2007 ColDay Series:

 

Part 1: Los Angeles Parte Uno

Part 2: Los Angeles Parte Dos 

Part 3: Boston 

Part 4: A New York City Interlude 

Part 5: Montreal 

Part 6: Cincinnati 

Part 7: Pittsburgh & Harrisburg 

Part 8: Philadelphia 

Part 9: Brooklyn, New York 

Part 10: Atlantic City, Baltimore, & Washington DC 

Part 11: Dayton

Part 12: Sacramento to Santa Cruz

Part 13: Big Sur to San Francisco

Part 14: San Francisco

Part 15: Berkeley & Oakland

Part 16: Around The Globe Preview

Part 17: London I

Part 18: London II

Part 19: Paris Partie Une

Part 20: Paris Partie Deux

Part 21: Paris Partie Trois

Part 22: Nashville & Pittsburgh

Part 23: Gritcinnati

Part 24: Toronto

Part 25: Akron & Cleveland

Part 26: New York City: Part One

Part 27: New York City: Part Two

Part 28: New York City: Part Three

Part 29: Hartford

Part 30: Zürich

Part 31: Lucerne & The Swiss Alps

Part 32: Milan

Part 33: Dallas

Part 34: Detroit

Part 35: Gary

Part 36: Chicago

 

 

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Break...

 

 

 

 

Santa Cruz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, fine...coming soon...San Francisco.

 

Mmmm...In-N-Out...Suddenly I'm very hungry (the other stuff looks great, too)

California makes me happy :)

 

Colday's photos make me happy :)

 

California + Colday = :) :)

Wow! Both places look great!

Beautiful!

That first shot is lovely

So they let you visit Cali eh?  :wink:

 

Beautiful set of pics.  Quite the contrast in this one:

 

 

Thanks for the Santa Cruz pics too (don't think I've seen that city before).  Always fun ColDay, thanks.

Great shots of my old neighborhood in Sacramento, though some of that wasn't there when I was living there. 

 

That light rail line has an interesting history...& it is really great to see those trees coming up on K Street.  K Street used to be much more barren, but they redid the landscaping when the light rail was built.

 

The church in the Sac pix is the Cathederal of the Blessed Sacrement and was my "parish church" (or the one I went to Mass at, when I went).

 

The Crest was a hoot.  They had old movies and concerts of all different sorts.  I saw John Prine, Norman Blake, The Circle Jerks, The Dead Kennedys, and Black Flag there.  The fancy candy colored color scheme in the neon continues on inside.  It was really over the top, sort of Roccoco Deco or something.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice!  It's great to see some older photos of Sacramento for once.  It seems like on other sites all they ever show is the taller buildings.

Nice! The downtown shopping center looks quite nice actually. Better than the typical suburban blandness on the inside (from the photos, at least).

There was a shopping center there earlier.  It was an open air one, and was pretty dated, looking like it was maybe built in the early 1970s.  It was built on a parking garage, which was actually free parking on Saturday, so it did draw more traffic than one would expect.  There was a Macys, I Magin, and Weinstocks, which was a local department store, maybe like Elder Beerman or maybe better.

 

This was remodelled after I left and totally transformed into that shopping center you see in Coldaymans pix.  I came back for  a visit in the mid 90s and it was built by then. 

 

The older stuff as at the top of the thread is "Old Sacramento", and it was one of the  bigger skid rows on the West Coast. It was literally rebuilt during the 1960s...the "redevelopment" as it was called.  It looks touristy, but survives on suburbanites coming into town for some fun and stuff.  In town, there are some older neighborhoods that survive still in the so-called "Old City"...Alkalai Flat is one, New Era Park (lots of bungalows) was another.

 

In some ways Sac had a sort of southern feel to it, like maybe Macon or Lexington a bit...or even San Antonio in parts. Lots of bungalows and one story, raised Victorians.

 

The Old City was laid on on this relentless, Manhattan-style grid, but every so often a block would be reserved for a park.

 

 

...you can see a bit of the Chinatown Center in the backround.  This was a private development by some local Chinese buisnessmen, replacing the old Chinatown with housing, offices, and a Chinese restaurant.  Downriver in the Delta there are some old country towns that still have their Chinatowns, as there was a rural Chinese population down along the river.

 

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