East San Jose

East San Jose (or the East Side; less commonly the East Valley) is the name for several neighborhoods east of downtown San Jose, California. These neighborhoods include:
* King and Story
* Alum Rock
* East Foothills
* Little Portugal

Demographics

East San Jose's residents are predominantly Mexican American, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Samoans, and Cambodians, respectively in order of size. A neighborhood around Alum Rock and King has a small pocket of immigrants from Portugal (but primarily the Azore Islands) This section of East San Jose includes a plaza known as Little Portugal. Included in the area are Portuguese sausage shops, markets of all kind and the area stalwart, Five Wounds Church.Fact|date=February 2007

History

East San Jose was also the name of a small former city that sat to the east of San Jose, which was annexed by the City of San Jose in 1911.

Before World War II, East San Jose was a small section of San Jose located on the east banks of the Guadalupe River and west of today's U.S. Route 101. After World War II, when cities all over California started to face massive suburban development, new housing developments were constructed all over the Santa Clara Valley. The housing developments that were built east of downtown were at first ethnically mixed and included whites, Chinese, African Americans, and Mexican Americans.Fact|date=February 2007 In the 1970s and 1980s, the region became mainly populated by Mexican Americans as Hispanic immigrants moved into the area.

See also

*East San Jose Carnegie Branch Library
*State Route 130 - Alum Rock Avenue and Mount Hamilton Road
*County Route G21 - Capitol Expressway
*Eastridge Mall
*Lake Cunningham
*Raging Waters
*Reid-Hillview Airport