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Upper Stockton Road is seen here in 1911, looking southeast from the intersection with San Francisco Boulevard (17th Ave). Half of the boulevard's grand entrance is visible, including the central gazebo and an arch over the southern sidewalk. This was also the Colonial Heights Depot, which is being approached by a trolley here. Just beyond lay Roemer Park, which was the grounds of the Roemer estate. This park was used as bait by real estate developers like Wright Kimbrough, whose Highland Terrace sat just across Stockton, just out of frame. A decade later,, a "member of the sales force" at Wright Kimbrough, named J.J. Jennings, bought the park, promising to fill it with "several modern homes" while he lived in the big house. It was to be "one of the show places of Sacramento." (Sac Union, 10/23/2021) Nowadays, the old park is mostly a hotel and and some automotive shops. This part of town turned out rather differently than might have been expected from the real estate marketing.
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