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Los Gatos historical walking tour app: LOST GATOS

Michael Kane as Mountain Charlie in the 2007 Historic Walking Tour in Los Gatos Locals may remember that a few years back, there was a wonderful “Los Gatos History Walk” put on every year or so.  Town...

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Los Gatos real estate: unreal prices!

Here’s a fun bit of Los Gatos real estate history – pricing from yesteryear!  The newspaper ad for Los Gatos homes for sale is enticing.  One of them reads: Fillmer Ave. Rustic type of 5 rms., 2 Brs.,...

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Hooker Gulch in the Los Gatos Mountains

Maps can be so intriguing, and they can be a dangerous rabbit hole into which my time somehow disappears if I’m not careful. Today I was viewing a topographical map of Los Gatos when I stumbled upon a...

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Los Gatos and the 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic: Part 1

“Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases,” states the graphic used in an informational article published across various newspapers in October 1918 Los Gatos Pandemic Then and Now Today, Los Gatos is a...

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Los Gatos and the 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic: Part 2

An ad for the Oaks Sanitarium near Los Gatos placed in the California State Journal of Medicine’s 1918 edition. Today we think of Los Gatos as being a town with plenty of medical services and we’re...

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Cheeky Los Gatos Article from 1892

Tucked away on the back page of the San Jose Daily Mercury from Monday September 5th, 1892 is an amusing and impudent little article titled “The Effect of the ‘Mercury’ on the Gem of the Foothills”. It...

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Ming Quong: a Los Gatos Monument

Children playing beneath the arch at the entrance to the Loma Alta Home around 1940. At the end of Loma Alta Ave in the foothills sits the Los Gatos campus of Uplift Family Services, formerly Eastfield...

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