Czech Plush Monkey's
Adventures! |
Monkey sees and does
stuff. |
| SACRAMENTO | The Big Tomato |
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SURPRISE! You found the Sacramento Bonus Page. Monkey will now share some of Sacto's secrets, like the fact that the town really is called The Big Tomato, tho it has a bit of a small potatoes complex. |
GOLDEN 
Prague |
| Sacramento was the gateway to the Mother Lode during California's Gold Rush. Yet the town never acquired any luster from the association. Sacramentans might even harbor a certain doormat mentality as a result. It's common to hear them disparage, "It's close to everything." meaning there's nothing here, but a reasonable drive will get one to The Bay, The Foothills, The Sierra, Yosemite... Prague, on the other hand, is called Golden Prague, The City of 100 Spires. The Czech capitol definitely commands world respect. |
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| Tower Records (right) and Tower Bridge (below) add 3 more spires. | ||
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| Monkey
counts-in the Elks' Building and the "Ban Roll-On" dome. But would
it be fair to include the stubby pyramid atop the Hyatt? Opice thinks it's
only like 25% of an obelisk. [And yes, local residents do call it "The Ban Roll-On Deodorant Building." They also call the one below the Thermos Bottle &/or Darth Vader!] |
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If you want to count Darth Vader's oddly angled summit as a cubist turret, then Sacramento has about 9.75 or 10 spires around town. Compared to Prague, Sacramento comes in at 1/10th the skyline, which feeds that Central Valley inferiority complex, again. "Yes, but it's a dry heat." |
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