Old Sacramento, California, USA - 19th August 2011
By: kcrawfish
TV-TV reporter bear reporting again ... this time from Old Sacramento. This is a historical area, where
Sacramento was first built, along the Sacramento River. The Gold Rush of 1848 built Sacramento. This is a
neighborhood similar to The Rocks of Sydney. In its day, Old Sacramento must have been teeming with
miners and traders and merchants. Now with tourists, of course.
I saw pubs in The Rocks and saloons here in Old Sac.
A bear reporter's life isn't all business. I enjoyed a short ride on a carriage.
My host and I walked down the Sacramento River along the waterfront so that we could look back at
an unusual pyramid-shaped building and the Tower Bridge, a lovely golden vertical lift bridge.
My host says she doesn't mind when she has to wait for a ship to pass because it's pleasant just to
sit in her car and look at the bridge, the boats and the water.
The Sacramento River is the longest in California, 610 kilometers. It runs from where it begins in the
Klamath Mountains down the valley between the Coast Range and the Sierra Nevada by many
cities built along it, most due to the gold rush, and eventually into the San Francisco Bay and the
Pacific Ocean. If I had a boat, I could continue my voyage to San Francisco that way.
Surprise! We turned around and happened to see the same carriage I had ridden in in Old Sacramento!
Perhaps I could thumb a ride to San Francisco on the Pony Express.
All along the waterfront, there are plaques with interesting historical paintings, photographs
and information.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011, 1:13 am Last edited Aug 21, 2011, 6:42 pm by kcrawfish
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