San Jose, CA HyperLocal City Guide featuring Neighborhoods, Zip Codes and Yellow Pages.

Brain power is applied very well in San Jose. It’s the town that produces more patents than any other town in the U. S. In 1777, San Jose was the first town in Nueva California. It’s certainly been there long enough now to grow roots. But, what about today? It’s the poster city for Silicon Valley, hence, the patents. It does take brain power to recognize the problem of light pollution from cities, for example, and do something about it. San Jose, they say, replaced all its outdoor lamps with low-pressure sodium ones. Now, in honor of that effort, San Jose has an asteroid named after it, asteroid 6216 San Jose. (I wonder if that’s the mayor’s street address. Har, har.) San Jose has beautiful weather like San Francisco, which makes it easy for workers to get to their tech-bubble jobs every morning. Soccer and hockey are big here for people to enjoy when they relax. Finally, in 2004, the San Jose City Library system (and University Library) as a unit was named by Library Journal as Library of the Year. Brain power, I tell you, is key here.