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Old Posted Aug 8, 2008, 6:38 PM
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They do...Vernon Street is nominally downtown, as it is/was the main strip and business district. Vernon Street was part of historic Highway 40. There are still some pretty nice old buildings along the route, mostly 20th century, like the old post office and city hall, their Tower Theater, some nice Art Deco department stores and a few railroad hotels. South of Vernon Street there are some nice residential neighborhoods with late 19th and early 20th century bungalows and cottages--imagine a mini Midtown.

On the other side of the tracks, physically cut off from Vernon Street and the business district, is a small district of a few square blocks that are "old town" Roseville, right next to the old Southern Pacific/Amtrak station. There isn't a whole lot there, a few restaurants and a bar or two and a few offices, but for the most part it's pretty quiet. They have a historic bridge (a pedestrian and auto bridge that goes over the train tracks, the only way to get safely across the tracks before the underpass was built) and a nice little Carnegie library. Most are 19th century brick buildings, some I think dating back to when the town was still called Union.
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