Travels and Meditations On Our Built Environments From California's Capital City, Sacramento

Friday, August 31, 2012

Writers, Governors, Presidents, Light Rail

A few days ago I went to the Center for Sacramento History to look up an archives file from the 1950s. I got on Regional Transit's new Green Line and rode out to Richards Boulevard and 7th Street and got off at the city's newest light rail station. It's a nice one, made of bricks from the recently demolished Richards-Bercutt cannery. It's been torn down to begin construction on a new urban neighborhood out there north of downtown named Township 9.




What I really liked was a collection of sayings by notables who came from or worked in Sacramento. Here are a few of them: