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San Jose’s gone the way of SF—downtown is desolate
METAL LEO via Youtube ^ | Sep 7, 2024 | METAL LEO

Posted on 09/09/2024 4:32:07 PM PDT by Vendome

In this video, I am waking in downtown San Jose, California a large city in Silicon Valley, a major technology hub in California's Bay Area. But after the major layoffs in the tech industry, street conditions and changes in consumer habits downtown is desolated hardly anybody on the streets and most of the stores, restaurants, banks, coffee shops are closed . I have to warn you this video is very impressive to see what used to be a vibrant downtown , now abandoned

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TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: a; abeautifulcityonce; beautiful; california; californication; city; once; postmovedfromnews; sanfransicko; sanjose
San Jose has lost it's downtown again.
1 posted on 09/09/2024 4:32:07 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

Well, LA is a great big freeway. In a week or two all the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.


2 posted on 09/09/2024 4:34:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Vendome

That’s a shame, but not unpredicted. I remember SJ in the Silicon Valley 80’s but that’s forty years in the past. City fathers who planned on the basis of unlimited revenues forever and ever were warned and they didn’t listen.


3 posted on 09/09/2024 4:36:33 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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LOL. San Jose has always been desolate after work is done. I was actually there for music in the park in July, and I was surprised by how much was going on.


4 posted on 09/09/2024 4:38:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Vendome

I lived there in the 80s when the city invested something like a billion bucks in their downtown… and it worked. Downtown was bustling again. I’m saddened to see this result


5 posted on 09/09/2024 4:38:26 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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Same with Memphis and it’s business district downtown. Everything is vacant and unoccupied. Beale Street is barely alive. The city owes those thanks to Graceland Tourists.


6 posted on 09/09/2024 4:39:32 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: nickcarraway

Well, that is the area going from MLK Library over to 1st and toward Taylor.

All that was open before Covid. Now, it’s toast.


7 posted on 09/09/2024 4:41:21 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Blacks need to appreciate whites more and do more to earn their money. If the NFL players can do it why can’t the burger flippers?


8 posted on 09/09/2024 4:42:56 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Billthedrill

I remember back in the late 70s when SJ was a sleepy nowheres town.


9 posted on 09/09/2024 4:43:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowd)
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No one wants to know the way to San Jose anymore...not even Dionne Warwick.


10 posted on 09/09/2024 4:45:03 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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She was treated horribly when she performed here a few years ago.

Or at least disrespectfully....


11 posted on 09/09/2024 4:51:56 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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There were two restaurants I visited in downtown San Jose and that was about it.
The Imperial Turd rules what remains.


12 posted on 09/09/2024 4:53:35 PM PDT by Zathras
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Dionne and Burt were magic together.


13 posted on 09/09/2024 4:57:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Vendome

Bus all those Hatians to San Francisco and San Jose. Plenty of empty housing for them there, and a generous welfare state!!!


14 posted on 09/09/2024 5:04:00 PM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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wow didn’t realize. don’t get downtown much anymore.


15 posted on 09/09/2024 5:14:10 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Vendome
Another California Earth Wake

16 posted on 09/09/2024 6:33:50 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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What a drop from the early 2000s when I visited Cisco on business.


17 posted on 09/09/2024 7:28:45 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

LOL! MORE POPCORN!!!


18 posted on 09/09/2024 9:16:59 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Vendome

[But after the major layoffs]

President Donald Trump tried to start fixing things.

But, noooooooo, keep voting Democrat. It’s working great!!


19 posted on 09/09/2024 11:42:43 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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The current mayor of San Jose, California
is Democrat Matt Mahan,
who took office in January 2023.


20 posted on 09/09/2024 11:44:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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