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2005 OAH Annual Meeting: Tours
 
OAH San Jose
Meeting Updates
 
• Complete program now online (Mar 11, 2005)
• Tour Information (Mar 7, 2005)
• Scenes from San Jose: An OAH Photo Album (Mar 7, 2005)
• An Update on Hotels, Air Travel, and Local Resources (Feb 22, 2005)
• OAH Will Meet in San Jose for the 2005 OAH Annual Meeting (Feb 15, 2005)
• OAH Will Meet in San Francisco Bay Area on Scheduled Dates (Jan 28, 2005)
 

This page was last updated:
Jun 11, 2005
01:12 AM (EST)

• Bus Trip to Downtown San Francisco
Friday, April 1—10:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Tickets: FREE

OAH has arranged motorcoaches to transport attendees to the Mission Street area and the Union Square area in San Francisco. Exit the bus at the Yerba Buena Gardens and visit the Cartoon Art Museum, the California Historical Society, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, or the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Or, stay on the bus and head to Union Square. Hundreds of restaurants, museums, and shops are within walking distance. Buses will leave from the San Carlos Street entrance of the McEnery Convention Center at 10:45 a.m. They will pick up passengers from Union Square at 5:30 p.m. and from the Yerba Buena Gardens at 5:45 p.m. for the return trip to San José.

• Walking Tour of Downtown San Jose
Saturday, April 2 -- 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Tickets: $5/person

A Walking Tour of Historic Places and Buildings in Downtown San Jose: Uncovering the History of White, Chinese and Mexican San Jose. This walking tour will highlight some of the most interesting historic structures in San Jose, including the Ernesto Galarza Plaza, St. James Park, and the Palomar/Starlight Ballroom, which was used for fundraising by Cesar Chavez during his 1950s leadership of the Community Service Organization. To join the tour, email <> with the tour name ("Walking Tour"), your name, and number of participants. Payment can be made in advance by credit card or onsite.

• San José and Santa Clara Mission Tour
Saturday, April 2 -- 12:00 noon to 3:00 p.m.
Tickets: $15/person

Professor Russell Skowronek of Santa Clara University will lead a three-hour bus tour of the many missions in the South Bay Area. The tour will include San Jose's Peralta Adobe, Mission San Jose, and Mission Santa Clara. To join the tour, email <> with the tour name ("South Bay"), your name, and number of participants. Payment can be made in advance by credit card or onsite.

• San José Japantown Walking Tour
Saturday, April 2—1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Tickets: $5/person
Join OAH attendees and residents of San José’s Japantown (one of only three Japantowns still existing in the United States) on a tour of historical and cultural sites in this interesting area just north of downtown San José. The tour will meet at the OAH registration tour desk at 9:45 a.m. To join the tour, email < > with the tour name ("South Bay"), your name, and number of participants. Payment can be made in advance by credit card or onsite.

• Behind the Scenes Tour: Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front: Memory to History
Sunday, April 3 -- 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25/person (includes two meals, transportation, and extras)

Help make history!
World War II dramatically changed American society.  The home front industries that provided the equipment and supplies were essential to the World War II victory. Today known as “the Rosies,”Shipyard 3 women and minorities gained access to and filled high-paying industrial jobs building the ships and the airplanes. Home front social changes included racially integrated work teams, prepaid preventative health care, and outside-the-home child care. These gains also cost the Rosies much, especially the minority workers who got the worst jobs and who didn’t get either the child care or war worker housing.
The newly established Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California seeks to tell these rich and complicated stories and to preserve the tangible resources left from those exciting and difficult times. The OAH in conjunction with the National Park Service and the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites offers a special bus tour Sunday April 3 from San Jose to visit with  these women and historians studying them and the park preserving their feats.

  • Begin tour from San Jose Convention center 9am with continental breakfast on board the tour bus—bring your luggage with you
  • Meet and hear from four of the “Rosies” who worked in the Richmond shipyards—women now in their 80s will tell their stories
  • Hear from UC /  Berkeley History Professor and Director of Oral Histories Richard Candida-Smith who has been doing oral history interviews with the Rosies
  • Visit Shipyard #3 with its historic basins and structures, and the SS Red Oak Victory built in Richmond, and see the historic Ford Assembly Building where they switched to making jeeps, and managed the delivery of one third of the military vehicles that were shipped overseas  to the battlefront
  • Enjoy a box lunch and wonderful company
  • Get dropped off at the San Francisco Airport (4:00 p.m.) or San Jose Airports (5:30 p.m.) or San Jose convention center (6:00 p.m.).

To join the tour, email < > with the name of the tour ("Rosie"), your name, and the number of participants. Payment can be made in advance by credit card or onsite.