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Description
A flooded Del Paso Boulevard is the subject of this February 1927 photograph. A rain and wind storm on February 16/17 pushed the American and Sacramento Rivers over their banks. In spite of the flooded artery, residential sections of North Sacramento were spared. Beyond Sacramento Northern and Western Pacific trestles and to the middle-left of the photograph are the old facilities of the Liberty Iron Works, the builder of Curtiss JN-4 trainers or “Jennies.” So severe was the emotional impact of flooding on North Sacramento and adjacent areas north of Sacramento proper in both 1925 and 1927, that California State Senator, John M. Inman, proposed Senate Bill 883, to form the American River Flood Control District. The legislation passed, making the district a flood control mainstay well into the twentieth-first century. An Exchange Club sign sits to the righ the frame welcoming motorists to North Sacramento.
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