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Great panoramic shot--the wall of riverfront warehouses, mills and powerhouses actually ran all the way south to R Street and north past the Railyards, with a wall of heavy industries just beyond them on the other side of Front Street, with more industries and wharves south to what is now Broadway, all sitting atop the big levee that was needed to prevent Sacramento from flooding. At that point, the river was a primary transportation corridor. West Sac looks a little more pristine, but they had their own levee wall, docks, and industries of their own, including the boat construction yard on the right. This was the era when Sacramento built stuff--technically we were a government town, but the overwhelming majority of the population worked for these various industries.