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Posted Jun 1, 2020, 8:31 AM
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Location: Los Angeles
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Originally Posted by Will O' Wisp
Not to be pedantic here but San Jose is older than San Francisco, and until the latter part of 19th century was the larger city as well.
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No, the data show that San Francisco is older than San Jose and was larger throughout the 19th century.
Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco on June 29, 1776, and Mission San Francisco de Asís in today's Mission District on October 9, 1776. source.
San Jose was founded on November 29, 1777. source.
Per Wikipedia:
San Francisco:
1848 - 1,000
1849 - 25,000
1852 - 34,776
1860 - 56,802
1870 - 149,473
1880 - 233,959
1890 - 298,997
1900 - 342,782
1910 - 416,912
1920 - 506,676
1930 - 634,394
1940 - 634,536
1950 - 775,357
1960 - 740,316
1970 - 715,674
1980 - 678,974
1990 - 723,959
2000 - 776,733
2010 - 805,235
Est. 2019 - 881,549
San Jose:
1870 - 9,089
1880 - 12,567
1890 - 18,060
1900 - 21,500
1910 - 28,946
1920 - 39,642
1930 - 57,651
1940 - 68,457
1950 - 95,280
1960 - 204,196
1970 - 459,913
1980 - 629,400
1990 - 782,248
2000 - 894,943
2010 - 945,942
Est. 2019 - 1,021,79
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It took a good deal of time for San Francisco to develop as anything more than a deepwater port, where cargo was transferred from seagoing vessels to smaller craft for transport around the bay and across the California coast. By the time it began to resemble the major city it is today San Jose, much like Oakland, had already developed into a full grown city with its own civic culture and an independent economy based primarily on agriculture.
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I'm not sure I understand what you are asserting here. If you'd like to explain it, I'd love to hear it.
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To an outsider that difference might be indistinguishable, but to someone from the bay area it would be like saying Newark and Manhattan are "basically the same thing" (and let me tell you, as a born and raised Californian NY and NJ seem pretty much the same to me)
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I went to grade school and high school in San Jose, and then lived for 24 years in San Francisco. Not sure where you are getting your theories about these cities.
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