People come and go, cities rise and fall, economies stumble and leave in their wake these boarded-up windows and yesterday's signs. This morning I stumbled across this forlorn little scene while motoring into the California Delta for fresh produce from R. Kelley Farms. This is on River Road in Sacramento County, just north of Hood-Franklin Road in tiny Hood, Calif. I don't know the story of this restaurant. A lot of local publications online still list it as active. The building is cinder-block crappy and the town isn't much to look at. But there's something authentic about it, an Old West ghost-town look that surely tells some larger American story.
There is also a ton of Chinese history in this area. Here is a story written from Hong Kong about the nearby Delta town of Locke, which offers a flavor of the region's Asian heritage.
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