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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Well, LA is a great big freeway. In a week or two all the stars that never were are parking cars and pumping gas.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
I remember back in the late 70s when SJ was a sleepy nowheres town.
No one wants to know the way to San Jose anymore...not even Dionne Warwick.
She was treated horribly when she performed here a few years ago.
Or at least disrespectfully....
There were two restaurants I visited in downtown San Jose and that was about it.
The Imperial Turd rules what remains.
Dionne and Burt were magic together.
Bus all those Hatians to San Francisco and San Jose. Plenty of empty housing for them there, and a generous welfare state!!!
wow didn’t realize. don’t get downtown much anymore.
Another California Earth Wake
What a drop from the early 2000s when I visited Cisco on business.
LOL! MORE POPCORN!!!
[But after the major layoffs]
President Donald Trump tried to start fixing things.
But, noooooooo, keep voting Democrat. It’s working great!!
The current mayor of San Jose, California
is Democrat Matt Mahan,
who took office in January 2023.
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