Other Directional (or lack thereof) Designations

So, you’re driving on Elvas from Folsom Boulevard and you’re trying to get on to Fair Oaks Boulevard (it’s “Sacramento’s Rodeo Drive” don’t you know, but that’s another post) and you notice a sign indicating that you can go to the right and get on to Fair Oaks Boulevard, or you can go straight and reach the “Central District.”  What is this “Central District” to which the sign alludes?  And when was anything close to Elvas ever considered “Central?”

12 thoughts on “Other Directional (or lack thereof) Designations”

  2. You Rag-jacked* me! I figure that you go one way, and then drive 30 blocks, and you’re in the Central District. That sign must just be a throwback. However, how many drivers will reach that sign who didn’t cross Folsom blvd, a much easier way to get to the Central District?

    *Rag’-jack: v. to pilfer, knowingly or unknowingly, a post or idea for a post

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  3. I have wondered that many a time. I know since I am a East Sac kid that it is central to me. Maybe I should claim the sign…

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  4. I’m still new to the whole district thing. I was in Paesano’s a few weeks ago and noticed a Handle district logo on the door. So our server told us it was fairly new and that everything east of the capitol down to about Alhambra is considered part of the Handle district. Has anyone else heard of this?

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  5. The Handle thing is pretty much brand new. Traditionally, everything east of the capitol to Alhambra is known as “midtown.” The “Handle District” is apparently the area along Capitol and L just east of the East End from 17th to like 19th, where a lot of restaurants have opened lately and a lot of Sacramento’s old coffee-shop district is/was located. A lot of central city neighborhoods have names (Southside, Winn Park, New Era, Alkali Flat, etc.) but the area now being labeled the “Handle” generally didn’t have much of a name, at least not that I know about…

    The “Central District” thing is definitely an old throwback, but what they generally mean is downtown. It was put up when “downtown” was a bad word that people didn’t use.

    –mister too much information

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  6. Definitely not too much information. I appreciate it. I was by some of the new development over on Richards Blvd and noticed it was being labeled the River district. Wonder what is next.

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  7. Yet still no directions to Poverty Ridge. Just another example of the Man trying to keep all them poor ridge dwellers down.

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  12. That sign has been there at least as long as since I got my learner’s permit, circa 1974.

    Ya know, back when the front of St. Francis was on M Street and we girls all walked to school instead of driving Beemers.

    Our walk home often involved a stop at East Portal to smoke dope. Don’t tell my mom.

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