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The park was named for Dr. Brenes, whose proposal for a theme park resulted in the park’s creation. His mission was that the profits from the park would go to support the Dr. Carlos Saenz Herrera National Children's Hospital (Hospital Nacional de Niños, San Juan), established in 1964. [1] The amusement park began operating at the end of 1981 ...
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Luna Park is a neighborhood in San Jose, California.It is bounded by Old Oakland Road/13th Street, Berryessa Road/Highway 101 and North 17th Street. [1]It is named after the Luna Park amusement park built by Audley Ingersoll's of Ingersoll's Amusement and financed by the San Jose Street Car Company as a way of bringing more customers to the area.
Hellyer County Park [1] is one of 28 [2] Santa Clara County Parks. The park is located just off of Highway 101 in San Jose, California, United States. The 178-acre (72 ha) park is home to Hellyer Park Velodrome and Cottonwood Lake. Other recreational opportunities at the park include picnicking, hiking, fishing, biking, and a playground.
Almaden Reservoir is an artificial lake in the hills south of San Jose, California in the United States.It borders on the 4,163-acre (1,685 ha) Almaden Quicksilver County Park, [7] which provides limited fishing [8] ("catch-and-release"), picnicking, hiking, and horseback riding activities.
The Monument to the Founding of the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. In 1997, the Monument to the Founding of the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe was erected in the park. The monument, designed by the East Los Streetscapers, commemorates the city's founders that came on Anza Expedition of 1776 that established the city as the California's ...
Construction of a narrow-gauge railway to the park from downtown San Jose began in 1891. In late 1891, or early 1892, a gasoline powered locomotive built by the Best Manufacturing Company arrived. This was the first internal combustion locomotive built in the western United States, though it was only a limited success and was returned to Best ...
Buildings facing River Oaks Park. The park was built and dedicated in 2013, on the site of Sony's former Silicon Valley manufacturing facility. [1] [2]The land where River Oaks Park and much of its surroundings sit today was once part of the River Oaks Ranch, owned by the Okuba family, a well-established Japanese-American family of San Jose.