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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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128 pages
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English
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Arcadia Publishing
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July 17, 2006
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6.5 x 0.31 x 9.25 inches
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0738531472
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978-0738531472
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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcadia Publishing; Illustrated edition (July 17, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0738531472
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0738531472
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.31 x 9.25 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2014

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If you enjoy learning the history of Sacramento, or just streetcars, you will enjoy this book. Not strong in details, but it does have a lot of fantastic and interesting historic photos.

Burg's second Arcadia book as good as his first.

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2008

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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Great info on Sacramento’s Historic Streetcars

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2021

Enjoyed the photos and maps, as well as the perspectives of actual riders/users of the Streetcar System. One you’ll want to hang on to and refer to often if you are a Sacramento or Streetcar/Rail Enthusiast.

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