San Jose, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"spreading up to Mill Valley, across to Richmond, down to Oakland and Berkeley, and then down through Fremont and Hayward and then back down to San Jose."

"Pretty soon, they won’t even interview. Not in San Jose, not in Armonk, not in Austin, not in Cambridge. The boat’s sailed."

"DAY 6 11:42 A.M. That was how, with a splitting headache, I found myself on the phone to the hospital in San Jose. “Julia Forman, please.” I spelled the name for the operator."

"“Who worked on the car, in San Jose?”"

"He wrote that he was to be Resident Engineer of the New Almaden mercury mine near San Jose, an ancient and famous mine that had furnished mercury for the reduction of the gold of the whole Gold Rush."

"In San Jose a stage with black leather curtains waited; they were the only passengers."

"I enjoyed the ride on top of the stage through the fog to San Jose, and our lunch at the La Moille House was made doubly pleasant by the letters which Eugene the stage driver handed us just as we entered the hotel."

"On the radio news, while the percolator bubbles toward its red‐light stop, I hear about the child killed by wild dogs in San Jose, the hundred pounds of marijuana seized in North Beach, the school board meeting broken up by blacks in Daly City, the wife shot by her husband after a quarrel in an Oakland bar, the latest university riot, the Vietnam score."

"He let his mind range more deliciously than any other, and it didn’t sound so silly when you heard what they were doing in San Jose."

"“You thought the traveling suit Dessie made to go to San Jose was store bought.”"

"San Jose had a spy scare, and Salinas was not likely to be left behind—not the way Salinas was growing."

"Sergeant Axel Dane ordinarily opened the San Jose recruiting office at eight o’clock, but if he was a little late Corporal Kemp opened it, and Kemp was not likely to complain."

"It was just like the cop in the San Jose yards, even though it was against the law and they were trying to catch you the only thing to do was do it anyway and keep hidden."

"the proprietor who accepted food stamps for chopsticks and was fined for breaking the law in San Jose"

"I heard much about it as I grew up in San Jose, Calif., in a Vietnamese enclave where I ate Vietnamese food, went to a Vietnamese church, studied the Vietnamese language, and heard Vietnamese stories, which were always about loss and pain."

"But the radio warned us to stay away from the Bay AFreroa.mSanJoseupthroughSanFrancisco,Oakland,and Berkeley, there is chaos"

"asking a local, 'Excuse me, do you know where I can find Hominy?' was like asking some penny-ante lounge singer if they knew the way to San Jose."