(NQR) NY Times on San Jose's Revival

[DaveBrett]

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/travel/20next.html

Makes San Jose sound really cool. Almost as cool as Austin.

Dave

[sj_oldtimer]

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/travel/20next.html

Makes San Jose sound really cool. Almost as cool as Austin.

Dave

That's a nice article about San Jose.

[JazzyJ]

That's a nice article about San Jose.Wow, for a moment there I started to think San Jose was so cool that even a New York writer would think it was cool. But the author is a freelance writer living in Oakland (and I think a former reporter for the Oakland Tribune). Oh well. But still the NY Times published the article, so that says something...

[gilmoreaz]

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/travel/20next.html

San Jose is really cool. I wish Austin was!

Dave

Fixed your post buddy!;)

[falvo]

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/travel/20next.html

Makes San Jose sound really cool. Almost as cool as Austin.

Dave

But the article never mentioned the Quakes return......

[krudmonk]

But the article never mentioned the Quakes return......
You should know by now that New Yorkers don't care about MLS teams!

[falvo]

You should know by now that New Yorkers don't care about MLS teams!

Considering only 7000 showed up to their important playoff match last year and 10k to their regular season match last week, I see what you mean.....

[markmcf8]

Fixed your post buddy!;)

Good work!

San Jose IS really cool. I was disappointed to see that the author did not include the Rosicrucian Museum and the City museum among the cool things. The Rosicrucian holds the third largest collection of Egyptian artifacts and replicas in world, after only the National Museum in Cairo and the Nation Museum in London. Plus, it has a garden full of 3/4 replicas of what various statues and such would have looked like when new. The City museum, down in Kelly Park is a full scale reconstruction of much of old downtown San Jose. Except that the old light tower is only 3/4 scale, because the original blew over. It's the inspiration for the Eiffel Tower. How many of you knew that?!

And of course the crime rate is really low, and the Children's Discovery Museum is really cool. I could go on, but the city really does have a lot to recommend it.

QUAKES FOREVER!!
SAN JOSE RULES!!

- Mark

[sj_oldtimer]

Good work!

San Jose IS really cool. I was disappointed to see that the author did not include the Rosicrucian Museum and the City museum among the cool things. The Rosicrucian holds the third largest collection of Egyptian artifacts and replicas in world, after only the National Museum in Cairo and the Nation Museum in London. Plus, it has a garden full of 3/4 replicas of what various statues and such would have looked like when new. The City museum, down in Kelly Park is a full scale reconstruction of much of old downtown San Jose. Except that the old light tower is only 3/4 scale, because the original blew over. It's the inspiration for the Eiffel Tower. How many of you knew that?!

And of course the crime rate is really low, and the Children's Discovery Museum is really cool. I could go on, but the city really does have a lot to recommend it.

QUAKES FOREVER!!
SAN JOSE RULES!!

- Mark



When I was very young, I lived in Missouri. We made a trip to San Jose to visit relatives when I was almost 8 and my aunt and uncle took us to the Rosicrucian Museum. After I got back to MO, the big part of my speech to my 3rd grade class was about the Rosicrucian. I was the only kid there who had ever seen a REAL mummy. That was in January, 1957.

[falvo]

Good work!

San Jose IS really cool. I was disappointed to see that the author did not include the Rosicrucian Museum and the City museum among the cool things. The Rosicrucian holds the third largest collection of Egyptian artifacts and replicas in world, after only the National Museum in Cairo and the Nation Museum in London. Plus, it has a garden full of 3/4 replicas of what various statues and such would have looked like when new. The City museum, down in Kelly Park is a full scale reconstruction of much of old downtown San Jose. Except that the old light tower is only 3/4 scale, because the original blew over. It's the inspiration for the Eiffel Tower. How many of you knew that?!

And of course the crime rate is really low, and the Children's Discovery Museum is really cool. I could go on, but the city really does have a lot to recommend it.

QUAKES FOREVER!!
SAN JOSE RULES!!

- Mark

I never knew any of these things......how interesting. I think I went there once when I was 5 years old. Around the same time, I went to see the Winchester Mystery House. Its funny becuase for about a 5 year span from 2001-2005, I lived in Rome, Florence and traveled to Paris and every day I would be amazed by all the history. After living most of my life in San Jose, I never even knew (or cared) if these things ever even existed. I guess when you live in the same place all your life, like the Romans, you tend to take many of these things for granted.

[JazzyJ]

The City museum, down in Kelly Park is a full scale reconstruction of much of old downtown San Jose. Except that the old light tower is only 3/4 scale, because the original blew over. It's the inspiration for the Eiffel Tower. How many of you knew that?!Seriously? Heck, then let's not stop there. San Jose was the inspiration for Paris!

[babytiger2001]

Very cool article -- and I can see that there have been some big changes, both social and physical about the city, since I've been gone in the last five-plus years.

We must get back home sometime, in the relative near future...

[DotMPP]

When I was very young, I lived in Missouri. We made a trip to San Jose to visit relatives when I was almost 8 and my aunt and uncle took us to the Rosicrucian Museum. After I got back to MO, the big part of my speech to my 3rd grade class was about the Rosicrucian. I was the only kid there who had ever seen a REAL mummy. That was in January, 1957.
To clarify a bit, the museum was create by the head of the Rosicrucian Order (not sure when I though it was in the '20s) who was an avid collector of Egyptian artifacts.

The guy lived in a house across Naglee from the Park and at one time had a tunnel from his house to the Park so he didn't have to deal with crossing the street (how much traffic could there have been?)

My ex worked for the Rosicrucian Park and was a buyer for them and the museum. One thing they bought a lot of was the Vomit Granules because kids are always blowing chunks near the mummys

[Tifoso]

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/travel/20next.html

Makes San Jose sound really cool. Almost as cool as Austin.

Dave


San Jose is my favorite US big city.