUS TIMES BY OMNIBUS, STEAM TRAIN AND ELECTRIC CARS. AT ONE SIDE OF THE PARK ROAD WAS A TON SIZE METEOR. DURING WORLD WAR r>ATRioT!CAaY"DESTROYED FOR ITS METAL/ONLY
A FEW OF THE MANY MINERAL SPRINGS NOW aOW, ONCE HIGHLY REGARDED AS CURES FOR PIONEER ACHES AND PAINS,
AMUSEMENTS: HOW? WITHOUT CARS.RAD10 OR TV? FINE UNCROWDEDTROUT FISHING IN EVERY
CREEK. SWARMS0FGEESEANDDUCKS,6AME
IN THE HILLS. SMAUFOLKSRMARBLES,
KITES,TOPS. STATE LEAGUEBASEBALL
AT LUNA PARK. BABE RUTH VISITS i ?
HAL CHASE OUR GREATEST.SODALITY
PARK,SCHEUTZEN PARX,GARDENCITY
WHEELMENJICIFLE CLUBS. PICNICS AT
ALUM RQCK,CONGRESS SPRINGS, SODA
ROCK.THEATERS:LIBERTY, UNIQUE,
LYRICVICTORY,EMPIRE,RINGIINOBROS.SELLS-FLOTO,BARNUMA
BAILEY. MEDICINE SHOWS LIKE FEROONOR KAMAMA.
SARATOGA BLOSSOM FESTIVALS ANDROSE CARNIVALS. A SALUTE TO THE ONLYSURVIVOR-PORTUGUESE FIESTAS/
A N T I M A C A S S A R ; INTERESTING OLDWORD:STILLALIVE.
PIONEER MEN PLASTERED DOWN THEIR HAIR
WITH MACASSAR OIL I MPORTED FROM MACASSAR
L-IN THE CELEBES.IN DESPERATIQN,LADIES MADE
''ANTI-MACASSARS TO PROTECT CHAIRS.STILL
IN USE.NOWT0 COMBAT THATGREASY KID 5TUFF"
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A R T E S I A N : THE VALLEY^ EARLY SETTLERS DEPENDED ON
SHALLOW SURFACE WELLS,SPRINGS ANDCREEKS
FOR WATER SUPPLY. BUT IN 1854 ON 5TUTREET,
TTHE MERRIT BROTHERS TRIED FOR A LOWER
"STRATUM. AT 50 FEET STRUCK A GU5HER.S0ME
| 6"WELLS SPOUTED 16 FEET. MOST FAMOUS
j f f WELL IN HlSTORYrGA-DABNEY'S OH SAN FERNANDO ST. FLOODED THE TOWN. CITY
COUNCIL 1MP0SED%0 A DAY FINE FOR EVERY
DAY IT RAN. HAD NO EFFECT ON WELL;0R.DABNEY.
OTHER WELLS GRADUALLY DECREASED ITS FLOW.
MORE AND MORE WELLS AND THE ARTESIAN PERIOD ENDS.
A Z U L E : SPRINGS AND
MOUNTAIN SECTION NEAR SARATOGA; MT.EDEN DISTRICT. AZULE MEANS
BLUE" COULD HAVE BEEN NAMED
FOR BLUE WATERS OF SPRINGS OR
HEAVY GROWTH OF WILD LILAC OR
CEANOTHUS IN THAT LOCALITY.
TIME IN SAN JOSE/THE NEW STATE CAPITOL. SOME OF HER
GUESTS WERE FREMONT, PICO,SUNOL,REEDS AND MURPHYS.
B E L J J A R R Y 5 E E - O N E OF EARLY SAN JOSE'S BEST KNOWN.
WAS SHERIFF IN 1849 AND WHITE WAS,ALCALDE .
E?U™»WilTE GOT THE GOLD FEVER AND LEFT FOR THE
MINES, TELLING BEET0 DO AS HE PLEASED WITH PRIS0NERS,S0ME MURDERERS. HARRY TURNED THEM
LOOSE TAKING THE GANG TO THE MINES TO WORK FOR HIM. ALL WENTWELLFOR 3 MONTHS.THEN HARRY SCENTED REBELLION. HE SUPPED BACK TO SANJOSEWITH AFORTUNE. THE INDIANS WORKED JUST ONE DAY AFTERWARD,GOT DRUNK,FOUGHT AND CONVENIENTLY AND PRACTICALLY,EXTERMINATEDTHEMSELVES.
TEN iNDi
.w~-
BACON: FRANK BACONJHE ACT0R.RECE1VED MUCH OF HIS EARLY EXPERIENCE LOCALLY BEFORE HI5 GREAT SUCCESS IN
iTTHE TITLE ROLE OF LIGHTNIN'WHICH |pANTHREE YEARS ON BROADWAY. HE
l^ENOOYED A VACATION ORCHARD HOME
NEAR MOUNTAIN V IEW.
B A L D W I N : IN 1892 REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES S.BALDWIN
PURCHASED 137 ACRES BETWEEN CUPERTINO ANDMONTA VLSTA.
BESIDES RESIDENCE, GUEST HOUSE AND STONE WINERY.HE BUILT
LE PETITTRIANON.THIS WAS A REPLICA OF A MINIATURE VERSA
ILLES PALACE Louis xvi PRESENTEDTO MARIE ANTOINETTE.
HE CALLED HIS PLACE BEAULIEU CGOODEARTH)AND HAD ONE
OF THE FIRST SWIMMING POOLS, POLO FIELDS AND A FRENCH
AUTOMOBILE, IMPORTING A FRENCH CHAUFFEUR TO RUN IT,
WHICH ITDID.-OCCASIONALLY. NOW.THIS ESTATE IS SITE FOR
NEW DE ANZA COLLEGE WITH POSSIBLE TRIANON PRESERVATION.
B A S C Q M I DR.AND MRS.BASCOM OWNED 135 ACRES ON
^WEST SIDE OF THE PRESENT AVENUE
wNEAl SANTACURA AND BUILT H0MEtNI85H. £RAMM BASCOM'CONDUCED A HIGH CLASS BOARDING HOUSE IN 1849,THE YEAR THAT
STATE LEGISLATURE MET FOR THE FIRST
B E R N A L : JoAQUlNrtoNAUlELD AGRANT OF 9,G47 ACRES 8 MILES SOUTH OF SAN JOSE AS A REWARD FROM THE
kmG OF SPAIN FOR INVESTIGATING CAUFORNIA'S MINERALWEALTH
IN I795.HE WASTHETYPICALDON.LARGEHACIENDA.SWIMMING POOL ANTEDATING BALDWIN'S BYACEHTURY. ARENA FDR'BULL
ANDGRIZZLY'YIGHTS. LIVEDTOAGE 97,HISWIFE (II0 AND
LEFT SEVENTY-EIGHT CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN.
B E R R Y E . S S A : NAMED FOR THE EARLIEST SETTLER IN
THIS DISTRICT EAST OF SANJOSE.NICOLASANTONIOBERRYESSA
MEMBER OF THE QEANZA 1769 EXPEDITION.
gfi>R DECADES THIS THEN REMOTE SPOT WAS JARKED ONLY BY STORE.CHUROi.POSTOFFICE
BLACKSMITH AND VAST,QUIET ACRES.
B R E T H A R T E : MADESEVERALTRIPSTOSANJOSE WHILE EDITOR OF OVERLAND MONTHLY AND
^LECTUREDHERE.DESCRIBED BY SAWYER:
'SMALLjDAPPER LEGANTLYCLOTHE BLACK ^USTACHlOSjBURNSlDES, POCK-MARKED?
B U N T L I N E : NEDBUNTLINE(CQL.E.UUDSON)WASTHE
ORIGINATOR OF THE DIME N0VEL.DLSCOV-
ERED WM.CODY (BUFFALO BILL)AND WITH
HIS PEN ALONE,MADE THIS LITTLE KNOWN
\ HUNTERFORTHEARMYTHEMOSTFAMOUS
MAN IN AMERICA. BUNTUNE WAS A
REFORMED DRUNKARD.GAVE PROHIBITION LECTURES IN SJ. 1858.
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C_ALABAZAS: MEANS GOURDS,PUMPKlN OR SQUASH.COULD " HAVE BEEN SO NAMEDBECAUSETHE.NDIANS
t f j t t M ^ S S S CAMPED ALONG THIS LITTLEWESTSIDECREEK RAISED THESE VEGETABLES.G0URD5USED FOR DRINKING VESSELS. PlONEERS REMEMBER
ENCAMPMENTS OF NATIVES ON STEVENSCREEKROADCRAFT RANCH WHO WERE CLEARING BRUSH FOR SETTLERS AND SOLD THEM PUMPKINS.
LALAVERAS:MEANS*SKULLS*PROBABLYSDNAMED BY ^ f f i ^ ^ ^ ^ - E A R L Y SPANIARDS BECAUSE OF LARGE
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Q U A N T M E S OF HUMAN BONES AHD SKULLS
FOUND INTH1S NORTHEASTERN AREA.POSSIBLY A BATTLE GROUND.
C A L I F O R N I A : NO ONE KNOWS EXACT ORIGIN. FLRST SHOWN
ON SPANISH MAP,ISG2. SENATORPHELAN'S SARATOGA ESTATE
IS NAMED MONTALVO WHICH MIGHT HOLD A CLUE. IN THE EARLY
SIXTEENTH CENTURY, A MONTALVO WROTE A ROMANCE CALLED
LAS SERGAS DE ESPLANDIAN DEALING WITH A FANTASTIC LAND
C A T A L A : FRANCISCAN PRIEST OF SANTA CLARA MISSION
1794. A MOST DEVOUT ASCETIC CONSIDERED BY HIS CONGREGATION TO BE SAINTLY. IN 1795 WITH 200 INDIAN NEOPHYTES (CONVERTS) HE LAYED OUT AND PLANTEDTHE ALMOST IMPASSABLE ALAMEDA TO 3 ROWS OF WILLOWS, JOINING PUEBLOS
OFSANTA CLARA AND SAN JOSE'.MADE BAREFOOT MISSIONARY
TRIPS TO ALL PARTS OFVALLEY. No PICTURES OF HIM EXIST.
C H I N E S E ; SAN JOSE ONCE HAD THE SECONDLARGEST
CHINATOWN IN THE UNITED STATES
I NUMBERING OVER 4000THEY FLOCKED
"TO S.EANDTHIS AREAAFTERTHE GOLD
RUSH AND COLONIZED FOR PROTECTION
AGAINST PERSECUTION BY MEXICANS
AND AMERICANS. WE HAD FOUR OF
,HINATOWNS BUT THE LARGEST AND LAST WAS IN THE
AREA OF SEVENTH ANDTAYLOR. ALL ARE GONE AND THIS
IS NOW AN INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT. FOR FIFTY YEARS
OF AMAZONS, GOLD AND SILVER PLUS A QUEEN NAMED CALAFIA. ONE COULD STEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD, A LITTLE CHINA WITH
WRITING SAIDTOHAVE INSPIRED CORTEZ WEST COAST EXPEDITION. HATCHETMEN*SLAVEGIRLS,OPIUMDENSANDLOTTERYPARLORS.TONGS
ONTHE OTHER HAND "CAUDAFORNAX(L) MEANS HOTFURNACE. WERE FORMED, EITHER FOR PROTECTION FROM CRIMINALS OR
FROM TO GREEK,-KALAPHORNEIA=NEW COUNTRY. FROM THE FOR HIGHBINDER TRIBUTE LIKE EASTERN GANGSTERSJNISW
SPANISH'COLOFONIA^ RES-N" AND CALIFORNIA INDIANS USED THE HIPSINGTONG WAS FORMED WITHRIVAL.THEHOPSINGTONG.
"KALI FORNO* MEANING^MOUNTAINS OR HILLS" SPRQULENSABE? ASLATE AS 1923 A GUN BATTLE WAS FOUGHT ONTHE ONE MAIN
SUCH
C A M P B E L L : WILLIAM CAMPBELL,VETERAN OF WAR OF
I8I2JRAVELLED PART WAY WEST WITH
DONNERPARTY IN,84&. HADASAWMILL
ABOVE SARATOGA. HLSSON,BENJAMLN FOR
WHOM CITY IS NAMED, SUBDIVIDED IN
1885. EACH DEED" CONTAINED PROVISO THAT SHOULD LIQUOR EVER
BE SOLD ON THE PREMISES THE LAND WOULD BE FORFEIT. IN
1903 PRES.THEODORE ROOSEVELT PLANTEOTHEMUCH DISPUTED
REDWOOD TREE,ATTHIS WRITING,STRUGGUNG FOR SURVIVAL.
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C ^ R R E T A : MOST PRIMITIVE OF VEHICLES, PAINFULLY
KA^SIMPLE AND SIMPLY PA1NFULF0R RIDERS.
-THE TWO WHEELS WERE SECTIONS OF A
ijj^^^ZXim^ "L0GJA^LE ATTACHED WITH WOOD PEGS KEPT WHEELS FROM FALLING OFF. ANOTHER POLE ATTACHED
TD AXLE BECAME THE TONGUE. UPON THIS WAS BUILT EITHER
A PLAIN OR ELABORATE WICK.ERWORK FRAME TIED WITH STRIPS
OF HIDE. PULLED BY SLOW OXEN PRODDED WITH A SHARPSTICK
SQUEAKS COULD BE HEARD FORAMILESENORITAS SCREAMED
FOR LITTLE INDIAN BOY TO DOSE THE AXLES WITH TALLOW.
*VJ % TRMBLftTiot* = SCAT?
STREET. GRADUALLY THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE YOUNGSTERS
AND LAWS AGAINST GAMBLING LED TO CHINATOWN'S DOWNFALL,
ALLTHAT REMAINED WAS THE BRICK HEADQUARTERS OF THE
HOPSINGTONGS ANDWHERETHEY WORSHIPPED THEIR60DS,
THEOLD Joss HOUSE.THESE WERE(UNFORTUNATELY)DISMAHTLED
l N T 9 4 9 . - a = ^ = r ^ * BURIAL SOCIETIES INSURED RETURN
OFASHESTO HOMELAND. DECEASED,DELINQUENTVHTH DUES?,
WERE PARADED IN STYLE TO OAK HLLLS CHINESE CEMETERY
HEADED BY WILL LAKE'S MUNICIPALBAND. PAID PROFESSIONAL
MOURNERS WEPT AHD WAILED. THEN SACRIFICES OH BRICK
I ALTAR,ROAST DUCK OR PORK,CL0SELY OBSERVED BY >Y^\
HUNGRY HOBOESPEVEN SMALL BOYS MIGHT
(SKIPIT) WE HIRED CO0UEST0 PICKOUR PRUNES.
OUR GANG WAS CAMPED NEXT TO A CHICKEN HOUSE
SUBJECT TO NIGHTLY RAIDS BYASKUHK.ONE NIGHT 5 _WE WERE AWAKENED BY THE EXPLOSIONS OF
FIRECRACKERS. DAD STUCK'
HIS HEADTHR0U6HTHE SCREEN"
AND RECEIVED THIS ORIENTAL
EXPLANATION^) SOLLY MR, LAMBO,
JUSS FLWaACKAS, LITTY BLACK PUSSY CATrT0rjSTINK7'
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C O F ^ E ^ L l | B : A CO-OPERATIVE,NON-PROFIT PROJECT <% tf-£~f>**. CONDUaED BY EARLY SANJOSEANS ON
SOUTHSECONDSTREEEAMOSTPOPULAR
EATING AND MEETING PLACE FOR
. COUNTRY FOLKS ON THEIR INFREQUENT
TOWN TRIPS. THE 5&IO CENTPRICES
^ O F COFFEE,PIE,BAKED BEANS.ETC,
INDICATED A GREASY SPOON*
!> TYPE OF RESTAURANT. IT WAS
NOT. NICE PEOPLE ATETHERE
'INCLUDINGTHE WRITER. READ
ING AND RECREATION ROOMS FOR
MEN AND WOMEN. AS ASMALLBOY, WRITER WAS FASCI
NATED BY A GROUP OF VERYOLD CHARACTERS FOREVER PLAY
ING CHECKERS.THEY WERE SO SLOW BETWEEN MOVES,ANY
ONE OF THEM COULD HAVEPASSED AWAY AND RIGOR MORTIS
SET IN WITHOUT ATTRACTING PUBUC NOTICE.
CONGRESS S P R I N G S : OR PACIFIC CONGRESS
^ S P R I N G S / N A M E D FOR
-EASTERN COUNTERPART
INSARATOGA,N.Y.ONE ^ MILE ABOVESARATOGA.
DI5COVLS186TB7IIERD CALDWELL. ELEGANT RESORT HOTEL
BUILT ON 720 ACRES.MLNERALSPRLNG WATER SUPPLLEDTO ALL WESTERN CITIES. PENINSULAR.R.EXTENDED LINE IN 1925 AND THIS BECAME EVEN MORE A POPULAR VALLEY PICNIC GROUNDS.
DIFFICULT HOW TO PICTURE OR EVEN LOCATE.
Q P Q 1 $ E Q J 1 Q : ^ SMALL,FORGOTTEN LAKE NEAR THE
' PRATT-LOW WATERTOWER,S0UTHERNS.C.
[CITY LIMITS.0RI61NALLYJHIS LONG GONE
LAKE WAS FED BY BROOKS FROM THE
STOCKTON AVENUEANDTHE ALAMEDA SECTIONS. ACANALDUG
FROM IT,IRRIGATED THE MISSION'S GARDENS AHD ORCHARD
IN THE I770'S. LATER BECAME A RECREATION PARK.0NE OF THE
TWO REDWOODS AT ENTRANCE ON THE ALAMEDA CAN STILLBE SEEN.
C O O P E R : A.D.M.COOPER WAS ONE OFTHE OLDVALLEYS MOST POPULAR ARTISTS. HE SPECIALIZED IN ALLEGORICAL SUBJECTS AND UNLIKE MAJORITY
OF TODAY'S PAINTERS, FEARLESSLY PORTRAYED
I THE HUMAN FIGURE,USUALLY SHOWN LIFE SIZE.
WITH HIS SCENES SET IN MILD CLIMATES.HIS FEMALE FIGURES
REQUIRED LITTLE DRAPERY. HLS ADMIRERS WERE LEGION.
HlSENORMOUSWORKSOFARTCANSTILLBEVIEWED IN SEVERAL PUBUC PLACES. OTHER ARTISTS OF GREAT TALENT
AND POPULARITY WERE CHARLESHARMON,ANDREWP.HILL(
PAINTING EARLY PIONEER SCENES AND VALLEYLS BEAUTY,
C O R Y : DR.BENJAMIN CORY WAS THE VALLEY'S FIR5TH0RSE \NDBUGGYnDOCTOR,ARRlVlNG 1NI8H7 AND HIS
"SERVICES WERE AVAILABLE FOR 47 YEARS. POPUIAR, KINDHEARTED AND GENEROUS TO A FAULT WITH HIS
BILL COLLECTIONS. ONLY ONCE DltiTHE GOOD DOCTOR GENTLY REMONSTRATE WITH A PATIENT WHO NOT ONLYREFUSED PAYMENT BUT CONSIDERED HIMSELF INSULTED] HE CHALLENGED DR.CORYTOADUEL.'THEDOGTOR ACCEPTED ANDWHEN GIVEN CHOICE OF WEAPONS.PROMPTLY SAID*SH0TGUNSATIOPAGES? NoDUEL. BlLLPAlD.
C O Y O T E : IZMILES SOUTH OF S.J. FROM THE MEXICAN-JiAZTECWORD "COYOTL!' PERTAINING TO THE
^WESTERN WOLF. THE ARROYO DE COYOTE WAS NAMED BY 1776 EXPEDITION OFDEANZA.
C U P E R T I N 0:(SEE PICTURE ON BLACKSMITH PAGE) HERE WAS THE WRITER'S BOYHOOD TERRITORY. THIS WEST
SECTION WAS NAMED CUPERTINO FOR AN ITALIAN SAINT
JOSEPH OFCOPERTINO BY PADRE FONT OFTHEDEANZA
EXPEDITION. THESE EXPLORERS MADE CAMP NEAR THE
PRESENT BLACKBERRY FARM (MONTA VISTA). THIS WAS MARCH
1776. THEY CALLED THE STREAM ARROYO DE SAN JOSE
CUPERTINO. THISLATER WAS CALLED STEVENS CREEK.
(SEE*STEVENS CREEK)* A POST OFFICE WAS ESTABLISHED IN
1882 ON MCCLELLAN ROAD CALLED CUPERTINO, CHANGED TO WEST SIDE IN I895AND BACK TO CUPERTINO IN 1900
AT INTERSECTION LOCATION ON HIGHWAY9. OF COURSE ELISHA
STEVENS (ACTUALLY*STEPHENS")WAS ONE OF THE FIRST
PIONEERS ARRIVING 1NEARLY'50'SAND SETTLING NEAR BLACKBERRY FARM. PETER BALL SETTLED ON 350 ACRESri8So
ANDW.L.BLABON IN I860 PAID ABOUT^JO AN ACRE FOR 350 A.
GNHWY9. OTHER EARLY CUPERTINO PIONEERS,SUTHERLAND
GRIMES, MONTGOMERY, DOYLE,SELINGER,V.ILLIAMS,REGNART.
AN INTERESTING SETTLEMENT SIDELIGHT,- ABOUT 1880 AN UNUSUAL GROUP ARRIVED TO POPULATE THIS SECTION. THEY WERE ALL RETIRED SEA CAPTAINS WITH FAMILIES. EACH BOUGHT ABOUT 50 ACRES, ALLBUILTGOOD((APEC0D)HOMES,
ALL PLANTED VINEYARDS, ALL PROSPEREDJAS WOOD, CROSSLEY
BLAKE^OSS.DUNBAR.PORTE^MERITHEW.HARR.MANJGIBSQN.
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D A V I LA: AGUSTl'N DAVILA.ARTIST, DECORATED THE 5TH. SANTACLARAMISSION CHURCH WITH MURALS
AIDED BY INDIAN NEOPHYTES. PlGMENTS,INCLUDING jALMADEN CINNABAR VERMILION, WERE MIXED WITH
MAGUEY, OR CACTUS JUICE AND PAINTED ONADZED SLABS OF REDW00D,I825. RETAINED INTACTAS LATE AS I860 BUT I9Z6 FIRE ENTIRELY DESTROYED. DAVILA'S NAME BRIEFLY SHOWN
IN MISSION RECORDS. BACKGROUND A MYSTERY. IT IS KNOWN
IN 1845 HE WAS GRANTEE OF 3 LEAGUES IN SANTABARBARA COUNTY OF 13,332 ACRES (WORTH A FEW CENTS AN ACRETHEN)
D A W S O N L D R J A M E S M. DAWSON IN ISTI NOTICED THE
EVER INCREASING ACREAGE AND HEAVY s^R0PS OF PERISHABLE FRUITINTHE ^ VALLEY.MUCH0F1TG0INGT0 WASTE.
v ^ IN THE BACK YARD OF HIS HOME M " ONTHE AUMEDA.OVER A COOK
ING STOVE IN A 12X16 SHED, JjE SUCCESSFULLY PRESERVED THE
^ T I F R U I T IN TIN CONTAINERSTHEFIRST
SEASONS PACK^SO CASES.THUS STARTED AN INDUSTRY THAT WOULD ESTABLISH THE SANTA CLARAVALLEYASTHE FRUIT CANNING CENTER OF THE WORLD.
*~**<$ii.<'-MQe<W -
E B E R H A R D TANNING C0,THE OLDEST INDUSTRIAL PLANT IN THE VALLEY. LOCATED ON ELCAMINOREAL ACROSS FROM SANTACURAMlSSlON. NEW ENGINEERING AND LIBRARY NOW OCCUPY EXACT OLD SITE.REMNANTS DEMOLISHED TEN YEARS AGO. UNOFFICIAL INFORMATION PLACES ITS
EXISTENCE EARLY AS 1847, BELONGING TO A DONRAMON. THE EBERHARDS ACQUIRED IN 1861 AND FOR 85 YEARS
WAS WORLD FAMOUS AS PRODUCERS OF HIGHEST QUALITY
LEATHERS,SPECIALLY FOR SADDLES. MOST FAMOUS WAS THE %,000 PRODUCTION FOR J.C.MlLLERJHE WlLD WEST SHOW PRODUCER. THE ANNUAL INCOME WAS A MILLION DOLLARS AND 29,000 HIDES, 3000 CALF SKINS AHD 10,000 SHEEPSKINS WERE PROCESSED YEARLY. ADVENT OF AUTO, DECLINE OFTHE
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HORSE AND STOCK INDUSTRY PLUS A DISASTROUS FIRE SET BY A REVENGEFUL BAND OF GYPSIES SPELLED DOOM FOR THIS PIONEER FACTORY. IMMIGRANT GERMANS WERE MAINLY EMPLOYED. 1 REMEMBER THEIR BEER BREAK AND THAT STEADY PROCESSION ACROSS THE ALAMEDATOACAFE, NO/1 MEAN A SALOON.' LOWER RIGHT, SITE OF OUR FOOTBALL FIELD COVERED WITH ATURFV SHAVINGS FROM GROUND UP BARK OF OAK AND LAUREL USED IN TANNING.
E D E N V A L E : s i x MILES SOUTH OF SAN JOSE MARKED
BYTHE PALATIAL GROUNDS OF E.A.ANDJ.O.HAYES, EARLY
ISAN JOSE MERCURY PUBLISHERS
WD PROMINENTVALLEY
POLITICIANS. MADE THEIR FORTUNES IN MICHIGAN
IRON MINES. BUILT FAMOUS MANSION, PLANTING PARK
IN 1887. MANSION NOW IN REAR NOT THE ORIGINAL WHICH
BURNED. GROUNDS WERE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, ALLTHIS
40 ACRES OF PARKNOWTHE FRONTIER VILLAGER VERY
HIGH CLASS OLD WEST PLAYGROUND. HAYES' ORIGINAL PLANTING CLEVERLY SPARED AND PRESERVED.
*
E L Q U I T O : SPANISH FOR QUITS? NEVER MIND,-
TO CHEER PRESENT SQUATTERS,IN EARLY DAYS,VALLEY
INDIANS CALLED ITTITO" RANCHO QUITO WAS GRANTED BY
GOV.ALVARADOTO JOSE MORIEGA AND FERNANDEZ IN
i 8 4 i . DON JOSE ARGUELLO PLANTED AN OLIVE GROVE IN THIS
SECTION ABOUT I860. SOMEOFTHE TREES WERE MOVED
TO WORLDS FAIR GROUNDS IN 1939. THIS 81 ACRES OF
OLIVES LATER OWNED-BYGOODRICH.PRODUCEDAGRADEOFOIL
FAR SUPERIOR TO THE 1TALIAN,W1NNING WORLD PRIZESJHE
PUBLIC DEMAND NEVER COULD BE SUPPLIED. ALAS, MANS
LONGEST LIVE^PRODUCTIVETREES^FINALLY SUCCUMBED
TO PROGRESS, A LA'BELLE ACRES' OR'BEDSIDE MANOR" ETC....
E L C A M 1 N O R EALPREFERABLYTHE'ROYALROAD,
AND /WrTHE*KlNGS HIGHWAY." ROUTE ALONG COAST (lOl) LITTLE CHANGED SINCE FIRST VATHFOUND BYTHE PADRES.
E S C H S C H O L T Z I A CAUFORNICA, A HEFTY NAME .FOR OUR VALLEY POPPY/ THE EARLY SPANIARDS
LHADMUCH NICER NAMES,-AMAPOLAU A N D
'C0PADE0RA(CUP0FG0LD), BUT THEIR MOST
CHARMING WAS*DORMIDERAJ-(THE SLEEPY ONE)
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F I S H E R : IN 1820 A NEW ENGLAND LAD BOARDEDA
^L^Cl lPPER SHIPBOUNDFORCALIF-
*•'•* ORNIA AND CARGO OF HIDES AND TALLOW. ANCHORED IN MONTEREY
SAY THIS YOUNG CABM BOY SAW AND ADMIREDANEW LAND,
IN 1845 HE RETURNED AND FELL IN LOVE WITH SANTA CLARA
VALLEY. AN AUCTION WAS IN PROGRESS THE VASTRANCHO
LAGUNASECA,4 SQUARE LEAGUES OR 23,040ACRES.FLSHER
BID^IOOO,THEN ^2000 . FINALLY AFTER BIDS OF 3 AND4 HE
REACHED *%000. HLS COMPETITOR AMERICANS AND MEXICANS
TURNED AWAY IN UTTER DISGUST AT SUCH "INSANITY* THE
REST IS HISTORICAL SUCCESS. NOW SUBDIVIDED.WILLIAM FISCHERS
DESCENDENTS LONG ENJOYED THIS MAI S COURAGE AND FORE
SIGHT IN ACQUIRING SUCH AN EARLY VALLEY EMPIRE, LOCATED
.12 MILES SOUTH OF SAN JOSE. GlVE A PAUSE. HOWMANY ACRES TODAY FOR %000? RlGHT/ MAYBE ONE.
F L I C K I N G E R : F E W WILL REMEMBERTH1STRADEMARK, jWORLD FAMOUS FOR QUALITYCANNEDFRUIT. THEJ.H.FLICKINGER FAMILY OWNED 500
•ACRES DF ORCHARD NEAR BERRYESSA AND
PIONEERED THIS EARLY CANNERY AROUND
1900. RESIN WAS USED-IN CAN SEALING, FOLLOWED LATER BY
HAND SOLDERING EACH CAN. OTHER TURN OF THE CENTURY
CANNERSJ-THE WOOL FAMILY, J.EPYLE AND SOROSIS FRUIT.
E Q L R B E J ) MILL: JAMES FORBES IN 1854 BUILT A STONE
I FLOUR MILLPOWERED BYLOS GATOS
[CREEK TO SERVE THETHEN GREAT
> ACREAGE OF VALLEY WHEAT. LATER
: BECAME A POWER HOUSE, ICE PUNT, [STOREHOUSE.LOWER STORY STILL
VISIBLE DIRECTLY NEXT SANTACRUZ FREEWAY IN L.G.
ORIGINAL BEFORE qUAKE
F R E D R L r \ D D u m j D r c c w i i r u s i N C E i s ^ . FALSTAFF NOW OCCUPIES SITEANDORIGINALBRICKFRAME STILL INTACT EXCEPT FOR GERMAN STYLE CASTLE TOWERS AND TURRETS THATFELLIN 1906 QUAKE. ONCETWO ARP ESIAHWELLS ON PROPERTY. ORIGINAL CAPACITY 10,200 BARRELS YEARLY. PRESENT OUTPUT, 2000 BARRELS DAILY/
F R E M O N T HISTORIES THOROUGHLY COVER THIS
"PATHFINDER OF THE WEST! HE CROSSED AND RECROSSED
THIS VALLEY MANY TIMES AS EVIDENCED BY PERPETUATION
OF HIS NAME ON STREETS,CLTIES,SCHOOLS,MOUNTAINPEAKS,
AND BRAND NAMES. MOST INTERESTING,THE BITTERDISPUTE
AM0N6ST HISTORIANS REGARDING FREMONT'S REAL FAME.
ONLY STUDY CAN FORM ONE'S OPINION; GREAT OR NEAR GREAT?
G I U R O X J O H N GLLROY/KURVYRIDDEN*SOME CLAIM,
JUMPED SHIP AT MONTEREY IN 1814 AND
BECAME THE VALLEY^ FIRST WHITE SETTLER
ALTHOUGH LATER BECAME A NATURALIZED MEXICAN CITIZEN.
MARRIED AN ORTEGA SENORITA WHOSE FAMILY OWNED
THE HUGE SANYSIDRO (EE-SEE-DRO) GRANT COVERING THE
SOUTHERN END OF VALLEY. CITY OF GILROY NAMED FOR
THIS SCOT WHO,DESPITE HIS NATIVE REPUTATION, LIVED
IN IDLE CONTENTMENT,SQUANDERED HIS WEALTH AND DIED
D E S T I T U T E , ^ * 1 ,
G I L R O Y H O T S P R I N G S DISCOVERED IN ms BY A MEXICAN SHEEP HERDER
NAMED FRANCISCO CANTAU,BUT
(SOME HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS
CLAIM THAT DEANZA CAMPED
IERE AND MENTIONS IN HIS
~ ^ ^ ? ^ M ^ 1776 TR1P DIARY. AT ONETIME
A HIGHLY DEVELOPED HEALTH RESORT AND HOTEL AREA.
\Q7S G O A T : CP.BA1LEY RAISED ANGORA GOATS FOR OVER
30 YEARS FOR MOHAIR, FLEECE, GL0VES,ETC.
TOOK ALL WORLDS' FAIR PRIZES.KEPTAHERD OF
J | P | | G ^ 10,000 AND RAISED MORE MOHAIR THAN ALL
OTHER" GOAT RAISERS IN U.S. ( I AGREE/ SO WHAT?)
(SQQDfjllQbLsTONE QUARRY. ONLY HILLSIDE SCARS 'OFF THE ALMADEN ROAD MARK SPOTS
D B E r a i ^WHERE THE LIGHT BROWN STONE WAS QUARSDFORSTMARYSCHURCH,HALLOFJUSTICE,LLBRARY
(ONCE POST OFFICE) AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
G U B S E R V I L L B A FORGOTTEN 1880 STAGE STOP*
RG,SARATOGA-S.CROAD.LOST BENEATH ASHOPPING CENTER.
G U A D A L U P E CREEK, MINES. NAMED BY
DE A N Z A , I 7 7 6 . ( M E A N S "WOLFRIVER. G U A D A ,
RIVER", LUPUS, WOLF? WHY WOLF*? 1 DUNNO.
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H E C K E R P A S S : HIGHWAY CONNECTING GILROYAND
WATSONVILLE. ONCE CALLEDTHELAST LINKOFVOSEMITE
TOTHESEAHIGHWAY. NAMED FOR HENRY HEGKER,SUPER-
VLSOR,UPON COMPLETION IN 1926.
L A W R E N C E : ROAD AND STATION. FOR 50 YEARS 'FAR
OUT IN THE STICKS',' A FUG-STOP ON
THE SP. WITH ONLY A TINY DEPOT AND
AREHOUSE.^SEE PHOTO SKETCH.
L I C K : GAVE $100,000 ENDOWMENTFORLICK'SOBSERV
ATORY. To THE VALLEY HE WAS A GENEROUS
PHILANTHROPIST AND BENEFACTOR.LWHIS FEW
ACQUAINTANCES HE WAS CONSIDERED,CRABBED,COLD,
^ SOLITARY ECCENTRIC. LLCKMADE HIS MILLIONS
ABOUFIB47,BUYINGSANFRANCISCO SANDH1LLS,SELL1NG AT
FABULOUS PROFITSJO HIS CREDIT, HE STARTED GIVING IT AWAY
IN 1873. FAILURE OF A MAGNIFICENT,ORNATELY FURNISHED FLOUR
MILL HE BUILT NEAR ALVISO MADE LITTLE DENT 1NHIS FORTUNE,
IN FACT SERVED A CERTAIN PURPOSE, SATISFYING A SLUMBERING
SPITE; ATLEAST HE SENT A PICTURE 0FTHEM1LL EAST TO A
YOUNG LADY (AND HER FATHER) WHO ONCE CONSIDERED LLCK
APOOR BOYWITH NO FUTUREAND SPURNED HIS PROPOSALS.
HE WAS A PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN (179^1876), JAMES LICKS
TOMB ISBELOWTHE OBSERVATORY DOME.
L I N C O L N TO ABRAHAMLINCOLN,SANTACLARAVALLEY
MUSTHAVE BEEN A REMOTE CORNER WITHOUR
FEW PROBLEMS INSIGNIFICANT COMPARED TO A
RAGING CIVIL W A R . (SEE ALMADEN FULLPAGE
FOR ONL:fJF'HIS ACTS.) IN I8G5, JUSTA MONTH BEFORE HIS
ASSASSINATION, HE SIGNED A DEED RETURNING 20ACRES OF
SANTA CLARA MISSION CHURCH LAND, LOST IN SECULARIZATION.
L L A G A S (PRONOUNCED YAH-6US),CREEK&SOUTHERN
VALLEY DISTRICT. MEANS WOUNDS'.' SPANISH NAMED FOR
WOUNDS IN HANDS AND FEET OFST.FRANCIS SIMILAR TO
THOSE OF JESUS. REASON FOR NAMING UNKNOWN(TO ME)
L O M A P R I E T A (MTN.) FAMILIAR,PROMINENTPEAK
IN SOUTHERN RANGE. ORIGINAL NAME MT.BACHE.
MEANS 'SLACXHILL ' . ALTITUDE 3,790FEET. A MORE
EXTENSIVE VIEW FROMTHISHEIGHTTHANFROMMIHAMILTON.
IN VIEW,-SALINAS AND SANTA C U R A VALLEYS, SANTA
CRUZ, SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY COAST LINE.
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; J A C K LONDON WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH
THIS VALLEY. HE ENJOYED FREQUENT
VISITS WITH LITERARY FRIENDS,ALSO
BICYCLING DOWN FROM OAKLAND ON
WEEK ENDS TO MEET A CERTAIN
YOUNG LADY. LONDON'S SUCCESS
CAUGHTONFIREWITHHIS CALL
OFTHEWILD. IT SOLDA MILLION AND A HALF COPIES AND
FROM A STRUGGLING EXISTENCE,DEMAND FOR MORE OFTHE
SAME,GAVE HIM A.%,000 A YEAR INCOME. REMEMBER BUCK,
HERO DOG OF CALL OFTHEWLLD,HALF SHEPHERD, HALF ST.
BERNARD? BUCK WAS BORN ON JUDGE BOND'S ESTATEJHEN
ON PRESENT SITE OFCARMELITE MONASTERYINSANTACLARA.
IT IS ALLEGED LONDON AND/OR ACCOMPLICE^PIRITED BUCK
AWAY ONE MOONLIT NIGHT, PUTTING HIM ABOARD ATRAIN ATTHE
LITTLE OLD COLLEGE PARK DEPOT ON STOCKTON AVENUE. AS A
MATTER OF FACT LONDON PRACTICALLY ADMITS IT.
L O S A L T O S MEANS THE HEIGHTS! COMPARATIVELY A
NEW SETTLEMENT.' POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED 1908.
L O S G A T O S : A MEXICAN GRANT NAMED
RLNCONADO DE LOS GATOS, 1840. MEANS
THE ENCLOSED ANGLE (OR CORNER) OF
THECATS.U FIRST, FORBES MILL,I680'S
THEN FORBESTOWN, FINALLY Los GATOS
AND FULL LIFE WITH COMING OF THE
RAILROAD IN 1877. SCREAMS OF MOUNTAlNliONS
INFESTING THE H!LLS,PROMPTEDSPANISH WORD
GATOS OR "CATS'! HOWEVER,LEO AND LEONAJHE TWO
DIGNIFIED AND MAJESTIC SCULPTURED WORKS OF ROBERT
PAINE ARE NOT MOUNTAIN LIONS.THEY ARE CALIFORNIA
WILD CATS, BOBCATS OR LYNX(SHORTTAILED)THEIR KIND
STILLINHABITTHELOS GATOS MOUNTAINS. "REASONABLE
FACSIMILES'ABOVE EXCEPT FOR EXPRESSIONS.
L Y N D O N HOTEL, GONE BUT STILL FRESH INMOST
MEMORIES. JOHN W.LYNDON ARRIVEDIN 1859. A BANKER
STOREKEEPER,LUMBERMAN.SUBDIVIDED LOSGATOS AND
BUILT MANYMAIN(OLD)BULLDINGS,MCLUDLNG HIS HOTEL.
M A D R O N E TOWN 8 MILES S.OFS.J. THE TREE HAS RED
BARK,REDSEED;0NEOFOURBEAUTIFUL
Y MOUNTAIN NATIVES, 20TO 100 FEET HEIGHT-
SPANISH NAMED IT MADRO^O/STRAWBERRY'TREE.
3 % tie %ewte . . . ?
**s.. M A N L Y MAN OF TWO VALLEYS,DEATH AND SANTA CLARA.
.HIS LIFE WOULD FILL AN EXCITING BOOK.
FORTUNATELY ONE EX1STS,QUITEARARITY
J I L C ^ B U T AVAIUBLE INMOST LIBRARIES.INTH1S
"* BOOK'DEATH VALLEY I N JAMESMANLY
_ ^MODESTLY BUT TRUTHFULLY RELATES HIS
HEROIC RESCUE*OF THE BENNETT PARTY IN DEATHVALLEY,
WELCOME MEETING WITH KINDLY SPANISHCALIFORNIANS, HIS
ADVENTURES INTHE GOLD COUNTRY AND OF LOCALINTEREST,HIS
OBSERVANCE OF THIS VALLEY IN ^9. HE PAUSED LONG ENOUGH
TO CLIMB BOTH EASTERN AHD WESTERN HILLS FOR A LONG
LOOKRGRIZZLY BEAR.W1LD CATTLE1N DENSE WILLOW JUNGLES
(OF WILLOW GLEN),WILD MUSTARD HIGH AND STRONG ENOUGH
TO SUPPORT CHATTERING SQUIRRELS? AFTERTHEGOLDRUSH
HE RETURNED TO THIS VALLEY. THOMPSON&WESTS I876ATLAS
CLEARLY SHOWS HIS 250 ACRE FARM (JUST SOUTH OF OAKHlLL
CEMETERY)FOR WHICH HE PA1D#I6 AN ACRE. SlTE OF H1ST0WN
RESIDENCE ON STOCKTON AVENUE IS PRESENTLY DESIGNATED
BY A DILAPIDATED HISTORICAL MARKER.
M A N Z A N I T A : A REDDISH BARK,EVER6REEN SHRUB VERY
COMMON IN OUR LOCAL MOUNTAINS.THE SPANISH
NAME IS DIMINUTIVE OF MANZANAORAPPLE*
BECAUSE ITS TINY SEEDS RESEMBLETHATFRU1T.
M A R C E L L O : THE FAMOUS SANTA CLARAMISSIONINDIAN.
RESEARCH ONLY REVEALS EACH HISTORIANTRY-
INGTOOUTDOTHE OTHER WITH LEGENDARY
STORIES ABOUT THIS CHARACTER,MAJORITY
CLAIM HE LIVED TO 125 BUT S.C.MLSSLQN
'ARCHIVES(BAPTISMALRECORDS)SHOWHEDID
WESSCDFORRRST TNOT REACH 100, HlS ORIGIN WAS RATHER
MYSTERIOUS BECAUSE HE WAS 6 FEET 2 INCHES,WEIGHING 250,
ABOUTDOUBLE SIZE OF AVERAGE VALLEYINDIAN.ON HIS FIRST
MISSION VISIT WITH TWO COMPANIONS,HEMET FR.VIADER,QUITE A
MAN HIMSELF. FOR SOME REASON THEY DECIDEDTO ATTACK THIS
PADRE WHO PROMPTLY THRASHED THETRIO,BUMPEDTHEIRHEADS
TOGETHER AND AS PROMPTLY FORGAVE THEM/ THIS SO SURPRISED
MARCELLOTHAT EVER AFTER HE WAS MISSION'S BEST WORKER,
BUILDING FOREMAN AND SERVED AS AN INDIANALCALDE(JUD6E)
HE MARRIED AT 17 AND AGAIN LEGEND REARS ITS UGLY HEAD.
HE FOLLOWED WITH 5 OR 6 MORE MARRIAGES AND STRANGELY,
ALL WIVES WERE REMARKABLY SHORT LIVED/ WAS MARCELLO'S
STAND AGAINST TRIBAL POLYGAMY AND HINTED USE OF GROUND
GLASS.PUREFICTION? OR AT AGE 90(DID HE REALLY BITE
OFF THE EAR OF INYOGOJRIBALALCALDE WHO HAD STOLEN
ONE OF MARCELLO'S LATEST YOUNG WIVE5? QUIENSABE?
BUT HE WAS FULLOFEARLYVALLEY ANDMISSION HISTORY LORE
PARTICULARLY AS TO DISPUTED FIRST TWO S.C.MLSSION SITES,
AS EVER, M ANY HEARD HIS STORIES BUT FAILEDTO RECORD THEM,
SECULARIZATION GAVE HIM AND HIS TRIBE LARGE GRANTS IN
THE ALVISO DISTRICT. MARCELLO SOLD HIS SHARE FOR^OOO.
UNKNOWINGLY^ LIVED HIS LAST DAYS A PENSIONER.
MARKTWAIN;FRESHFRPMHTS
TRIPTOTHE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.MADE
HIS FIRST TRYOUT LECTURE IN SANJOSE
IN IBfofc. IN THE GOLD COUNTRY TWAIN HAD
MET A CHARACTER NAMED STEWART WHO
HAD A SALOON ON FOUNTAIN ALLEY IN S.J.
STEWART WAS KNOWN AS THE EARTHQUAKE,
MAN'CUIMING HE WAS ARRIABLE FORECASTER.
HE WAS ALSO A LOYAL ADMIRER OF TWAIN AND COLLECTED EVERY.
WORD MARK WROTE. CONSEQUENTLY AND PROUDLY HE WASTWAIN'S
HOST AND HELPED PROMOTE A MOST SUCCESSFUL FINANCIAL
LECTURE HERE. BUT FOR SOMETH0UGHTLESS,0RNERY REASON,
WHEN TWAIN RETURNED EAST, HE WROTE A CRUEL, SARCASTIC
ARTICLE PICKING POOR STEWART AS VICTIM OF HIS RIDICULE/
MONTHS PASSED AND FINALLY STEWART'S EYE FELL ON THIS
ARTICLE/ HE WAS SURPRISED, HURT JHEN FURIOUSLY ANGRY.
HE WROTE A LETTER THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A CLASSIC OF
PURE LITERAL VENOM! IT ACTUALLY PIERCED THETOUGH
HIDE OF MARK TWAIN WHO IMMEDIATELY DISPATCHED A
LONG LETTER OF HUMBLE, ABJECT APOLOGY: EVEN OFFERING TO
PROMOTE A BOOK OF POEMS STEWART HAD COMPOSED'!
ALL WAS FORGIVEN.
M A / F I E L D : NOW SOUTH PALO ALTO ONCE CALLED
THE MAYFIELD FARM OF E.O. CROSBY. POST OFFICE CALLED
MAYFIELD AND TOWN SURVEYED IN 1876.
f f G U F F Y R E A D E R ; THE BEST KNOWN OLD
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOOK. DURING THE
WINTER OF i846,MR&OLIVE MANN ISBELL,
NIECE OF HORACE MANNJHE EDUCATOR,
- OPENED THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE
SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA. IT WAS LOCATED ON THE SANTA
CURA MISSION GROUNDS IN AN ADOBE ONCE A STABLE .
SHE HAD BROUGHT ACROSS THE PUINSJHREE SLATES, SEVEN
I ^ G U F F Y READERS, TWO ATLASES ANDAFEW PENCILS.
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M C K I E R N A N (MOUNTAIN C H A R L E Y W AS NAMED BYTHE ZAYANTE INDIANS OF
THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS. ALSO
KNOWN AS SILVER SKULL CHARLEY OR
HAIR-BRAIN CHARLEY DUE TO THAT
FAMOUS ENCOUNTER WITH A BEAR.
BORN IN IRELAND,I8I2. WORKED WAY
BY SHIP TO SAH FRANCISCO IN 1848. AFTER GOLD MINING,
MADE HIS WAY TO THIS VALLEY. FOUND ALL HOMESTEAD LAND
TAKEN SO SETTLED CLOSE TO SUMMIT OF SAN JOSE-SANTA
CRUZ SUMMIT NEAR CLOUD'S REST. MARTIN SCHULTHEIS
AND MCKIERNAN WERE VERY FIRST SETTLERS IN THESE
MOUNTAINS. RAISED SHEEP BUT RAGUED BY LIONS AND BEAR.
HUNTED DEER FOR THE S.F. MARKET. ON ONE OF THESE HUNTS
IN 1854, A MOTHER BEAR WITH CUB ATTACKED H1M.CRUSH1NG
HISSKULL.TERRIBLY WOUNDED,HIS PARTNERJAYLOR AND
MARTIN SCHULTHEIS RESCUED HIM. DRS.BELL&INGERSOLL,
WITHOUT ANESTHETIC,CLOSED HOLE IN HIS SKULL WITH A
PLATE MADE FROM TWO SILVER MEXICAN HALF DOLLARS A
YEAR LATER, SUFFERING TORTURING HEADACHES, A DR.
SPENCER OPENED OLD WOUND AND REMOVEDAWADOF HAIR/
HENCE ABOVE NICKNAMES. MCKIERNAN LIVED ANOTHER HEARTY
4 8 YEARS.THESE MOUNTAINS WERE THEN HAUNTS AND HIDE
OUTS FOR FUGITIVES AND OUTLAWS. WHILE LAWMEN WATCH
ED, CHARLEY STAGED A RIP-ROARING.REAL OLD WESTERN
SHOOTOUT WITH A PAIR OF BANDIT5, CAPTURING BOTH.
HLS CABIN MARKED,A GIANT REDWOOD AND TOLL ROAD HE
BUILT WITH HORSE-SCRAPER, ALL STILL BEAR HIS NAME.
M I L L E R : (OF MILLER&LUX) OWNED THE RICHEST
LAND EMPIRE ONTHE FACE OF THE EARTH. CONCERNING
EXTENT OF HIS SANTA CLARAVALLEY HOLDINGS HE TESTI
F I E D IN COURT,"LT WAS AN EXTENT OF TWENTY FOUR
MILES NORTH AND SOUTH AHD ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT
MILES EAST AND WEST* PART OF THIS WILLBE RECALL
ED AS THE OLD BLOOMFIELD RANCH SOUTH OF GLLROY.
MILLER'S TOTAL HOLDINGS IN OREGON AND CALIFORNIA
WERE POPULARLY ACCEPTED AS 14,520,000 ACRES BUT
SAWYER CLAIMS 3,000,000 ACRES A CONSERVATIVE FIGURE.
HIS LIFE STORY READS LIKE A FAIRYTALE. BORN IN 182.7
IN GERMANY, A FARMER BOY, HERDED GEESE. CAME TO
CALIFORNIA WITH GOLD RUSH,BUTCHERSHOPINS.F.,PAKTNER
WITH CHARLES LUX IN CATTLE RAISING. MILLER PURCHASED
LAND BY THE SQUARE MILE, OFTEN FOR A FEW CENTS AN ACRE,
HE WAS HIGHLY REGARDED BY RICH AND POOR FOR HIS
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HONESTY AND GENEROSITY AND HIS TREMENDOUS AID
IN CALIFORNIA LAND DEVELOPMENTS. HENRY M I L L E R
LIVED TO AGE 90. IN APPEARANCE HE WAS GENERAL GRANT'S DOUBLE. •
: DIMINUTIVE OF MILPAS.0R C0RN"HENCE JTTLE CORNFIELDS* MlLPITAS VILLAGE IS
[SHOWN ON PLAT OF RlNCON DE L05 ESTER0S (GRANT OF 1858. FOR 75 YEARS A VERY
- ^ ^ ~ ™ ^ RURAL DISTRICT. BUTTOFMANYVAUDEVILLE JOKEsTuaTAS ELECTION TIME PUNKAS MlLPITAS G0ES,$O GOES THE NATION? BUT MlLPITAS HAS HAD THE LAST LAUGH. NOW THE NATION DOES 'tip' ONTHE ONCE "LITTLE CORNFIELD'S
PRODUcrsrFORD AND NEIGHBORING GENERAL MOTORS.
M I S S I O N C R E E K : A ONCE IMPORTANT LITTLE WATER
WAY, NOW COMPLETELY LOST AND FORGOTTEN. MUCH OF THE LAND NORTH OF SANTA CLARA-SANCARLOSSTREETSTOALVISO WAS SATURATED WITH MARSHES,SPRINGS ANDUTTLE LAKES AS SHOWN ON ALL OLD M APS,CIRCA I860. MISSION CREEK HEADED FROM A LARGE SPRING IN HANCHETT PARK AREA,FLOWED
ACROSS THE ALAMEDA PAST PRESENT BREWERY ,PICKING UPA
BROOK FROM STOCKTON AVENUE. IT FOLLOWED EAST SIDE
OFTHE ALAMEDA WATERING FR. CATALA'S WILLOWS, FED
COOKS POND.MEANDERED PAST PRESENT PRATTIOW CAN
NERY, REFRESHED THE OLD ORIGINAL SX.MlSSlON PEAR
ORCHARD AND FINALLY JOINED THE GUADALUPE.
M O N T A V I S T A : MEANS MOUNTAIN VIEW* ANOTHER
COMPARATIVELY NEW SETTLEMENT, A TURN OF THE CENTURY
SUBDIVISION. IN VALLEYHISTORY,KNOWNASDEANZA'S
1776 CAMPGROUND THUS RESPONSIBLE FOR NAMING THE
PROPOSED D E A N Z A COLLEGE.
M O N T E B E L L O : WESTERN FOOTHILL DISTRICT
MEANING "BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN*!
M O N T G O M E R Y JOHN MONTGOMERY PERFECTED A
GLIDER THAT MADE FIRST CONTROLLED
jllGHTINTHE U.S. DAN MALONEY,
-=5S^— HIS TEST PILOT,WAS LIFTED 4000 FT. ttiTOWUMi PMOTO
BY AH0TA1R3ALL00N, CUTL00SE AND EXECUTED EVERY
FREE FLIGHT MANEUVER. 1905 FLIGHTWASFROMSANTACLARA
COLLEGE GROUNDS,(MONUMENT),LANDING AT PREDESTINED
SPOT, POPLAR AND ALVISO STS. MONTGOMERY MADE 5 0
SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS. FINALLY KILLED ATEVERGREEN,I91I.
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1)100 D Y G U LCH : ABOVE LOS GATOS TO RIGHT OF HIGH-'WAY IN A CANYON. OlL DISCOVERED IN 1873 BY R.CMcPHERSON. AS LATE AS 1922 THE OIL WAS SOLD IN SANJOSE IN
;SMALL QUANTITIES.WHILE UNDEVELOPED, AN OIL BELTTS APPARENT FROM HERE THROUGH ALMADEN TO BREA FIELDS OF SARGENTS AND CHITTENDEN.
M O R G A N H I L L : NOT AS A NEWCOMER MIGHTTHINK,
THE NAME OF HILL OVERSHADOWING THE TOWN. OWNING
THE ORIGINAL TOWNS1TE AND SURROUNDING TERRITORY,
MARTIN MURPHY ( IBW) WILLED THIS TO DAUGHTER DIANA
WHO MARRIED A MORGAN HLLL. SOME HISTORIANS CLAIM
PORTOU HAD FIRST VIEW OF S.C.VALLEY FROMTHISHEIGHT.
M I H A M I L T O N : 28 MILES FROM S.J. ALT4,200 FT. NAMED FOR A SAN J O S E
PREACHER,REV.L.HAMILTON
WHO HAD ACCOMPANIED
BREWER AND HOFFMAN
^TN1861 ON A SURVEYING
RSF TO REACH THE SUMMIT. THEY
WERE UNAWARE IT WAS ALREADY NAMED MT. ISABEL OR
THAT IT LACKED 14 FEET OF BEING THE HIGHEST PEAK. AND
S0 , -THE OBSERVATORY i s ACTUALLY ON MT. ISABEL PEAK/
HOWEVER THEUS.GEODETIC SURVEY HAS ALLOWED THE ENTIRE
MOUNTAIN ELEVATION TO BE CALLED ML HAMILTON.
M T M A D O N N A : WEST OF GILROY. ALT 1897 FT.
HENRY MILLERJHE CATTLE KIN.6, BUILT A MANSION ON
THIS HEIGHT WHERE HE VACATIONED AND FROM WHERE, AS
FAR AS EYE COULD REACH,HE MIGHT SURVEY HIS KINGDOM,
HLS ENTIRE HOLDINGS WERE TWICE THE AREA OF BELGIUM.
M I UMUNHUM:D IRECTLY SOUTH OF S.J.WITH
FETHAT REVOLVING RADAR GUARDING US.
PRONOUNCED OOMOONOON'. UNCERTAIN
' ^ I K R W U T C 0 M M 0 N L Y ACCEPTED,-AN JNDIAN
,WORD MEANING HUMMING BIRLXINTHEIR MYTHOLOGY,HLOCALCOSTANOANTRIBE),THE EAGLE,
COYOTE AND HUMMING BIRD CREATED THE WORLD.
M I V I E W ONCE A STAGE STOP ON ROADTO S.F.
|8(B4 COMING OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC MOVED TOWN ONE MILE
NORTH.LEAVING"OLDMT.VIEW? P O P . I & 9 8 - 9 O O .
EXPEDITION. HE WAS F
M U R P H Y : MARTIN MURPHY,SENIOR ANDJUNIOR,LEFT
;T. JOSEPH MISSOURI WITH 100
WWAGONS AND REACHED CALIFORNIA
JIN I 8 4 4 J W O Y E A R S AHEAD OFTHE
_ _ )ONNER PARTY. IN FACT THIS ILL
FATED BANB USED CABINS IN T H E SIERRAS BUILT EYTHE
MURPHYS. THE SENIOR MURPHY SETTLED ON AGRAND
ESTATE NEAR THE MONTEREY ROAD'S OLD 21 M I L E
HOUSE. JUNIOR MURPHY BOUGHT AN ENORMOUS TRACT
EMBRACING THE ENTIRE SUNNYVALE TERRITORY.THEIR
HOUSE WA5 CUT AND FRAMED IN BOSTON AND SHIPPED
AROUND THE HORN IN ' 4 9 . FAMOUS FOR THEIR ENTERTAIN
MENT OF EVERY PROMINENT PUBLIC FIGURE VISITINGTHIS
VALLEY INCLUDING BAYARDTAYLOR,SUBJECT OFLKVER COMMENT.
NEEDLESS TO SAY THE HOUSE WAS RECENTLY REMOVED!
N O T R E D A M E : CATHOLIC COLLEGE FOR YOUNG
LADIES ON SANTA CLARA STREET WHERE NOW DE ANZA
HOTEL STANDS. ORGANIZED i 8 5 i . COVERED 10 ACRES.
N O V I T I A T E : T R A I N I N G SCHOOL FOR JESUIT PRIESTS.
ORGANIZED i86 fo . TWO HUNDRED ACRES,VISIBLE HIGH
ABOVE Los GATOS ON A MOUNTAIN BENCH. SURROUNDED
BY HILLSIDE VINEYARDS PRODUCING THE HIGH QUALITY
NOVIT IATE BRAND TABLE W I N E S .
N O S T A L G I A : MEANING A LONGING TO RETURN.
WE HOPE THIS BOOKHAS NOT GIVEN SUCH AN IMPRESSION/
A NOSTALGIC OLDSTER CAN BE AN AWFUL BORE,SPECIALLY
TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION. HE HARPS ONLY ONTHE GOOD
IN THE ''GOOD OLD DAYS* AND IGNORES THE BAD. TRY A
BALANCE SHEET OF PROS ANDCONS.TRUE,THEOLDVALLEY WAS QUIET, PEACEFUL.WITH NO TRAFFIC OR SMOG PROBLEMS.
FOLKS SEEMED MORE FRIENDLY. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
WAS FAR SUPERIOR TOTODAYS. PRICES WERE LOW. S0WERE
WAGES. ON THE OTHER SIDE OFTHE LEOGER,OVERWORKED
MEN,WOMEN AHD GHILDREN,FORTUNATELY WITH NO IDEA OF CONVENIENCES TO COME,LUXURIES WE ACCEPTTODAY WITH VERY LITTLE APPRECIATION. WE FORGET THAT LACK OF SANITATION AND REFRIGERATION. WE FORGET PEOPLE,PERHAPS OLD RELAT1VES,WH0, IN THEIR PR1ME.SUFFERED DISEASES AND TORTURES THATMODERN SURGERY OR DRUGS COULD NOW CURE OR RELIEVE. THIS BOOK WAS SIMPLY AIMEDTO BE INFORMATIVE. HOWEVER, SHOULD SOME SENIOR CITIZEN READER BE NOSTALGICALLY AFFECTED, GOOD./
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O A K H I L L CEMETERY CONTAINS ONE OF THE BEST
\iMARYDONN£/?f/Ol/GffrON • /8ZB-/B60
PIONEER SECTIONS IN THE STATE. - M~^ v ^ r w r - j J ^ lT "AD BEEN USED ASAPUBLIC
BURYING GR0UND(SPAN\SHANDlNDIAN)SINCEI839.BUTTHE OLDEST HEADSTONE IS 1850. HERE LIE THE REEDS, DONNERS, DR.CORY.OUR FIRST DOaOR AND PIERREPELLIER.TOWHOM WE OWE OUR MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PRUNE INDUSTRY. IN TOTAL THERE ARE'NOWOVER 60,000 INTERMENTS. MORBIDLY, OFTEN OUR STEPS LEAD TOTHEDRAMATIC DUNHAM MURDER VICTIMS' LAST RESTING PLACE;DRAB STORY PREVIOUSLY RELATED.
O C O N N O R S SANITARIUM WASSITUATEDWHERENOW
" !SEARS IS LOCATED.
)UR OLD HISTORIAN,
EUGENE SAWYER,
MENTIONS ITS AREA AS
^^^^^S^^^mm^^ ACRlS SURROUNDING AND ^FOREVER PROTECTIN ^ L I T T L E DID THIS GOOD MAN FORSEE
"PROGRESS! ITWAS A BEAUTIFULLY LANDSCAPED INSTITUTION
ENDOWED BYTHE HON.M.P.OCONNOR,IRISHMAN,AHIGHLY
SUCCESSFUL^ MINER, ATTORNEY AND STATE LEGISLATOR.
ERECTED 1887 AND ADMINISTERED BYTHE DAUGHTERS OF
CHARITY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. WELLKNOWN RELOCATION.
P A C H E C O P A S S : LINKING SANJOAQUIN AND
SANTA CLARA VALLEYS. FRANCISCO PEREZ PACHECO CAME
TO CALIFORNIA FROM MEXICO IN IBW.THE FATHERSOF SAN
JUAN BAUTISTA GAVE HIM PERMISSION TO SETTLE ON CHURCH
LANDS EXTENDING UP INTO THE PASS. HE RECEIVED FINAL
GRANT IN 1833 AND HIS BROTHER JUAN IN 1843 TO THE
RANCHOS SAN LUIS GONZAGA ANDAUSAYMAS V SAN FELIPE.
THESE PROPERTIES EXTENDED ACROSSTHE MOUNTAIN PASS
INTO MERCED COUNTY,THOUSANDS OF UNSURVEYED ACRES.
DON JUAN,IN HIS HACIENDA ON THAT FIRST CROSSING OFTHE
CREEK,9 MILES NORTH OF HOLLISTER, ALWAYS WORE A MEXICAN
SERAPE WITH A HOLE TO PUT HIS HEAD THROUGH.THIS TYPICAL
DON KEPT^OOO OR #10,000 IN GOLDCOININABARREL,A
COMMON PRACTICE AMONGST WEALTHY SPANISH-CALIFORNIANS
THE BARREL5 WERE SELDOM TAPPED UNTIL WE AMERICANS CAME
L T O : MEANS "HIGHTREE*THE LONE REDWOOD
T CITY'S CREEK AND RAILROAD CROSSING.
MENTIONED IN DIARIES OF FRSFOHT,PALOU
ND DE ANZA.TOWN LAID OUT IN 1891 FOR
HE NEWLY FOUNDED STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
P E L L I E R : LOUIS PELUER, VINE AND FRUIT GROWER. IN FRANCEJCAMETOSANJOSEIN 1849.
AFTER AWNING STINT, ESTABLISHED
A NURSERY ON SAN PEDRO STREET
^CALLED PELLIERS GARDENS.IN 1850
S I H I S BROTHER PIERRE BROUGHTTHE
.FIRSTPRUNECUTTINGSFROM FRANCE.
' NOT ACCEPTED AT FIRST, IT WAS LATER
POPULARIZED BY JOHN ROCK.PIONEER NURSERYMAN. NEVER
WAS OR VRTLL BE POPUUR WITH WRITER,SHOWN ABOVE, 1901.
P E N I T E N C I A CREEK FLOWING FROM ALUM ROCK
PARK TOWARD BERRYESSA. SO NAMED BECAUSE THE PADRES
IN MISSION DAYS HEARD PENITENTS MAKE CONFESSIONS IN
A SMALL ADOBE NEAR MOUTH OF THE CANYON.
P E N I N S U L A R RAILWAY FORTHIRTY YEARS, SWIFT,
CONVENIENT ELECTRIFIED TRANSIT TO ALL PARTS OF THIS VALLEY.TO DATE,WE HAVE NOTHING TO COMPARE. THE LONG RED CARS WERE CALLED"BIG REDVAND TRAVELLED 60 ML
AN HOUR TO CAMPBELL.L0S GATOS, SARATOGA,CUPERTINO
AND PALO ALTO. LIFE SPAN-1904-1934 ENDED BY AUTOS.
P E R M A N E N T E CREEK AND CANYON. SPANIARDS
USED THE WORD TO DESIGNATE A WATER COURSE FLOWING YEAR ROUND. NAME DATES BACKTO1839 WHEN CREEK WAS
DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN GRANTS OF MARTIN MURPHY J R .
AND MARIANO CASTRO, EACH OWNING 4000ACRESJHE WORD
MAY SOON BE AN "ALMOST FORGOTTEN*AS CEMENT COMPANY
U5ING THE NAME HAVE DROPPED IT. BUT THE STEEP LITTLE
CREEK CLIMBED UP AND DOWN BY WRITER 60 YEARS AGO
FISHING FOR'BLACK RAINBOWS?STILL FLOWS SEAWARD.......
THROUGH A CORRUGATED,GALVANIZED PIPE.
P L U M B I N G : ( O U T D O O R ) WITH APOLOGIESTO ANY
PRUDISH READER,WE INCLUDE THIS LITTLE REST ROOM,NECESSARY JOUTHOUSE FOR THOUSANDS OF OLDVALLEYCOUNTRY HOMES. AN TJNABASHEDWEBSTERSTJLLCALLS IT
A PRIVY. 'WIGHT BE SAID THEY WERE ANCESTORS OFTODAYS
PORTABLE HOUSES, AT LEAST EVERY HALLOWEEN. THEY CAME IN ALL MODELS;ONE SEATERS,TWO SEATERS,SOMEWITH AN UNDERSLUNG RUMBLE SEAT FOR SMALL JUVENILES. STANDARD READING ROOM EQUlPMENTrSEARS OR WARD CATALOGUES.
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P L U M B I N G ( INDOOR) NOTFEW OLD VALLEY
FARMERS "SHOWEREDrtEVERY MORNING. MOST 1900 COUNTRY
FARMHOUSES HAD NO BATH ROOM AND BATHING COULD BE QUITE A CHORE. DlDANY
'OLDSTER READER EVER STEP
OUT OF ONE OF THOSE GALVANIZED WASHTUB SQUARELY UPON A CAKE
OF IVORY SOAP? AND HAVE MAMA PICK PINE SPLINTERS
FROM YOUR TENDER WHITE BOTTOM? HERE'S ONE LITTLE
KNIGHT OF THE BATH DID/ SATURDAYNIGHTJHAT IS .
P O R T A L AONCE PROMINENT ESTATE ON STEVENS
CREEK ROAD.MANSION NOWREMOVED" LOUIS
If^i PORTAL,AWEALTHY FRENCHMAN.ARRIVED
IN 1850.HE PURCHASED 400ACRESAND
PLANTED LARGE VINEYARDS IN I 8 6 0 .
USED CAPTAINS-WALK AROUND ORNATE
C U P 0 U OF HOUSE AND A POWERFULL TELESCOPE TO DETECT
SLOW VINEYARD WORKERS. REFUSED RIGHT-OF-WAY TO A
RAILROAD BECAUSE IT MIGHT DISTURB AGEING OF HIS
WINES. AFTER DEVASTATING VINEYARD BLIGHT OF 1910-15
RETURNED TO FRANCE. PROMINENT RELATIVES REMAINED.
Q U A K E R S : INSERTED BECAUSE WRITER SO RAISED,
A S YOU DRIVE ACROSS OVERPASS
TOWARD SANTA CLARA ON THE
A L A M E D A YOU CAN SEE THIS
LITTLE CHURCH ONTHE NORTH
BANK. IT i s THE FRIEND'S MEET
ING HOUSE, AQUAKER CHURCH
% IN CONTINUOUS USE SINCE 1885.
& ^ - ^ J ^ ' T H I S WAS THE CONSERVATIVE OR
ORTHODOX BRANCH,NO MUSIC,NOPASTOR,ONE SQUIRMED^
UPON HARD BENCHES UNTIL SOME ELDER"GOTTHE POWER.
THEY WERE NO DOUBT ELOQUENT BUT WRITER WASTOO
YOUNG TO APPRECIATE MUCH BUTTHE"SEML-ANNUAL"
DINNERS, QUAKER COOKING SUPREME. AYOUNG MAN
ATTENDING STANFORD, WAS TAKEN ILL AND CARED FOR 8Y
QUAKER JOELBEAN.THEYOUNGMAN,ALSOAQUAKER,
ATTENDED THIS CHURCH. HIS NAME,-HERBERT HOOVER.
Q U I C K S I L V E R (ADDENDA TO THE ALMADEN PAGE.)
CAST IRON FLASKS S H O W N BEING FILLED,WEIGHED
7 6 POUNDS EACH. ONE LAYER OF THESE CYLINDERS ONTHE
BED OF A HAY WAGON WAS A FULL LOAD FOR FOUR HORSE TEAM
TRANSPORTING THIS MERCURY FROM MINES TO ALVISO OR
RAILROAD. THAT'S WHY WE KIDS CALLED MR.WELCH,ONE
OFTHESETEAMSTERS/'THAT MAN WHO (APPARENTLY TO
US) ALWAYS DRIVES AN EMPTY WAGON?
R E N G A : ANOTHER NAME ALSO INSERTED ENTIRELY
FOR WRITER'S PERSONAL SATISFACTION.
NEXT DOORTOTHE OLDTOWER SALOON ON
MARKET ST. WAS R E N G A ' ^ A T I N Y HOLE-
_ _ ^ ^ IN-THE-WALL CANDYST0RERMYB0YHOOD
HANGOUT. THERE WERE NICER CANDY STORES^OBRIEN'S,
MRS.RUDOLPH'S,THE CHOCOLATE SHOP, YES, SHORTY HINDS.
BUT RENGAJS PRICES WERE FLEXIBLE, A THREE SIZE CHOICE
OF ICECREAM "SODYS", 5,10 AND 15$. WHILE MR.RENGA
NO DOUBT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR AN EARLY SET OF FULL
DENTURES.HIS GENEROUS.STRIPEDBAGS OF HAND PULLEDPINK
TAFFY ARE STILL REMEMBERED; DESPITE THEIR TENDENCYTO
TRIGGER OFF ONE WHALE OF A FIVE-CENT-BELLYACHE.
R I C A R D : FATHER RICARD OF SANTA CLARA COLLEGE,
A RESPECTED AND EMINENT METEOROLOGIST. HlS WEATHER PREDICTIONS WERE BASED ON VARIATION INTENSITIES OF SUNSPOTS.THISWAS PERIOD 1907-30. HlSDEDUCTIONSWERE GIVEN WIDE SPREAD ANDSERIOUSACCEPTANCEBYOLDVALLEY 0RCHARD1STS AND FARMERS. HE HADASANTACURA RIVAL INWEATHER PROGNOSTICATION (0KrfORECASr/N6)A^ HIS NAME WAS SlNGKEE. WE SHALL ARRIVE ATSINGKEE'S LAUNDRY AT THE PROPER ALPHABETICAL SEQUENCE,
S A N F E L I P E : VALLEY NEAR GILROY NAMED FOR
THEORIGINALQRANT. OF PASSING 1NTERESTBECAUSE INI898TOBACCO WAS GROWN THERE,PRODUCING 1200
POUNDS PER ACRE. THERE WAS A CIGAR FACTORY IN GlLROY. i
S A N J O S E : NAMED FOR SAINT JOSEPH BY
LT. MORAQA OF THE DE ANZA PARTY,I777,"PUEBL0 DE SAN J O S E DE GUADALUPE' ! THIS MEANS"THE
TOWN OF SANJOSE ONTHE WOLFRlVER? HISTORICAL MATERIALAVAILABLE IN ALL LOCAL LIBRARIES.
S A N J O S E M I S S I O N , FOUNDED 1779 POST OFFICE 1NT0WN ESTABLISHED 1850.COMPARATIVELY,
THE MISSION IS OF LESSERTOURIST ATTRACTION B U T
ITS EARLY HISTORY IS INTERESTING AND EXCITING.
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S A N T A C L A R A SAINT CLEAR, SAINT BRIGHT,
A NAME HONORING SAINT CLARE OFASSISIJHE FIRST
FRANCISCAN NUN (ORDER OF POOR CLARES).THE MISSION
WAS NAMED MISSION SANTACLARADE ASSIS,JAN.IZJ77Z BOTH TOWN AND COUNTY F E U HEIR TO NAME ABOUT 1850.
S A R A T O G A MARTIN MCCARTHY, ONE OF THE
EARLIEST SETTLERS,TOOK UP A QUARTER SECTION HERE
IN 1849. FIRST POST OFFICE ISSS.TOWN PLANNED 1863.
NAMED SARATOGA BECAUSE THE SPRINGS ABOVETOWN
HAD SAME "FLAVOR AS THE FAMOUS CONGRESS SPRINGS
OF SARATOGA,N.Y.
S A R G E N T i MOST SOUTHERN OF COUNTY'S EARLY
SETTLEMENTS. BOTH MILLER AND J.P.SARGENT
OWNED GREATRANCHOS HERE, SARGENTS COVERING
A*MERE*IO,OOO ACRES. WHEN S.P. ARRIVED IN .869
THIS WAS A MOST IMPORTANT SHIPPING POINT FOR ALL THE SURROUNDING TERRITORY.
S I J A M E S P A R K : LITTLE KNOWN FACTTHAT
THIS PARK WAS PLANNED IN 1848 BY THE THEN RULING
MEXICAN GOVERNMENT WHO GAVE CS.LYMANORDERS
TO SURVEY. NOW BISECTED BY A STREET, IT BEARS LITTLE
RESEMBLANCETO ORIGINAL OLD FASHIONED.FLOWERED
LANDSCAPE WITH STATUES,GAS LAMPS,FOUNTALNS,LAZY
FAT GOLD FISH AND SPOUTING DOLPHINS.
ST. J O H N T H E B A P T I S T H I L L S , OR SAN JUAN BAUTISTA HILLS,AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN NAME
OF ROLLING HILLS JUST SOUTH OF OAKHLLL CEMETERY,
A LARGE WOODEN CROSS STOOD ON SUMMIT MARKING
A NOWCOMPLETELY LOST 1870 GRAVEYARD. GRAVE OF
LOUIS PELLIER,BR0THER OF?IERRE,IS SOMEWHERE IN
THIS FORGOTTEN 12 ACRES.
S A N T O M A S A Q U I N A S : CREEK AND DISTRICT.
NAMED BY SPANIARDS FOR S T T O M A S AQUINAS. WHO ELSE PRAVTBLL? ',
S A N M A R T I N : M A R T I N MURPHY.EARLIEST SETTLER
NAMED TOWN FOR HIS PATRON SAINT. ENOUGH OF THEM OBVIOUS FILLERS,'
S I L K D 0 N L°UlS PREVOST,NURSERYMAN IN EARLY '50'S HAD DREAMS OF A NEW INDUSTRY. WHILE
BACKED BY STATE FUNDS TO RAISE SILKWORMS, A DRY CYCLE KILLED URGE PLANTIN6S OF MULBERRY TREES.
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B A T T L E O F S A N T A C L A R A : IFYOU SEARCH
^ YOU CAN FIND THIS 1847 EVENT WELL
"COVERED IN CALIF, HISTORIES. BUT
HERE IS A SHORT SCENARIO. THIS
BR1EFC0NFLICT, BORDERING THE COMIC
"OPERA LEVEL,TOOK PLACE JUST PREVIOUS
TO TERMINATION OF MEXICOS HOLD ON CALIFORNIA.MEXICAN
LEADERS WERE ALARMED AT TIDE OF AMERICAN SETTLERS,
TOO MANY OF WHOM FELT MIGHT MEANT RIGHT, (INCLUDING
GEN.FREMONT.) BATTLEFIELD WAS AREA NORTHWEST OF
SANTA CURA,BOUNDED BY KIFER AND LAWRENCE ROADS,
SCOTTS BLVD. AND HWY.IOI. THE 250MEXICANS LEAD BY
FRANCISCO SANCHEZ WERE RECRUITED FROM LOCALRANCHOS.
THE 101 AMERICANS WERE COMMANDED BY CAPTAIN WEBER
AND LT. MURPHY. SANTA CLARA MISSION WAS FORTIFIED,
WOMEN AND CHILDREN BROUGHT WITHIN. ROADS WERE
BLOCKED WITH TREES CUT FROM THE ALAMEDA. THE
POPULACE OF SANTA CLARA WATCHED FROM HOUSETOPS AS
BATTLE WAS JOINED! AMERICANS HAD ADVANTAGE OF
ARTILLERY, A TINY HAND-DRAWN CANNON FIRING A 6 POUND
BALL. IT ONLY FRIGHTENED THE HORSES. WITH ATHIRD
SHOT, BARREL KICKED OFF AND ARTILLERY SHYLY BURIED
ITSELF IN DEEP ADOBE MUD.THROUGH ACRES OFHEADHIGH
WILD MUSTARD, THE BATTLE RAGED ATACAREFUL AND
CAUTIOUS LONG RANGE. SANCHEZ WAS FINALLY DRIVEN
INTO THE LOS GATOS MOUNTAINS AND SURRENDERED.
THE CONFLICT MOVED TO OTHERFIELDS,ASTHEBEAR RAG
INCIDENT. WLTHLNAFEW WEEKS ALL STRIFE WAS FOR
GOTTEN AND SOLDIERS FROM BOTH SIDES WERE BACK
TOGETHER ON THEIR RANCHOS ON BEST OF FRIENDLY,
NEIGHBORLY TERMS. CASUALTIES;FOUR MEXICANS
KILLED,ONE AMERICAN WOUNDED, ONE CANNON LOST.
S I N G K E E : SANTA CLARAS FAMOUS LAUNDRYMAN
-AND WEATHER PROPHET ABOUT I905H9I5.
'BASED HIS PREDICTIONS ON ATTITUDE
OR REACTIONS OF A PET TOAD KEPT IN HIS
BACK ROOM/ HERE.'TWAS SAID,ONE MIGHT
ALSO M A W A L0TTERYT1CKET. HLS PREDICTIONS WERE SO
REMARKABLY ACCURATE, SLNG WAS DAILY FEATURED INS.J.
AND S.H NEWSPAPERS. IPIN DOUBT,H^FAVORITEREMARK,-
"MEBBE UTTY LAIN,MEBBELITTY SUN. So FATHER RICARD
AND SING KEE HAD THEIR FOLLOWERS WHO SOWED AND
REAPED ACCORDING TO SUN OR TOAD. MEANWHILE THE
OLD U. S. WEATHER BUREAU FINISHED A POOR THIRD.
Titty t £ e Ttame . . . ?
S K L N N E R J A T I P F O R NEWCOMERS AND THEIR
* ^ A BACKYARD FAMILY-ORCHARDS. SANTACLARA
& J VALLEY IS NOT AN APPLE VALLEY BUT THERE IS
ONE IDEAL VARIETY, BOTH FOR EATING ORCOOKING.THIS
IS THE S K I N N E R S E E D L I N G , THE SEEDS BROUGHT
ACROSS THE PLAINS BY JUDGE HENRY SKINNER IN 1850.
STOCK SCARCE, MIGHT BE LOCATED IN LARGE NURSERIES.
S T A N F O R D UNIVERSITY ESTABLISHEDIN 1885 BY
LELAND STANFORD (I824-I893),BUILDER OF RAILROADS,
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA AND 1).S.SENATOR.THE NAME
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY IS IN MEMORY
OF MR. AND MRS. STANFORDS SON WHO D1EDINI884.
S T E V E N S CAPTAIN ELISHA STEVENS,I80H884,
OFTHE STEVENS-MURPHY-TOWNSEND
OVERLAND PARTY OF 1844 SETTLED ON
THE CREEK OF HIS NAME IN THE I850'S
ONTHE PRESENT BLACKBERRY FARM
SITE. HlS FOUR ACRES OF MISSION 1 ^ ^ GRAPES CONSIDERED FIRST VINEYARD
PLANTED IN THIS REGION. ELISHA,ATRUE FRONTIERSMAN,
ONCE TREATING HIS NEIGHBOR CAPTAIN GRANT (GRANT ROAD)
TO RATTLESNAKE MEATGOODAS CHICKEN'! WLTH FEELINGS
A HUNDRED YEARS IN ADVANCE OF HISTIME,ABOUT I860,
ELISHA COMPLAINED THE COUNTRY TOO DURN CIVILIZED"
AND MOVED TO WILDER ENVIRONMENTS. COULD HE NOT
TODAY GATHER DISCIPLES WITH THE SAME URGE? INTHE
COPY ABOVE OF A RARE OLD PHOTOGRAPH,HE CLUTCHES A
HUGE BOWIE KNIFE. GRIZZLY FLAT, A FEW MILES ABOVE,
ON HIS CREEK,WAS NOT FALSELY OR IDLY NAMED.
S T E V E N S C R E E K ROAD ; (BOULEVARD)
S T I L L R O A D TO THE FEW WHO REMEMBER WHEN
A RUNAWAY WAS THE ONLY EXCITEMENT ON THIS OLD
GRAVELLED THOROUGHFARE. IFITWAS W1DE1N SPOTS
IT WAS BY NECESSITY OF MAKING NEW WAGON TRACKS
AROUND MUD HOLES. FORTHIS SAME REASON,PI0NEERS
CLA1MEDTHE ROAD TO SAN FRANCISCO WAS THREE
MILES WIDE* EXCEPT FORA FEW — * - - ^ . . . . 1 - ^ —
UNBROKEN TRACTS OF ORCHARD,
THE PRESENT BOULEVARD8 BEARS,
NO RESEMBLANCE TO THE ONE
WRITER DROVE BY HORSE-AND- : ; 2 ^ 1 ^ \ ? H I / /
BUGGY OVER 6 0 Y E A R S A G 0 . " " _
GONE7THE REDWOOD PICKET FENCES BORDERING EVERY
ORCHARD, GRA1NFIELD ANDV1NEYARD. GONE(-THE
WATER TANKS WHERE SPRINKLING-WAGONS FILLED TO SUB
DUE THE CHOKING DUST. GOHEPTHE WATERING-TROUGHS
WHERE OUR SWEATY OLD HORSE COULD BURY HIS MUZZLE
INTHECOOLWATER SWIMMING WITH LONG GREEN MOSS;
NOISY FROGS HIDING IN THE CATTAILS ANDDAMPDARKNESS
BELOW ALWAYS LEAKLNGTANKS,DARTINGDRAGONFLIES,RED-
WING BLACKBIRDS, DIVING SWALLOWS ANDTHOSE SADCR1ES
OF DISTANT KILLDEER. GONE,- THE ONE ROOM COUNTRY
SCHOOLS, PORTAL'S MANSION, BLACKMAR'S AND S A M
STORM SALOONS AT THE "CORNERS* TURKEY-SHOOTS
UNDER THE 0AKGR0VES,JESSB0LLIN6ERANDBAER!S
BLACKSMITH SHOPS. GONErGOOD ALEX MONTGOMERY, "MAYOR OF CUPERTINO AND HIS SCREAMING PEACOCKS.
ON AND UP INTO THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE SODA ROCK •
AND GRIZZLY FLAT,GONE INJUN JOE WITH HIS SECRET
GOLDMINE AND LITTLEDAVE,THE SHINGLE-SPLITTER
AND CHARCOAL-BURNER, MEN OF DELIGHTFUL MYSTERY.
GONE THE MUSICAL HAME BELLS OFTHEPICCHETTI AND
BORDL WOOD-WAGONS WARNING THAT NERVOUS HORSE-
AND-BUGGY PICNICKER. ONLY DEEP CLIFFANDTHE SOFT CONTOURS OF THE HAZY BLUE MOUNTAINS,STILL UNCHANGED. REGRETS? No,LUCKY. WE SAW IT WHEN.
S T E V E N S C R E E K DEANZACAMPED ON
THIS CREEK MARCH 25,1776, NOT FAR FROM THE SITE
OF ELISHA STEVENS HOME. THIS HAS BEEN PROVEN
BYALEAD PLAQUE FOUND NEAR THE MONTA VLSTA
WINERY IN 1906 SHORTLY AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE.
THERE ARE LIVING PIONEERS WHO SAWTHIS PLAQUE
AND CAN FURNISH PROOF OF ITS EXISTENCE. D E A N Z A
NAMED CREEK ARROYO DE SAN JOSE DECOPERTINO.
COPERTINO WAS HOMETOWN OF ST. JOSEPH IN ITALY
BUT MOST REFERENCES USE LATIN "CUPERTINO?
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Titty t&e Ttame . . . ?
S T R I C K L E T I INSERTED SOLELY FOR BASEBALL
FANS. ELMER STRICKLETT WAS THE
- * INVENTOR OF THE SPITBALL PITCH AND
[USED FOR THREE SEASONS WITH BROOKLYN ;D0DGERS,I905THR0UGH 1907. HE PITCHED
=FOR SANJOSEINTHE OLD STATELEAGUE
_ DURING 1908 AND 1909; FINALLY A VALLEY
ORCHARDIST. HIS WET PITCH OUTUWED BUT SLYLY LINGERS.
S U N N Y V A L E ONCE'VIURPHY'S STATION; A WOO
SUBDIVISION BY W.F GROSSMAN WITH SLOGANTHE CITY
OF DESTINY? SLUMBERED FOR YEARS. NOW THE DREAM
IS FULFILLED AND ONLY OCCASIONALLY DISTURBED BY
TRAFFIC NIGHTMARES.
S U N O L W E CAN BE PROUD OFTHIS NOBLE CITIZEN.
DON ANTONIO SUNOL CAMETO SAH JOSE IN ISIS.HE WAS
OWNER OF RANCHOS IN ALAMEDA COUNTY AND MARRIED
DOLORES BERNAL,HEIRESS TO THE VAST SANTATERESA
ESTATE SOUTH OF S.J. ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT DISCOVER
MERCURY ORE, HE WAS FIRST TO WORK ALMADEN MLNES
IN 1 8 2 * HE WAS SAN JOSES FIRST P0STMA5TER,I846,
AND AN ALCALDE. GAVE SITE FOR ST. JOSEPH CHURCH.
UNLIKE SOMANY OF OUR SPANISH-CALIFORNIA DONS
IN DEALING WITH AND ALWAYS LOSING TO AMERICANS,
DON SUNOL COULD OUT-TRADE THE SHARPEST GRINGO,
INCLUDING SUTTER/ HE DIED A VERY WEALTHY MAN.
T A Y L O R , IT SEEMS NO HISTORICAL WRITING ON
THIS VALLEY IS COMPLETE WITHOUT QUOTING BAYARD
TAYLOR.WORLD FAMOUS POET AND WRITER.AVISIT0R TO
SANTA CLARA VALLEY INTHE mso's HE LOVED I T /
HIS EXPRESSIONS ARE FLOWERY, IMPASSIONED WORD
P A I N T I N G S , T Y P I C A L O F T H A T ERA. AND REMEMBER,
BELOW WAS WRITTEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO WHEN THIS
MAN SAW SANTA CLARA VALLEY AT THE VERY PEAK OF
ITS NATURAL UNSPOILED BEAUTY. READ THESE SAMPLE
LINES. THEN LET YOUR REACTIONS SIMMER. EXAMPLES:
"HOW SHALL I DESCRIBE A LANDSCAPE SO UNLIKE ANYTHING
ELSE IN THE W0RLD?.....GIANTSYCAMORES,TRUNKS GLEAM
ING LIKE SILVER PARK-LIKE GROVES OF OAKS
5EEITBEF0RE MY PRIME IS OVER SANjOSEBUT FIVE DAYS DISTANT FROM NEWYORK CARS WHICH
WILL SPEED ON UNKNOWN RAIL FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
TO THE PACIFIC THEN LET ME BUILD A COTTAGE
EMBOWERED IN ACACIA, EUCALYPTUS AND TALL SPIRES OF
ITALIAN CYPRESS THERE SHALL MY NIGHTINGALE SING....
MY ORANGE BLOSSOMS SWEETEN THE AIR.. . . I HAD ANOTHER
GRANDER DREAM ONE HUNDRED YEARS HAD NOW
PASSED AND 1 SAW THE VALLEY HUMMING WITH HUMAN
UFE....MANSIONS FAIR AS TEMPLES STATUES PEEPING
FROM THE BLOOM OF LAUREL BOWERS I SAWA MORE
BEAUTIFUL RACE SYMMETRY AND GRACE OFTHE GREEK
RESTORED.....MILDER MANNERS KEENER APPRECIATION
OF ALLTHE ARTS WHICH ENRICHEN AND EMBELLISH LIFE.
WAS IT ONLY A D R E A M ? *
(OUR READER WILL HAVE HIS OR HER PRIVATE OPINION)
T O W E R : I ^ SAN JOSE ELECTRICTOWER
4
INTHE DISTANCE,REDWOODS RISING LIKETOWERS
A MOUNTAIN CHAIN, FULL LIGHTED BY THE SUN, ROSE COLOREDJOUCHED WITH VIOLET SHADOWS
I INDULGE IN ANOTHER DREAM 1 MAY LIVE TO
4 4
WAS A MOST CONSPICUOUS LANDMARK. BUILT IN 1881.
IT STOOD 10 STORIES H1GH.ITS IRON TUBING STRUCTURE TAPERING FROM FOUR CORNERS
To? MARKET AND SANTA
CLARA STREETS. FOR A LIFE OF 3 6 YEARS IT HELPEDTO
ILLUMINATE THE BUSINESS SECTION UNTIL RUST AND A
WIND STORM CAUSED ITS DOWNFALL.THE 2 4 0 0 0 CANDLE
POWER LAMPS AT PEAK OF TOWER GAVE MOST BRILLIANT
LIGHT AT THAT TIME INTHE U . S . A . ITS FAME SPREAD
ABROAD AND CITIZENS WERE PROUD TO SEE IT WRITTEN
UP IN HARPERS WEEKLY. CHRISTMAS TIME ITS GIANT
TREE SHAPE WAS STRUNG WITH COLORED LIGHTS
AND FOURTH OF JULY ITS TOP PLATFORM SERVED AS
A LAUNCHING PAD FOR FIREWORKS. DUCKS? STORY
GOES, WHEN TOWER FIRST ERECTED, DUCKS,THEN IN DENSE MORNING FLIGHTS, WOULD STRIKE THE TOWER DURING A HEAVY FOG. ONE HAD BUT TO PICK UP A MESS OF DUCK FOR DINNER.' WRITER BELIEVES IT.
T R U C K E E : CHIEFTRUCKEE CONSIDERED SAN
JOSE A WINTER RESORT/ HE HAD GUIDED THE QUIVEYFAMILY
ACROSS SIERRAS IN T49. GRATEFULLY, HE WAS INVITED TO
BE A GUEST IN THEIR 4TH.5T.HOME UNEXPECTEDLY,HE
ACCEPTED/ FOR MANY WINTERS,TRUCKEE&FAMILYMADE
FOOT-TREK TO A WICKIUP BUILT IN QUIVEYS BACKYARD/
Titty t 6 e T t a m t . . . ?
I J V A S : CREEKAND SOUTHERN VALLEY DISTRICT.
MEANS'GRAPE". PRONOUNCED OO'-VAS.
SPANIARDS PROBABLY NAMED BECAUSE OF
THE WILD GRAPES GROWING ALONG THIS STREAM.
V E N D O M E HOTEL WASA HOSTELRY OF WHICH
EARLY SAN JOSEANS MIGHT WELL
BE PROUD. BUILT I888 , IT WAS SET
IN PARK-LIKE LANDSCAPED ACRES
ON NORTH FIRSTSTREET.THE FOUR
STORIES WERE "QUEEN ANNE*DESIGN IN KEEPING WITH THE
ORNATE STYLE OF THAT PERIOD. HOSTED ALLTHE NOTABLE
OLD VALLEY VISITORS, HIGHLIGHTED BY A RECEPTION FOR
PRESIDENT WILLIAM M C KINLEYANDHISCABINET, I904.
EARTHQUAKE OF 1906 INFLICTED SEVERE DAMAGE AND
THE AREA LATER BECAME A RESIDENTIAL SECTION.
V I L L A M A R I A : LOCATED AT MOUTH OF STEVENS
CREEK CANYON BELOW THE DAM.
320 ACRES PURCHASED BYSANTA
CLARA COLLEGE IN 1870.DEVELOPED
75 ACRES OF GRAPES AND OLIVES, A
WINERY, WORKERS'HOMES, CHAPEL AND RETREAT FOR
J E S U I T FACULTY. THOSE PINE TREES BY ROADSIDE WERE
PLANTED BY VINCENT PICCHETTI ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS
AGO. ORIGINALLY GOVERNMENT UNDJHE FIRST DEEDS
WERE SIGNED BY PRESIDENTGRANT IN 1869. NATIVES ALWAYS REFER TO IT AS THETATHERS' V|LLA".
V I C T O R Y T H E A T E R ERECTED BY SENATORJAMES D.PHaAN IN 1899. STILL OPERATING. NEXT FEW DECADES SAW ON STAGE
SUCH THESPIANS AS MAUDE ADAMS,
BLLLIE BURKE,E.A.SOTHERN,ROBERT
MANTEL, AN NA HELD, GEO.M. COHAN, ETHELBARRYMORE,
JULIA MARLOWE,NATGOODWIN,SCORESMORE INCLUDING
SEVERAL OPERA COMPANIES. ALLTHE BESTTOURING ROAD
SHOWS WERE HERE AND HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE. STAGE
WAS ONE OF FEW ON COAST LARGE ENOUGH TO PRESENT
WITH TEAMS OF HORSES, THE BEN HI)R CHARIOT RACE.
STILL OPEN IS THE JOSE BUILT IN 1904 WITH ED REDMOND
10-20-304 STOCK COMPANY, NEW PLAY EACH WEEK. CAN
BE PLEASANTLY REMEMBERED. CORNY? YES,BUT WE
DIDN'T KNOWIT. MANY OTHER OLD THEATERS) EMPIRE,
HIPPODROME, GARDENJ&D, UNIQUE,LYRIC^ ALL GONE.
W O O L E N M I L L S : T H E SANJOSEWOOLENMILLS
OPERATED I870 ;WHEN SHEEPRAISING WAS AN IMPORTANT
OLD VALLEY INDUSTRY. LOCATED IN NORTHERN PART OF
EARLYSAN JOSE. WITH 43 EMPLOYEES,YEARLY PRODUCED
144,000 YARDS OF CASHMERE, 64,000 YARDS OF FLANNEL
AND 5 0 0 0 PAIRS OF BLANKETS.
W R I G H T S : S.R MOUNTAIN STATION ON ABANDONED
S.J.-SANTACRUZ RAILROAD. NAMED FOR JAS.WRIGHT,EARLY
SETTLER. SURPRISINGLY, AN EARLY DAYS SHIPPING POINT,
TWO CARS OF FRESH FRUIT SHIPPED DAILY. 3 2 0 0 ACRES OF
ORCHARDS INTHIS VICINITY.MANYR.R.TUNNELSONTHISSCENIC LINE WERE BLASTED BY THE ARMY FORVRACTICE'DURING WORLD WARI.(PASSINGTHOUGHT.COULDTHIS LOW LEVEL
TRAIN ROUTE HAVE BEEN CONVERTED INTO ANOTHER ROAD TO
SANTA CRUZ ?) HERE IS AN INTERESTING WRIGHTS SIDELIGHT,
AMBROSE BIERCE, NOTED SATIRIST AND SHORT-STORY
WRITER LIVED NEAR WRIGHTS FOR SOME YEARS. HE OFTEN
BICYCLEDTO SANJOSE. THEN CAME HIS MYSTER10US,UNS0LVED
DISAPPEARANCE. SAWYER,0LDH1STORIAN,CLAIMEDT0HAVE
ANSWER.BLERCEWENTTO MEXICO IN 1913, JOINING THE
CARRANZA SIDE. VILLA FORCES CAPTURED HIM AND IN
1915 HE FACED A FIRING SQUAD. A PHOTO FURNISHED PROOF.
Z I T H E R G ^ E N D OF ALPHABET REACHED AND NO OLD
" " ' " " " ^VALLEY Z ' s / S o ALLOW us TO
IMPROVISE WITH A PERSONAl?.
WHEN WRITER WAS A LITTLE BOY,
A Z ITHER SALESMAN CAME TO OUR RANCH
r HOME. ZITHERS WERE POPULAR THEN AND HOW U THIS KID LONGED FOR ONE. AND THESE ZITHERS WERE
EXTRA-SUPER./ SIMPLY SUP A SHEET OF NOTES UNDER THE
STRINGS ANDlEARN TO PLAYIN 10 EASY LESSONS.THIS SALESMAN DEMONSTRATED ABLY WITH AM05THEARTRENDING
ANNIE U U R I E . DAD WAS AFFECTED BUTNOT TOUCHED TO
TUNE OH4.99,EVEN WITH 10 EASY LESSONS THROWN IN/ WITH
MUSICAL CAREER SO HALTED, 1 RECALLWEEP1NG.S0METIME
AFTERWARD, I HEARD MY AGED QUAKER GRANDMOTHER
QUAVERINGLY ASK MY MOTHER,"D0RA,THE GOOD BOOK
SAYS IN HEAVEN W E SHALL PLAY ON HARPS.NOWTHEE
KNOWS I AM NOT MUSICAL. DOES THEE THINK I COULD
EVER LEARN TO PLAY ON A HARP?!
SHUCKS,! THOUGHT, OF COURSE GRANDMA COULD,AND,
ACCORDING TO THAT ZLTHER SALE SMAN.INONLYTEN EASY
LESSONS,TO0/ ONTHAT SAD MUSICAL NOTE, WE END.
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Actors, old 45 Adobe 4,5 Ads, Old Valley 12 Agnews 14,15,18,30 Agricultural Park 30 Alameda, The 4,9,28,34,42 Almaden .... 2,3,13,30,34,36,41 Alma 30 Almost Forgotten 11 Alum Rock Park 30 Alvarado, Gov 34 Alviso 2,30, 36 Amusements, Old 30 Antimacassar 30 Arguello, Don JostS 34 Arroyo de Coyote 33 Artesian Wells 30,31 Azule 31
Babe Ruth 30 Bacon, Frank 31 Baer, William 24,43 Bailey, C. P 35 Baldwin, Charles 31 Barber, 1900 11 Bascom 31 Bean, Joel 41 Beaulieu 31 Bee, Harry 31 Belden, Josiah 6 Bennett Party 37 Bernal, Joaquin 5,31 Bernal, Dolores 44 Berryessa 31 Blackmar 43 Blackberry Farm 33,43 Blacksmith, 1900 24 Bloomfield Ranch 38 Bollinger, Jess 43 Bond, Judge 36 Bordi 43 Brea Fields 39 Bret Harte 31 Brewer 39 Buffalo Bill 30,31 Buntline, Ned 31
Calabazas 32 Calafi'a 32 Calaveras 32 Call of the Wild 36 California 32 Campbell 8,19 Campbell, William 32 Campbell, Benjamin 32
I n d e x
Carretas 5,8,9,32 Catala", Fr 3,4,9,32,38 Castro, Mariano 40 Chittenden 39 China 5 Chinese 32 Cinnabar 30 Civil War 6,13 Cloud's Rest 38 Cody, William 31 Coffee Club 33 College Park 16 Cooper, A.D.M 33 Cook's Pond 33,38 Congress Springs 33 Copa de Ora 34 Cory, Dr. Benjamin 33 Coastanoan Tribe 39 Coyote 2, 33 Craft Ranch 32 Crespi, Fr. 1,2,3 Crossman, W. F 44 Cupertino 8,24,31,33,43 Cupertino Settlers 33 Cuesta, Fr 2
Dabney, G.A., 31 Dawla, Agustin 34 Dawson, James M 34 DeAnza ....30,31,33,35,38,41,43 Death Valley 37 Deep Cliff 43 Delineator 10 Discovery 1 Doak, Philip 6 DonnerParty 6,32,40 Doyle School 21 Dunham, James 19,40
Earthquake 14 Eberhard Tanning Co 34 Edenvale 34 ElCamino 34 El Quito 34 Eschscholtzia, (Poppy) 34 Evergreen 38
Falstaff Brewery 35 Fashions, 1897 10 Fathers' Villa 45 Fellom, Matthew 6 Figueroa, Gov 4 Fisher 35 Flickinger, J. C 35 Font.Fr 33
Forbes, James 35 Forbes Mill 35 Fountain Alley 37 Fredricksburg Brewery 18,35 Fremont, Gen 31,35 Frontier Village 34
Gilroy 35,38,39,41 Gilroy, John 6 Gilroy Hot Springs 35 Goats 35 Gomez, Fr 1 Goodrich 34,35 Grant, Gen 30,45 Grant, Capt 43 Grizzly Flat 43 Gubserville 35
Half Moon Bay 1 Hamilton, Rev. L 39 Hanchett Park 38 Harmon, Chas 33 Hayes Family 34 Hecker Pass 36 Hill, Andrew P 33 Hinds, Shorty 41 Hollister 16 Hoover, Pres. Herbert 41 Hoffman 39 Hop Sing Tong 32 Houdini 20
Indians, Valley 1,2 InterurbanR.R 8 Inyogo 37
Jordan, David Starr 14
Kitchen, 1900 27
Llagas 36 Lake, Will 32 Laguna Seca 35 Lasuen, Fr 4 Lawrence 36 Lexington 30 Lick, James 36 Lick's Observatory 36 Lightnin" (play) 31 Lincoln, Abraham 13,36 London, Jack 36 Looking Backward 1900 7 Los Altos 36 Los Gatos 8, 30,36,39 Lux, Chas 38 Lyndon, John W 36 LydiaPinkham 12
, / C j y u _
Madrone 36 Magic Lantern 28 Maloney, Dan 38 Manana 5 Manly, James 37 Mann, Horace 37 Marcello, Indian 37 Mark Twain 37 Mayfield 37 McCarthy, Martin 42 McGlincy 19 McGuffy's Reader 37 McLellan Road 33 McKiernan, (Mtn. Charley) 38 McKinley, Pres. Wm 45 McPherson, R. C 39 Menlo Park 16 Meteor, Alum Rock 30 Mignola 12 Miller, Henry 38,39,42 Milpitas 38 Mission Santa Clara 3,4 Mission San Jose' 3,41 Mission Creek 38 Monta Vista 31,33,38,43 Montalvo 32 Montara Mtn 1 Monterey Bay 1 Montgomery, Alex 33,43 Montgomery, John 38 Morgan Hill 39 Moody Gulch 39 Moraga, Lt 41 Mt. Bache 36 Mt.Eden 31 Mt. Hamilton 36,39 Mt. Isabel 39 Mt. Loma Prieta 14,36 Mt. Madonna 39 Mt. Umunhum 39 ML View 31,39 Moustache Cup 11 Murietta, Joaquin 19 Murphy, Lt 42 Murphy Station 44 Murphy, Martin, Sr. & Jr. 6,31, 39,40
Naglee, Gen 30 New Chicago v 30 Nobili,Fr .* 4 Nostalgia 39 Notre Dame 39 Novitiate 39
Oak Hill 19,32,37,40,42 O'Briens 41 O'Connor, M.P 40 O'Connor's Sanitarium 40 Oldfield, Barney 30 Ortega 35
Pacheco, Francisco 40 Pacheco Pass 40 Pacific Mfg. Co 16 Pajaro 1 Palo Alto 15,40 Palou, Fr 3 Parlor, 1900 25 Pellier, Louis 6,40,42 Pellier, Pierre 42 Pellier Gardens 40 Pena, Fr. Thomas 4 Penitencia Cr 40 Peninsular R.R 33 Permanente 40 Peruna 12 Pescadero 1 Phelan, Sen. James 32 Picchetti 43,45 Plumbing 40,41 Portal, Louis 41,43 Pratt-Low 33,38 Portola 1 Prado, Juan 9 Prevost, Don Luis 42 Prune 6 Pyle 35
Quivey 44 Quicksilver 30, 41
Railroad, First 6,8 Railroad, S.J. & S.C. Horse 9 Reed 31,40 Redwoods 1 Redwood City 16 Renga, Candy 41 Ricard, Fr 41,42 Ripley 20 Rock, John 40 Roosevelt, Pres. T 32 Royal Road 34 Rudolph's 41
Sadiron 11 San Andreas Fault 14 San Jose 6,8,9,17, 26,41 San Jose Normal 21 San Martin 42 San Felipe 41 San Juan Bautista 40 San Luis Rancho 40 Sanchez, Francisco 42 Santa Clara 3, 9,15,18,42
Battle of 42 Mission 4,30,34,42
Santa Teresa 5,44 St. James Park 42 St John Hills 42 St. Joseph Church 44
San Tomas 42 Saratoga 8,31,42 Saratoga, N.Y 33,42 Sargents 39,42 Schools, 1900 21 Schultheis, Martin 38 Secularization 3,4, 5 Serra, Fr 1, 3, 4, 9 SingKee 41,42 Silk 42 Skinner, Judge 43 Skinner Seedling 43 Soda Rock 43 Stanford 8,14,40,41,43 Stanford, Leland 30 Stevens, Elisha 33,43 Stevens Creek 33,43 Stevens Creek Rd. 8, 21,32,41, 43 Stockton Ave 33 Store, 1900, Country 26 Stricklett, (spit-ball) 44 Sunnyvale 39,44 Sunol, Don 6,30,31,44 Sutter 44
Taylor, Bayard 39,44 Telegraph, first 6 Temblors 14 Terramotos 14 Theaters, old 30,45 Tobacco 41 Tower, San Jose 44 Transportation 8 Tres Pinos 19 Trianon, Le Petit 31 Truckee, Chief 44
Uvas 45
Vasquez, Tiburcio 9,19 Vendome Hotel 45 Viader, Fr 37 Victory Theater 45 Villa Maria 45 Vizcafno 1
Washington, George 4 West Side 24, 33 Willow Glen 37 Wilson, Mrs. Arch 24 Winchester, Sarah 20 Winchester House 20 Wright, Jas 45 Wright's Station 45 Wool 35 Woolen Mills 45
Zayante 38 Zither 45
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Q t j i f l i B o o k s b y
ALMOST FORGOTTEN (1964) History, humor and nostalgia of the Old Santa Clara Valley—circa 1900. 8'/2
x H soft cover, 48 pages, hand-lettered, 100 cartoons by author, indexed.
REMEMBER WHEN (1965) Sequel to above. Humorous local episodes and adventures of a small boy in the Old Valley, circa 1900. S]/2 x 11 soft cover, 56 pages, hand-lettered, illust. by author.
ME AND CY (1966) Further adventures of the small boy (the author) in companionship with his oldster friend, Cy Attika, and their trips to visit a colony of unforgettable characters living in the Alviso garbage dumps, circa 1900. 6 x 9 , illus. by author, hand-lettered, 48 pages.
LADY OF MYSTERY (1967) Intimate story of the mysterious Sarah Winchester and her world famous mansion. 6 x 9 , 16 pages soft cover. Hand-lettered and illus. by author.
LO, THE POOR INDIAN (1967) First available collection of researched material devoted solely to the Santa Clara Valley Indian, our lost race. 6 x 9 , 16 pages, soft cover booklet, hand-lettered and illus. by author.
TIBURCIO VASQUEZ (1968) Historical biography of a California bandit with a career of crime rivalling Murieta.
CARTOON MAP OF OLD S. C. VALLEY (1969). Now in full color. 17 x 22.
THE LITTLE HOUSE (1969) "Outdoor plumbing" in the good old days.
ADVENTURE VALLEY (1970) Pioneer adventures in the Santa Clara Valley. 50 drawings by the author, including 1892 map of San Jose. 8J/2 * 11, 48 pages, soft cover.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY RANCHOS; The book was researched and authored by our eminent historian, Clyde Arbuckle, with cartography and illustrations by Ralph Rambo. Book contains a folded, colored Rancho Map, 17 x 20. This "Rancho Book" is the first and only accurate treatise devoted entirely to the original Mexican-Spanish Grants forming our Valley prior to 1846. Sy2 x 11,soft-cover.
BLUE BOOK; For Santa Clara Valley residents this is an abridged biographical "Who Was Who" of prominent pioneers in the 1840-1870 era. Includes origins of towns, early settlements and for researchers — a helpful bibliography. Hand lettered and drawings by author, a native of the Valley since 1894. 6 x 9 soft-cover, 48 pages.
SIERRA SANTA (1971) A fictional short story lightly flavored with historical facts. Written for children or any reader still "young at heart." 8l/2 x 11, 16 pages, soft cover booklet, hand lettered and illus. by author.
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