Remembering "The Alhambra"

Lisa - I know Folsom very well.  How interesting that you speak about the A & W.  As it turns out, during the 1960s, I was friends with Kay Inks, and her husband, Dennis Inks.  They owned that very A & W, and ran it themselves.  I always chuckled, because both Kay and Dennis have a certain sophistication, that you wouldn't normally find in an A & W.  But there they were, both very young, and running that place very well themselves.  Later, I think Dennis became a Mayor in Folsom.  I saw them both recently, at a 90th birthday party for a woman, Kay and I were close to in our young lives.  Folsom has grown unbelievably to a wonderful city - so much larger in size and scope than the small prison town of a few decades ago.

Cherimie - Thank you, thank you!  Thanks for coming by for the visit.

Ann - I seem to have an affinity for old theatres too.  I guess you could sum up my experience with them as being similar to the movie, "The Majestic."

When I was a kid, we could get into a Matinee, at the California Theater (chronicled a few days back on my blog), in Oak Park, for just 14 cents.  They would show 2 late release movies, show the news and comics too.  THEN - here was the magic, on Sunday, they changed the venue to 2 more movies, for the same 14 cent.  My parents hardly saw me on weekends.  I was in the California Theatre, the night it burned down.  I had gone with a girlfriend to see Sophia Loren in "A Boy on a Dolphin."  I left the theatre about 10:00 pm or so, and by midnight, it had burned down.  I didn't know about it until the next morning, when my mother brought in the morning paper, "The Sacramento Union," which had headlined the story.

Elizabeth - During the 1970s, the destruction of the Alhambra was VERY controversial.  The community was largely outraged by the decision to allow it to happen.  I haven't been much of a fan of Safeway, since that time.

James - I periodically post local history things, so people remember.  I often think these wonderful places will continue to exist, as long as the vision and memory of them dwells in our thoughts.

Russel - At the time The Alhambra bit the dust, it was the 1970s.  Back then, folks here in Sacramento, didn't seem to be quite as enlightened about the importance of our historical buildings.  We do a little better job now.  I'm glad San Diego values it's historic structures.