01/31/2021
My name is Sara Sang, daughter and niece of the Sang’s Cafe owners. Together the Sang family has been an integral part of Salinas, California, since the late 1940s. My grandfather and grandmother began with The Rodeo Waffle Shop and The Rodeo Cafe. My dad, uncle, and mother worked to get the restaurant back after the Loma Prieta earthquake, and it became Sang’s Cafe. I plan on working towards writing the entire history of my family over the years. To share with you.
I would like to preserve my family’s legacy in Salinas, and along with my ghostwriter James Edgar Skye, you may know him as David. We will be writing that history down in a book called The Legacy of Sang’s Cafe. David has been eating at Sang’s since he was a child into adulthood, and it means the world to him to be able to write the book. The book will be first about Sang’s family history. The second will be about you, the customers, employees, friends, and family that have made the restaurant a significant part of Old Town Salinas over the years.
If you have not reached out, please message or leave a post for David or me on our page, The Legacy of Sang’s Cafe Book, to become a part of the book through interviews. We plan to do both Zoom and in-person interviews over the next few months. We want you to be a part of the history and show your support for the Sang family.
The other part is that I am fundraising money to write the book through GoFundMe and other opportunities related to the book that may come up in the future once the world will come back to normal. I would ask those that have not had the time to donate, please do, as it will help us write this book the right way.
This book is not just for me. It is for the history of Salinas that has its unique history. Many of you have been a part of one of three name changes to the restaurant since the 1940s, and for you that I want to share the history of my family. You remember the Kip Special, the fried rice, the open twenty-four hours of the original restaurants, the atmosphere, and the great prices that made Sang’s Cafe a family-owned place to dine. People remember Don, James, Sara, Linh, the service, and generous portions of food. Your donations allow me to have my ghostwriter spend the right amount of time to make this an extraordinary book for our city.
Many Salinas residents in the agricultural community came to The Rodeo Cafe and Sangs to have meetings alongside lawyers, district attorneys, and attorneys. If you have connections with any of these people, we would love to reach out to the executives that ate at the restaurants, to have all the stories connected to the institution that was Sang’s restaurants in Salinas.
Thank You,
Sara Sang
Here is the link to the page. Please join us and like the page: https://www.facebook.com/LegacyofSangsCafeSalinasCA
Here is the link for the GoFundMe: gf.me/u/yt8csy
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