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Article: With arts and dot.com, San Francisco and San Jose trying to become more like each other.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- September 28, 2000
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For most of their existence, about the only thing that San Jose and San Francisco seemed to have in common was the first part of their names. And for a long time, residents of each city probably wouldn't have had it any other way.
San Jose is known as the capital of mighty Silicon Valley and a center of industry and technological innovation. San Francisco is an internationally known city with a thriving arts and cultural scene.
Now the rivals are doing something once unthinkable: Trying to become more like each other.
San Jose wants to cure its chronic case of San Francisco envy by building its own arts institutions, developing a downtown that ...