Gold Rush Days of Old Sacramento

A Sacramento squad car... is Governor Schwartzennager cutting back! He's probably in that State building right now, thinking of what else he can save dollars on.

September 3, 2007 Saturday

Wowza! It's 103 degrees out here in Old Sacramento. Today is the Gold Rush Days celebration and it was an interesting experience to see how people lived in the 1850's. Women were dressed in long skirts and held lace umbrella's, and men were dressed in their suit jackets, top hats or cowboy attire. Some were dressed in confederate soldier uniforms.



Stagecoach. Greg and Kai stand grimly by the times-past funerary hearst.

They had Wild West shoot-outs, and a Miner's Encampment, and Pony Express rides.


I asked Greg for a "devorice" and he asked to buy a shootin' and a hangin' for me.

This woman painfully threads lace. An 1-inch section takes about 45 minutes to make using just finger dexterity, straight pins and threads wound around several sticks and that with a LOT of patience!

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All I could think was "what a waste of time to try and look presentable to a man!" There are more productive things to do... like hunt or do an oil change in a car (wait a second- there were no cars back then! ha.)

WOW! How intrinsic!

The Old Sacramento Steamboat.

These soldiers haul a canon.

The once simple, one-room School House. We know we'll never have days like this anymore.

Kai gets a lesson and reads the Daily Bee newspaper from 1857.

Children get a lesson on embroidery.

Daddy and Kai eat corn on the cob while watching this Indian fella blow balloons for the kids. I just love this photo of them chowing down!

Kai holds his own train ticket.

And of course there was the train we just had to hop on *the Sacramento Southern Railroad. For a 40-minute ride, it took you 3 miles along the Sacramento River to "Baths" and back. Along the way, we saw wave-jumpers on jet ski's take flight.

Arleen poses before the train.