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Re: San Jose's Light Rail after 25 years----inefficient etc
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 12-29-2012 - 17:59
Outsider Wrote:
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> Drew Jacksich Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > We never went Valley Fair, McWhorter's did
> (still
> > may have been McWhorter-Young at first). Don
> > Lindsay stuck it out at 77 S. First, partly (I
> > think) because of his lease with building owner
> > Morris Grant. He did consider moving over to
> Park
> > Center Plaza (McWhorter's, after Elmer Young
> went
> > his own way)had a place at Market & San
> Fernando.
> > When Elmo Ferrari became part owner in late
> 1975,
> > the downtown store was doomed and closed in
> July
> > of 1976. By that time, we were out on Coleman
> > Ave. In a little case of DeJaVue, One Workplace
> > (the direct descendant of Curtis Lindsay, Inc.
> is
> > in the process of leaving Milpitas for the
> corner
> > of DeLaCruz and Martin.
> >
> > My mother was working for Hart's in the mid and
> > late 60's. Alex had plans for a new downtown
> > store but could not get the money and went to
> > Westgate which did nothing but draw business
> away
> > from their Sunnyvale store. Toward the end, it
> was
> > still called Hart's but had been bought out by
> > some company in Southern California.
> >
> > It always seemed to me the big issue downtown
> was
> > parking and the reaction to the installation of
> > parking meters. The city built the parking
> garage
> > where Firehouse #1 had been as well as the
> > Greyhound depot but it didn't help. The first
> > break in downtown was the loss of Sears in 1954
> > when they went to Race & San Carlos St. on the
> old
> > O'Connor site. Imagine, Sears moved in where I
> was
> > born. Also, Valley Fair, at least the original
> > plant, was in San Jose---The Emporium was in
> Santa
> > Clara across Redwood Ave (& Webb's Photo)from
> VF.
> > Also, VF was built where there were a lot of
> > Kaiser homes were located, not orchards.
>
>
>
> There has to be a message here. I am not from the
> area, but this post is incomprehensible,
Sorry about that-----Drew and my husband and I are native San Joseans and this is part of our ruminations on the ruination of downtown San Jose and the stupidity of the light rail system which the original post referred to----------Drew's post makes sense to us but I am sure not to someone elsewhere--------my apologies.
C.
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> Drew Jacksich Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > We never went Valley Fair, McWhorter's did
> (still
> > may have been McWhorter-Young at first). Don
> > Lindsay stuck it out at 77 S. First, partly (I
> > think) because of his lease with building owner
> > Morris Grant. He did consider moving over to
> Park
> > Center Plaza (McWhorter's, after Elmer Young
> went
> > his own way)had a place at Market & San
> Fernando.
> > When Elmo Ferrari became part owner in late
> 1975,
> > the downtown store was doomed and closed in
> July
> > of 1976. By that time, we were out on Coleman
> > Ave. In a little case of DeJaVue, One Workplace
> > (the direct descendant of Curtis Lindsay, Inc.
> is
> > in the process of leaving Milpitas for the
> corner
> > of DeLaCruz and Martin.
> >
> > My mother was working for Hart's in the mid and
> > late 60's. Alex had plans for a new downtown
> > store but could not get the money and went to
> > Westgate which did nothing but draw business
> away
> > from their Sunnyvale store. Toward the end, it
> was
> > still called Hart's but had been bought out by
> > some company in Southern California.
> >
> > It always seemed to me the big issue downtown
> was
> > parking and the reaction to the installation of
> > parking meters. The city built the parking
> garage
> > where Firehouse #1 had been as well as the
> > Greyhound depot but it didn't help. The first
> > break in downtown was the loss of Sears in 1954
> > when they went to Race & San Carlos St. on the
> old
> > O'Connor site. Imagine, Sears moved in where I
> was
> > born. Also, Valley Fair, at least the original
> > plant, was in San Jose---The Emporium was in
> Santa
> > Clara across Redwood Ave (& Webb's Photo)from
> VF.
> > Also, VF was built where there were a lot of
> > Kaiser homes were located, not orchards.
>
>
>
> There has to be a message here. I am not from the
> area, but this post is incomprehensible,
Sorry about that-----Drew and my husband and I are native San Joseans and this is part of our ruminations on the ruination of downtown San Jose and the stupidity of the light rail system which the original post referred to----------Drew's post makes sense to us but I am sure not to someone elsewhere--------my apologies.
C.
