The process to take down the Thomas Fallon statue began in downtown San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) By Gabriel Greschler | Bay Area News Group.

In 2021, the San Jose city council voted to remove the statue which is estimated to cost around $450,000. The removal is scheduled to be completed by the end of the month with the statue being ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The controversial Thomas Fallon statue, which stood in downtown San Jose for about 30 years, is finally coming down. On Tuesday, the San Jose city council unanimously approved ...

The 1,200-pound bronze sculpture depicts Captain Thomas Fallon raising a U.S. flag in San Jose on what was then-Mexican land. Ever since the statue of one of San Jose’s first mayors went up at ...

The statue depicts Thomas Fallon raising the American flag over San Jose in 1846 during the California campaign of the Mexican-American war. For Dominguez and many others, it's disrespectful.

The statue of one of San Jose's first mayors was commissioned in 1988 to memorialize the raising of the U.S. flag in the city in 1846, but Fallon is a divisive figure because of his hostile ...

San Jose police recover a statue stolen from Guadalupe River Park, wheeling it out from Tung Tai Group recyclers, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, in San Jose, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ...

2000-10-12 04:00:00 PDT SAN JOSE-- A decade after it vanished into the obscurity of an Oakland warehouse, a larger-than-life statue of California pioneer Capt. Thomas Fallon is poised to arrive ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Work crews have begun the days-long process to remove the controversial Fallon statue in downtown San Jose. The 12,000-pound Thomas Fallon sculpture has been a divisive ...