(UPDATED 8/8/18) Description and review of the historic Crest Theatre, a Sacramento landmark located on the K Street Mall that originally opened in 1912 as the Empress Theatre. A friend and I recently attended the last film screened at the Sacramento Japanese Film Festival, and it occurred to me that I had yet to write […]
Alhambra: Sacramento’s Palace of Fantasy
(Updated 2/26/18) Description and review of Alhambra: Sacramento’s Palace of Fantasy, a documentary about the Sacramento Alhambra Theatre which was razed in 1973. On Wednesday evening I attended the world premiere of Alhambra: Sacramento’s Palace of Fantasy at the Tower Theatre. The 55-minute documentary details through interviews, pictures and vintage films the story of the […]
Sutter’s Fort – Sacramento Landmarks
Description and background on Sutter’s Fort, the oldest restored Fort in the United States. Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park is located in Midtown Sacramento between K and L Streets and 26th and 28th Streets. The 20th Annual Sacramento Museum Day was on an unusually warm day for this time of year. I planned to take […]
Tower Theatre – Sacramento Landmarks
Built in 1938, the Tower Theatre is a well-loved Sacramento landmark. Located at the corner of Broadway and Land Park Drive, the Tower Theatre is an art deco treasure that specializes in showing independent, foreign and art films, an important niche market. The Tower Theatre is in the Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento. The neighborhood […]
Delta King – Sacramento Landmarks (part of an occasional series)
The Delta King is a fixture on the waterfront in Old Sacramento. You may ask – is the Delta King really a Sacramento landmark? Well, for purposes of this blog post it is. While I have never stayed in the current day hotel, I have often dined at the Delta Bar and Grill sitting on […]