Lost Bay Area Stories

Nuclear Fallout Shelters in San Jose

As mentioned in earlier posts, Ma Chuck was the first Chinese American male to register to vote in Santa Clara County. He also paid a...

As mentioned in a previous post, San Jose resident and Chinese American, Ma Chuck, became the first man of Chinese decent to register to...

An American born Chinese man named Ma Chuck was the first man of Chinese decent to register to vote in Santa Clara County on September...

More than 120 years ago, during the era of Monarchies and the Gilded Age, the San Jose Mercury pointed out the inequities in society....

Heinlenville was one of the original Chinatowns in San Jose. It was located near 6th and Jackson St (currently Japantown). It is...

To Use: Download and install Google Earth Pro Download one of the historic overlay files (ends with *.kmz). See below links. Double...

I recently got a copy of the Paul Haddads book "Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles". It's a fascinating look into freeways...

During the early 1960, Louis Corbetta, a retired 60 year old, decided to build an iconic party house for friends and neighbors in the Los Al

It's fascinating to take a look back at an 1850's era photo of San Jose looking north east from St, James park. Nothing seems to have...

An excerpt from early San Jose Historian, Clyde Arbuckle, on the Spanish Flu era and the wearing of masks. The statistics are a little...

This photo of A.G Col was part of a accumulation of photographs that were found when cycling was just starting in San Jose around 1884. ...

Not in the Bay Area, but a colorized photo of the Mount Lowe Railway at Ye Alpine Tavern in 1913.

This photo of A.G Col was part of a accumulation of photographs that were found when cycling was just starting in San Jose around 1884. ...

Somethings never change in a century. Here's an article complaining about San Jose having the worst roads in the state. Source: San Jose...

The Saratoga area of the Santa Cruz mountain was once touted as having the purest most medicinal hot spring water in the area (similar in...

As I've mentioned in a previous post, Sodality Park was a forgotten baseball park in downtown San Jose that hosted many legends of early...

As I've mentioned in other posts, Sodality Park hosted a few legends of baseball such as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Ty Cobb. There are a...

The San Jose Mercury had a nice travelogue of a day trip from San Francisco all the way to Stevens Creek Canyon and the sights along the...

Around 1912 - 1916, San Jose constructed an artificial lake where the Guadalupe River and Los Gatos creek converge downtown.