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Vol. XXVI • No. 5
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Crestview Lanes, which operated at 4450 Manzanita Ave. in Carmichael from 1964 to 2010, was the first unit of the second phase of a 58-acre project.
Crestview Village shopping center made its debut more than a half-century ago By Lance Armstrong Lance@valcomnews.com
Editor’s Note: This is part-one of a series about the history of Carmichael’s Crestview Village shopping center.
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Nearly 60 years have passed since the community was informed about plans for a new, $8 million shopping destination known as the Crestview shopping center. The center would be part of a 58-acre project, which would extend along Manzanita Avenue on both sides of Winding Way in Carmichael, and also include apartments, offices and commercial buildings. The original plans, which were drawn by the architectural firm, Starks, Jozens & Nacht, called for two 100,000-square-foot department stores, two 20,000-square-foot shopping center, a 20,000-square-foot variety store, a 12,000-square-foot drugstore, clothing and specialty shops, a hardware store, a household appliance store, a restaurant, two beauty shops, two service stations, a post office and other attractions. Also included in those plans was a parking area with 3,500 spaces. The location of the center was projected to be a centerpiece for this growing area, which then had about 120,000 people residing within a five-mile radius and 250,000 people living within a 10-mile radius. In an article in its April 15, 1958 edition, The Sacramento Bee announced that the developers of the project were Allan Lindsey and associates and Anselmo & Wiedman, and the exclusive leasing agents were Moss & Moss realtors. Adjacent to the project was Anselmo & Wiedman’s Barrett Meadows, a development featuring custom-built homes that were offered by Rudy Thompson Realty, which had its offices at 5112 Fair Oaks Blvd. Construction on the center was scheduled to begin in the spring of 1960. However, that plan was delayed and the property was sold for the fulfillment of the project to Holesapple Development, of Beverly Hills in September 1961. The ranch-style designed plan, which would feature about 30 stores and service shops and
parking for about 1,300 cars in its $3 million, 18.2-acre, initial phase, was scheduled to be completed by the following August. The new design for the initial phase of the project was completed by John Chapman & Associates of Beverly Hills, and was built by David Young Builder, Inc. of Laguna Beach. And the supervisor of that phase was California Architects Collaborative of Sacramento. A groundbreaking for the first phase of the new center, which would be known as Crestview Village, was held at the northeast corner of Manzanita Avenue and Winding Way on June 28, 1962. Officiating the event were Richard Holesapple, one of the project’s principal owners and developers, Arthur Relfe, who would serve as manager of the center’s Wells Fargo Bank branch, and Joe Sims, operations manager of the Sacramento district of Lucky Stores. The first phase of the project was completed in October 1962. In addition to the about 20,000-square-foot Lucky supermarket and the 7,620-square-foot Wells Fargo branch, the initial phase included the West Coast’s largest W.T. Grant Co. store, which totaled 37,404 square feet, a 20,286square-foot Thrifty Drug Store, the 14,000square foot Gourmet Village and about 30 smaller retail and service shops. Gourmet Village, which was similar but smaller to Country Club Plaza’s restaurants and dining facility, Gourmet Lane, was operated by Frank Fat, Sal Gomez and Frank Morello’s World Food, Inc. Plans for the first unit of the second phase of the project were announced in May 1964, with the news that a 32-lane bowling alley, known as Crestview Lanes, would be constructed. That project, which would be built on the property south of the intersection, would also include a coffee shop, a cocktail lounge, a meeting room, a billiard room and a nursery-playroom. The bowling alley building, which was designed by local architect Sooky Lee, was built at a cost of about $1 million. Following a weeklong informal opening under its original manager, Bill Shattuck, Crestview Lanes held its official grand opening on Sept. 14, 1964. Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.