Jan 8, 2021
Downtown Napa was a different place in the early 1970s before the cityâs urban renewal program swung into high gear and the county cleared a swath of land south of Third Street for its new government/courts complex.
It was older, less prosperous, without tourists.
The city commissioned photos of the âbefore,â including aerial shots that capture a riverfront almost unidentifiable to someone who knows only todayâs landscape.
The Napa River was boxed in with stores and warehouses, reflecting the cityâs origins as a river town where commerce centered on the waterway. And Soscol Avenue, a major north-south arterial today, stopped at the river.
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