Cultural References To San Jose
- It is referenced in "Do You Know the Way to San Jose", with lyrics by Hal David and music by Burt Bacharach. It became a Grammy-winning 1968 hit single (Pop #10, R&B #23) for Dionne Warwick, her version categorized Scepter Records 12216; more than 100 other known recordings exist.
- Michaela Roessner's Vanishing Point, (Tor, New York, 1993, ISBN 0-312-85213-4) a post-apocalyptic novel, is largely set in San Jose. In the book, many South Bay survivors have gathered to live in the Winchester Mystery House and the nearby Century Theatres dome.
- British studio quartet The First Class had a 1974 Billboard #4 hit "Beach Baby", containing the lyric "We couldn't wait for graduation day, we took the car and drove to San Jose. That's where you told me that you'd wear my ring, I guess you don't remember anything."
- A chapter in the book White Fang has some references to San Jose.
- Artist Jeremy Blake referenced San Jose's Winchester Mystery House in his Winchester series.
- A chapter in the book The Kite Runner mentions San Jose and the San Jose Flea Market.
- The 2006 independent film Valley Of The Heart's Delight, featuring Pete Postlethwaite as a scheming newspaper publisher, is based on an actual kidnapping, murder, cover up, and mob lynching which took place in San Jose in 1933.
- Train's song "Half Moon Bay" from the album Save Me, San Francisco has the lyrics, "By the beach north of San Jose..."
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