Auto repair workers of the 1920s pose alongside a vintage tow truck at 1615 J St., the modern-day home of Lucca Restaurant. Spacious midtown sites built as garages and showrooms are now pulling in diners.
Across midtown Sacramento, eateries are opening in buildings that originally served up more carburetors than carpaccio, more brake jobs than breakfast [...]

The inevitable backlash came when purists began to build what they called rat rods, vehicles that flaunt their homemade, junkyard origins. Which brings us to the Storms, father and son, and their joint project.”My dad and I had been kind of itching to build one,” Cam said. The project really got started when Cam acquired [...]

Tousa, Friedman;s, Interstate Bakeries: Bankruptcy (Update2)
By Bill Rochelle
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Tousa Inc., a homebuilder based in
Hollywood, Florida, filed a Chapter 11 petition in Fort
Lauderdale this morning, along with three affiliates and a plan
for exchanging bonds and unsecured debt [...]