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[Oldschooler81]

When I lived in town there seemed to be pizza places everywhere (I bet even more now), like Little Caesars on Main & Madison, and what's still my alltime favorite - Rico's. That looks like it's a Chinese restaurant now, but did anyone else go there in the early and mid 90s? It was like genuine Italian style and I think they had a jukebox too.

P.S. Was the Round Table at the American River shopping center then? That was almost literally across the street from me and I went there a billion times, but ironically I can't remember that. It's in the renovated version, so I think it was.

[thedotcomcrash]

When I lived in town there seemed to be pizza places everywhere (I bet even more now), like Little Caesars on Main & Madison, and what's still my alltime favorite - Rico's. That looks like it's a Chinese restaurant now, but did anyone else go there in the early and mid 90s? It was like genuine Italian style and I think they had a jukebox too.

P.S. Was the Round Table at the American River shopping center then? That was almost literally across the street from me and I went there a billion times, but ironically I can't remember that. It's in the renovated version, so I think it was.

Rico's was awesome. I used to go there all the time as a kid because my dad did a lot of the home construction in American River Canyon. We loved the pizza! The slices were huge, and they had that game, the duck hunt-like disc shooting game!!! We looooved playing that. I was sad to Rico's go I don't think there are any around here any more, although somehow I recall finding one out in Sacramento somewhere a few years back - I never did stop in and eat, just happened to pass by and got a little excited. Little Caesar's is long gone from Main & Madison; in fact, I believe the chain disappeared from the area until recently when they made a comeback with their Hot & Ready $5 pizzas. Now they've popped up everywhere and it tastes just like it did when they were here years ago. I also love Little Caesar's, for a very unauthentic but somehow addictive pizza (and crazy bread, oh my).

At any rate, there's Mountain Mike's on Greenback & Beech in the Cable Park shopping center, Papa John's in the same one, and the Little Caesar's across from Walmart at Greenback & Hazel. I'm sure there's others as well that I'm not aware of.

[Oldschooler81]

Hey dotcom, thanks for sharing - that's cool your dad did construction and you lived in the area same time as me. Wow I totally forgot about the Duck Hunt game, but I must've played it too! I agree independent places like Rico's are usually better, I also remember the giant pizza slices. Yeah I think back then, Little Casears were the old style places, but they're all just takeouts now. I live in San Jose now and I get the $5 ready to go ones sometimes. There's not even places to sit inside.

I haven't physically lived in OV since Summer 1995 and completely left the area by '97, was Rico's gone pretty soon after that? Caesars might've been gone even before then, I don't recall.

[NorCalGal]

When I lived in town there seemed to be pizza places everywhere (I bet even more now), like Little Caesars on Main & Madison, and what's still my alltime favorite - Rico's. That looks like it's a Chinese restaurant now, but did anyone else go there in the early and mid 90s? It was like genuine Italian style and I think they had a jukebox too.

P.S. Was the Round Table at the American River shopping center then? That was almost literally across the street from me and I went there a billion times, but ironically I can't remember that. It's in the renovated version, so I think it was.

I just moved to Orangevale recently. I lived in Folsom for a year before I moved here. I now live at the border by Main and Madison. Across the street in the plaza where Taco Bell is located is an awesome pizza place called Strobelli's. It's the best pizza I've found in the Folsom/Orangevale area. I haven't eaten inside but I do know they have beer on tap and TV's. If you live here, you need to check Strobelli's out! Free delivery too!

[Oldschooler81]

^ Oh nice - I actually live in San Jose, but I've considered taking the train out there some weekend, just to spend a day and see what it's like now. Strobelli's seems like a neat place, I bet that's the old Caesars!

[Jolene]

Mary: We're practically neighbors!

[NorCalGal]

Mary: We're practically neighbors!

Very cool! Are you on the Taco Bell side of Main or the 99 cent store side?

[NorCalGal]

^ Oh nice - I actually live in San Jose, but I've considered taking the train out there some weekend, just to spend a day and see what it's like now. Strobelli's seems like a neat place, I bet that's the old Caesars!

I was born in San Jose but grew up in Aptos (Santa Cruz area). I know what you mean about seeing all the changes of a community that you have grown up in. I guess it goes along with getting older.

[Oldschooler81]

I was born in San Jose but grew up in Aptos (Santa Cruz area). I know what you mean about seeing all the changes of a community that you have grown up in. I guess it goes along with getting older.

Really, that's cool. That's a nice area too, I'm somewhat familar with Capitola. I've heard alot of people say they moved from the Bay Area to Sac because of things like more affordable rent - ironic that I went the other way, lol.

Yeah, I've gradually seen that with different neighborhoods. When I lived in OV I felt that way when I'd go back to Rohnert Park (lived there '86-90), even though I was still a kid.

Something that's similar can make it seem comfortable like you're frozen in time, whereas when something is changed (like I saw how they renovated the American River center with the Albertons) that gives you this melancholy feeling that time has passed. It's like you can NEVER go back.

[Jolene]

Very cool! Are you on the Taco Bell side of Main or the 99 cent store side?

We're West of Main, North of Madison.

[NorCalGal]

We're West of Main, North of Madison.

I live off of Main in between Madison and Greenback.

[Oldschooler81]

Wow, in '94 I lived in one of the complexes between Greenback and Madison! It was the kind of suburban, friendly neighborhood you'd feel safe as a kid walking around in and people seemed to care about each other (I knew like half our neighbors, at least casually, lol). Sometimes after school I loved shortcutting across the then-empty field behind the bank, to get to the Alberson's center, or to the Burger King.