My mother, a Sicilian immigrant who came to the United States before World War I, moved to the Silicon Valley and worked in Sacramento at the canneries for many years. My mother had a very tough time in this area as my grandmother was Sicilian and my grandfather was Albanian. At that time, it was [...]

I was born and raised in San Jose, lived here for a long time though moved out of the city some time ago. Silicon Valley is very expensive, even with the down[turn] of the economy housing is still very expensive. What you could get for five hundred thousand dollars in some other parts of the [...]

My parents first moved to Cupertino in the fall of 1957.  We had been living in Bakersfield, California.  The move was precipitated by the relocation of my dad’s work to the Sunnyvale plant of Lockheed.  Our first home here was in a rented house in Rancho Rinconada.  That lasted for about 1 month. My parents bought a [...]

I was born in Santa Clara, CA in 1986 and currently live in Sunnyvale, CA. I am a college student attending San Francisco State University and majoring in kinesiology to hopefully become either a physical therapist or a high school/professional sports athletic trainer in the Bay Area.

I’m one of the few officers in the department who lives here in the city, and I’m very comfortable raising my daughters and having my family here.  It is a community that is safe and it has a lot of resources.  I feel very fortunate to live here and to be able to provide our [...]

Nearly a lifetime San Jose resident, Ben Mayberry now lives and works in Marina, California as the marketing & event operations coordinator for the CSU Monterey Bay athletics department. He hopes to become an assistant coach for the baseball team next year. He returns to San Jose to visit his parents frequently, and still thinks [...]