Talk:Willow Glen, California

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This is still a stub despite recent transplantation of info from other web sites onto this page.

TODO:

  • Find census bureau stats on Willow Glen population and income.
  • Find census bureau stats on age of housing stock in Willow Glen zip codes centered around downtown Willow Glen. (The houses were obviously built in the early to mid part of the 20th century if you walk around them but we need a reference, not 1st person research).
  • Find reference on the exact details of the sewage issue that caused the town of Willow Glen to merge with San Jose.
  • Add reference to CalTrans buying the former Southern Pacific Railroad line and transferring it to Caltrain. (Should be on the Caltrain page already, just needs to be transferred to this one).
  • There were actually *two* rail lines that cut across the area known as "North Willow Glen", one of which is now abandoned and removed but still on some maps (and its route still barely visible on Google Maps when you click into satellite mode, where it appears clear that construction of the Guadalupe Parkway into a freeway is what spurred its abandonment sometime in the past 20 years). What was the second one? Are we sure that the Caltrain line is the Southern Pacific one? The North Willow Glen site certainly implies that the currently-operating line is the old Southern Pacific one, but find reference to clarify this. (Note: Look for Western Pacific Railroad history, it appears this may have been an extension of the Western Pacific line that served the Ford auto assembly plant that once was at the location of the "Great Mall of Milpitas").
  • ADD MAP LINKS! That should be easy enough to do!