Signposts Revisited
This new publication combines author Pat
Loomis' previous two books,
Signposts and Signposts II and tells the stories of how our streets
were named. Signposts Revisited is a must-read for
anyone interested in local history. The book is a combined project of
PAC-SJ, California Pioneers of Santa Clara Valley, History San Jose,
and the Argonauts Historical Society.Touring Historic Willow Glen, published in a partnership between the Willow Glen Neighborhood Association and Preservation Action Council of San Jose. The book costs $17.95 and can be purchased at Willow Glen Books, 1330 Lincoln Avenue, or by calling the PAC*SJ office - (408) 998-8105. New or renewing members at or above the $100 level get a free copy of the book. Join Now!
The Willow Glen Neighborhood: Then and Now (San Jose Neighborhoods Series by April H. Halberstadt
San Jose and Its Cathedral by Marjorie Pierce
The Restless Valley - a two hour documentary aired on PBS (1964) with Clyde Arbuckle
Clyde Arbuckle's History of San José - 540 pages (1986, out-of-print but now downloadable as an ebook from SJLibrary.org)
San Jose's Women: Colonial Days to the 1970's - pioneering women and their achievements (2002) by Helen Arbuckle
San Jose, California's First City (The American Portrait Series) by Edwin A. and Demers, Donald O., Jr. Beilharz
San Jose reflections : an illustrated history of San Jose, California and some of surrounding area by Edith Brockway
Mission San Jose (The Missions of California) by Amy Margaret (Library Binding - May 1999)
San Jose: City With a Past by Kathleen Muller
The Architecture of San Jose, California: a selected bibliography by Anthony G. White
Life Along the Guadalupe River - an Archaeological and Historical Journey - The story of the Woolen Mills Chinatown site that existed at Taylor Street and the Guadalupe River between 1888-1902 and the excavation work done for the widening of Highway 87. Available through Friends of the Guadalupe River Park Gardens
The Alameda - The Beautiful Way Shannon Clark. Purchase from the Alameda Business Association