Until 1947, Sacramento's streetcars linked a bustling downtown district with residential neighborhoods, workplaces, and a growing series of suburbs. Starting with horse-drawn cars on Front Street, the streetcar system owned by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company expanded to include Midtown, Curtis Park, Land Park, Oak Park, and East Sacramento. But PG&E was not alone; two other companies ran streetcar routes downtown, along with suburban lines to West Sacramento, North Sacramento, Rio Linda, Elverta, Colonial Heights, and Colonial Acres. Sacramentans rode the cars to work, to school, to the state fair, and just about anywhere they wanted to go until the streetcars were replaced by buses owned by National City Lines.
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Using vintage photographs from the Western Railway Museum's Sacramento collection and oral histories from residents who rode the streetcars, Sacramento historian William Burg presents an aspect of local history hidden today under asphalt on many downtown streets: an era when Sacramentans could ride to the department stores on K Street, to Joyland in Oak Park, to the public baths in Land Park, or to the Alhambra Theatre all for a 7¢ token.
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Burg's second Arcadia book as good as his first.,
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William Burg, Sacramento's Streetcars (Arcadia, 2006)
I've recently become quite enamored of Arcadia's series of Images of [fill in the blank] books of old photographs, and finding out that my old acquaintance William Burg (if you're on livejournal, you know him as noisepimp) had done the text for two of them. Sacramento's Streetcars is the second, and I like it just as much as the first (Sacramento's Southside Park). This one's in the Images of Rail series, and as the informative title reveals, it focuses on the golden age of streetcars in Sacramento. I gushed over the differences between Burg's books and the other Arcadia titles I've come across in my other review, and it would be silly to repeat myself here; graft everything I said about Burg's writing onto this review and add in a couple of streetcar references, and you have everything I'd say about this one. It's good stuff. Buy it. Doesn't matter if you live in Sacramento or not; this is great armchair-travelling material as well. ****
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Sacramento's first experiment with public streetcars, a horse-drawn line from Third and R Streets to Second and K Streets, was built in 1858 but lasted only until a flood in 1861 destroyed it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sacramento Northern, Southern Pacific, Oak Park, Tenth Street, Central California Traction, Twenty-eighth Street, Alhambra Boulevard, Central Pacific, Central Street Railway, Land Park, Sacramento City Lines, West Sacramento, Rio Linda, Birdie Boyles, Bob Blymyer, Front Street, Stockton Boulevard, Thirty-first Street, East Park, Western Pacific, California State Fairgrounds, Grant Hess, Roy Covert, San Francisco, Second Avenue New!
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Sacramento's first experiment with public streetcars, a horse-drawn line from Third and R Streets to Second and K Streets, was built in 1858 but lasted only until a flood in 1861 destroyed it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sacramento Northern, Southern Pacific, Oak Park, Tenth Street, Central California Traction, Twenty-eighth Street, Alhambra Boulevard, Central Pacific, Central Street Railway, Land Park, Sacramento City Lines, West Sacramento, Rio Linda, Birdie Boyles, Bob Blymyer, Front Street, Stockton Boulevard, Thirty-first Street, East Park, Western Pacific, California State Fairgrounds, Grant Hess, Roy Covert, San Francisco, Second Avenue New!
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- History of Sacramento County, California by Thompson in Back Matter
- Los Angeles and the Automobile: The Making of the Modern City by Scott L. Bottles in Back Matter
- Ice Cream by Liz Franklin on page 69
- History of Sacramento County, California by George F. Wright in Back Matter
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