As a teenager, I lived in San Jose from 1956 through 1959, and Reid-Hillview (As I recall, we referred to it back then as Reid’s Hillview) Airport was one of my favorite haunts. I don’t know when the airport was built, but it was already a well established fixture at the time I lived in San Jose. If my memory serves, I believe that the only commercial enterprise, other than the FBO at the air port, was Clevenger’s Crop Dusting, operating highly modified Stinson L-5 aircraft. My Civil Air Patrol Squadron also operated out of the airport, and still does to this day. The only complaints regarding the airport’s location back then, were from pilots on short final being hit by golf balls from the adjacent golf course.