This circa 1940 postcard shows the Alhambra Italian Restaurant and Cafe, located at 1014 Alhambra Bouelvard. Operating from 1936 to 1957, the business was opened by Arturo Puccinelli an Italian who immigrated to the United States in 1911. The...
This photograph of the storefront of Leed’s women’s shoes at 814 K Street was taken on the business’s opening day, September 15, 1934. Neon signage and large showcases are visible. The location, designed to store up to 12,000 pairs of...
The Roma Hotel, at 930 Second Street, is the focus of this 1950 photograph. Also visible are the Roma Cafe at 930 Second Street and the National Employment Agency at 926 Second Street. The hotel - one of the first in Sacramento to owned by an...
This circa 1915 postcard shows the northern portico of the California State Capitol building. In the foreground is a melange of flora, including, left to right, white oleander, California redwood, Italian cypress, and the California fan palm.
This circa 1960 postcard captures the Holiday tradition of window decoration at Breuner's Furniture with "Shopping in an Italian Village." The practice started in 1934, but were ended with the store's bankruptcy in 2004.
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...
Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
Taken in 1960, this photograph reveals the elaborate storefront of the Arata Brothers' Supermarket, located at 2732 Thirty-fourth Street in Oak Park. Pyramid-stacked cans of summer hot house rhubarb flank the store's entrance. The sons of Italian...
Shown here in circa 1959 is the rear section of the single-screen Village Theater at 2925 Fulton Avenue. California architect Gastono “Gale” Santocono designed the Village, one of fifteen movie theaters that he worked on in California,...
Pictured on October 1, 1929, is Folsom Boulevard at Fifty-second Street. Looking eastward, away from Sacramento proper, a single pedestrian crosses the street and an automobile travels westerly toward the photographer. Also notable is a man...
This circa 1960 photograph shows the Capital Palace Café at 400 J Street. It rested on the southeast corner of Fourth and J Streets and was established by the Battaglia brothers, John and Peter, in 1938. Natives of Jackson, California, and first...
This 1960 photograph shows a repurposed Eureka Engine Company Number Four Fire House at 1017 Fifth Street. Built in 1855, in the photograph, the structure holds the Happy Time Cafe at 1017 Fifth Street. The restaurant was operated by Peter Carli,...
Photograph, circa 1960, of the Hotel Rialto and Rialto Cafe, located at 228 and 230 J Street. What became known as the Rialto Building replaced two structures built in the 1860s. The present buildings originally housed clothing and general...
This 1960 photograph shows several businesses on the south side of J Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets. They include, right to left, the Ramona Garage at 606 J Street, the abandoned Crystal Palace pottery, the Argentina Tavern at 610 J...
Shown in 1928 is the pumping station at Sacramento's water purification plant, located just north of the Southern Pacific Railroad yard. Built in an Italian Romanesque style, the building's frieze is ringed with the names of 16 pioneers in the...
The living room in the Old Governor's Mansion, which is located at Sixteenth and H Streets, is the subject of this photograph, taken circa 1955. Lavishly decorated, this former drawing room boasts one of seven Italian marble fireplaces. All the...
Pictured in 1939, at the corner of Eleventh and N Streets are the Lewis Apartments. Built in 1926 for 350,000 dollars by Manuel and Anna Lewis, the seven floor, 38-unit structure contained apartments of two, three and four rooms. The architect...
Shown in circa 1910 is the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament as it sits at Eleventh and K streets. The Italian Baroque-style cathedral was, in the eyes of its primary proponent, Bishop Patrick Manogue, meant to provide a spiritual complement to...
This circa 1980 postcard shows the Crocker Art Gallery's main entrance at O Street, between Second and Third streets. Built in 1872/83 under the guidance of N.D. Goodell, the Italian suburban-style structure was built to measure some 60 feet in...
This 1936 postcard shows the inviting Victoria Motor Lodge at 5716 Stockton Boulevard. The longest run of management at the lodge - 1953 to 1980 - came with widowed Italian immigrant Angelina Amoruso and her sons Peter and Vincent, both of whom...
