Before leaving Truckee, I got breakfast at a very casual family-style restaurant. And I got a pretty basic breakfast. Simple, but good.
In Sacramento, before touring the Crocker Art Museum‘s collection, I had lunch in their café. My lunch there looks suspiciously like my Day 1 lunch. Why, you’d almost think I’d gotten another chicken sandwich and fries at the Greyhound station.
Well, on Day 1, I had a grilled chicken sandwich. On Day 4…well, I’m not sure what I got on Day 4. Fried chicken sandwich? Veggie patty sandwich? Yeah, let’s go with that.
For dinner, I went out with local friends. They took me to a place called the Tower Cafe, where we ate al fresco in the beautiful summer weather. I didn’t get a picture of what I had, and I don’t remember what I got. (It certainly has to have been something more interesting than what I had for breakfast or lunch.) But there’s some interesting history here. The Tower Cafe is attached to and named after the Tower Theatre, a historic Art Deco movie theater built in 1938. Years later, a drugstore was operating in the same complex. It was called Tower Drugs (also named after the theater). The son of the drugstore’s owner started selling records out of the drugstore in 1960. And the son called his record-selling operation…Tower Records. Who knew? Well, my friends did. And now you do too.
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