East San Jose
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East San Jose (or the East Valley or The Eastside) is the name for several neighborhoods east of downtown San Jose, California. These neighborhoods include:
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[edit] Demographics
East San Jose's residents are predominantly Mexican American and Vietnamese American. Although there is a greater percentage of Mexican Americans and Vietnamese Americans in East San Jose, there is a notable population of White and African American, a large Filipino population, Cambodians, and Samoans, respectively in order of size throughout East San Jose as well. The Alum Rock community has a significantly high population of Latino immigrants, also including neighborhoods along King Rd including King and Story. A neighborhood around Alum Rock and King has a small pocket of immigrants from Portugal (but primarily the Azore Islands). This section of East San Jose includes a plaza known as Little Portugal. Included in the area are Portuguese sausage shops, markets and the Five Wounds church.[citation needed]
[edit] History
East San Jose was also the name of a small former city that sat to the east of San Jose, which was annexed by the City of San Jose in 1911.
Before World War II, East San Jose was a small section of San Jose located on the east banks of the Guadalupe River and west of today's U.S. Route 101. After World War II, when cities all over California started to face massive suburban development, new housing developments were constructed all over the Santa Clara Valley. The housing developments that were built east of downtown were at first ethnically mixed and included White Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Chinese Americans.[citation needed] In the 1970s and 1980s, the region became mainly populated by Mexican Americans as Hispanic immigrants moved into the area.
[edit] Neighborhoods within East San Jose
1975 established L.E.S "Lower East Side"
[edit] See also
- East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library
- State Route 130 - Alum Rock Avenue and Mount Hamilton Road
- County Route G21 - Capitol Expressway
- Eastridge Mall
- Lake Cunningham
- Raging Waters
- Reid-Hillview Airport
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