Stories
Real stories about Santana Row, from the people who published them
Classic reads
- Stores in Westfield’s S.F. mall are shuttering while its Silicon Valley mall is thriving. Here’s why ↗Why Valley Fair boomed after its expansion while Westfield’s San Francisco mall struggled.
- One Santana West Ready for Tenants, Renderings for Future Life of Domed Theater, San Jose ↗The finished Santana West office building and plans to refit the Century 21 dome.
- Demystifying the Winchester Mystery House ↗A skeptic’s look at the myths of the house and the real Sallie Winchester.
- When Harry Houdini Visited the Winchester Mystery House ↗The escape artist’s 1924 visit and the name he is said to have suggested.
- Everything you think you know about the Winchester Mystery House probably isn’t true ↗How newspaper gossip turned Sarah Winchester into a legend, with the 1895 article that started it.
- An envelope, hidden in a wall for 100 years, helps solve a Winchester Mystery House riddle ↗How the house’s art-glass windows were traced to John Mallon, not Tiffany.
- Cars and Croissants Go Hand in Hand on Santana Row ↗A Sunday morning of exotic cars on the Row.
- Helen Mirren, filming in San Jose, marvels at ‘inspiring’ Winchester Mystery House ↗Mirren and the filmmakers of Winchester on set inside the house.
- San Jose, CA - Historic Century 21 theater’s future uncertain ↗The city council’s vote on Santana West and what it meant for the Century 21 dome.
- Episode 562: A Mall Divided ↗What happened when the minimum wage changed on one side of Valley Fair.
- Sunset on the domes: how Silicon Valley is losing its futuristic past ↗The Century dome theaters on Winchester Boulevard as they closed, and the fight to save them.
- Effort to Save San Jose Domed Theater Gains Ground ↗Preservationists gather signatures to landmark the Century 21.
- San Jose’s Santana Row celebrates 10th anniversary ↗Ten years of shops and restaurants on the Row, and who is still there.
- Valley Fair Past and Future ↗A former mayor on how Valley Fair drew shopping away from downtown San Jose.
- Here’s to you, Mrs. Winchester ↗A visit to the house as San Jose Rep stages a musical about it.
- Of Ghosts And Guns ↗The making of The Haunting of Winchester at San Jose Repertory Theatre.
- Rebuilding for a badly burned Santana Row ↗The fire, the plan to rebuild, and the debate over building a main street three miles from downtown.
- Fast-moving inferno destroys upscale San Jose development ↗The day Building 7 burned, a month before Santana Row was due to open.
- Smart Growth and Greyfields: The Case of Santana Row ↗A city planner’s study of how Town and Country Village became Santana Row.
- Let’s Shop! ↗Photographs and notes on Valley Fair, Stevens Creek Plaza and Town & Country Village in the 1950s and ’60s.