Roadside
Highway 99: Pollardville & the Chicken Kitchen
Sacramento Googie
U.S. 40: North Sacramento's Del Paso Boulevard
U.S. 40: Sacramento's Auburn Boulevard
U.S. 40: West Sacramento's Motel Row
U.S. 99: Oak Park's Broadway
U.S. 395: Road Trip
Vintage Neon Signs: Fresno
Vintage Neon Signs: Sacramento
Vintage Neon Signs: Stockton
Restaurants
East Bay: Classic Restaurants
Sacramento Area Barbecue Joints
Sacramento Area Classic Burger Joints
Sacramento Area Pizzerias
Sacramento's Vintage Diners
Sacramento Tourist
Sacramento: Aerospace Museum of California
Sacramento County Fair
Sacramento: Towe Auto Museum
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Wednesday, April 2, 2008
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About Me
- Tom Spaulding
- I moved to the Sacramento area in September of 1996, and have been exploring the territory around me ever since. This is a record of my wanderings. I started driving around and photographing buildings and signs when I got a car in 1999, but in 2006 I began to hike as well. E-mail: tspauld [at] sprynet [dot] com.
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You've been so many wonderful and interesting places...I wonder if maybe you might know the answers to some questions that have been bugging me for years.
1. What were the original 16 restaurants located in the Sacramento/Arden Fair Food Circus? Some of the names I think I know (but I could be wrong):
La Plaza
Die Rheinlander
Hof Bauer
Jumbo Coffee
See's Candies
Carnation Ice Cream
Snook's Country Candies
Frank Fat's
Do you know more, or all, of the original 16?
2. Interstate 5 opened in stages in the 1960s and 70s; I-5 opened from Stockton to Sacramento in 1979. My family moved from Sacramento to Santa Maria in 1973 and, because of the I-5 development, we would have to cut across to Highway 101 in order to head south. That would take us through the San Jose area.
There was a roadside restaurant that had built an enormous plastic beehive into one wall of the restaurant. Outside the restaurant, the bees freely entered and exited the beehive. Inside the restaurant, the massive beehive was made of clear plastic so that the patrons could observe the bees.
What was the name of that restaurant? I know that it was not Nickerson Farms; they never made it to California.
I couldn't find anything on your bee hive place, but the 1970 Sacramento suburban directory lists in Food Circus:
Bar-B-Que Chicken
Carnation Ice Cream and Pastry
Country Candies
Frank Fat's Restaurant
Food Circus Gifts
Frank's Fisherman's Wharf No. 4
Health Food Bar
Hof Brau
Hot Dog on a Stick
Jim's Safe & Lock Service
Jumbo's Coffee Shop
La Plaza
The Nut Shop
Pagluica's Italian Kitchen
Peterson's Watch Repair Den
The Steak Pit
Tastee Do-Nut Parlor
Die Rheinlander
Thank you, Tom!
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