#Sacto

[vidocqsociety]

Love that their pitch to visit Sacramento involves going literally anywhere else.

(Also, I love that this is pitched as a single fun-filled day, because... no? Just for the sake of clarity: Tahoe is two hours away from Sacramento, Napa is a little over an hour, and San Fransisco and the Pacific Ocean are nearly two hours away. That's a whole day's worth of driving. When do you do activities?)

[darkateliertattoo]

Neotraditional eye tattoo by @julioferrerart He’s books are open for November and December. Dark Atelier Tattoo 🏰1115 Front St. in Old Sac ☎️(916)573-3225 . . . . . . . . . . . #california #sacramento #sacramentotattooshop #sacramentotattoos #tattooart #sactown #sacramentoca #saccity #downtownsac #sacto #bayarea #916 #oldsacramentowaterfront #oldsacramento #oldsac #westsacramento #tattoo #doco #oldsacramentotattooshop #darkateliertattoo #neotraditionaltattoo #neotraditionalsacramento (at Sacramento, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkSQ_fFuo3u/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[icedancerrr]

[backyardflaneur916]

White background, horizontal designs, black polka dots, heart in the middle. Pink petals and yellow middles flowers. Pink and yellow polka dots.

[99centmusecd]

Akira Date's Patches

Just some ID after I fell into a rabbit hole from Twitter-

Sacto (Sacramento) County Sheriff Deputy Explorer

Metropolitan Detention Center, Bernalillo County, Albuquerque New Mexico

uh, this ID list fell apart after I quickly found the center jacket from an eBay listing for a Top Gun replica lol

It's really different from the actual ones, and even the knockoffs kinda vary.

All sources I've found for the center jacket point to Avirex, but the number and styles of patches vary. Currently, they still sell the jacket with the "M. Standle" patch (supposed to be H. Standley), but only that and the Dallas ones match.

I'm not gonna go into too much detail on how each patch differs since I'm not the most knowledgeable on military history or patch variations.

Anyways, the ones that are present, in as legit a form I can tell:

Not sure how this jacket managed to get like, three levels away from originally being a Top Gun replica, but sure

[catastrfy]

Do you know about the Sarah A Thomas grave on the oregon trail? i didn't until i saw this video last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om9fazTIbEA

as i watched it i kept thinking the story of her dying sounded familiar -- except i'd never known where the grave WAS. but i'd heard about bill thomas' grandmother sarah who died on the way to california. my late grampa told me about it, and he'd heard it from either his father or his grandfather, who'd known bill thomas.

the part in the video that blew that up in my mind is when randy said it was believed a family member came to the grave in the 1920s and put a new marker there. i never heard about a marker, but the story WAS that bill had gone thru the records his grandfather (and who bill was named for) which included descriptions and sketches, and gone out and found his grandmother's grave in the ealry 1900s. (if the story had a closer year, i don't remember it). but also, as a genealogist who likes proof vs hearsay, what i remember is just hearsay; it's not documentation.

i decided to see if i could find anything. randy said in the video they'd never been able to find anything, so i didn't thnk it was likely, but i LOVED tracking down storme delarverie, so this was another challenge. (plus, despite my body failing, genealogy research online is soothing and doesn't use any spoons at all. and my pattern recognition is ridiculously good)

i started by i looked for a family in 1850 that had a sarah a. thomas w/i 5 years of the age of 22 (which is on the sarah a thomas grave)

the best hit was in linn county, iowa. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ4N-97F

on the 1850 census of linn county taken in october 1850, sarah a thomas is 19, william is 30, and their first son john c is 1. sarah and william were born in ohio & their son was born in iowa. they are not in iowa on the 1860 census. & they have a marriage record! 18 yo sarah ann campbell (a maiden name!) married 28 yo william a. thomas on 15 Sep 1848 in linn county, iowa. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJKR-RTL

(yes, the age is a year off between the two records. this was not uncommon at the time, ime)

i couldn't find sarah anywhere in 1860, but i found a w.a. thomas in sacramento, california, age 40, born ohio. a wife ursula, age 40, born ny. mary j, age 14, born ohio (not listed as a daughter, but the sons are listed as sons either. i haven't been able to find anything else about her.). john c, age 11, born iowa!! and lee d, age 9, also born iowa. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/GLZF-1FK

then i found a marriage record for mrs w blakely and w.a. thomas in sacto county 15 Apr 1860. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLDK-261

the thomases werne't in sacto in 1870, but i found william, ursula, and lee in smithville (now loomis) in placer county. william has a grocery and dry goods store and lee works in it. (william's age is off, but ursula's and lee's fit; john is not living with the family) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN62-32N

i also found william on the 1866 great register of california, full name william alexander thomas. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNNC-XQS

so next i headed to the california digital newspaper california, which has scans of a lot of old newspapers and looked him up. and i found both a brief obit in the auburn journal and a longer one in the placer argus. here's the placer argus one -- and it names his first wife as sarah ann campbell, which matches the linn co family in iowa! and it says his wife died on the way to california, but doesn't have a date or place beyond 1854 on the oregon trail

but still -- *a* 22 year old sarah a thomas dying on the oregon trail in 1854. yes, ABSOLUTELY there could be more than one, but i was getting excited anyway. and about 6 a.m., i found something else. it's in the press-tribune and dated 14 august 1962. so it's 108 years after sarah's death, but still, LOOK!

it says "mrs thomas died at south pass in the rockies en route to california on july 3, 1854" well, that date is off by 4 days after the date on the sarah a thomas gravestone. (this article also says william and sarah married in 1854 when they married in 1848). and it says "at south pass". sarah a thomas' grave isn't on the south pass section of the oregon trail -- but it's not far away, maybe 12 miles further east. according to https://www.geowyo.com/south-pass.html, the south pass section of the oregon trail starts at burnt ranch and goes west. here's a google map lined up as well as possible with the seminoe cutoff map from the video, and below it an inset section of the top map over google earth. for the 12 mile guess that was t rying to measure across my monitor. my hands are shaky, so it could be 10-14 miles

to me it seems unlikely that two 22 year old women named sarah a thomas died 4 days and 12ish miles apart, especially since i can't find any other thomas family in california that matches william with some john c (the fmaily in roseville DOES match william a who married sarah ann campbell and is on the marriage record and 1850 census; william's obit names her and says they married in linn county) but stilll... anyway, i emailed randy wise @ the museum andincluded the newspaper clippings and what i'd found on the sarah ann campbell and william alexander thomas family, and i hope it's helpful. i wish i knew more about bill thomas, but he died in 1940. i've reached out to the roseville historical society and the concord ditto to see if there are any known descendents. ANYway, that was my fun thing to do the past week except let my eyes and brain put pieces together <3 <3

[dynamic-power]

It's weekly tag Wednesday!

Thanks @mybrainismelted for the tag!! 😊

Name: Dyno 🦖

Where in the world are you? I am from California! 🌊⛱️⛰️🌲

Do you have a favorite towel? It's a favorite set of towels, actually. They are dark blue and very fluffy. 🟦

Can you skip rocks? No. Not for lack of trying, I just never really got the hang of it. 😅🪨

Tell me about a weird slang term from your area. My favorite is "tryna", means trying to. But we use it in place of want to. Most of our slang is actually about locations. Norcal, Socal. I'm in Norcal, so we use the bay, the city, Frisco, Sacto, up the hill. My fav of these is Yolo, which is a county. 🤷

Favorite toast topping? Butter and jelly 😋

Thoughts on bread pudding? I can count on one hand how many times I've had it before. It was okay, I guess?

City or country living? City. I grew up in the suburbs, and live in a city now. 🌆

How do you cheer yourself up after a bad day? My favorite way is very specific. Play stardew valley while having a show I've watched way too much (usually Futurama or Bojack Horseman) playing in the background.

Are you a pessimist or an optimist? I try really hard to be an optimist, but by nature I'm a pessimist.

Can I tag you in random stuff? YES. Tag me, send me messages or asks. Seriously, it makes my day every time I see a new mention.

Tagging! @juliakayyy @sweetbee78 @depressedstressedlemonzest @spacerockwriting @callivich @dont-open-dead-inside-25 @redwiccanrobin @creepkinginc @transmickey @sam-loves-seb @softmick

And literally anyone else who sees this, consider it a tag from me!

[pseud0knots]

Lmaoooo are you in sac too? There's like. An insane amount of people i know on Tumblr who turned out to be here

I live in the bay these days due to work but I grew up like 45min east of sac & I still drive up a lot to visit my family. I love sacto so much it will always be my fav california city even though it’s like 1 billion degrees in the summer

[middlespacekingdom]

Here is where I was born and where I stan

I really don’t care that you hate it, that’s because you don’t get it, because you’re not from here, and not wanted here

It’s a different thing for natives, same with all of California (not “Cali” ever)

Los Angeles is objectively the top of this heap followed by a distant second place SF, then nothing else really matters

San Diego and Oakland are forgotten younger siblings and Sacto lols

If I had a tattoo it might read:

Hecho en Los Angeles

[ztremx]

I drove a truck bed full of brooms from Eug to Sacto for Northern CA Renn Faire. Saved them $600 in shipping costs. I tried to kidnap Ranger for the trip, but it didn't work out this time

[cbirdsongphoto]

L♪VE ~ US Festival

The US Festival Tribute band benefit at The Boardwalk in Orangevale. 6 bands donated their time and gave great performances to help raise money for UCD Children’s Hospital in Sacramento. 96.9 The Eagle was here as well as many Sacto Celebs.  Sony A9 24-70 2.8 Tamron Edited Capture 1 for Sony Basic Edits. Be sure to follow my live music and event IG at…

[slovenlyrecordings]

Rad Music for Rad People L.A.M.F!

Sacramento Trash Jubilee at Harlow's w/ The Kids, The Troublemakers, The Snares, The Control Freaks

DO NOT MISS THIS ONCE IN A LIFETIME ROCKIN ROLLIN BLOWOUT IN SACTO THIS WEEKEND!

[theinvisiblepunk]

Oak Park Jungle, Sacramento 2000. I got two of the guys I loved playing with most and dragged them into the studio to do songs I wrote. Never finished them. Still working on that , but Mike Gius (drums) died a while back. Reggie Drew (bass) is still going strong in The Sacto Storytellers.