Westfield Valley Fair, drawn in Gruen ink
On July 20, 1955, a crew started construction on forty acres at what was then the edge of San Jose, about five and a half miles southwest of downtown.
Macy’s California and San Francisco’s Capital Company were building a new kind of shopping center, designed with the bold style of the 1950s.
Victor Gruen, the Austrian architect who helped create the modern shopping center, designed the walkway; the main Macy’s store was designed by San Francisco architect John Savage Bolles…