Article: San Jose, Calif.'s Unofficial Historian to Close Memorabilia Shop.

By Pat Lopes Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 30--It takes a keen eye to spot Leonard McKay's shop, Memorabilia. It sits in an old industrial building behind the Hotel De Anza, near where West St. John Street dead-ends into Highway 87.

Yet for nearly two decades, all sorts of people have been drawn there. Want to know what your neighborhood looked like 100 years ago? Seeking a bit of information on the Ohlone Indians, or the pioneers who replaced them, or what downtown looked like at the turn of the last century? McKay, San Jose's unofficial city historian, has been your man.

"He just knows so ...

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