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.

Signposts Revisited is available through the PAC-SJ office for $25. If you would like the book mailed, please add $3 for shipping and handling. Call the office at 408.998.8105 or email: info@preservation.org to place an order. The books will also be available at all of our events.

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The book is also available as a premium to new and renewing PAC-SJ members who JOIN at the $100+ level.

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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 by calling the PAC*SJ office - (408) 998-8105.

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The Gem of Edenvale: the Historic Hayes Mansion of San Jose, California by Nancy L. Newlin

 

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 by Shannon Clark. Purchase from the Alameda Business Association.