C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
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...
This April 2, 1936, photograph captures the imposing spires of the Tower Bridge, as seen from the western side of the Sacramento River. The builder of the truss vertical-lift bridge was Sacramento’s George Pollock Construction Company. The...
In this circa 1937 photograph, the superstructure of the Tower Bridge is visible from the east side of the Sacramento River. At 700 feet long and 70 feet wide, the bridge required over 7,600 cubic yards of concrete, 932 fir stands, and 3,250 tons...
Pictured on March 8, 1942, is the newly constructed Ransome truck terminal at 324 North Sixteenth Street. It was built in order to provide mechanical, lubrication, fuel and personal assistance to agricultural and industrial truckers operating in...
This 1940 photograph captures the northeast corner of Eighth and K Streets. The upper floors of the structure were occupied by the 200-room Hotel Clunie at 805 K Street. It was built in 1917 and then renovated in 1929 for 70,000 dollars by hotel...
This circa 1930 photograph captures the St. John's Lutheran Church as it rests, surrounded by several trees, at the northeast corner of Seventeenth and L Streets. Under the guidance of Reverend Charles Oehler, the church was constructed for 70,000...
This circa 1942 photograph reveals a glowing interior of the Hippodrome Theater at 1013 K Street. Just four years later, on September 14, 1946, the marquee of the Hippodrome collapsed onto K Street, killing one person and injuring three. A...
This January 1, 1933, photograph captures a firefighting reenactment, held to celebrate the Seventy-Fifth anniversary of the Young American Engine Company Number Six. In the wake of a November 1852 fire that destroyed 70 percent of the central...
This April 2, 1936, photograph captures the imposing spires of the Tower Bridge, as seen from the western side of the Sacramento River. The builder of the truss vertical-lift bridge was Sacramento’s George Pollock Construction Company. The...
This 1946 photograph shows rice processing facilities along the west bank of the Sacramento River, just off of River Road. The large structure to the right of the water tower are the rice mill and warehouse of the Rice Growers Association of...
Taken in 1957, this photograph shows the weathered facades of the Hub Hotel and Tavern at 224 J Street and the Lincoln Room at 226 J Street. The building housing the Hub was erected by wholesale merchant and Kentuckian Edward P. Figg after the...
Gravestone of Fong So Hoy, who died November 28, 1944, aged 70 yrs, 2 mos. 8 ds. The marker reads "At Rest Jesus said, 'I am the resurrection and the life, he that believeth in me, though he die, yet shall he live.'"
This 1960 photograph shows the venue utilized by Music Circus, a long standing musical and theater company in Sacramento. Located at 1419 H Street, the venue held approximately 2,500 seats. Its construction was dedicated on May 9, 1949, when...
Photograph, taken November 11, 1932, of a football game at Sacramento Stadium on the Sacramento Junior College campus, located at 3835 Freeport Boulevard. The stadium was later renamed Hughes Stadium on November 18, 1944. Built in 1928 for 140,000...
Shown in April 1980, at Third and K Street, is Sacramento's Indo Arch, designed by Sacramento State University Art Professor Gerald Walburg. The artist received a 70,000 dollar commission for the work's design and installation in late 1977 from...
This circa 1900 photograph shows a guard posing with a Gatling gun, a major deterrent to riot and escape. The weapon was usually placed in a wooden tower to the west of the prison, just off the banks of the American River. The pictured model is...
This 2002 photograph shows a home at 511 Eighth Street, in the Alkali Flat neighborhood of Sacramento. Emerging after a November 1852 fire that destroyed 70 percent of the city, Alkali Flat stands as Sacramento's oldest residential neighborhood,...
In this May 1927 photograph, Sacramento area rancher Edgar Simpson, left, edges out another rider in a chariot race at the California State Fairgrounds’ racetrack. Spectators sit on the eastern edge of the track. The chariots were part of the...
Shrouded in greenery, from the corner of Tenth and J Streets, is Plaza Park. At the time of this 1905 photograph, the Plaza was adorned with several elms, orange trees, redwoods, and palms. The block underwent a 70,000 dollar facelift in 1966...
