Great pic's, it looks much different this morning too. The cement from all the medians are just about all gone.

I get so sad looking at these pictures. I grew up in historical Folsom and loved going to Sutter Street. As a kid, we would go to Penny Lane for penny candy and get ice cream at Patsy's soda parlor. We would enjoy our treats sitting in the shade of the trees in the median. As an adult, antique and jewelry shopping and going to the street fairs, the median step provided a place to rest and enjoy the beauty of Sutter Street. I have moved away but my family still lives there. Visits back home often find us going to dinner or "out on the town" for the thriving nightlife and when bumping into old friends...the median is where we would often stop and talk. The median made Sutter Street more beautiful, more inviting, a place I liked to go, and I think it also helped to keep the speed of cars slower. I know the median was not "historically accurate"...we used to look at the pictures my parents had...it looked so plain and lifeless. The median was an asset. It added beauty and safety and made Sutter Street like a park you could shop at. It looks so ugly now. It is not "inviting" anymore. I will really miss the decorations they used to put in the median for Christmas. All of the old "Folsomites" I grew up with all feel the same way. Why did the median have to be removed?