When Herman Horton Kooser came to San Jose 160 years ago, he did not know his future street would help define the second Chuck E. Cheese and the last Burger Pit. What’s left of Kooser Road today is a street most people wouldn’t think of…
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As a teenager, when I snuck into a botched King Diamond show in the same building where the Fats Domino riot happened, I was too young to care about history. With all the current yakking about plaques, landmarks, local music roots and such, one marker…
In East San Jose, I went looking for a lost safari at Story and White, but the French muses of memory dragged me right back downtown. By today’s geography, the congested intersection might not seem like a place to see Wayne Newton, the Everly Brothers…
San Jose history is a moving fog bank. No matter how dim it gets, holes will open up to reveal bright moments of memory. Now is one of those moments. After a seven-year run, Cafe Stritch is no more. The Borkenhagens built the club as…
“Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire,” said nature writer David Rains Wallace. And the Silicon Valley is full of breweries and taphouses where one can ponder the question over unique, locally made pilsners, ales, wheat beers and stouts. But the beer scene,…
