Long before skateboarding hit the Olympics, San Jose was already grinding its way into skate history. This is the hometown of Steve Caballero, one of the most iconic skaters of all time — a pioneer of vert skating and street style who helped define the…

San Jose’s NHL Team That Almost Wasn’t Believe it or not, the San Jose Sharks almost weren’t San Jose’s team at all. Back in the early ’90s, as the NHL eyed expansion into the Bay Area, team owners seriously considered making Daly City the Sharks’…

In 1978, San Jose made lowrider history — and it went straight up. At a Show in Los Angeles, a ride from the South Bay stunned the crowd and hopped higher than any lowrider had before. Word spread fast: a San Jose car had cleared…

Tucked between palm trees and city streets, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum has been turning heads — and expanding minds. Home to the largest collection of authentic ancient Egyptian artifacts on display in Western North America, this San Jose treasure feels like a time portal. Walk…

Hidden within San Jose’s Japantown, a vibrant Filipino community flourished from the 1930s through the 1950s — lovingly known as Pinoytown. Families who had worked in the fields and orchards settled here, transforming the neighborhood into a self-sustaining enclave of homes, shops, and community life.…

More than just a place of worship, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church has long been a spiritual, cultural, and organizing hub for East San Jose’s Mexican American community. Founded in 1953, the church was built not only to serve the growing population of Catholic families…

Remembering San Jose’s Chinatowns Before downtown San Jose was all tech towers and traffic, it was home to one of the oldest and most vibrant Chinatowns in California — and then it was burned to the ground. Market Street Chinatown (at the location of the…

Before they were the crisp, toaster-ready breakfast we all know and love, Eggo waffles were born from a very different invention… mayonnaise. Yep — you read that right. In 1932, in a small San Jose food lab, Frank Dorsa and his brothers were whipping up…

For decades, drivers along Montgomery Street were greeted by a flashing, trotting neon pig — the cheerful mascot of Stephens Meat Products, a homegrown butcher shop that became a San Jose icon. Founded in 1942, Stephens wasn’t just about sausages and smoked meats — it…

In June 1956, inside an IBM lab in San Jose, a small team of engineers invented something that quietly — and completely — changed the world: the first hard disk drive. It was called the IBM 305 RAMAC, and it stood the size of two…