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41 unusual facts about Sacramento


2012–13 Sacramento Kings season

The 2012–13 Sacramento Kings season was the 68th season of the franchise, and the 65th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 28th in Sacramento.

Alex Van Dyke

Franklin Alexander Van Dyke (born July 24, 1974 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football wide receiver who was selected by the New York Jets in the 2nd round (31st overall) of the 1996 NFL Draft.

Anchorage Times

The Sacramento-based McClatchy newspaper chain, bought the Daily News that same year.

Annika Östberg

Politics changed throughout the years, and as the sentencing laws changed, so did the mindset of the Board of Prison Terms and the Governor's office in Sacramento.

Asa Jackson

Jackson was born in Sacramento, California and attended Christian Brothers High School.

Bakersfield and Kern Electric Railway rolling stock

However, at the time, they also ran a streetcar line in Sacramento.

Central California Traction Company

The railroad operated over the same line from Stockton to Sacramento until 1998 when service between Lodi and Sacramento was suspended.

Chris Oldham

Christopher Martin Oldham (born October 26, 1968 in Sacramento, California) is a former professional American football cornerback for twelve seasons in the NFL for the Detroit Lions, Buffalo Bills, Arizona Cardinals, Pittsburgh Steelers, and New Orleans Saints.

Chris Verhulst

Christopher Sean Verhulst (born May 16, 1966 in Sacramento, California) is a former professional American football player who played tight end for the Houston Oilers and the Denver Broncos.

Chuuwee

Dionte Chuuwee Hunter is an American hip hop artist from Sacramento, California.

Condrew Allen

Condrew Rogét Allen (born January 3, 1985 in Sacramento, California) is an American football cornerback.

Damen Wheeler

Damen Keoki Wheeler (born September 3, 1977 in Sacramento, California) is a former XFL cornerback for the New York/New Jersey Hitmen and a current Arena Football League defensive specialist for the Los Angeles Avengers.

Darrin Nelson

Darren Milo Nelson (born January 2, 1959 in Sacramento, California) is a former professional American football player in the National Football League who played for the majority of his career with the Minnesota Vikings.

Dek Bake

Donald "Dek" Bake (born February 6, 1984 in Sacramento, California) is an American football defensive end who was formerly a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Duckwater, Nevada

Duckwater is an American village located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Nevada, in the desert at about the same latitude as Sacramento, California.

Gary Hoffman

Gary Edward Hoffman is a former tackle in the National Football League who was born on September 28, 1961 in Sacramento, California.

Haiku in English

It is housed at the California State Library in Sacramento, California, and includes the official archives of the Haiku Society of America, along with significant donations from the libraries of Elizabeth Searle Lamb, co-founder Jerry Kilbride, Jane Reichhold, Lorraine Ellis Harr, Francine Porad, and many others.

Jesse Reklaw

Reklaw was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in Sacramento, studied at UC Santa Cruz, and completed a master's degree in computer science at Yale University.

Jim Breech

James Thomas Breech (born April 11, 1956 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football kicker in the National Football League, who played for Oakland Raiders in 1979 and Cincinnati Bengals from 1980-1992.

Joseph P. Dyer

title = Mayor of Sacramento, California

KMAM

KMAM is a "daytimer", licensed to operate only from local sunrise to local sunset to protect radio stations KFBK in Sacramento, California, and WCKY in Cincinnati, Ohio from skywave interference.

LaVar Christensen

He received his B.A. degree from Brigham Young University and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California.

Leland Glass

Glass was born Leland Strother Glass on November 5, 1950 in Sacramento, California.

Malcolm Floyd

As of 2011, Floyd was the varsity football coach for C. K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento, California.

Metro Transit rolling stock

The vehicles are being built at Siemens’ facility in Florin, California, near Sacramento.

Mrs. John Wood

She may have managed two theatres during this period: the Forrest Theatre in Sacramento for a few weeks in 1858 and the American Theatre in San Francisco from March 1859 to the beginning of summer.

Noah Brooks

Noah Brooks (October 24, 1830 – August 16, 1903) was a journalist and editor who worked for newspapers in Sacramento, San Francisco, Newark, and New York, and authored a major biography of Abraham Lincoln based on close personal observation.

Pauly Shore Is Dead

It was a box office bomb, however, earning just $11,000 after a very limited release to theaters in Sacramento, California.

Politics of light rail in North America

However, this is no longer necessarily the case; in Sacramento and San Diego, particularly, construction of light rail networks that incorporate both circumferential (suburb-to-suburb) and radial (suburb-to-CBD) lines have produced surprisingly high increases in passenger-miles.

Ricky Reynolds

Derrick "Ricky" Scott Reynolds (born January 19, 1965 in Sacramento, California), is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 1987 NFL Draft.

Ritchie Coliseum

Terrapins pugilists Ben Alperstein and Tom Birmingham went on to compete in the national intercollegiate championship in Sacramento, California.

Road Hogs

Most of the civilized mutants and humans are located in what was previously known as Sacramento, California.

Roberto Yong

Roberto Yong, aka "The Young One", aka "Exile", is an American streetball player from Sacramento, California.

Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle

"Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle" (also known as "How Do You Afford Your Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle") is the debut single by Sacramento alternative rock band Cake.

Scott Galbraith

Alan Scott Galbraith (born January 7, 1967 in Sacramento, California) is a former professional American football tight end in the National Football League for nine seasons for the Cleveland Browns, Dallas Cowboys, Washington Redskins, and Green Bay Packers.

Sean Dawkins

Dawkins pursued a career in real estate in Sacramento, California, and later trained to become a police officer in San Jose, California.

Shaq Thompson

Raised in Del Paso Heights, Sacramento, California, Shaq Thompson is the son of Patty Thompson, a single mother, and the youngest of four brothers.

SMF Automated People Mover

The SMF Automated People Mover is an elevated automated people mover system at Sacramento International Airport in Sacramento, California.

The 11th Day: Crete 1941

His production company, Archangel Films, is based in Sacramento, California.

Troy Castaneda

Troy Castaneda (born November 15, 1989) is an American racing driver from Sacramento, California.

Warp 11

Warp 11 is a rock band from Sacramento, California that performs original songs with lyrics entirely about Star Trek.


Bell's Vireo

Historically, the Least Bell's Vireo was a common to locally abundant species in lowland riparian habitat, ranging from coastal southern California through the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys as far north as Red Bluff in Tehama County.

Bob Hogue

Previously, he worked at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa, KFBB-TV in Great Falls, Montana, and radio stations in Honolulu, HI, Sacramento, CA, and Prescott, AZ.

Buddy Baer

After the war Buddy appeared in movies and TV, owned a bar in Sacramento with Fred Cullincini and worked as a marshal at the California State Legislature.

California Department of Education Headquarters

Designed by Curtis W. Fentress, FAIA, RIBA of Fentress Architects, the CDEH/Block 225 consolidated the headquarters of the Department of Education, which formerly occupied several facilities located throughout Sacramento.

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento is an Air Station of the United States Coast Guard, located in Sacramento County, California.

Cristina Mendonsa

She started her television career as a writer for KRBK-TV (now KMAX-TV) in Sacramento.

Ed Reimers

Reimers was also a popular narrator of industrial films, especially those made by Lockheed Space and Missile Systems Division, Sunnyvale, California, and by the Aerojet-General Corporation Solid Rocket Plant in Sacramento, California.

Forsalebyowner.com

On behalf of ForSaleByOwner.com, lead counsel Steve Simpson, from the non-profit "public interest" law firm the Institute for Justice, filed a federal lawsuit in Sacramento.

Global Village Foundation

In 1995, Le Ly Hayslip was honored by the California State Assembly award in Sacramento for her humanitarian and reconciliation activities.

Hooker Oak

Many of these were given to various institutions, which included the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, the Butte County Historical Society, Bidwell Mansion, Sacramento Valley Museum, Butte College, California State University, Chico, and the University of California at Berkeley.

Kim Iverson

Kim moved from Sacramento to New York City in 2006 and freelanced as a news reporter for News 12 Networks and as a VJ for Concert TV.

Larry Buendorf

On September 5, 1975, President Gerald Ford, who had just given a speech at the California State Capitol in Sacramento, walked across a park where a crowd had gathered.

Meadows Field Airport

The more prominent field was at Sacramento and Monterey streets in East Bakersfield (at the time, primarily empty fields).

Melvin Anthony

Melvin Anthony grew up in the lower-middle-class neighborhoods of Sacramento and San Bernardino, California.

Mira Loma High School

In recent years, Mira Loma students have exhibited at the Phantom Gallery during Sacramento's celebrated Second Saturday Art Fair, the Department of Agriculture, Sacramento International Airport, Sacramento Fine Arts Gallery, Mesa Verde Art Gallery, Crocker Art Museum, American River College, IB Headquarters in Cardiff, Wales, and California State University, Sacramento.

Nathan Cody

While attending CSUS in 2002, he was hired as a commercial producer and radio personality at alternative rock station KWOD 106.5fm in Sacramento.

Newton Earp

Both Earp's daughter Effie May and wife Jennie died on March 29, 1898 in Paradise Hill, Nevada, also known as Paradise Valley, while Newton died thirty years later in Sacramento, California, on December 18, 1928.

Niles Canyon Railway

A shorter rail line between Oakland and Sacramento was established via the California Pacific Railroad and Benicia by 1879.

Old King Clancy

She met "The Frozen Snowshoe" (a famous Canadian wrestler), who showed her his collection of Harvey's Trays (simple orange plastic trays from a fast-food chain), and offered her an "Old King Clancy" (a "Sacramento Turtleneck" with maple syrup).

Omer Rains

Representative Clients: Telecommunications, Inc. (TCI); Ticketmaster; Liberty Media; Sierra Club; Sacramento Union & affiliated newspapers; Sacramento Kings of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Otto von Sadovszky

The languages were or are spoken in an area from Monterey to Bodega Bay and Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley, and by 6,000 Mansi and 17,000 Khanty, east of the Urals.

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was a Boeing 737-200 flight from Sacramento, California to Los Angeles that was hijacked by Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, two Bulgarian immigrants, on July 5, 1972 shortly after take-off from Sacramento Airport.

Rio Vista Gas Field

California State Route 12 crosses the gas field from west to east, bridging the Sacramento and Mokelumne Rivers; and California State Routes 84 and 160 cross the field from north to south, with Route 160 built on levees much of the way.

Robert Fong

The race that garnered a significant amount of attention in Sacramento was the mayoral race between Heather Fargo and Kevin Johnson.

Robert Rothbart

After graduating from the private elementary The Harker School in San Jose, California, Robert has successfully played high school basketball for Saint Francis High School (Mountain View, California), Monta Vista High School (Cupertino, California) and Natomas High School (Sacramento, California).

Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission

The program has grown to include exhibition spaces, featuring ongoing installations of regional artists at Sacramento City Hall and Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD).

Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railway

The Sacramento Valley & Eastern was not listed in the 1930 Official Guide of the Railways and was abandoned entirely following the collapse of the bridge across the Sacramento River just east of Pitt during the floods of early 1939.

Sharon Ito

After working at radio stations KJOY Stockton and KGNR in Sacramento, Ito began her TV career at KXTV News10 in Sacramento in 1985 as a producer and news reporter.

Spaceway F2

SPACEWAY-2 immediately started broadcasting HD locals to DirecTV customers in eight more markets: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sacramento and San Diego, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Nashville, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri.

Taylor Humphries

Humphries was born in Washington D.C. and raised in Los Angeles and D.C. Humphries spent his sophomore year of high school at John F. Kennedy High School (Sacramento, California), yet graduated from Beverly Hills High School and received his BFA in Theatre/Film from Hampton University in Virginia.

The Firehouse Restaurant

The Sacramento chapter of the The Salvation Army held its first meeting at the Firehouse Restaurant on May 19, 1885.

Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer

Players can play with teams from different parts of the United States, including Miami, Los Angeles, Sacramento.

Twin Rivers Unified School District

Lloyd Connelly - Sacramento County Judge, former Assemblymember and Sacramento City Councilmember

Vaca Valley and Clear Lake Railroad

The Vaca Valley Railroad was incorporated on April 12, 1869 to run a branch from the mainline of the California Pacific Railroad (later Southern Pacific Railroad's mainline between Sacramento and Oakland, CA) at Elmira to Rumsey.

Western Carolina Catamounts

Kevin Martin (basketball) of Oklahoma City Thunder played for the Western Carolina Catamounts (2001–2004), and was a first round draft choice, selected by the Sacramento Kings.