The documentary film relating the San Jose Electric Light Tower and the Eiffel Tower has received its first two awards. It was recognized as...

This week's history video is about historic drawings from bird's eye views. Artists had to get pretty creative before planes and dro...

This week's history video is about early transportation in San Jose--namely horses. It's difficult to imagine a time when blacksmith...

This week's history video is about historic San Jose letterheads. Many of these were printed over a century ago and the quality of the a...

This week's history video is about women in the workplace, starting with an 1860's photo of two San Jose female ranchers. While we s...

This week's history video is about San Jose's gateways and arches. Did you know that San Jose once had a welcome gateway for visitor...

This week's history video is about San Jose signs. As you'll see in the video, the mid-century trend was neon. It would be amazing t...

This week's history video is about waterways and floods. Interestingly enough, in 1915 the Guadalupe River was briefly dammed to great a...

This week's history video is about New Almaden, one of San Jose's most hidden neighborhoods. The Quicksilver (mercury) mine in New A...

This week's history video is about ethnic communities that moved to San Jose. Even 100 years ago, San Jose was surprisingly diverse with...

This week's history video is about banking. Below is a drawing of the Knocks and Beans bank, San Jose's first bank which opened in 1...

Over the next several weeks, I'll link to short San Jose historical videos commissioned by Linda L. Lester and published by WMS Media. T...

There is no better place in the Bay Area to get into the holiday spirit than Downtown San Jose. To learn about all of the events and attract...

Last week we posted a Sourisseau News video about bicycles--this week we have a video about early cars in the San Jose area. The two minute ...

While biking is extremely popular in San Jose today, and we are one of the most bike-friendly cities in the US, our love for bicycles goes a...

The San Jose Fruit Packing company was once the largest cannery in the world and by the 1930s, Santa Clara Valley's 38 canneries were th...

On First Street, just north of Downtown, there once stood the Hotel Vendome. The 150-room hotel was only around between 1889 and 1930, but f...

In this fascinating two-minute video, learn about the history of ice cream in San Jose. I wish I could travel back in time to experience som...

It looks like I missed quite a few Sourisseau News videos from earlier this year so I will be playing catch-up for the next few weeks. The t...

If you want to learn more about the history of shopping in San Jose, look no further than the latest two-minute Sourisseau News video below....