Oak Park is the neighborhood in Sacramento, California. The McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific Sacramento Campus, Sacramento High School, and Christian Brothers College are located in this neighborhood.
Oak Park is informally limited by Route 50 to the north, Stockton Boulevard to the east, South Sacramento (99) Freeway to the west and Fruitridge Road to the south. Located within the city limits and providing easy access to Downtown Sacramento. Numbered roads intersect with numbered streets, with Broadway and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (formerly known as Boulevard Sacramento) which consists of the main road.
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Histori
The early 1900s saw Oak Park as a prolific and economically viable tourist destination, in part because of its strong sense of community and its relationship with and its proximity to the Historic sites of the California State Fair. The Interstate expressway program of the 1960s divided many of Sacramento's historic neighborhoods like Oak Park that created remote areas of poverty or relative prosperity. The taste of the Oak Park community began to decline in the early 1960s as a result of the expressway expansion, the decline in property values ​​and the family's move to the periphery community is now made accessible by the expressway expansion program. During the 1980s/90 the further deterioration of living standards was exacerbated by the frequent occurrence of petty theft, street crime, drug activity, and gang-related violence. Recently, the early 2000s saw many real estate speculators and building contractors buying cheap houses in some parts of Oak Park that were abandoned or sold as unmanageable, and turned them into and resold them as beginner homes at affordable prices, often with government financial aid. At the same time many high-paying jobs have recently moved into the area in connection with the expansion of the University of California Medical Center of Davis located north of Oak Park, the revitalization of Broadway and Stockton Boulevard, and the expansion of the McGeorge School Campus Act.
Oak Park city center
In addition to being the first suburb of Sacramento, Oak Park also develops a second "downtown" retail and entertainment district, different from downtown Sacramento, which runs along 35th Street between Sacramento Blvd (Broadway) to the north and 5th Ave and parks to the South. The street is home to the Piggly-Wiggly Market, Park Meat, and Arata Bros; Steen's Corner Saloon; Women's Clothing Azevedo; Janek and Scurfield collect items, Citizens Bank of Oak Park; Ben Franklin's various stores; and much more. Street art and entertainment can be found at the Victor Theater (Guild Theater), the California Theater, the Belmonte Gallery or the outdoor theater and the park pavilion. Area 35th Street also hosts the annual 4th of July parade.
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Four of the seven tram lines in downtown Sacramento end up at Oak Park. The original line, Central Street Railway, was founded in 1890 by real estate investor Edwin K. Alsip in hopes of motivating people to move to Oak Park and Highland Park. The horse-drawn carriage was replaced by a cable car, and shortly after, an electric trolley. Originally on Second Street and H, it follows J Street to St 28, then south to Sacramento Boulevard (now called Broadway), where it turns east to the new Oak Park suburb. The eastern end is a public park, later known as Oak Park (now McClatchy Park), on 35th Street and Fifth Avenue. Sacramento Electric, Gas & amp; The Railway Company (later Pacific Gas and Electric Company) will acquire this route and expand to include Route 6 which runs to Oak Park terminal via Fifth Avenue. Meanwhile, the short 5 Route will run east from Oak Park terminal and end at the California State Fair landmark site on Stockton Boulevard.
Central California Traction Company also manages the interurban rail line from Downtown Sacramento to Stockton. It led to Oak Park along Sacramento Boulevard, then Second Avenue, and finally turned south on Stockton Boulevard, down the eastern edge of Oak Park to Stockton.
Joyland
In 1895, Oak Park (McClatchy Park) featured acres of shady oaks, zoo, carousel, and rough. When Sacramento Electric, Gas & amp; The Railway Company acquired the Oak Park terminal in 1903, they added wooden roller coasters, skating rinks, outdoor theaters, and beautiful miniature trains. Joyland was born when the park was renovated to include amusement parks, electric lights and swimming pools. In addition to local entertainment, Joyland is meant to showcase electric power capabilities and increase passengers on new electric trams.
Joyland burned in 1920 and never reopened. In 1927, Valentine McClatchy bought the land and gave it to town to become a city park, named in honor of his father, James McClatchy, founder of the Sacramento Bee.
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The recent past
In 2008, Oak Park faced a variety of challenges that sustained the start of its comeback, in part due to an increase in foreclosures and a decline in property values. Community groups such as the Oak Park Neighborhood Association, the South Oak Park Community Association (SOPCA) established in 2014, community policing efforts, demand for affordable housing close to the University of California Davis Medical Center and the overall impact that the real estate market will play in the future front.
Famous citizen
- Lotar A. Lampe Sr. Serving the 1993-2011 community. Very involved in community service projects and programs. Oak Park residents from 1974 to 2011. Working with Sacramento P.D. in community service, voluntarily with the Trial Period to oversee the temptation that conducts community service hours, voluntarily whenever possible in a revised and transformed event at Oak Park. He is the president of the Oak Ridge Free Zone Free Zone/Christian Brothers, and president of the 35th Street Neighborhood Association, he volunteered for hours at Oak Park Community Center and Father Keith B. Kenny Elementary School. While raising his two teenage grandchildren. Oak Park.
- Kevin Johnson, former Sacramento Mayor, accuses sexual predators and former NBA stars
- Deborah Ortiz, a former California State Legislator representing the district that includes Oak Park.
- Diego Corrales, former boxing champion (late) Diego Corrales.
- Chino Moreno, alternative rock group vocalist, Deftones.
- Mozzy, Rapper.
References
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