This closer view of gas pumps and service garages at the O’Neil Brothers Service Station at Thirteenth and L Streets was captured on May 12, 1933. In spite of its founders, Joseph and John O’Neil, dying during the 1940s, the company surged to...
The 1301 L Street location of the O’Neil Brothers Service Station is shown in this photograph, taken on December 18, 1935. The site was purchased in 1929 by brothers Joe and John O’Neil for 47,500 dollars. Once in hand, the third generation...
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...
Photograph, taken in 1952, of the Johnson-Harris Service Station (800 Alhambra) and Patterson Parts (810 Alhambra). In the 1955 Sacramento City Directory, Lester A. Johnson and Orville D. Harris are listed as proprietors of the service station.
This July 20, 1929, photograph shows the Sacramento Tire Company at 1530 L Street. A few years later, Goodyear would take over the L-shaped and Spanish-style property that was built, also in 1929, for 20,000 dollars by the Standard Oil Company of...
This 1960 photograph shows the Regal Service Station, located at 1221 through 1231 Third Street. Giveaway stamps, redeemable for merchandise, are advertised along with a fifteen-month battery for six dollars and eightty-eight cents. A vintage 1960...
The east side of Second Street, between L Street and Capitol Avenue, is shown in this 1960 photograph. Businesses in view include the La Simpatia Restaurant at 1219 Second Street, Al's Flying A Gas Station at 201 Capitol Avenue, and, on the other...
This photograph of the Shell Service Station at 3001 M Street was taken on February 11, 1940. Shell was one of several oil companies in mid-century Sacramento, reaping benefits from a mobile Capital market. Associated Oil Company, California...
Pictured in 1928 is a Shell Oil service station at Seventh and L Streets. The photograph shows two service station attendants in white uniforms and bow ties. On the station's front is a play bill for the Senator Theater: "Now Showing: Fanchion &...
This August 17, 1931, photograph shows Texas native Bert B. Elam's Texaco Gas Station as it sat at 3800 J Street. In 1935, Texaco had decided to make Sacramento its Northern California and Nevada headquarters and, by 1932, had set up storage...
Pictured in 1926/27 is the service station of Bobby Schang and Lloyd Jones at the southeast corner of Twelfth and C Streets. Left to right are Lloyd Jones, "Grandpa" Jones, and Bobby Schang, purveyors of Shell gasoline. The man standing by the...
Taken in 1926/27 is this photograph of the service station of Bobby Schang and Lloyd Jones at the corner of Twelfth and C. Schang was a player for the Sacramento Senators baseball team, having his best year in 1924 as he hit .348 in 115 games. He...
Taken on April 5, 1937, this photograph captures the entry to the Goodrich Silvertown building at 1200 I Street. On the right side of the photograph, two young boys are peering through the storefront window at First World War ephemera. President...
By the dawn of the Second World War, the over 179,000 registered drivers in the Sacramento Valley needed fuel and fresh tires for their automobiles. This January 20, 1939, photograph shows one such source, the Goodyear Service and Standard Oil...
This May 19, 1933, photograph shows the H and S Super Service, located at 1430 Twenty-First Street. Pictured are proprietors Gene Hepting and Jack Spelbring. Hepting's keen interest in photography left a treasure trove of popular and historic...
This March 16, 1935, photograph shows a Union Oil Service Station at the corner of Alhambra and J Streets. Union Oil’s presence in Sacramento goes back to 1906 with its decision to install production facilities at Front and Y Streets. Operated...
This unique aerial view of Christian Brothers’ School at Twenty-First and Y Street was taken in 1930. Previously on Twelfth and K Streets, what had been called Christian Brothers’ College, accepted a donation for the pictured plot of land at...
Pictured in 1927 is a flooded Del Paso Boulevard. The Woodlake Service Station at 1212 Del Paso Boulevard is partially submerged. Noteworthy is the advertisement of gasoline at 19 cents a gallon. The station was vacated by after the flood, only...
A long stretch of J Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, is the focus of this circa 1959 photograph. Prominent is the antique façade of the Van Voorhies-Phinney building at 322 and 324 J Street. The Grey Pharmacy, at 1000 Fourth Street, and...
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...
