Shauna J.'s Sacramento
Shauna J. Bogart's beat is the not-very-mean streets of California's capital city. Sacramento lies in the heart of the part of California the travel writers seem to forget, the agricultural empire east of the Coast Range, far from the Hollywood sign and the Golden Gate Bridge. As Shauna J. likes to say, "I might as well be living in Iowa." Follow our heroine on a tour of some of the haunts and hang-outs that play a part in Murder Off Mike.
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"I paused under the neon sign marking the location of the original Tower Records, bobbysoxers jitterbugging to a spinning record." - Page 51
"I sat cross-legged on the grass
in the shadow of the Pony Express
statute. A life-size bronze horse
and rider paid tribute to the romance
and danger of the Old West."
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"I spotted spiky tops of palms, then the block of grass that made up Cesar Chavez Plaza." |
"Someone got the idea to turn what was left of the slum into the Old Sacramento historic district, a Wild West version of New Orleans' French Quarter. . . . The old whore never looked so good." |
"The American River Parkway is one of Sacramento's better ideas . . . It's a miracle developers haven't managed to put up condos and view homesites on every inch of the riverbank." -Page 160
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"The white marble State Capitol, a Victorian jewel tucked away in a vault of steel and glass high-rise bureaucracy." -Page 11
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"The courtyard of The Firehouse restaurant made me feel as if I'd stepped inside the Pirates of the Caribbean." -Page 192 |
"It was the very balcony where I'd watched Dr. Hipster and Juicy Lucy share a joint and a fifth of tequila some thirty years ago."
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"K Street narrowed, passed under an arch, and plunged into a dank pedestrian tunnel under I-5." |
"Overhead towered the onramp to the I Street Bridge. . . . I'd gone from Main Street at Disneyland to the set of Blade Runner."
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