Downtown San Jose’s arty SoFA district, along South First Street from San Carlos to Reed Street, again will be filled with bands, vendors and a beer garden from 2 to 8 p.m., along with stages at Mama Kin, Guildhouse, MACLA and Haberdasher. IT’S SOFA TIME: This weekend’s expected warm weather should be perfect for the return of the SoFA Street Fair on Sunday. Before the show, there will be mariachis, facepainters and a market with Mexican food, drinks and crafts.
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‘COCO’ GETS SYMPHONY TREATMENT: Symphony San Jose’s next “Movies in Concert” event is this weekend with Disney Pixar’s “Coco” being shown at the Center for the Performing Arts while the orchestra, conducted by Susie Seiter, plays Michael Giacchino’s score live. The new building would have a slab floor to accommodate the weight, Gard said, which is too much for the current shop’s wood floors. That would allow them to exhibit bigger machines that are in storage right now including a hot-metal linotype machine, a Heidelberg Windmill press and a huge San Francisco iron handpress which printed a newspaper from the Gold Rush days. The Printers’ Guild has a dream to put even more on display and is starting a fundraising campaign to put a second building on a vacant lot next to the current shop. The results of all this printing cover the walls and shelves, mostly in the form of posters made for special events. But it’s the back where you can see the really fun stuff: drawers of big wood block type and small metal letters, proof presses, letter presses and boxes of colorful inks. And an exhibit on the history of printing - from Gutenberg and linotype to the WYSIWYG revolution of the Macintosh - occupies the print shop’s front room. While Gard remains a helpful presence at the print shop, he has a lot of help from other volunteers to share the story now. Gard arrived in 1974, a 14-year-old from Los Altos who had a letterpress at home and quickly made an impression - pardon the pun - on docents who relied on him to tell them what everything was for. Like many other downtown historic buildings, it was moved to History Park in 1972 and because two of the park’s founders - Leonard McKay and Theron Fox - were printers, it was converted into a replica of a late 19th century print shop that opened a year later. John Street near San Pedro Street when it was built in 1884. The print shop was originally a residence on St. It’s a date Gard knows for sure because he has an original invitation to the event in 1973 that once belonged to Willys Peck - a former Mercury News copy editor and celebrated Saratoga historian. April 29 is also the 50th anniversary of the opening of the print shop as the park’s first exhibit. And right in the heart of Silicon Valley, there’s a place for those typophiles to celebrate their love: the print shop at History Park in San Jose - the epicenter of Saturday’s eighth annual Printers Fair and Wayzgoose (a word of vague origin that means printers’ party).
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