This circa 1950 postcard shows a holiday window display, courtesy of Breuner's Furniture. The back of the card reads: "'The Old Christmas Quilting Party Back Home' is Breuner's 16th old-fashioned, musical, moving Christmas display. The figures...
This 1960 phothograph of Breuner's at 600 K Street, and Goodwill Industries Department Store at 1117 Sixth Street, was taken from the northwest coerner of Sixth and K Streets. Resting at the business's original 1856 location, the pictured building...
This circa 1966 postcard captures the splendor of the tradition of window displays at Breuner's Furniture. The back of the postcard reads: "Breuner's 32nd musical, moving Christmas display depicts 'Christmas Morning Down on the Ranch' where...
This circa 1956 postcard shows a portion of its time-honored tradition of hliday window diplaying. On the back of the card, it reads: "Breuner's 22nd musical, moving Christmas display shows the whole family out for a ride on Christmas Day in...
Pictured in circa 1952 is a portion of window displays at Breuner's Furniture at 600 K Street. So much a part of Sacramento's twentieth-century Holiday Season tradition, the practice started in 1934. With display themes changing yearly,...
Shown in this circa 1970 postcard is a Christmas display created by Breuner's Furniture, a century-long furniture interest in Sacramento. The displays were started in 1934, but suspended in 1972 with the closure of the Breuner's downtown location....
This promotional postcard for Breuner's Furniture shows several Sacramento landmarks, including Breuner's itself at Sixth and K Streets, and clockwise, from the upper, righthand corner: the Crocker Art Gallery at Third and Q, the California State...
This 1964 postcard provides a view of one of Breuners Furniture's traditional Holiday window displays. The back of the card reads: "Breuner's 30th musical, moving Christmas display depicts 'Preparing Christmas Dinner at Aunt Molly's Home' where...
The venerable Breuner's furniture store rests at its 604 K Street location in 1945. John Breuner - after sailing around Cape Horn in the early 1850s - started his business in 1856 and it stayed in operation for over 120 years. Bruener's was...
This circa 1963 photograph provides a glimpse of both the windows of Breuner’s will-call department at 1119 through 1131 Sixth Street and Sacramento’s new Federal Building at Sixth Street and Capitol Avenue. The eight-floor Federal Building...
This circa 1956 postcard shows a Christmas window display at Breuner's Furniture, located at 600 K Street. A regional fixture from 1934 to 1971, the displays offered animated, three-quarter-sized figures living out Holiday scenes. The company...
Pictured at 1895's California State Fair is a dining room exhibit from John Breuner's Furniture Company. The mid-1890s was a time of expositions and fairs, nationwide. In 1895, Sacramento hosted not only the State Fair but the ""Electric...
Pictured in circa 1960 are the Karl’s Shoes are 620 K Street and Breuner’s Furniture at 600 through 618 K Street. Karl’s – a chain store – had been a K Street fixture since the late-1920s while Bruener’s had been a Sacramento...
This view of K Street looking East from Fourth, taken circa 1960 depicts an excavation of a full city block with the Hotel Coloma (508 K Street), Gallenkamp's Shoes (500 K Street), Breuner's (600 K Street), and Fred's Market (1105 Fifth Street) in...
Shown on July 14, 1936, is a meeting of the Sacramento Advertising Club. The group - known also as the "Ad Club" - was started in 1907 by 15 local advertisers as a way for Sacramento firms to exchange ideas and promote Sacramento through its...
Pictured in circa 1962 is Karl’s Shoes at 620 K Street. Part of a nationwide chain, Karl’s opened its first Sacramento store at 721 K Street in 1929. To the right of the photograph is a portion of Breuner’s Furniture at 600 through 618 K...
Resting at the southwestern corner of Thirtieth and I Streets is this four-unit apartment building. Its architectural style matches a vernacular style common to the early twentieth century. One of the units was empty at the time the photograph...
Legendary western star of the first half of the 20th century Tom Mix is seen here on his horse Tony leading a parade down K Street and waving to his admirers. Movie studios often sent stars to promote their movies, which is the case here. The...
This circa 1909 postcard shows K Street, looking west, between Sixth and Seventh streets. The grayish building to the left is the Masonic Temple. The brownish sandstone structure before that is John Breuner's Furniture. To the immediate right in...
This circa 1914 postcard shows K Street, between Sixth and Seventh streets. Notable features are the Pantages Theater to the left, the Golden Eagle Hotel, and the tower of the Federal Building and Post Office at Seventh and K streets. Beyond that...
