New Use for Old Kilt Hose

[Highlander31]

Sadly, there is not a bicycle shop on the Alameda anymore, and you're right, San Jose is different. I noticed a sign on Race Street today for Slough's, which may have been the shop on the Alameda in the '70's; I think they are all gone except for that poor sign.

Bob

My family owned several acres on the corner of Race Street and West San Fernando Street. The property was sold off and the neighborhood is the result. I grew up on the that corner across from Saint Leo's Church. Went in the Army in 1971. When I became a private contractor, I was lucky to be able to base out of the San Jose area. Over the years I owned houses in the Dry Creek area, South San Jose, and Los Gatos until the '89 earthquake leveled it. That caused to us move to the Blossom Valley area, where we stayed for 17 years. Then it became obvious to this son of the Golden West that it was time to leave the area my family had helped build since 1839. But, that's how it is, time moves forward and things change.