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...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
Centered at the junction of the California Central rails and the Central Pacific Railway and named for the abundant wildflowers in the area, the town of Roseville formed a school district in 1869 but had no schoolhouse of its own until 1872. A...
A lone man sits on a bench at a bus stop on J Street. Behind him are several businesses. Capitol Palace Cafe/Tavern (400 J Street), Salvo's Cleaners (402 J Street), Tong Kee Shoe Shop Repairs (404 J Street) which used to be the location of the...
Photograph, taken circa 1960, of J Street between Fourth and Fifth, showing Astor Rooms (404 J Street), Mike's Grocery (406 J Street), Fong Liquor Store (408 J Street), a closed down Genant Furniture Store (410 J Street) which used to be Cameron...
This circa 1960 photograph shows J Street, between Third and Fourth Streets. The white-washed structure was built in 1893, but vacant at the time of the photograph. Also visible are the Charleston Hotel at 301 J Street, Mike's Barber Shop at 305...
This August 1916 photograph shows members of the Capital City Motorcycle Club. They are, left to right, Mrs. Arthur Johnson, Mrs. Ruth Fabian, Mrs. Gertie Riffe (holding unknown baby), Mrs. Lee Boiland (Myrtle), Elizabeth Boiland, Lillian Johns,...
This September 20, 1957, photograph shows Buzz Patterson scoring a touchdown in a high school football game between La Sierra High School Longhorns and Bishop Armstrong High School Falcons at El Camino Stadium in Carmichael. Several Armstrong,...
This circa 1995 postcard shows "Constitution Wall," set within the interior courtyard of the Secretary of State and California State Archives complex at Eleventh and O Streets. The 95-foot-high wall of metallic-oxide-stained stucco contain's a...
This circa 1940 postcard shows the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament at Eleventh and K streets. The vantage point provides a rare view of a vehicularized Eleventh Street, between K and I streets. By 1969, K Street had been transformed into the...
This circa 1980 postcard shows the Westminster Presbyterian Church, as seen from Capitol Park, and standing watch over N Street. Prominent is the Byzantine-style structure's 137-foot-high tower and 87-foot-high dome. The church, built in 1926/27,...
Fan palms stand in the foreground of this circa 1960 poastcard of Capitol Park and the California State Capitol building. Taking up twelve square blocks, the capital complex boasts roughly 2,000 plants and, as of 2013, 13 major memorials.
The first major hotel built in downtown Sacramento since 1930, the El Mirador opened Deecember 5, 1957 at a cost of 1.8 million dollars under the ownership of builder-investor Fred Kaiser. Troubles early on forced the sale of "Sacramento's Luxury...
The printed description on the back of this postcard sent in 1958 declares, "Sacramento's fabulous Garden Inn offers 150 rooms, coffee house, dining and dancing nightly with every modern covenience. Eight minutes east of the Capital City on Highway...
Shown in 2000 is the Delta King riverboat, as seen from the west banks of the Sacramento River. After years of service as a cargo and passenger passport and a stint in the military during World War II, the boat was purchased by the Coyne brothers,...
This circa 1982 postcard shows the exquisite artwork making up the California State Capitol building's inner rotunda. In the same year, the Capitol interior underwent a 68 million dollar restoration. In 2001, the rotunda was dusted and cleaned,...
This circa 1950 photograph shows Sacramento's Southern Pacific passenger depot, located at Fifth and I streets. Built in 1926, at the time, the journal "Railway Age," called the structure "one of the most modern stations on the Pacific Coast and...
