More 'Time Travel'

An acquaintance of mine who owns a  fast food restaurant and is also a Real Estate agent, sent me some old pics of the town of Rancho Cordova via e-mail awhile back. Rancho Cordova is the town I attended High School in .'Rancho' sits along Highway 50 about 15 minutes out of Sacramento. In the old days it was a gas stop and motel location for people on their way to Lake Tahoe. When my family arrived in 1964 it still had farms, orchards, and hops fields nearby. All this was beginning to fade away of course. By this time the aerospace industry was going strong and rocket motors for the US space program were being built nearby.The two local Air Force bases were going strong, the Viet Nam war was 10 years from being gone...
Otherwise, life was kinda like 'Mayberry' of the 'The Andy Griffith Show' around here.

I've arranged these roughly in chronological order....(These were obtained from the local Chamber of Commerce...have no idea who took them)

A '49 or '50 Ford convertible....

Local cowboy...

Nice hat's...

Gonna see if I can ID this country road....

The 'Sharp Shop', now gone. Where you could get your lawnmower repaired,chainsaw blade touched-up, or pick up parts for your  mini-bike...

Have to see if I can ID this little spot as well...might still be standing.

Art Linkletter again...

Local shopping center, before several rehabs that have occurred over the years...Bought my first fishing pole in a store here.

Folsom Blvd. or 'Old Highway 50' , before it was widened and straightened, and the nearby Freeway completed.

My Alma Mater, Cordova High School

Folsom Blvd. in the seventies it looks like... 

This is a picture I took in the seventies. That is Grant Smith, an old friend, when he was younger, and getting crazy...I've run this pic before, and will do so again I'm sure. Grant sold me a Norton Commando 850 that I hope to get back on the road soon. He's hanging from the Marquee of the 'Thunderbird Drive-in Theatre', which unfortunately was torn down. 

Added a link to the Rancho Cordova wikipedia page------>Rancho History