Plane Crash into Ice Cream Parlor Remembered

Sacramento: The most mierable city in the country. Thank you Kevin johnson for being a half-a ssed uncle tom that has your beak so far up the maloof bros stinky brown eye that you can;t even do your job anymore. Thank you for being a monkey.

GLG wrote:

<quoted text>They were selling marijuana and LSD ( marijuana was a narcotic back then) chp sheriff and sac pd had around 40 cops (uniformed) which was a lot for 1970. It was a virtual drug den , kids couldn't play there families and neighbors were very grateful for the sweep

Like I said, you have a lot of stories that would be interest to a lot of people, thank you. If you don't mind me asking, what age bracket are you now?

Early 70s , 72 to be exact... I pulled over one of this countries most notorious serial killers. In 1968 my partner and I noticed a VW traveling east on old US 50 (Folsom blvd) with a broken tail lamp, we pulled him over in the parking lot of the KoKo Mo motel. He was an ex con, said he was visiting a friend . Hecwas clean , no warrents so I wrote him a ticket and let him go. We found out later he was trying to convince an ex con buddy to join his "family" in Los Angles. His name.......Charles Manson.

GLG wrote:

Early 70s , 72 to be exact... I pulled over one of this countries most notorious serial killers. In 1968 my partner and I noticed a VW traveling east on old US 50 (Folsom blvd) with a broken tail lamp, we pulled him over in the parking lot of the KoKo Mo motel. He was an ex con, said he was visiting a friend . Hecwas clean , no warrents so I wrote him a ticket and let him go. We found out later he was trying to convince an ex con buddy to join his "family" in Los Angles. His name.......Charles Manson.

wow.

jim jones wrote:

Sacramento: The most mierable city in the country. Thank you Kevin johnson for being a half-a ssed uncle tom that has your beak so far up the maloof bros stinky brown eye that you can;t even do your job anymore. Thank you for being a monkey.

Hey Jim, miserable according to who? I love it here. Why the race remarks towards Kevin Johnson? He has done a lot of great things helping our homeless and trying to revamp our city, who was the last mayor? Keep your racist remarks to yourself.

This plane was flown by a pilot who had something in the area of 8 hours training in this aircraft. It was owned by a pyramid sales company called Holiday Magic that sold women’s cosmetics and was used, according to tax records, for ‘advertising’. The F-86 was scheduled for several air shows and was recently certified for flight. Holiday Magic was under investigation by the FTC at that time and losing money quickly. To save funds they eliminated the experienced pilots (more expensive) and may have been trying to meet some required number of exhibitions before the end of the fiscal year (30 Sept) to use the plane as a tax write off.
End result was the largest civil aviation ground disaster in number of fatalities until 9/11, with Holiday Magic being shut down as the largest Ponzi operation at the time; Madoff and a few others have beat that record.
The owner of Holiday Magic crashed his plane less than a year later and was killed before going on trial.

I was working at Farrell's that day as a cook in the kitchen, scheduled to clock out at 4 pm. I actually finished at 4:15, and then went into the employee eating area to enjoy a drink. A minute later, Ken the manager came back, told me the dishwasher called in sick and asked if I could cover his shift which starts at 5. I said OK, but I need some fresh air.

I got into my car to enjoy an area cruise, drove south on Freeport, turned right on Florin and then right on South Land Park. At that point, I was facing toward the ice cream parlor and I saw the smoke. But it didn't enter my mind about the source. I don't think five minutes had gone by since I pulled out of the Crossroads parking lot. I continued driving around the area and seeing the smoke. At 4:50 I turned on to 35th by the old railroad tracks and my jaws dropped and eyes bulged as I realized then the smoke was from Farrell's. I parked the car, sprinted the length of the parking lot to grab an employee covered with blood and screamed at her "What happened?"

She calmly said "an airplane crashed into it."

Because no employees were seriously hurt and the pilot only suffered minor injuries,I kidded myself there were no fatalities. But that was not the case and I should have known that after I looked into the party room before I left the building and saw so many people sitting against the window.

In the years since,it has troubled me badly that I didn't just stick around and maybe, just maybe, I could have pulled somebody out alive who died. I remember reading about a guy who was stationed on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor in 1941. But he got up that morning of December 7 to do some shopping in Honolulu and avoided the attack. Before he died decades later, he insisted on cremation and his remains sprinkled over the Arizona. I know actually how he felt.

Daniel German wrote:

I was working at Farrell's that day as a cook in the kitchen, scheduled to clock out at 4 pm. I actually finished at 4:15, and then went into the employee eating area to enjoy a drink. A minute later, Ken the manager came back, told me the dishwasher called in sick and asked if I could cover his shift which starts at 5. I said OK, but I need some fresh air.
I got into my car to enjoy an area cruise, drove south on Freeport, turned right on Florin and then right on South Land Park. At that point, I was facing toward the ice cream parlor and I saw the smoke. But it didn't enter my mind about the source. I don't think five minutes had gone by since I pulled out of the Crossroads parking lot. I continued driving around the area and seeing the smoke. At 4:50 I turned on to 35th by the old railroad tracks and my jaws dropped and eyes bulged as I realized then the smoke was from Farrell's. I parked the car, sprinted the length of the parking lot to grab an employee covered with blood and screamed at her "What happened?"
She calmly said "an airplane crashed into it."
Because no employees were seriously hurt and the pilot only suffered minor injuries,I kidded myself there were no fatalities. But that was not the case and I should have known that after I looked into the party room before I left the building and saw so many people sitting against the window.
In the years since,it has troubled me badly that I didn't just stick around and maybe, just maybe, I could have pulled somebody out alive who died. I remember reading about a guy who was stationed on the Arizona at Pearl Harbor in 1941. But he got up that morning of December 7 to do some shopping in Honolulu and avoided the attack. Before he died decades later, he insisted on cremation and his remains sprinkled over the Arizona. I know actually how he felt.

It wasn't your time. Thanks for the memory. Hope all is well with you.

Rebecca B wrote:

I was a survivor in Farrell's Crash, 1972. My family made it out. I was three years old and I remember it well.

Rebecca, I was there, too, and survived that crash, but my identical twin sister did not. We were almost 4 years old. There is a memorial built there in 2003. I spearheaded it. I still think the city used very poor judgement putting the police/fire headquarters there. At least with the memorial - it won't be forgotten. My daughter, Kristin, drew the angels for the plaque/ she was four at the time.

This year will be the 40th anniversary. One good thing that came out of something so horrific is the Fire Fighters Burn Institute- the living
memorial. They built the UC Davis Burn Center.

Jeff wrote:

I remember that day at age 14, coming home from playing 'roller derby' with friends at Rainbow Roller Rink and thinking ice cream!!! Upon cyling to Farrell's we witnessed at least ten emergency vehicles flying up 35th Avenue to Freeport Blvd. We soon realized what happened. Efforts to make the Crossroads Center a success for years after were overcome by the painful memories of the events of that day in Sacramento history.

Jeff, I came across the Farrels fire by accedent because you menchend the old Rainbow Roller Rink! We are looking for any informaction or pictures on the old rink. oddly enough A good friend lost all her children and mother and was seriously her her self in that fire.
So we are looking for photoes od the Rainbow Roller Rink.
Thanks
George

Jeff, I came across the Farrels fire by accedent because you menchend the old Rainbow Roller Rink! We are looking for any informaction or pictures on the old rink. oddly enough A good friend lost all her children and mother and was seriously her her self in that fire.
So we are looking for photoes od the Rainbow Roller Rink.
Thanks
George