Downtown San Jose California Tour

It looks dead because that was during a pandemic, well Covid is still around but a couple of years ago from today year 2023 a lot of people lost their jobs or moved away. COVID did a number on us humans around the world. People didn't socialize as much as they used to. I have a feeling downtown is pretty much empty in the year 2023. I am not sure I don't live there, you couldn't pay me to.

It looks empty!!! No people in the streets!!!!

Relatively quiet place not much traffic, peaceful. Remember Hispanic restaurants, jazz music

Really nice vid, thanks. +1

Ever since me and my family left San Jose just became more dangerous. I lived in Almaden house apartments in Riconnada drive. San Jose is my hometown and
California 's Great America was the best, sad to hear the news on it closing.

Great California.. But it cost a lot to live here.. 10% additional tax on top of Federal Tax..!! 😀😀

Usa beautiful country

Do a Night Tour Next Time

That "old building" is St. Joseph's Cathedral
Lousy walking turd!😳

Nice walkthrough I grew up in California I am so glad I moved out from that state way to expensive to many homeless problem down town San Jose don't know how some people can keep a business going I have noticed more have gone out of business plus California is way to much liberal democrat for me glad I moved out.

Looks like you choose a Reallyquiet Time of Day absolutely peaceful which was good for showing its calm vs night lifeside...I really Like what they've done I was born at San-Jose Kaiser Permanente Hospital 1964.. Willow Glen area was my area part till moved away in 1989 was gettin crazy crowded..thanks for the informative well filmed Video.

Very good city

I don’t get why this place is ranked #1 in California when Sacramento IMO seems like a far better place to live, sure the San Francisco area has more stuff, but it’s also EXPENSIVE

I still love my home place I love san Jose California..🙂🙂❤❤❤

it wasn't that then

on the walls down town

I've noticed they have put on more murals

and at Kelly park

back when I was a kid it was on king and story road

they still have the low riders

its still beautiful I miss its beautiful gheto

since then its become more expensive

my home place it wasn't silicon valley until 1980

I don't know now .

back then it was big

I miss the flea market

we would go to the san jose theater to watch movies

on the way to school we would go into san Jose university now its changed and called something else.

lived on twelve street

when I was a kid I used to walk the whole down town area.

its changed so.. much

I would like to go back to live someday

want to go back to visit

been all over that area grew up there . miss it so.. much .

palo alto California

santa Clara palo alto gilroy

I miss santa Cruz Monterey san Francisco and other areas

want to go back so
.. bad

too expensive to live there till 😔

I miss home. 😔

I live in kingman AZ not like san Jose California

my home I miss I grew up there I was so much much .. beautiful back then . because it was better back then.. more orchards and people were less and it was so mu6 nicer...🙂❤

hi guys im lazarus i live down town san jose its a lot fun

this fucker bounces around too much, feel like i'm on a trampoline

I miss home. I grew up there it was so... much nicer..

I see him 👀 😏

"The old building" is called a church, a cathedral to be exact. San Jose's downtown is dead during the weekdays. Just a lot of construction and the people who do go downtown usually have to for court or something to do with the government. I remember when a lot of the city was orchards. Fruit trees everywhere and a much calmer, suburban and even rural vibe. It's great to see how it's developed over the years. Now it's time to leave it to the young and well off.

i miss san jose soo much. but too expensive now.. went to highschool college there... but after 2018 too expensive.

San Jose had a very vibrant downtown in the 1950's when I was a young boy growing up there but it started going downhill in the 1960's just like so many other cities in the U.S. at that time. Regional shopping malls like Valley Fair killed downtown retail and even the city government and newspaper abandoned the center city. The city physically grew rapidly in all directions in pure suburban style throughout the latter 20th century so that population and area wise it is now larger than San Francisco but with little of that city's urbanity.
It is more like the San Fernando Valley in sprawl and scale. But It is nice to notice that San Jose has
made great strides of late and as noted is blessed with great weather and so much potential. The Google project could be a game changer with proposed 20,000 new people as is the BART extension due in the next 10 years hopefully. What it really needs now are more people living downtown. It is the one large city of Silicon Valley with all thsr money one would hope it could benefit. I lived in a grand old Queen Anne Victorian on S. 3rd Street (which is still there) during the 1980's. The shock is that the city is actually a very old and historic one founded by the Spanish in 1777 and along with LA was started as a pueblo not a mission or presidio like the other major cities. Sadly out of originally having 144 adobes only 1 remains which you showed in San Pedro Square. I have retired to Palm Springs now but it was fun seeing all the recent changes. Maybe not in my lifetime but i sure hope the city is able to reach its potential some day. Thanks so much for the tour of a site not as exotic as so many other of your vlogs.