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Bascom Avenue

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Bascom Avenue seemed to be named for the doctor, Louis Hazelton Bascom; but, moreso, local history typically notes the significance of his wife, Mrs. Anna Marie "Grandma" Bascom. Grandma Bascom was well known for her hospitality in the circa 1880s of San Jose history, as she operated an establishment known as "Flapjack Hall" that became a boarding house, among other things. Flapjack Hall was a well known establishment in this era of San Jose history, at the time of California's first legislature. In fact, it's been noted in sources from that time, that Anna Marie Bascom knew General John C. Fremont and his wife, who apparently stayed in town that winter. Of course, "Frémont was one of the first two senators from California," as well as "the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party in 1856." Moreover, "During the Civil War, Frémont was promoted Major General and Commander of the Department of the West on July 1, 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln."

See the Wikipedia article on Fremont: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Frémont

Also see the book, Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page)."San Jose and it's Cathedral" by Marjorie Pierce (Western Tanager Press; Santa Cruz, 1990), pages 56-57. (Ca.papavero (talk) 09:56, 18 December 2013 (UTC))[reply]

Descriptions, historic significance, and name origins

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I wonder how somebody probably living pretty far away from San Jose decides which streets are important here, and which are not. This amounts to trolling, I think. I just added a line about Santa Teresa blvd, a main road in South San Jose, named after Santa Teresa spring (a legendary place where Santa Teresa help local Indians) - and kaboom, someone from another hemisphere removes it.

I really don't like this kind of big brothers control over local information. I'd suggest this kind of editors to stay away. But I know it's impossible. Trolls will be trolls. Sad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vlad Patryshev (talk • contribs) 22:12, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You're refering to this edit. You just list a couple streets, with nothing to indicate why they are worth mentioning.
As the article says, this is a list of streets in SJ with "descriptions, historic significance, and name origins." You provided no description. You gave no indication of historic significance. You did not provide any name origin. In short, your addition was not appropriate for the article.
You say here (but not in your edit) that Santa Teresa Blvd is "named after Santa Teresa spring (a legendary place where Santa Teresa help local Indians" Why wouldn't you put that into the article, assuming you have a source for it?
And stop calling names. If you don't know what a troll is, don't use the word. If you have constructive information to add to the article, do it, with "descriptions, historic significance, and name origins", and with a source. Don't expect other editors to say, "oh, this guy's probably local, let's let him just add whatever he wants to the article."
The article's currently a mess of unsourced text, nothing more than a list of streets, in most cases with no context of the street's importance or name origin. Wikipedia is not a replacement for Google Maps. It's an encyclopedia. I'm not going to apologize for trying to keep a messy article from being made worse. TJRC (talk) 00:07, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
addition: I can't find anything definitive, but Santa Teresa Blvd. appears to be named after Rancho Santa Teresa, which in turn appears to be named after the Santa Teresa Hills mountain range (the legal description of the rancho refers to the hills as part of the boundary). There are so many things in the area named Santa Teresa that it's quite difficult to determine when one was named for another; or if two things were named for the same thing. The ST name ultimately seems to go back to Juan Crespí's name of his initial campsite as "Santa Teresa" in 1769. [1]. The ultimate namesake is Teresa of Ávila; Crespi made camp on October 15, 1769, and named the camp after the "saint of the day" ([2]), and that would be Teresa of Avila ([3]). I can find no mention of a magical spring where Santa Teresa appeared to Indians. TJRC (talk) 21:07, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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