Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
Pictured in 1946 are support facilities of Lester Motors Ford at 900 Thirteenth Street. The photograph was taken from 1300 I Street, where the business’s showroom was located. This location formed the culmination of Lester’s business...
A moment of giddiness is captured in this 1960 photograph of the Reference Room in Sacramento's Central Library at 828 "I" Street. The library was built in 1917/18 through 100,000 dollar grant from Scottish-American steel baron and philanthropist...
Resting at 912 and 914 Fifth Street is the former Van Voorhies-Phinney horse collar factory, pictured in 1960. It was built in 1909/10, producing award-winning collars at the California State Fair. The building stood well into the 1960s, and was...
A view of Fourth Street showing the Stark Club Tavern (900 Fourth Street), an adjoining coffee shop, and Hank's Barbershop (904 Fourth Street). The Southern Pacific depot is visible to the right.
This 1960 photograph shows a Shell service station at 900 through 912 Fifth Street. The California Fruit Building looms in the background at Fourth and J Streets.
Emergency Bail Bond Service at 900 Seventh Street, Clyde's Office Supply at 906 Seventh Street, the American Typewriter Exchange at 908 Seventh Street, and the Sacramento County Free Library headquarters at 914 Seventh Street are all visible in...
This circa 1977 photograph shows the Ruhstaller Building at Ninth and J Streets with Jewelcraft Loans at 900 J Street and Albert Ramirez Bail Bonds occupying the ground floor at 1005 Ninth Street. Built in 1898 by Sacramento brewer and capitalist,...
The Grand Army of the Republic Veterans of Pasadena march in this 1925 (probably Independence Day) parade along K Street. This view of the south side of the street at Ninth shows the Owl Drug Company (900 K Street), Moss Glove and Hosiery Company...
This circa 1939 photograph offers a view of several businesses on the south side of K Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets. The Hotel Land at 1106 Tenth Street sits at the far left of the image. To the far right of the photograph, and built in...
A frenzied scene of pedestrian and automobile traffic clogs the intersection of Ninth and K Streets in this 1945 photograph. Between 1945 and 1946, total national retail income rose from 18.2 billion dollars to 19.8 billion dollars, and a bustling...
A frenzied scene of pedestrian and automobile traffic clogs the intersection of Ninth and K Streets in this 1945 photograph. Between 1945 and 1946, total national retail income rose from 18.2 billion dollars to 19.8 billion dollars, and a bustling...
This 1945 photograph shows the steamy interior of the American Can Company at 3325 C Street. Founded in 1926, by 1951, American employed 900 workers during the canning season and 275 over the winter months. In total, American’s employees...
Busy street scene looking east on K Street. Many pedestrians and vehicles are in this photo. There is a horse and wagon in the foreground and female pedestrians crossing K Street at Tenth Street. The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is in the...
This circa 1980 postcard shows a prtion of the Charles C. Jensen Botanical Gardens, located at 8520 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael, California. The garden was founded in 1958, then becoming part of the Carmichael Recreation and Park District in...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
Sacramento High School is located at 2315 Thirty-Fourth Street in Sacramento, California. Founded just one week after San Francisco’s Lowell High School opened its doors in mid-August 1856, “Sac High” has matured into the second oldest high...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
