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Bankruptcy rates rising - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

08.02.09

And he didn't even declare bankruptcy -- his landlord did. But he has been ordered to move, to go find a new home.

"We don't even know who technically owns the house now," De Guia said. "It went up for auction in December."

Bankruptcies are ripping through the Sonoma County economy, impacting more than just the insolvent who seek protection from their creditors in a federal bankruptcy courtroom in downtown Santa Rosa.

The upheaval has thrown everyone from retailers to carpenters to Joe Six-Pack into bankruptcy.

The number of bankruptcy filings soared 77 percent in Sonoma County in 2008, and the situation is expected to get even worse this year.

When people can't pay their bills, it has a domino effect that pushes more people and businesses into bankruptcy, said Robert Eyler, director of the Center for Regional Economic Analysis at Sonoma State University.

Major retailers such as Mervyns, Circuit City and Gottschalks have filed bankruptcy.

Source: Santa Rosa Press Democrat, CA

WIDE-OPEN TOWN: PART I

"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be," Stan Kenton famously said, and anyone tempted to wax sentimental about old-time Santa Rosa needs to take a closer look, starting with a peek at the maps.

I've been spending much of my research time recently with the 1904 Santa Rosa Sanborn maps (project TBA). These maps can be found for many communities in the U.S. and were made for fire insurance assessment. They show the precise outline and some basic details for every building (even outhouses, sheds, and chicken coops), the type of roof and chimney, where the fire hydrants are, diameter of the water pipes, and all those other details an insurance company might think important before insuring the property owner. The maps were updated every few years, so through them you can often watch a town grow. But that's only the tip of the proverbial iceberg; ethnic neighborhoods are sometimes indicated (hello, redlining) as well as redlight districts and other details that would be otherwise lost.

Before diving into the maps, first an update to an earlier post, "When we all met Downtown Saturday Night:" The first item below shows that the free Saturday night entertainment in downtown Santa Rosa not only included band concerts from the courthouse balcony, but also moving pictures and slides of illustrated songs. One of the dials on my time machine is now set for a Saturday midsummer night in 1905 when the whole town's in the square singing "Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie." The sweet little Iowa town in "The Music Man" was never half as charming.

But come the start of horse racing season, we got trouble right here in River City.

As will be shown in a following post, the saloons and hotels along Fourth Street and Main Street were openly running illegal games, including roulette, craps, faro, and klondike, which apparently was similar to six-card stud. The Santa Rosa Republican, which exposed the gambling that local police apparently...

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