Shown in circa 1965, are the swimming pool, room units and front parking lot of the Caravan Inn on Auburn Boulevard at Bell Street. When this postcard was new Auburn Boulevard served as part of Highway 40 and was a main thoroughfare dotted with...
This 1965 postcard shows the Valley Hi resting at 5321 Stockton Boulevard. Printed on the back of the postcard is as follows: "100 new units...1 mile South California State Fair Grounds...Uncle John's Pancake House...Business Route U.S. Highway...
This circa 1965 postcard shows Southern Pacific Railroad steam locomotive 4294. The 4-8-8-2 engine was built in March 1944 at the Balwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. Retired in 1956, 4294 was used to transport trains through the...
Shown on this circa 1965 promotional card for the Zombie Hut restaurant, at 5635 Freeport Boulevard, are five men. Before them is a spread of food, including a roasted pig. In addition to its Polynesian fare, the spot was known for its floor...
This cargo ship is shown docked at the Port of Sacramento in this circa 1965 postcard. Completed just two years earlier, in 1963, the port was the terminus of a deep water channel that stretched southwesterly 43 miles to Suisun Bay, and its...
This circa 1965 postcard shows a flora rich northeast corner of Sutter's Fort, located at Twenty-Seventh and K streets. When the historic site was rehabilitated in the 1890s, the decision to plant dedicated and organized floral elements was...
Taken in 1970, this photograph shows an unnamed sculpture and fountain done by Norman Grag. Located at the main branch of the Wells Fargo Bank at 500 Capitol Mall, the fountain was an example of the city's requirement that, in any building...
Boaters take in a pleasant day at the south end of Southside Park in this circa 1929 photograph. The lake kept form until 1965 when earthfill was dumped into its south end as part of the construction of the X and Y Freeway. In a matter of days,...
Native Tennessean, Paul J. Taylor, was one of the most influential Sacramento City Council members of the mid-twentieth century. His post-Word War II drive into politics was based on a platform of merging city and county health departments,...
As early as the mid-nineteenth century, American churches conducted evening language classes in order to assist Chinese immigrants in the reading of scripture. In Sacramento, it was Eliza Willsie and Mary Allen’s Baptist Mission on 907 Fifth...
This 1929 portrait shows participants in a youth-level golf class at Del Paso Country Club. Golf professional Frank Minch, Senior, the fourth pro in Del Paso's long history, is at the far right of the bottom row. Junior golf was a large...
This 1929 portrait captures ultra-dapper golf professional Frank Minch, a member of, and golf professional at, the Del Paso Country Club, located at 3333 Marconi Avenue. Minch was one of California's leading profesional golfers and a valued member...
The Sacramento County Courthouse, located on I Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets, is the subject of this photograph. The ornate yet rough-hewn building was state-of-the-art when designed and constructed between 1910 and 1913, but by the time...
A stream of water is directed at a fire at McDonald Paint & Hardware Co. (188 El Camino Ave.) by a firefighter perched atop a fire ladder. Nearby businesses also threatened by the fire are the El Camino Bowl (1194 El Camino Ave.) whose sign...
Pictured in circa 1960, at 1001 Second Street, is Walsh’s Tavern. At the time this photograph was taken, it was owned and operated by Denis J. Sweeney, a native of County Donegal, Ireland. The business operated until Sweeney’s death in 1965. ...
This circa 1965 photograph shows what remains of a demolished section of the Sacramento’s West Side. The area was under priming for the Construction of the Interstate Five Freeway which was completed 1970.
This circa 1900 photograph shows a man, vintner James Frasinetti, delivering barrels of wine. He is doing so with a wagon, pulled by two horses. A native of Italy, Frasinetti founded his self-styled winery in 1897. It covered 400 acres of land...
This circa 1999 postcard shows Old Sacramento State Historic Park's Front Street, between J and K streets. Standing as one of Sacramento's prime tourism destinations, it was felt, after its estabishment as a State Historic Park in 1965, that it...
This evening photograph of Old Sacramento's Second Street, between I and J streets, was taken in circa 1990. Prior to Old Sacramento’s emergence from a center of urban blite to a State Historic Park in 1965, a series of ideas were proposed for...
