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Hawaiian/Italian Gardens San Jose, California
I never did get to experience the Italian Gardens (it closed around the time that I was still a kid) As I got older, my family would talk of the Italian Gardens when we drove by where it used to sit along Almaden Expressway, usually about the functions they had at the Gardens over the years, from wedding receptions to anniversaries.
I had read on here (flickr) that some of the landscaping was saved from the old banquet hall. A few days ago, I was leaving a friend's place (at the complex where the Italian Gardens stood) and I came across this area in the back of the complex. The historic LoCurto House is to the left of where I am standing.
I mentioned it to my parents and showed them the picture above I took, they went and took out past wedding pictures that were taken in the same location some 30 years earlier.
Certainly odd to see that this small portion of what was a one time popular banquet hall sitting at the back of a nondescript apartment complex.
Hawaiian/Italian Gardens San Jose, California
I never did get to experience the Italian Gardens (it closed around the time that I was still a kid) As I got older, my family would talk of the Italian Gardens when we drove by where it used to sit along Almaden Expressway, usually about the functions they had at the Gardens over the years, from wedding receptions to anniversaries.
I had read on here (flickr) that some of the landscaping was saved from the old banquet hall. A few days ago, I was leaving a friend's place (at the complex where the Italian Gardens stood) and I came across this area in the back of the complex. The historic LoCurto House is to the left of where I am standing.
I mentioned it to my parents and showed them the picture above I took, they went and took out past wedding pictures that were taken in the same location some 30 years earlier.
Certainly odd to see that this small portion of what was a one time popular banquet hall sitting at the back of a nondescript apartment complex.