California's Capital

             Even though it has been 35 years since I was a citizen of this state (born in L.A.) I was impressed not only by the beautiful capital building (you all paid for it) but by the openness of them allowing us to just wonder through the rooms.

Side view

                    Governor Schwarzenegger commissioned this bear for the front of his office and the current governor likes it so much he left it in place.

           This is a reproduction of an office in 1906, the year of the big earthquake. This reminded me of my fathers office when he worked for the state of California in 1990's...he still had a rotary phone!

 

      This is the California Assembly Floor. If you look closely there are three high back chairs in the third row. I asked the docent why those chairs were different.  He wasn't sure, no one had asked that question before, but his lame answer was, maybe they have back problems. BS! If that was the case, they'd all be coming in with a doctors prescription for a high back chair.

Don't even go there!...ha ha

Sacramento has it's own "Golden Gate Bridge" right out in  front of the capital.

This is so "California", I love it. This painting of Governor Brown from the seventies is so iconic to the times....glad he kept it.