Pictured in 1952 is the recently completed McKesson and Robbins warehouse at the corner of Richards Boulevard and Seventh Street. Opened in the fall of 1950 and costing nearly $1,000,000, the facility was designed by the accomplished Sacramento...
The Old Home Bakers at 3226 Montgomery Street is shown in this October 20, 1954, photograph. The business was founded in 1923 and, by 1954, was distributing its bread as far north as Redding and as far south as Lodi. It also prided itself as the...
The Pioneer Baking Company at 3226 Montgomery Street is captured in this February 18, 1929, photograph. A few years prior to the photograph, the company spent 25,000 dollars to improve facilities and roll out a new type of bread made from...
Shown here on April 4, 1946, is the Thys Iron and Steel Foundry at 6900 Folsom Boulevard. The business was established in 1940 by the eccentric Edouard Thys, an Eton-educated Belgian aristocrat and electrical engineer, and his equally eccentric...
Martha Washington Candy Store at 3130 J Street is shown here on May 4, 1934. The photograph was taken on the opening day of the new business which included free ice cream cones for visitors. The design of the store was meant to carry Sacramentans...
Pictured in 1926 is the Wood, Curtis Company’s recently completed distribution plant at Sixteenth and B Streets. One of California’s oldest and largest produce businesses, Wood, Curtis operated with interests as far north as Klamath Falls,...
A Sacramento Northern passenger car idles in front of the Charles Swanston and Son Packing House in this circa 1920 photograph. Located along the Haggin Grant, just north of American River, the plant was built for 250,000 dollars, just a few years...
This 1960 photograph shows the Union Iron Works at 1415 Front Street. The business was founded in 1860, but was purchased by its highest-profile owner, Otto F. Link, in 1940. The Auburn-native went to work for Union in 1925, eventually working...
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...
Photograph taken in 1924 at the corner of Front and P Streets. On the corner is the California Packing Company factory. On the right side of the photo, at the corner of Front and Q Street, is the Sacramento Public Bean Cleaning Company, and to...
This 1945 photograph shows the steamy interior of the American Can Company at 3325 C Street. Founded in 1926, by 1951, American employed 900 workers during the canning season and 275 over the winter months. In total, American’s employees...
Shown in 1945 at its Thirty-Third and C Street location is the American Can Company, one of California and the nation’s primary producers of tin cans. By the time this photograph was taken the plant was producing 375 cans a minute, 22,500 an...
Shown in 1955 is the Procter and Gamble Manufacturing Company plant near the intersections of Power Inn Road and Fruitridge Road. The structure was built in 1951/52 for 2.5 million dollars with a workforce that numbered between 125 and 150. The...
The Campbell Soup Company, located at Fourty-Third Street and Franklin Boulevard, has long been a fixture of Sacramento industry, opening in 1947. It closed in 2012, causing the loss of some 700 area jobs. The plant nearly closed in the 1990s,...
This circa 1930 photograph captures a Peerless Ice Cream Company Truck parked in front of a Sacramento-area park. Contact and advertising information covers much of the vehicle. The phrases “East Peerless Ice Cream” and “Its Flavor Means...
Pictured on August 21, 1936, at 2200 Stockton Boulevard, is the Coca Cola Bottling Company. The 27,500 building was designed by Sacramento architect Charles F. Dean and went into operation shortly after this photograph was taken. The modern...
This promotional postcard covers the Fifteenth National Irrigration Congress, which was held in Sacramento, in September 1907. The nearly 2,000 delegates that came to the event were greeted, at the Southern Pacific station, with a sign reading...
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...
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...
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...
