does sacramento look like new orleans were not talking about the french qt or downtown! (San Francisco: receptions, hotel)

[ebreezy]

for the short time i been living in sacramento does the surrounding neighborhood look like new orleans. but like i said were not talking about the downtown area just the surrounding area only.

[jguillot]

Originally Posted by ebreezy

for the short time i been living in sacramento does the surrounding neighborhood look like new orleans. but like i said were not talking about the downtown area just the surrounding area only.

If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe you are saying that you find similarities between the Sacramento and New Orleans metropolitan areas, except for the downtown areas. Is that correct? What similarities are you finding?

I'm a Louisiana native and lived in the New Orleans metropolitan area (Jefferson Parish) from 1962 to 1976 and still visit occasionally. I currently live in the Sacramento area. I think most metropolitan areas will have a little similiarity, but there will be many differences between all cities. For instance, you won't see the rolling terrain in the New Orleans area that you find in the Sacramento and adjacent areas. In addition, you won't find the open canals in the Sacramento area that you will find in the New Orleans area. I personally don't feel that there is much resemblance between Sacramento and New Orleans.

[ebreezy]

some people say the one area that has a little bit of similarities to new orleans is in the del paso heights area.

[humboldtrat]

Originally Posted by jguillot

If I'm understanding you correctly, I believe you are saying that you find similarities between the Sacramento and New Orleans metropolitan areas, except for the downtown areas. Is that correct? What similarities are you finding?

Maybe the OP is referring to the levees along the river and that Natomas is Sacramento's 9th ward.

[Majin]

Uh, not even close.

[ebreezy]

if you had to compare sacramento what city would you all say it looks like the most.

[dohmixer]

Originally Posted by ebreezy

some people say the one area that has a little bit of similarities to new orleans is in the del paso heights area.

[Phil Minor]

Some of the towns on the delta try to play up their similiarities to plantation Estates of the South.

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and Isleton for a while was hosting a crawdad festival.

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My hunch is that these areas probably represented the authentic south about as well as Paris Hotel Casino in Vegas or the small world ride at Disneyland represents life in France.

But if you aren't a stickler for details, its probably okay.

[wburg]

It's kind of a stretch to say that they play up their similarities to the South--the Sacramento River delta has its own rich history, one that Delta towns tend to capitalize on directly rather than having to borrow from other regions. Towns like Locke, Walnut Grove and Isleton have pretty unique histories, and the river itself was an important transportation corridor, carrying tall ships, freight barges and steamboats.

There are some physical similarities--enough that the Sacramento River was used as a setting for a couple of dozen riverboat-themed movies in th 1920s and 1930s--we had our own riverboats and were closer than the Mississippi. Those riverboats carried passengers from San Francisco to Sacramento and back from 1850 until 1940, and cargo boats only stopped after the construction of the Port of Sacramento in West Sac. Structures like the Ryde Hotel and Grand Island are actual historic buildings, not facsimiles constructed for the tourist trade. But there are other differences that certainly aren't downplayed; the labor force that built the levees and farmed the fields, for example, was often Chinese, a legacy that is still commemorated in places like Locke (once an exclusively Chinese town) and Isleton's Chinatown. Of course, there were also Portuguese, Italian, Mexican and Japanese populations in Sacramento's delta--and, until around World War II, very few African Americans. The crops are different (fruit and vegetables rather than King Cotton.) Railroads played a bigger role in California's delta, as they generally did in California. And considering crawdads are pretty much ubiquitous in waterways around the world, it's not exclusively a Southern delicacy.

[Huckleberry3911948]

maybe a lil in design but the feel is light years away.
a former NO resident