🏚️➡️ 🏛️ Educational Film - "Old Sacramento: As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be," 1958 

I love Sacramento history and architecture! This is great!

These films are such a gift

I LOVE LOCAL HISTORY SO MUCH

Excellent film, glad restoration came to fruition thanks to dedicated advocates as freeway routing would threaten entire area back then (like gentrification is so doing currently...) Newcomers are welcome to join not reshape our family friendly hard working Sacramento community, not silo it into upscale unaffordable elitist amenities. I have volunteered at the Old Sacramento Schoolhose as a School Marm, conducting old fashioned school sessions, inspiring kids to read out loud from the McGuffey text & cipher on slates, so fun! It's holiday gingerbread house competition & display always a delight. This schoolhouse, its activities & events, helped pioneer other educational living history sites & their interpretation move into area & surroundings, eateries, lodging, shops followed.. CA State superb RR Museum opened there in 1981. The best city storytelling is featured in the Sacramento History Museum by the water , covers varied local topics so well like ag, Oakpark's evolution, impact of The Scramento Bee & much more. The first art museum west of the Missippi, the Crocker Art Gallery, is in Sacramento, not San Francisco, has a memorable collection, is an easy walk from Old Sac. . Oodles of other interesting visit sites are scattered about... Stanford House, Sutter's Fort, Native American Museum, History of Medicine Museum so interesting too. A tour of the stunning Capitol building and arboretum a must, pay respects to CA Viet Nam Memorial, the Peace Rose garden so fragrant when blooms... Only a partial list of what's to do let alone enjoy Sac's cool art scene .. outstanding murals & theater & farm to fork venues, etc. . My uncle worked in the Crane Buildng in Old Sac, now a parking structure by the gracious M St. Bridges. We used to arrive by the river road in the 1950's. from up north, passing hop fields , entering town via Bryte's & Broderick 's ethnic Slavic communities, Sac has always been very diverse. I lived in the 1970's in the Japanese neighborhood & took a class on Japanese culture to learn about ikebana flower arranging nearby. And Sac has a special French connection too.. its Alliance Francaise is very active, its French Film Festival 2 decades strong, movie premiere at the iconic Art Decvo delight Crest Theater. I do not know any details but just learned that there was a drive by shooting in Old Sac recently?! Breaks my heart. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! STOP IT! Anyone belongs to anywhere by contributing to it. Become a volunteer guide of Old Sac, help out in an area school. Give back. Do not take the tranquility from a community so humble so welcoming. Such violent acts , again no clue what it was about, does not matter, is wrong, disrupts DIVERSE families out for a dinner by the river, their pursuit of happiness ,& violates the RIGHT to freedom from fear. Resolve that conflict peacefully then join strolling the area, attend a River Cats game. Treat others as you wish to be treated."...with respect please. Then you will be treated the same.. with respect. Thank you. .

This is a terrific film that shows great detail about the history of Sacramento's architecture. The firehouse 3 has been saved and is the home of the Firehouse restaurant. Sadly way too many of these old buildings were torn down in the name of progress.

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My 2nd Great Grandfather and his brothers had a store in old Sacramento 1849-1850 or 1851 (some left after the big Jan. 1850 flooding). One of the family is actually buried in the Old City Cemetery as he died of Dysentery in Jan. 1850 - grave location is lost but the number and tier are known. One of the brothers stayed with his family through the mid-1860s. They were grocers and general mining supplies such as pans, picks, shovels, and clothes.

All these people who lived in Sacramento in the 1800's 1900's they all in the Broadway cemetery and other cemetery throughout Sacramento.Everythig was different back then vs Now!

I highly recomend the Old City Cemetery Tour

18:34 you can see the "red bricks" under the cement stucco and most of that ornamentation back then was actually cast iron. whole building fronts in downtowns are cast iron ornamentation.

I watched this in elementary school. I watched it again. I fell asleep again. Just like elementary school. Some things never change.... 😴😴😴😴😴😴😴

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Old Sacramento is a mudflooders town, with the past civilizations infrastructure buried by ?????? Look p the mudfloods phenomenon.