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The Jungle was a large homeless encampment located in San Jose, California. [ 1] It was located off Story Road and along Coyote Creek, in an area called Coyote Meadow, and consisted of various makeshift dwellings, shacks, tree houses and tents on around 75 acres (30 ha) of land. [ 2][ 3][ 4] During the time of its existence, it was often ...
37°18′53″N 121°55′41″W / 37.3148°N 121.9280°W / 37.3148; -121.9280 [2] Colours. Purple, gold. Mascot. San Jose City Jaguars. Website. Official website. San José City College ( SJCC) is a public community college in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1921, [3] and is one of the oldest colleges in the California ...
Yossi Ghinsberg speaking in 2016. Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg ( Hebrew: יוסי גינסברג; born 5 April 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. [ 1] Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for ...
On March 27, 1850, San Jose became the first incorporated city in the U.S. state of California; the first mayor was Josiah Belden. It also served as the state's first capital with the first and second sessions of the California Legislature, known as the Legislature of a Thousand Drinks, being held there in 1850 and 1851.
Sam Liccardo. Samuel Theodore Liccardo (born April 16, 1970) is an American politician from California who served as the 65th mayor of San Jose from 2015 to 2023. [ 1] A member of the Democratic Party, Liccardo was elected mayor in November 2014. He was reelected in 2018 with 75.8% of the vote. [ 2]
Jungle Jim is the fictional hero of a series of jungle adventures in various media. The series began on January 7, 1934, as an American newspaper comic strip chronicling the adventures of Asia-based hunter Jim Bradley, who was nicknamed Jungle Jim. The character also trekked through radio, film, comic book and television adaptations. [ 1]
Frontier Village was a 39-acre (16 ha) amusement park in San Jose, California, that operated from 1961 to September 1980. It was located at 4885 Monterey Road, at the intersection with Branham Lane. The site is now Edenvale Garden Park, next to Hayes Mansion, and was once part of the sprawling Hayes Family Estate. [ 1]: 9–10.
Coyote Creek aerial view from the south in San Jose, from south of Hellyer County Park up to Interstate 280. Although it is called a "creek", Coyote Creek is actually a river whose watershed drains 320 square miles (830 km 2 ). The Coyote Creek mainstem runs 63.6 miles (102.4 km) [5] from the confluence of its East Fork and Middle Fork to ...