Design Trekking friend Dave and I adventured aimlessly through an old downtown Sacramento residential neighborhood Friday, and marveled at the capital's proliferation of small "corner" stores. It reminds us of life before the massive modern proliferation of drive-to "convenience" stores.
Sam's Market, not far from the state Capitol building, is one of those corner stores. By all appearances this building is original "mixed use," long before the concept became newly popular in architectural and planning circles. The store is downstairs, the owner lives upstairs.
Bonus: There's a California-theme mural painted on the side wall:
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