Sacramento is the first place we've left that stuff in. Goofy, he admits, but he is quick to point out that he's never mean. Wolf's crew plays along with the goofs, trying to give him the information and angles he needs to sell his subject on-camera. In addition to Perlman, he's got a sound technician, camera operator, key grip and executive producer, Emily Aronson, who all fly in for the week of the actual taping. Wolf says he likes Sacramento residents, describing them as prototypical Northern Californians.
People here are very accepting.
I couldn't just walk around filming in New York or San Francisco, I'd have cops all over me. But in Old Sacramento, he's walking on a red carpet everywhere he goes. Lucy Steffens, film commissioner for the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau, pursued Wolf for this series, and she's hovering nearby, as Wolf talks on-camera with Ed Astone, town manager of Old Sacramento. Guided by Steffens and his own research, Wolf has seen a lot of the area. He's spent time strolling walnut groves in Winters and watching bikers on the American River Parkway, hanging at Al's Bar in Locke and exploring the Wells Fargo Museum, the Capitol and its park, the Crocker Art Museum, the Railroad Depot, the Governor's Mansion and Sutter's Fort.