The removal of the statue from downtown should bring to a close three decades of pointed — and sometimes inaccurate — debate.
Tuesday morning my email and social media started popping with people asking if I had seen that removal of the Fallon statue had begun in downtown San Jose. Finally, I thought, our long civic nightmare is over.
The statue of Thomas Fallon — an adventurer and soldier who served a year as mayor in the 1850s — and an unidentified companion on horseback preparing to hoist the flag was hidden away because some Mexican-Americans said it glorified a military conquest and other residents complained about the lack of public input. An arts committee — which included some of the statue’s detractors — was formed and decided it wouldn’t be placed at the park now known as Plaza de Cesar Chavez.
The statue’s metal value is about $6,000 but it couldn’t be melted down because that requires permission of the artist under a 1979 California law, and Glen said no. He also didn’t want to buy back the statue. Moving it to History Park wasn’t an option because History San Jose declined an offer in part because it would be a target for vandalism.
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