Tag: history park
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Restoration Shop volunteers hard at work
Our volunteers at the Restoration Shop have been busy working on the Museum’s 1927 Model T Truck, getting it in good running order. So far they’ve rebuilt the starter, added a modern ignition switch, rewired the electrical system, and added a new one-gallon gas tank. Thank you to all the Restoration Shop volunteers for your…
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Meet our Community Curators: Shana Javier-Carrasco
To celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit Tattooed and Tenacious: Inked Women in California’s History, we will be highlighting the work of the some local female tattoo artists who helped curate the exhibit. To get things started, we talked with Shana Javier-Carrasco, a tattoo artist who has been working in San Jose for over…
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Hands-on History Days: Children’s Holiday Festival
San Jose, CA – October 23, 2015 — Get into the holiday spirit with History San José at the Children’s Heritage Holiday Festival Saturday on December 5 from 11:00am to 3:00pm at History Park. Visitors will enjoy holiday arts and crafts, rides on a horse-drawn carriage and the historic trolley, pictures with Santa, and much…
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History Park plays host to Printers’ Fair & ‘Wayzgoose’ Saturday, May 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM
San Jose, CA – May 1, 2014 — What is a Wayzgoose, you ask? Some might say a Wayzgoose can be traced to St. Bartholomew’s Day (August 24) when in 1456 a festival marked the completion of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. It has evolved into a festival demonstrating handmade books, paper, and the…
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History Park plays host to Printers’ Fair & ‘Wayzgoose’ Saturday, May 17 from 10 AM to 3 PM
San Jose, CA – May 1, 2014 — What is a Wayzgoose, you ask? Some might say a Wayzgoose can be traced to St. Bartholomew’s Day (August 24) when in 1456 a festival marked the completion of the printing of the Gutenberg Bible. It has evolved into a festival demonstrating handmade books, paper, and the…
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History San José and Portraits of the Past to host Reflections of Old San José – a Historic Fashion Show
San Jose, CA — February 25, 2014 — History San José and Portraits of the Past will present a historic fashion show on March 15 at 2 PM in the Renzel Room of the Pacific Hotel in History Park. Reflections of Old San José will benefit HSJ educational programs and showcase costuming, as well as…
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Haunt History Park is not scary
San José, CA – September 30, 2013 — What’s scary about Halloween? Have no fear at Haunt History Park, on Saturday, October 26 from 1 to 4 p.m. Children will be able to trick-or-treat throughout San José’s History Park at Kelley Park in a fun, safe, family-friendly environment. This scare-free annual event has become a…
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History San José to host Yard Sale in the Park October 13
San Jose, CA – September 16, 2013 — Everybody loves a good bargain. And where else would one find a good book but at a museum? On Sunday, October 13, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., History San José will host a park-wide yard sale. But the best bargain at the Yard Sale in the…
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Celebrating the Sempervirens story — more than 100 years of conservation
San Jose, CA – May 6, 2013 On May 18, 1900 the Sempervirens Club was founded by photographer and painter Andrew Putnam Hill of San Jose to save the old-growth redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains. The Sempervirens were pioneers in the conservation movement, and the home of Andrew and Florence Hill is now located…
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Caboose arrives at History Park
On January 14, a railroad caboose was placed on display coupled to the Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive alongside Senter Road at History Park creating an attraction to passing motorists. For over a century, cabooses were a familiar sight at the end of trains. Essentially a traveling office, these vehicles provided space to complete shipping…
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