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1. Sacramento is one of the few cities to supply the U.S. Supreme Court with a Justice. Anthony Kennedy, often the swing vote for the 20 years that he served. He retired last year, 2018. He was a professor at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law located in Sacramento. He was a blank and blank before becoming a Judge.
2. If it were not for Caliornia Gold the United States of America (the Union) likely would not have won the war against the Confederacy (the South). The California Gold Rush occurred on the banks of the American River from Sacramento on up through the Sierra Nevada Foothills.
3. The California Gold Rush is primarly responsible for funding the banks and driving trade and commerce that resulted in laying the city grid of Sacramento at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers, hence the second oldest bank west of the Mississippi is located in downtown Sacramento.
4. The water that flows through the City of Sacramento on the Sacramento and American Rivers supplies at least 60% of the entire state of California. The main source of the Sacramento River is 14,000 foot Mt. Shasta one of only 2 conical shaped volcanoes in Califonria, the other, Mt. Lassen blew its top the same way Mt. St. Helens blew its top off.
5. President Ford was nearly assisinated in Sacramento’s Capital Park by Squeaky Fromme a member of the murdering Manson Family.
6. A female nurse, a mexican migrant farm worker, a black nba basketball star, and a jew have been the last mayors of Sacramento.
7. You can sail/cruise a ship from the docks of Sacramento down the Sacramento River to San Francisco Bay down through the Golden Gate to the wide open ocean.
8. California Sea Lions regularly swim all the way from the coast of California to the Sacramento River through the Sacramento Delta to Sacramento where they sun themselves on the docks of Old Sacramento. (some 200 miles of inland waterways)
9. Three young Sacramento men on holiday in Europe saved hundreds of people from being murdered by terorsits on a French train in 2015.
10. The WNBA’s Sacramento Monarchs was the only professional team to win a championship for Sacramento besides AAA Baseball.
Nashville had legalized prostitution (during the Civil War)
Nashville was the 2nd largest gambling center in the US in the 60’s (I know, I read it in Post Magazine)
Nashville has a beer bottle disposal problem (from Honky Tonks on lower Broad)
Before it was settled, Nashville was originally known as French Lick
Nashville hosted what is now claimed to be a World’s Fair (no, I’m not confusing it with Knoxville) as a part of Tennessee’s Centennial in the late 1800’s
Nashville’s L&C Tower was the tallest ‘commercial’ tower in the south when built in 1959.
Ocean going minesweepers were built at the Nashville Barge Company and floated down the Cumberland River for service in World War II.
Jimi Hendrix got his start in Nashville by playing at local clubs and touring with local bands.
The name Music City was given to Nashville by Queen Victoria when she heard the legendary Fisk Jubilee Singers (from Fisk University in Nashville) and said ‘Nashville must be a musical city’ or something like that.
Nashville can claim to be a primary birthplace of the Civil Rights movement as protesters were trained at Fisk University in the principles passive resistance and applied those principles to sit-ins at Nashville restaurants which resulted in the elimination of segregation at those places. The primary people involved in this protest then traveled though out the South in a famous bus tour which brought national attention to the plight of black people in the south. Sadly, Nashville has done little to acknowledge this history.
1. Health tourism and relocation for tuberculosis patients was the first big industry in the fledgling town and set the tone of healthy living that still exists today and it is often rated among the fittest cities in the nation.
2. The Cripple Creek gold rush of the 1890s created more per capita millionaires than any other city in the country at the time. Through their altruism, it had electric lights and trolleys early in the 20th century when many places where still using gas lamps and horse drawn cabs.
3. It had a racially integrated police force in the early 1900s. From the late 1940s to the 1960s, it had one of the earliest racially integrated night clubs run by Fannie Mae Duncan. Colo Spgs continues to have more bi-racial residents, by percentage, than nearby Denver, Los Angles, or even Chicago.
4. Up until the 2nd World War, it was a somewhat liberal and artistic community. Katherine Lee Bates wrote America the Beautiful here. Lon Chaney, the actor of a million faces and the original "Phantom of the Opera" actor, grew up here. Nikola Telsa had a lab here and conducted experiments just outside the city as he challenged Edison to become the father of the US electric grid.
5. Peanuts cartoon creator Charles Schultz lived here in the 1950s and it is rumored the Peanuts gang was modeled off children he observed in his Bonforte area neighborhood. The house he lived in had a wall that was decorated with these characters that was later removed and donated to his museum.
6. President Kennedy performed briefings in the auditorium of the Chidlaw Building (precurser of NORAD) during the Cuban missile crisis. This building still stands as does the auditorium and vault rooms in the radio frequency safe basement. You still can't get a cell signal in there.
7. Musicians Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, Jerry DeMartini of Sly and the Family Stone, Ryan Tedder and Zach Filkins of One Republic, all grew up here, as did Cassandra Peterson of Elvira fame. Of course we have a number of locals athletes that have gone on to success in nearly every major sports league in North America.
8. Nearly any high tech organization you can name had a plant here at one time or another. Among them were Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment, IBM, Texas Instruments, Apple, Honeywell, SCI, Cray Computer, Quantum, and Intel.
9. It has the only mountainside zoo in the US and is home to the most successful reticulated Giraffe breeding program in the country.
10. Despite its national reputation, all the major evangelical groups that reside here came here via business relocation and are not home grown. It also rarely appears in the top 10 of most conservative places in the nation, despite having some very vocal evangelicals in these organizations. Also aligned with its current reputation, it is in the only county in the US that houses 5 military bases; The Air Force Academy, Peterson AFB, Ft Carson, NORAD, Schriever AFB and Space Command.
New Orleans also straddles both sides of the Mississippi. Most of the city is east of the river but the Algiers neighborhood is part of the city limits and is on the Westbank.
You might like this photo I took along the Mississippi River in New Orleans a few years ago:
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