Northern California - You know you're old-school sacto when you remember ....

Having to take Folsom Blvd. to get to Folsom.
Trains exploding in Roseville.
Old Sac was ghetto.
Twice as many all-girls Catholic schools.
The Sacramento Solons.

When there were no limit on stripers in the Delta.

Come on now, Sacto can be counted as Bay Area too :D

Not according to my wife who is "From the Bay Area."

(She was born in Fresno and grew up in Pinole)

Beach Boys at the Vets Memorial, "Crazy Walking" diagonally through intersections in the downtown on four-way red lights, Sacto Union paperboys (men) yelling over and over in the downtown, "Get your paper, thicker than the Bee."

I grew up in Fairfield, but Sacramento and San Francisco were the Big Cities the family traveled to for shopping.

Tom

In the early 60's...riding all over Sac on levees. from No. Sac to Am River to Sac River and beyond...all over and no bike trails...just riding atop levees.

In the early 60's...riding all over Sac on levees. from No. Sac to Am River to Sac River and beyond...all over and no bike trails...just riding atop levees.

I'm sorry. That must have majorly sucked. Weren't they mostly gravel?

I've only lived here 10 years.

I do love riding on the levees though. Riding along Garden Highway rocks ;)

I'm sorry. That must have majorly sucked. Weren't they mostly gravel?

Sucked? Heck no, we were kids on old beater three speeds. We didn't know the diffrence. We would carrry fishing poles down to some RR bridge on the Am River...we felt like Huck Finns and tom Sawyers.

Life was simple.

Those commercials.."Tell 'em Billy sent ya!"

Those commercials.."Tell 'em Billy sent ya!"
wasn't it followed with "Not that other fella"? :twitchy:

How about Town and Country Village (the oldest shopping mall west of the Mississippi BTW) when it had displays of vintage guns and farm equipment?

Going to the Music Circus when it really was a circus tent. (And about a million degrees in there.)

When there were water fountains in front of Macy's.

Cap'n Mitch on Ch. 40.

Trains exploding in Roseville.

Everyone keeps telling me how Roseville used to be farmland...

I've only been here 2 years so what do I know :D

I remember that train exploding. We heard it Wheatland, about 40 miles away.
How about when the F-86 crashed into the ice cream parlor on Freeport?

Going to the Music Circus when it really was a circus tent. (And about a million degrees in there.)

When there were water fountains in front of Macy's.

Cap'n Mitch on Ch. 40.


Oh yeah!:thumb:

Back when Elk Grove wasn't part of the contiguous urban stain that is now Sacto

Thanks for your input.

Cal Worthington riding an animal and the song that I swear said pussie cow, pussie cow. It was only recently when I asked someone about them and they told me it was "go see cal". I am a youngster only 24. I also remember when Natomas was a flood plain, oh wait it still is. I remember going out to Natomas because it was dark enough to see celestial events and not too far to make it a road trip. I remember when I would get kings tickets at school for no reason on a weekly basis. They sucked, and there was no band wagon for anyone to have fallen off of yet.

I grew up in Livermore, but when we moved out onto Mines Road, we started getting Sacto stations instead of SF ones, so my old-timey memories of Sacramento consist almost exclusively of TV stuff, such as:

Bob Whitten as the local news anchor, Harry Martin doing entertainment news, and Harry Geiss and his then-revolutionary six-day forecasts doing the weather, all on Channel 3. And who could forget when Kristine Hansen, the gen-yoo-whine Playboy Playmate of the Month, became the weather reporter for Channel 3's 11:00 p.m. news show?

I also recall local newsie Joanie Blunden, before she moved to NY and became network hot-shot Joan Lunden.

And anyone else remember the incredibly sappy version of the poem "High Flight" that KCRA used to sign off at night with? "Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth . . . ."

When you remember when the kings were doing good.
Everyone used to go to Denios.
Florin Mall was the best.

Speaking of Sacramento Playmates...

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And anyone else remember the incredibly sappy version of the poem "High Flight" that KCRA used to sign off at night with? "Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth . . . ."

"... reached out and touched the face of God."

I always wondered if that made the station bit of a front for religious affirmations.