The 2730 Sacramento Boulevard location of Pedroni’s Pharmacy is pictured in this January 29, 1941, photograph. The sons of Swiss-Italian immigrants, Joseph and Richard Pedroni left their native Napa County for Sacramento in 1920, opening their...
This 1928 photograph provides as aerial view of the Sacramento County Hospital at Stockton Boulevard and V Street. Originally established in 1897, ground was broken on a new building in 1915 and underwent several additions and renovations before...
This photograph of the Sacramento County Hospital's administrative building was taken on May 10, 1931. Beneath its brick shell, the was building was constructed with steel framing and reinforced concrete. Jutting from the left is one of six...
An October 20, 1939, photograph reveals the front entrance to the Auditorium of Grant Union High School. The Auditorium held the school's prized pipe organ, an instrument whose quality and design was matched by those in only three other venues in...
Taken in 1960, this photograph shows several storefronts, all on the north side of K Street. They include: Owl Cigar Store at 519 K Street, Greenberg Men's Clothing at 521 K Street, the Bay Hotel at 521-and-a-half K Street, and the Ace High Cafe...
Fritz Kaminsky, Sacramento City Police Chief, is pictured in this 1952 portrait. A native of Sacramento, Kaminsky was first employed as a secretary to the chief of police on November 18, 1923. Through the years, however, he rose through the ranks...
Photograph, taken April 26, 1933, of a the clamshell dredge Neptune Number 2, at an unknown location on the Sacramento River. The Neptune Number 2 was built in 1919 and dismantled in 1973. It served the U. S. Navy in World War II.
Sacramento City Police Officer Frank Boniface poses with child-on-knee in this circa 1925 photograph. A native of Telluride, Colorado, and naval veteran of the First World War, Boniface served with Sacramento's traffic division and school traffic...
The façade of the legendary Alhambra Theater at 1100 Alhambra Boulevard is captured in this 1947 photograph. The venue was designed to emulate the grandeur of Islam’s Alhambra, located in Granada, Spain. The movie house was accented with a...
The Club 21 opened as a tavern at 1122 Twenty-First Street around 1954 and expanded into the restaurant business by 1960, serving meals at 1120 Twenty-First Street. The reverse side of this card, postmarked in 1973, boasts the lounges' seating...
Shown in circa 1973 is the K Street Mall, amidst the good intentions of urban planners, post the city's massive redevelopment efforts of the 1960s. Evident on the postcard are the status the K Street as a pedestrian only mall, and the presence of...
Sacramento Room Postcard Collection
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