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Burt Bacharach could easily find SAN JOSE
today simply by heading south from San Francisco and following
the heat and smog. Although one of the fastest-growing cities
in California, it is not strong on identity though in area and
population it's close to twice the size of San Francisco. Sitting
at the southern end of the peninsula, San Jose has in the past
25 years emerged as the civic heart of Silicon Valley, surrounded
by miles of faceless high-tech industrial parks where the next
generations of computers and websites are designed and crafted.
Ironically, it's also acknowledged as the first city in California,
though the only sign of this is the eighteenth-century Mission
Santa Clara de Asis , on the pleasant campus of the Jesuit-run
Santa Clara University.
Its most famous landmark is the Winchester
Mystery House , 525 S Winchester Blvd, just off I-280
near Hwy-17 ($12.9522.95; daily 9am5pm, until 7pm JuneSept). Sarah
Winchester, heiress to the Winchester rifle fortune, was convinced
upon her husband's death that he had been taken by the spirits
of men killed with Winchester rifles, and believed that unless
a room was built for each of the spirits and the sound of hammers
never ceased, the same fate would befall her. Work on the mansion
went on 24 hours a day for the next thirty years stairs lead nowhere,
windows open on to solid brick. The Rosicrucian Museum
, 1342 Naglee Ave (TuesFri 10am5pm, SatSun 11am6pm; $9), houses
a brilliant collection of Assyrian and Babylonian artifacts, while
the revamped Tech Museum of Innovation (daily
10am5pm; $9), downtown at 201 S Market St, contains hands-on displays
of high-tech engineering.
