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Around the San Jose area:

• Able Printing with shops in San Jose and Scotts Valley. Very nice people!
• Alltronics Electronic Component Supply.
• Almaden Swim & Racquet Club.
• Almaden Valley Community Association, "Informed Residents of Almaden Valley."
• The Community of Alviso, CA.
• American Musical Theatre of San Jose.
• Ancient Iron - Holy City Motorcycle Club.
  • the Original West Coast Bike Blessing, held annually on Easter Sunday in San Jose CA.
• Animal Rescue organizations in the San Jose area.
• An-Jan Feed & Pet Supply. "Large or small, we feed them all."
• Ardenwood Historic Farm.
  • Cornfield Maze.
• Austin's Texas Barbeque, Mountain View.
• Bay Area Arts and Museums Online.
• Bay Area Indian, " ... bringing Indians closer one click at a time."
• Bay Area Parent Magazine.
• Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.
• Camp K-9, doggie day care.
• Campus Community Association, Naglee Park area of San Jose.
  • Bark in the Park, Silicon Valley's event for dog lovers and their pets.
• Catholic Charities of San Jose.
• Capitol Expressway Auto Mall.
• Central Animal Hospital, Campbell.
• Children's Discovery Museum, San Jose.
• Cinequest San Jose Film Festival.
• Henry W. Coe State Park.
• Cupertino Courier, weekly newspaper.
• DiPuccio's Pasta Shop.
• Eastfield Ming Quong, including the annual Strawberry Festival.
• Emile's Restaurant.
• Environmental Services Department of the City of San Jose.
• Exploratorium.
• Foothill-DeAnza Community College District.
  • DeAnza College, Cupertino.
  • Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
• Fugitive Watch for the Bay Area.
• The Glen - Restaurant, Bar and Grill - on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen.
• The Gorilla Foundation, home of Project Koko, in Woodside CA.
• Paramount's Great America virtual park tour.
• The Great Mall of the Bay Area, Milpitas.
• Happy Hollow Park & Zoo at Kelley Park (Senter @ Keyes) in San Jose.
• Honda Motorcycles of Milpitas.
• Humane Society of Santa Clara Valley, including: What's New, Educational Programs, Vet Services, About Us, Lost and Found, Just 4 Kids, Adoption and Events. The Humane Society provides animal (control) services to many cities in the Santa Clara Valley.
• JDR Microdevices, electronic components and PC products.
• Just Go Bay Area. Movies, music, dining and much more.
• Kaiser Permanente, the health care system, not the sand and gravel company.
• KidsPark Centers. Drop-in care for kids 2 through 12 years; locations near Oakridge Mall, Valley Fair Mall, Westgate Mall and The Fremont Hub. (( looking for correct or updated link ))
• Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton, a part of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
• Los Gatos High School Online.
• Los Gatos Watch Repair & Sales.
• Lou's Living Donut Museum.
• Lou's Village restaurant and banquet center.
• Lupin Naturist Club, in the hills above Los Gatos.
• Make-A-Wish Foundation®, granting wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses.
  • Greater Bay Area Chapter
• metroACTIVE: News, Arts and Entertainment.
• Micro Center, The Computer Department Store.
• Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, 23 preserves from the San Francisco Bay to the Santa Cruz Mountains.
• shopmh.com, Shop Morgan Hill.
• Niles, historic part of the city of Fremont.
• Niles Canyon Railway.
• Orchard Supply Hardware with stores all over the place.
• Original Joe's Restaurant, downtown San Jose.
• Outlets at Gilroy.
• Pacific Locomotive Association.
  • Niles Canyon Railway.
• Parkway Lake, fishing along Highway 101 in Coyote.
• Peninsula Banjo Band.
  They play every Tuesday evening from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Straw Hat Pizza, 1535 Meridian Avenue, just north of Hamilton Avenue in San Jose.
• Pet Assisted Therapy Services, Furry Friends visiting people with special needs.
• Premium Pet Stores, Inc.
• Preservation Action Council of San Jose.
• Paramount's Raging Waters.
• Regional Medical Center of San Jose, better known for many years as Alexian Brothers Hospital.
• Road Rider Motorcycle Accessories.
• Rooster T. Feathers Comedy Club in Sunnyvale.
• Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium.
• Saiki Veterinary Urgent Care, after hours mobile hospital and veterinary care.
• St. Joseph's Cathedral.
• Don Edwards' San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, protecting some of the south Bay wetlands.
• San Jose Chamber of Commerce.
• San Jose Children's Musical Theater.
• San Jose Convention and Visitors Bureau.
• San Jose/Evergreen Community College District.
  • Evergreen Valley College.
  • Institute for Business Performance.
  • San Jose City College.
• San Jose Focus, a market research firm. (I have participated in various projects and have always been pleased with the experience. It's very nice to be asked, and remunerated for, your opinions.)
• San Jose Harley-Davidson.
• San Jose Historical Museum, in the southernmost section of Kelley Park. Reconstructed landmark buildings bring to life the look and feel of turn-of the-century San Jose, complete with neighborhoods, a working trolley (weekends and special event days) and the downtown.
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.
• San Jose Living On-Line Guide.
• San Jose Mercury News.
  • Action Line, including a 20-day column archive.
• San Jose Medical Center, better known for many years as San Jose Hospital.
• San Jose Museum of Art.
• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.
• San Jose State University, Silicon Valley's Metropolitan University.
  • formerly known as the San Jose Normal School, San Jose Teacher's College, San Jose State College and California State College at San Jose, but best known as "SJS."
• San Jose Unified School District, with schools from downtown San Jose to Almaden Valley.
• Santa Clara County Federal Credit Union.
• Santa Clara Chorale, classic and contemporary music in the Mission since 1969.
  • current Concert Season
• Santa Clara University.
• Santa Clara Valley Water District, wholesaler for most of the county's water companies. Manages water resources and soil conservation efforts.
• Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, including Santa Cruz Wharf.
• Saratoga Springs campground.
• Sunnyvale Rod & Gun Club, on Stevens Canyon Road in Cupertino.
• Save our Sunol.
• Schurra's Candy Factory.
• See N Ski, the original Lake Anderson camera site. You'll have to type in their address - www.seenski.com - their rules do not allow me to create a link like every other link on this page.
• Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View.
• Silicon Valley Private Industry Council Career Center, a partnership of private industry, the County Board of Supervisors and the Santa Clara County Social Services agency, serving approximately 1,000 dislocated workers a year. Individuals who have been laid off or have been unemployed for 15 weeks or more can take advantage of a variety of re-employment, retraining and job search services.
• Silicon Valley Web Directory.
• South Bay Historical Railroad Society, Inc., at the Santa Clara Caltrain Depot.
• South San Jose.Com, the Santa Teresa Community Website.
• Southwest Airlines. Mooo!
• Speedring indoor go-kart track.
• Squadron Two Flying Club at San Jose Airport.
• Stanford University.
• Stevens Creek Surplus.
• Sun Tunnel, flexible tubular skylights.
• Tapestry In Talent, downtown San Jose's annual arts festival.
• The Tech Museum of Innovation.
• Thunderbird Aviation, The Original Mile High Club, or so they say.
• United Way of Santa Clara County
• Vallco Fashion Park, regional shopping mall in Cupertino. (Link not currently working.)
• The Van Mall, with Ken Norton, Jr.
• Villa Montalvo.
• Volunteer Exchange of Santa Clara County.
• West Valley-Mission Community College District
  • Mission College.
  • West Valley College.
• Window to Willow Glen.
• Winchester Mystery House.
• Wolf Camera with stores all over the area.
• Youth Science Institute, "learn something new about your world."

A little farther away

• Año Nuevo State Reserve on the west coast of San Mateo County.
• Cable Car Museum, San Francisco.
• Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito (Marin County).
• Columbia State Historic Park, near Sonora.
• Bay Meadows Race Course in San Mateo.
• California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
  • Steinhart Aquarium.
• Casa de Fruta, on Hy 152 east of Gilroy and north of Hollister. Motel, gift shops, restaurant, RV park and more.
• Cow Palace.
• Coyote Point Museum for Environmental Education.
• Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
• Father Serra's Garden at CalTrans' Crystal Springs Safety Rest Stop on Hy 280 in Hillsborough.
• Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
  • Alcatraz Island.
  • Fort Point National Historic Site
  • Muir Woods National Monument
  • The Presidio of San Francisco
• Hearst Castle, San Simeon.
• Take the Jelly Belly factory tour at the Herman Goelitz Candy Co. in Fairfield.
• Lindsay Wildlife Museum, a wildlife rehabilitation and educational center in Walnut Creek that focuses on native California wildlife and natural history.
• Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano.
• Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey.
• Mystery Spot in Santa Cruz.
• Nike Animal Rescue Foundation,
• Oakland Zoo.
• Pier 39, San Francisco.
• Renaissance Pleasure Faire®
• Restoration Hardware.
• Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Felton.
• Roseville Telephone Museum.
• San Francisco Estuary Institute.
• San Francisco Zoo.
• Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
• Santa Cruz Wharf.
• Stern Grove Midsummer Music Festival, San Francisco.
• Western Railway Museum on Highway 12 midway between Suisun City and Rio Vista in Solano County. A short drive from Interstate 80 (Fairfield area) or Highway 4 (Antioch area).

Broadcast Stations

• KCSM On Line, College of San Mateo.
  • TV 60
  • Jazz 91.
  • "and much more!"
• KGO-7, ABC, San Francisco.
• KICU-TV, Action 36, Independent, San Jose
• KLEL, 89.3 FM, Leland High School, San Jose. (moving to Pioneer High)
• KNTV-11, San Jose. NBC affiliate as of January 1, 2002.
  • look for the San Jose CityCam
• KPIX-5 CBS, San Francisco.
• KQED-9 PBS, San Francisco
• KQED 88.5 FM, PBS, San Francisco.
• KRTY 95.3 FM, San Jose's 12 In A Row Hot Country.
• KRON-4, Independent, San Francisco.
  • Bay Area Back Roads.
• KSBW-8, NBC, Salinas.
• KSJS 90.5 FM, San Jose State University.
  • Read about Charles Herrold, pioneer broadcaster.
• KTEH-54, PBS, San Jose.
• KTVU-2, FOX, Oakland.
• KVCH 104.1 FM, "the South Bay's Radio Alternative," from Valley Christian High School in San Jose.
• KZBR 95.7 The Bear, (country), San Francisco.

Public Utilities

• Pacific Gas & Electric Company, gas and electricity provider for most of Northern California.
• SBC, dial tone provider for many of the residents of the Santa Clara valley.
• San Jose Water Company, water provider for customers in several cities.
• Comcast, cable television provider for customers in several cities.
  • If you really want to go looking for their site, you're on your own. Their customer service is aggravating and they deny there is a problem unless three people call; I am not comfortable wasting my time looking to see if they even have a web site.
  • It was the same when they were T.C.I. Cablevision.
  • It was the same when they were AT&T Cable.
  • It was the same when they were AT&T Broadband.