Sactown Chic.......

Rainy days are here again, we’re all socked in with fog again, chains required on the mountain again.....t’is the weather we don’t brag about to our friends in the east...
it’s the time of year when Sactown emulates Seattle & San Francisco weatherwise..... ponchos & bumbershoots required.....I’d say that’s the reason Starbucks & Peet’s (and their clones) are popping up all over the area but that’d be a lie ‘cuz our summer weather is still hot hot hot.....
Nuthin’ changes overnite but......We’ve had an influx of emmigrants from the Bay area...lower living costs here....and they’re bringing their ideas of culture & sophistication with ‘em. sighhhhhh!
Coffee shoppes, high-rent lofts for movers & shakers, with it nite clubs where they can go to gaze haughtily down their noses at slack-jawed locals.....sighhhhhhh!
O for the days when Sactown was the roadblock of the central valley....the place ya had to get thru to go to the ocean or the mountains ...for all the bush league lads & lasses.....when Sactown was a one-horse town (whenever ya c’ud find the horse)....
Nuthin’ changes overnite but somehow Sactown has evolved into Sacramento the city. Not the cityinbetween as those snooty bayareafolk used to moan but a city nevertheless & the horse that wandered ain’t ever comin’ back.....the skyline keeps growin’....the traffic certainly keeps growin’.......& the ‘burbs are...well, citified. There, I said it. Millyrose & I passed a boarded up grange hall this morning & I remarked, “I c’n remember when it was open.” That was in Rancho Cordova. But, I c’n also remember when Carmichael, Fair Oaks, & O’vale, all had thriving grange halls....
Nuthin’ changes overnite......it changes moment by moment, so slowly that we don’t see it. We humans are busy, busy beavers...doing what we do, fighting the fight, living the life......& then one day we raise our heads & look around & wonder at how our world has changed.....
I quoted Barney Miller before & it seems apt to do it again.....”That’s the way it is & there ain’t anything you can do about it.” Justin Other Smith