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This is a list of notable people from San Jose, California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in San Jose, or for whom San Jose is a significant part of their identity, as well as music groups founded in San Jose. This list is in alphabetical order by surname.
The San José Museum of Art (SJMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum in downtown San Jose, California, United States. Founded in 1969, the museum holds a permanent collection with an emphasis on West Coast artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The City of San Jose promised funding for a Technology Center of Silicon Valley in the 1980s, but progress was slow. [ 4 ] The first 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2 ) temporary exhibit opened in 1990; The Garage , named in homage to the HP Garage , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] was housed in San Jose's former convention center.
For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. [3] Permanent European presence in the area came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portolà and Junípero Serra, about sixty miles (100 km) to the south.
A Superintendent of Indian Affairs was appointed for California to oversee them. U.S. Senate rejected the 18 treaties negotiated with California native peoples on July 7, 1852 in a secret vote. For the next 50 years the documents remained classified. Also see California Indian Reservations and Cessions.
It was their second attempt at operating a movie theater; the Leagues had relocated to Austin after spending two years operating the Tejon Theater in Bakersfield, California. [13] The Tejon was unsuccessful, but the Leagues learned important lessons and tried their luck again in Austin. [13] The company began as a second-run movie theater. It ...
The Burro Flats site is a painted cave site located near Burro Flats, in the Simi Hills of eastern Ventura County, California, United States.The Chumash-style "main panel" and the surrounding 25-acres were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, with a boundary decrease in 2020.
The San Jose crime family, also known as the Cerrito crime family or the San Jose Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in San Jose, California.The San Jose family was one of the two families that controlled organized crime in San Jose, within the nationwide criminal organization known as the American Mafia (or "La Cosa Nostra"); the other family that ran organized crime in ...