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Timelapse: San Jose’s Poor House Bistro building moves to Little Italy

Mardi Gras-style party escorts four-block long transport

Karl Mondon, staff photojournalist, San Jose Mercury News, for his Wordpress profile. (Michael Malone/Bay Area News Group)
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Maybe you saw Sal Pizarro’s column this weekend describing the festive atmosphere in San Jose’s Little Italy as the Poor House Bistro was transported four blocks Saturday morning to its new home next door to Henry’s Hi-Life.

Here’s a two-minute timelapse video of the four-hour long, Mardi Gras-style street party.

San Jose’s last big building “move party” was in March 2021, when the Pallesen Apartment building, a century-old, two-story structure weighing approximately 150 tons, delighted gawkers as it rolled down Reed Street.