East Sacramento (CA) (Images of America)

Description

In the 1890s, the Sacramento Electric Power and Light Company extended streetcar tracks eastward, thereby creating a suburban oasis that developers Charles Wright and Howard Kimbrough sold as just a 15 minute ride from downtown. Today's East Sacramento boasts some of the more desirable real estate in and around California' capital city, including McKinley Park and the Fabulous Forties, a collection of upscale homes from 40th to 49th Streets where Ronald Reagan resided when he was governor. Also located in East Sacramento is the campus of California State University, Sacramento, where a young Tom Hanks got his start in The Cherry Orchard.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2007-10-30
Summary: "East Sacramento"

I enjoyed this book particularly because I grew up in East Sacramento and there's a picture of me in the book. I knew much of the history as my parents were first generation Sacramentans born before 1910 and I loved to hear them tell of their adventures and stories from their childhood. It must have been a great place to live back then. This book tells most of the things you'd want to know about the development of East Sacramento.

Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2005-01-02
Summary: "Been There Done That"

I have several of the books in this series, as I'm interested in nostalgia & local history. Since I grew up in East Sacramento in the 1950's and 60's, I was looking forward to this one; however, it seems that the authors & researchers may have been in a hurry, as there are some factual errors, a lot of proofreading errors, and a lot of focus on some areas & nothing on others. It makes me think they scraped together what they could find & didn't spend much time looking for anything else. There are still a lot of older residents in the area who may have been happy to contribute either memories or photographs or both. It was still a nice trip down "memory lane," but not the complete reminiscence I was hoping for.