"Beginning at Monterey and venturing westward on the only part of San Jose Avenue with a sidewalk, I shuffled right past corrugated metal shacks, abandoned cars and weeds busting through the concrete. Left and right, I saw parcels with bent chain link fencing and rusty barbed wire."
"Eighty years ago, in 1945, just about all of San Jose Avenue was residential. An old city directory showed no less than 60 addresses from one end of the street to the other, nearly all private citizens in their homes."
"The evolution of the neighborhood over the decades became much more apparent. Several old houses remained in various conditions, jammed between parcels of industry."
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