Bob Shallit: Tourists may go underground in Old Sacramento - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee

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Sacramento is likely to become the third West Coast city to start offering tourist-pleasing excursions through its "underground."

Assuming City Council members today approve a $185,000 loan request, the Historic Old Sacramento Foundation in May will begin guided tours of the storefronts and sidewalks that constituted this city's original downtown before streets were raised 10 feet or more in the 1860s and '70s to cope with flooding.

The idea: highlight Sacramento's "unique identity" as the only California city (and one of three on the West Coast) to raise its streets, says HOSF Executive Director Marcia Eymann, who's been working with a committee for a year to iron out tour details. (Story Continued...)

Bob Shallit: Tourists may go underground in Old Sacramento - Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee