What San Jose, California looked like in the 1970s, A stunning Visual Tour

The tower dates back to 1911, but the university is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in California, going back to 1857 when it was a private school called "Minns' Evening Normal School" and was located in San Francisco.

The area has been dug out for the foundation and work is well under way. The dark building on the left is the Biltmore Hotel, the large white building in the background is the Pacific Mutual Building, and the building on the extreme right is Hotel Savoy.

Thomas Fallon, who raised the American flag over San Jose in July, 1846, built this home in 1859 at 175 West Saint John Street (formerly San Augustine Street). Fallon later served as mayor of San Jose. The builing, added to in later years, has been a restaurant well known to several generations of San Joseans.

San Jose's Japanese Buddhist Temple dates only to 1937, but it belongs in this publication because of its architecture and its representation of the community's large Japanese population. The temple enhances a site at North 5th Street.

Feed Barn interior, milking aisle and stanchions

Murphy Building shortly before its demolition in January 1976. Located at the corner of Market Street and Post Street. Hoffman's Mens Wear and other businesses were housed in the Murphy Building.

Edwin Markham's Residence, 432 S. 8th Street This is the home of Edwin Markham, San Jose's resident poet from 1869 to 1889, and it is now a California State Historical Landmark. Located at 432 South 8th Street, it is owned by San Jose State University and at one time was used as an infirmary. Markham wrote his famed "Man with the Hoe" in the room the Edwin Markham Poetry Society now uses for annual meetings.

A bungalow style home built in the year of the earthquake (1906) is the residence at 136 South 13th Street, the home of Frazier O. Reed, grandson of James Frazier Reed, who was one of the leaders of the Reed-Donner party, and who later laid out the Reed Addition of downtown San jose.

Greatly altered from its original appearance is the old Charles Crothers home at 97 South 13th Street, built by the realtor in 1910 and now used as a board and care home. Charles Crothers was chairman of the building comittee when the old quad at San Jose State University was being built. His brother was executor of the estate of Comstock King, James G. Fair, and of the last will of Mrs. Leland Stanford. Crothers Road is named for the family.

A. D. M. Cooper, San Jose artist resided at this home at 250 South 19th Street. The house was built in 1883 and is still in use as a residence. Print used in, and above description taken from the book "San Jose.

The three-story I.O.O.F. (Odd Fellows) building on the southwest corner of Third and Santa Clara Streets is one of the best preseved of the brick blocks built prior to 1900. The structure was built in 1885 by the Odd Fellows Hall Association. The third floor was used as a residence for members.

The building, of Neo-Classical style architecture, was constructed in 1905 and served as a church until 1946 when a new church was erected on another site.

The First Universalist Unitarian Church's building dates back to 1891, but Unitarian services were held in San Jose as early as November 1865, with the City Hall as the meeting place. Corner stone for this building at 160 North Third Street was laid September 23, 1891.

The Montgomery Hotel which opened in July, 1911 is now a hotel for senior citizens. Four stories and a full basement, the building at 211 South First Street has shops on the ground floor and rooms above. The hotel takes its name from T. S. Montgomery, major developer of downtown San Jose three-quarters of a century ago.

Saint James Park or Square, as it was called when it was surveyed by Chester Lyman neatly two years before California became a State and San Jose a city, has been the locale for many historic events. At one time it was offered as the site for the stste capitol building. Print used in, and above description taken from the book "San Jose

408 S. 3rd Street. One of the few examples of Mansard-style architecture in San Jose, according to architects, is this wooden residence at 408 S. 3rd Street. It's double sloped roof is distinctive of this style of architecture.

Helen Guth Hall, one of three original buildings of the College of the Pacific when it was housed in San Jose, is this 1909 structure on Elm Street around the corner from Emory Street. It is now in use by Bellarmine College Preparatory as an office building. This hall was originally a women’s dormitory, and the other two buildings of old College of the Pacific are the gymnasium and the one-story dining hall (now a chapel for Bellarmine boys).

This home at 1048 West San Fernando Street was built about 1890 and is in excellent repair. Of Queen Anne style architecture, it has stained glass windows with carved frames. More research is required to determine its original owner.

The present building replaced a wooden church which burned. Architect for Saint Joseph's was Brian J. Clinch, designer of more than 30 churches in California. Early pueblo residents, including Luis Maria Peralta, trudged through the mud of winter and the dust of summer, dodging squirrel holes in the plaza to attend mass on the site of the present impressive building.

Alum Rock Canyon Part of San Jose's pueblo lands dating back to 1777, Alum Rock canyon has been a park only since 1872. It was named a Point of Historical Interest in June, 1972, by act of the County Board of Supervisors.

The Sainte Claire Club at St. James and 2nd Streets was built as an exclusive men's club by Senator James D. Phelan, wealthy banker, businessman and former mayor of San Francisco. The building was constructed in 1894 and repaired after the earthquake in 1907.

Another example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture is Saint Mary's Catholic Church at 565 South Third Street. The building was erected in 1891 with brick and sandstone from the quarry out on the New Almaden Road mined by members of the Pfeiffer family.

This old residnce was built in 1889 by the Wehner family, German imigrants who bought the Evergreen district ranch from John McCarthy the previous year. Ernest Wehner planted a vineyard which was sold to R. Cribari & Sons Company in 1943. The house is now part of the Villages, an adult community off San Filipe Road.

This old mansion hidden in the trees at 755 Story Road was built in the 1870s by James Ashworth and was sold to the Remillard brick works family in 1891. It became the summer home of Countess Lillian Remillard Dandini, and was been sold along with accompanying acreage for an industrial park.

This multi-storied sand and gravel bunker at 790 Stockton Avenue is one of the few remaining and still in use. It was built of mammoth Douglas fir beams by the Central Supply Gravel Rock Company some 50 years or more ago and is architecturally and historically importantas an example of its type of structure.

The old Home Union building, more recently Garden City Hofbrau, has beeen standing on the corner of Market and Post Streets since 1873. The second story once housed a gymnasium while the ground floor was the Home Union grocery. The facade on the Market side of the building was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and present plans call for the removal of the structure.

Layhodie, purchased in the 1880s by Stephen Poole Sanders, early-day photographer, is now the home of a greatnephew, Charles Pond. The Victorian mansion is located at 5051 Moorpark Avenue and contains hand-carved woodwork, Italian marble fireplace and original glass in the front door.

The G. W. Brewster home at 62 South 13th Street is on the inventory of historic sites because it is the only known example of the architecture of the

Fourth Ward School, 408 Almaden This is the old Fourth Ward School, later named the Lincoln School, built in 1874 at the cost of $17,000 and long condemned except for storage. The building, which came through the 1906 earthquake is at 406 Almaden Avenue and is an example of the Renaissance Revival style of architecture.

The Italianate mansion at 1615 Dry Creek Road is the house Theophilus Kirk built for his wife Lizzie in 1878, and is still owned by members of the family. Kirk and his brother Socrates built the Kirk Ditch Company, faint traces of which are still visible in the West Valley and which was an early irrigation experiment.

156 East St. John Street The old wooden two-story building at 156 East St. John Street is an apartment house called The Allen. Built in the 1870s or early 1880s, its architectural style is Italianate.

Four Square Gospel Church, 301 E. Santa Clara Street This familiar stucco building at 301 East Santa Clara Street, with its curved entrance and billboard perched on the roof, was remodeled as the Four-Square Gospel Church in 1943, and was dedicated by evangelist Aimee Semple McPerson. In recent years it has been used as a hall.

Hotel St. James, 241 North 1st Street The present Hotel St. James at 241 North 1st Street was originally named the Moir Building for the builder who constructed the three-story brick structure in the 1890s. It originally housed the Straford Hotel, but the name was changed when the original Hotel St. James was demolished in the 1930s. The Campen family has owned the building since 1927.

The old Fredericksburg Brewery has been a landmark on the Alameda for more than a century, and its buildings have been occupied by several different brewing companies over the years. Built in 1869, it was designed by Theodere Lenzen and has been remodeled over the years. The buildings were at the Alameda and Cinnabar Streets until they were demolished in the Winter of 1974.

483 South 6th Street One of the few examples of Mansard style architecture is a two-story residence at 483 South 6th Street with a huge pecan tree in front of it...believed to be only bearing pecan on the floor of the valley.

United Artist Theatre, 263 South 1st. Street The United Artist Theatre was built in 1918 and opened as the Hippodrome, a vaudeville stronghold for several years until it became the motion picture theatre called the American. In 1938 the building was remodeled and renamed the State.

Next door to the Letitia building on South First Street is the brick Ryland building built by realtor and financier C. T. Ryland in 1892. It is still in use as a commercial building as is the building next door named for his daughter.

The County Courthouse at 191 North First Street, built in 1868, is one of the remaining architectural triumphs of Levi Goodrich, one of the city's pioneers. Sandstone for the building's construction came from Goodrich's quarry off the road to New Almaden. Originally three stories, earthquake and fire cut it down to two.

Built at Santa Clara and 1st Streets in 1927, during a skyscraper building boom, it's 13 plus stories still towers over more modern business buildings in the surrounding blocks. Until 1969 it was the headquarters for Bank of America in San Jose. A.P. Giannini, founder of the Bank of Italy, forerunner of the Bank of America, occupied the building at one time. There is still a branch of the bank in the building, plus offices.

The fabulous Hayes estate at 200 Edenvale Avenue, built early in this century by European craftsmen, is now in use as a rehabilitation center. The Hayes family included owners of the San Jose Mercury who were prominant in San Jose's political life. The house has marble fireplaces and walnut and mahogany paneling.

Northwest view of Market Street from West San Carlos Street. Several banks can be seen: First Interstate Bank, Bank of America, Plaza Bank of Commerce and Union Bank. The Hotel de Anza is barely visible beyond an office building.

The Naglee Mansion, 99 South 14th Street The old Naglee mansion, once the center of a park-like, 140-acre tract, still stands on the northwest corner of San Fernando and 14th Street. It was the home of General Henry Morris Naglee, who came to California in 1847 as a captain in Colonel Jonathan D. Stevenson's First Regiment, New York Volunteers, and who later served as a brigadier general in the Civil War. He was instrumental in getting legislation passed in 1871-72 to have Alum Rock Canyon set aside as a park.

The old Bayside Canning building in Alviso; at one time the second largest cannery in the United States. It was owned by Chinese and managed by Thomas Foon Chew. Its main product was asparagus from the delta. When Tom Foon died, a funeral was held in San Francisco and thousands of people marched in his parade.

Two houses block the view of the Peralta Adobe behind them, with the Lusardi building to the right of the houses. The houses were removed when the adobe was renovated.

Pioneer rancher David Greenawalt, who came to California with the gold rush seekers in 1850, built this home in 1877 on the road to New Almaden, a decade after buying the land. The house was moved from 14611 Almaden Expressway to History Park in 1991.

Quakes' Johnny Moore, Paul Child, Davy Kemp, and Mani Hernandez with 1975 indoor championship trophy.

Bank managers ride their bikes at the Bank of California ribbon cutting ceremony, Park Avenue and Market Street, San Jose.

The Associated Oil Gas Station at its original location on the corner of Julian and Market Streets. It was moved several years later to History Park in 1978.

The Print Shop at History Park was originally a residence located at the corner of North San Pedro and St. John Street. Built in 1874, it was moved to History Park in 1972.

Quakes forward Jimmy Johnstone (Earthquakes 1975, Scotland 1964-74) leaping in response to sliding tackle by Seattle Sounders No. 16 Adrian Webster at match at Spartan Stadium, San Jose State University.