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 1950 view of the south side of K Street reveals Grayson's Department Store, located at 716 K Street, and Payless Drugstore, located at 716 K Street. Established in the summer of 1940, Grayson's was a California chain, specializing in women's...
Pictured on April 7, 1953, is the Fletcher Pharmacy at 2728 J Street. The business was opened in 1916 by Paul Fletcher. Upon retiring, the elder Fletcher handed control to his sons, Donald and Jerome. Both men were graduates of the University of...
This April 12, 1935, image captures the front of A. J. Affleck Drugs, A. J. Affleck Laboratories, and California Western State Life Insurance Company at 1006 through 1008 Tenth Street. Three men appear at the business's entrance at the northeast...
An interior view of A. J. Affleck Drugs, located at 1008 Tenth Street. The picture shows display shelves full of apothecary jars, and three pharmacy workers. A sign on the wall indicates that the store also sold vaccines and serums. In the...
This circa 1939 view of K Street shows a throng of people lining the sidewalks as well as numerous people marching down the center of the street. There are striped flags hanging down from wires strung across the street.
This March 31, 1946, photograph shows the Tower Theater at 2510 Land Park Drive. In the same building were Zamm's Homemade Candies at 2518 Land Park Drive and Tower Cut Rate Drugs. In 1950, the future founder of Tower Records, Russ Solomon, went to...
This west-facing view of K Street at Eighth Street depicts a very busy downtown street. Crowds of people line the sidewalk, flags fly, and rows of cars drive along the street. The crowds and activity suggest a parade or demonstration although none...
This photograph, looking east, of a deluged J Street near Fourth Street captures the scale of the flood of December 1861. In the foreground is a sign for dentist W.H. Thomas, and the dry goods store of Patrick O'Connell and Jonathon Ryan. Just...
This circa 1940 photograph looks to the east side of Tenth Street, between J and K Streets. The Monument-style structure in the center of the photograph is the nearly-finished American Trust Company Building. When done, the one-story building...
This 1956 photograph shows the northwest corner of Sixth and J Streets. Visible are Israel Schneiderman’s Big Ben Loan Office at 531 J Street, the 924 Club at 924 Sixth Street and the G n M Club at 526 J Street. Big Ben occupied what had been...
A stretch of K Street, just east of its intersection with Second Street, is the focus of this 1960 photograph. To the far right of the frame is the primeval Fratt Building. Its K Street neighbors include the Owl Cafeteria at 210 K Street, the...
This circa 1960 photograph shows the Stewart Hotel at 1012 Sixth Street, Frank's Club at 1014 Sixth Street, the Keystone Cafe at 1014, Yee Drugs at 1008 Sixth Street, the Thasos Coffee Shop at 1014 Sixth Street, and Sacramento Hat Works at 1010...
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...
A stretch of K Street, just east of its intersection with Second Street, is the focus of this 1960 photograph. To the far right of the frame is the primeval Fratt Building. Its K Street neighbors include the Owl Cafeteria at 210 K Street, the...
This 1962 photograph captures the lifeless storefront of Raymond Yee’s pharmacy at 1008 Sixth Street. A native of China, Yee followed in the footsteps of his father, Dew, who was also a pharmacist. Raymond had been at the pictured location...
A view of Fourth Street, circa 1960, showing Grey Pharmacy (1000 Fourth Street), which is located at the corner of the California Fruit Building. Several people are walking along the sidewalk toward the corner as the camera views a busy street...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of J Street between Fourth and Fifth, showing Top Hat Cafe/Tavern (412 J Street), Pine Rooms (412 J Street), Lucero Pharmacy (414 J Street), Rio Dance Hall (probably a dime-a-dance establishment) (416 J Street), Midway...
View of K Street looking west toward Second Street, showing the Fratt Building, which was built in 1870 by Francis W. Fratt, who had been prominent in Sacramento as a cattle dealer and real estate promoter since 1850. His home was here until 1908. ...
This dormant section of Sixth Street, between J and K Streets, was photographed in 1960. The Yee Pharmacy at 1008 Sixth Street, Sacramento Hat Works at 1010 Sixth Street, the Stewart Hotel at 1012 Sixth Street, the Keystone Cafe at 1014 Sixth...
