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At 123 Years Old, McKinley Park Is the Still-Thriving Glory of East Sacramento

The park features the largest rose garden in the Capital Region

This isn’t just any park. The McKinley Park rose garden is the setting for countless al fresco weddings, confirmations, quinceañeras and private soirees. It also provided a stunning backdrop for the scene in Sacramento native and filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” in which the two young lovers own up to their emotions.

May 9, 2025 Ed Goldman

When Streetcars Roamed the Capital Region

The classic car system predated light rail by almost a century

While many of us believe that Sacramento’s light rail trains were innovative when they began tooting their way throughout the Capital Region in the 1980s, the current system is actually the reboot of a suburban trolley that slid, wended and awoke its way through the area many decades before. 

Feb 26, 2025 Ed Goldman

Sacramento City College Was Once the Only College Between Stockton and Chico

Step inside the 108-year-old Land Park legend

“I’ve been here more than half my life,” says Sac City President Albert Garcia. “I love the history of this college. It gives everything we do here a richer context. Don’t forget, for many years, as far as colleges in the area, we were it. Just as we began by being part of a high school campus.”

Oct 17, 2024 Ed Goldman

The Violent, Bloody Folsom Prison Escape of 1903

New book details a dark time in the prison’s history

The prisoners made makeshift knives, or shivs, and used stolen razors during their siege. One prison guard died, and two were injured.

Aug 7, 2024 Ed Goldman

Anna Judah: Far More Than Theodore Judah’s Victorian Housewife

Through her artistry, she brought the transcontinental railroad to life — before it was built

You wouldn’t know that a tragic love story led to the railroad that connected the East and West coasts for the first time.

Apr 25, 2024 Ed Goldman

Whatever Became of the Auburn Dam?

One of the largest flood control projects in the country was never built

The Auburn Dam could well be the most talked about water storage and flood control facility in the country that simply doesn’t exist — no matter how much it’s been argued about, advocated for and against, legislatively proposed and architecturally rendered.

Dec 12, 2023 Ed Goldman

With ‘Boulevard Dreams,’ the Sacramento History Museum Focuses on Lowriders — as Cars and as a Cultural Touchstone

A ‘paradigm shift’ for a treasured local institution

More than two dozen 1950s and ‘60s vintage cars were parked in a semi-circle in front of the Sacramento History Museum’s entrance, heralding attendees to enter a world they had likely encountered over the past several decades but may have feared or simply misunderstood. 

Nov 15, 2023 Ed Goldman

Is Stockton Poised to Become a Branch Office of the Marvel Universe?

City officials are trying to lure the superheroes

Maybe Stockton should rebrand itself Upper Tinseltown. This port city, less than an hour’s drive from the capital — and the setting for a number of Hollywood films over the years — is on a mission to make itself a presence in the next “Fantastic Four” movie, due to be released in 2025

Jul 26, 2023 Ed Goldman

The Back Story: That Other Time We Had a Local Baseball Team

The Sacramento Solons still evoke fond (and funny) memories

As a team, the Solons had more stops and starts in the area than light rail at rush hour. There were iterations of the club in 1903 and 1905, from 1909 to 1914, from 1918 to 1960, and finally, from 1974 to 1976.

May 9, 2023 Ed Goldman

The Back Story: The Rocket Company that Roared

Aerojet was once a major player in the region — until it wasn’t

If you’re ever on Jeopardy and you’re asked to name an American company that not only helped the country and its allies win a war (the Big One) and, a bit more than two decades later, helped send it to the moon — before getting mired in a sludge of litigation — remember one of this region’s more complicated and often controversial sagas: Aerojet.

Apr 26, 2023 Ed Goldman
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