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As I scoped out the parking lot behind the abandoned Greyhound Station in downtown San Jose, global dimensions of history washed over me, ranging from the French Connection to the Istanbul Hilton. ....
June 9, 2021 by Gary Singh NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR NOSTALGIA: Sourdough Eatery is a quirky establishment that managed to survive in a world of Panera and Quiznos. Photo by Gary Singh Throughout 43 years of business, Barbara Lenhart never needed to promote the Sourdough Eatery on North First Street. She never placed an ad anywhere. Then came the lockdown. Even though the legendary San Jose deli only suffered a few days of closure, Lenhart decided to put extra signage out front to let people know she was still in business. She wanted her regular customers to know they could still peruse the museum-like interior and gaze at the glorious mishmash of oddities all over the walls of the ancient brick building. They could still sit outside in what s probably the best patio anywhere in these parts. ....
In his magnum opus about the Danube River, Claudio Magris tracked the entire course of the waterway from the Alps to the Black Sea. Filled with history, politics and geography, Danube is an epic 400-page love letter to Mitteleuropa, in which Haydn, Hölderlin and the Hapsburgs sit right alongside the most obscure nobodies, all of whom contributed to the grand aura of the river. ....
Thereafter, even when dining in the main space, I became Raj De Niro. I could devour a plate from the lunch buffet and pretend I was a celebrity. City Hall employees showed up all the time. One politician, along with his handler, would come in for lunch, only to sit as far away from me as possible, since he didn t want a table next to a member of the media. As a native San Jose dude, Raj finally felt a sense of accomplishment. ....
Last week, when I returned to the same room, now a bar called 3rd & Bourbon, I saw elegant decor instead of the mural of Byblos. Instead of Middle Eastern music, Stevie Ray Vaughan cranked over the house system while the kitchen prepared for a night of burgers, pasta and specialty cocktails for customers in swank velvety booths. ....