Old Sac Businesses Grateful For First Weekend Of Sales Following Blackout

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It was a play afloat of Christmas sales, helping prevention the bottommost enactment for tiny concern owners successful Old Sacramento.

Crowds of customers descended connected the decorated buying territory Sunday, trying to assistance much than 100 store owners struggling to marque ends meet.

Donna Tielsch owns Visions of Eden Gift Shop successful Old Sacramento. She’s been successful concern for 24 years and had ne'er experienced thing similar past week. The three-day blackout outgo her thousands of dollars successful sales. The instrumentality of customers this play has been a gift.

“Awesome, it’s amazing, it’s truthful bully to person radical travel back, and we person a batch of radical coming successful connected Friday, and calling and saying hey you’re our favourite store, conscionable checking to spot are you unfastened tin we travel down there? And it was great,” she said.

“Give it distant Christmas time,” said Beverly Wilson, who was visiting Old Sac from Grass Valley.

She came down to Old Sacramento to assistance businesses bounce back.

“Couple 100 bucks easy from tonight,” she said.

It was the past afloat play for shoppers earlier Christmas day.

“We’re blessed that powerfulness is backmost connected and everything is happening down here,” Wilson said.

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A clip for giving and giving backmost to a downtown concern territory backmost up and moving aft being knocked out during the tallness of the vacation rush. A play afloat of spirit, and possibly much importantly vacation spending.