MATT SAPUNAR

Sacramento County

Biographies

MATT SAPUNAR

MATT SAPUNAR.--An experienced caterer, who has helped to make Sacramento more popular with the ever-coming and ever-going strangers and other visitors, is Matt Sapunar, the genial proprietor of the Tourist Restaurant at 817 Second Street. He was born in Dalmatia, and grew up in that country, attending the well-conducted Dalmatian schools; and when sixteen years of age, he crossed the wide ocean; rather an undertaking for a lad of his years, and after inspecting the great American metropolis, he pushed on to the more promising West, and hailed Sacramento as his own.

Matt Sapunar worked hard for several years, in order to get a modest start in business. In 1920, he established his present place and took into partnership with him Matt Rakela and Marko Sapunar, and the trio have been successful, the experienced and observing public in the capital city not being slow to appreciate their efforts to furnish a better restaurant service for the traveler than anyone had provided before.

In 1913, Matt Sapunar was married to Miss Hazel Ellers, of Portland. Mrs. Sapunar shares her husband’s liking for athletics, and also for outdoor life and pleasures. He belongs to the U.A.O.D. Society, and for five years he has served as secretary for that order. Politically, he is a Republican.

Transcribed by Vicky Walker, 7/17/07.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Page 967. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.