Found this great Sacramento site today (remember Geocities?) that details many of Sacramento’s claims to fame. While it hasn’t been updated it quite some time, you life long Sacramentans will enjoy strolling down memory lane with Ian and his HTML 101 listings of such nuggets like:
By the News & Review’s count, the Sacramento area has hosted 15% of the country’s serial killers, a high rate for the U.S.’s 20th-largest metropolitan area. (Caveat: the SNR counts 9 serial killers between 1971 and 1992, and three more since then, but adds in non-Sacto killers like Juan Corona, Leonard Lake, and Cary Stayner.)
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In August 2002, Time magazine declared Sacramento the most diverse city in the nation
Please take the time to review these fun facts and feel free to report back here with your thoughts.
Thanks for the link and the kind words. Sorry I haven’t updated my info in a while and for my lack of interest in making pretty Web pages!
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