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...
This 1960 photograph provides an aerial view of the newly-constructed Grand Oaks Shopping Center in Citrus Heights. In the background is part of the Grand Oaks neighborhood, Citrus Heights' first major residential development. The area had been...
Shown in circa 2002 is the apse and nave of the Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, located at 11427 Fair Oaks Boulevard. The venue's pipe organ - a 58 rank Schantz - was installed in 2002 at a cost of 650,000 dollars, and debuted in May 2002. The...
This postcard shows the picturesque Fair Oaks Bluff, overlooking the American River. Serving as the southernmost edge of the city of Fair Oaks, the 150-foot high, 3-acre swath is both a spot of unique beauty and controversy. Tensions and...
"Among the earliest California oranges to reach Eastern markets are the products of the many fine groves in the Fair Oaks district" is the description printed on the back of this postcard. From 1880 to the late 1940s citrus in California grew...
This postcard - dated September 26, 1907 - shows the American River, the southern bank of the American River and the Fair Oaks Bridge. The bridge was built in 1901 to connect Fair Oaks with a railroad spur in Folsom. It replaced in 1907 after...
This circa 1920 postcard provides a scenic view of the American River and bluffs of Fair Oaks, captured from the southern banks of the American. The river draws its name from a spot where Canadian trappers were known to have crossed, referred to...
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...
Taken in circa 1926 is a photograph of the entrance to the Saint Francis Oaks real estate development. It occupied the area from Twenty-First to Twenty-Fourth Streets and 2150 Markham Way to Second Avenue. This photograph depicts a large...
This 1960 photograph provides a view of Citrus Heights' Grand Oaks Shopping Center from Auburn Boulevard. Visible are a Union 76 service station and the Fireside Lanes Bowling Alley. The boulevard was part of the famed Lincoln and Victory...
This artistic rendition of Citrus Heights' Grand Oaks Shopping Center was done in 1960. The area, resting at the intersection of Auburn and Rollingwood Boulevards, was designed by the Los Angeles-based architecture firm of Sheldon L. Pollack and...
The newly-opened Grand Oaks Shopping Center sits on the west side of Auburn Boulevard in this 1960 photograph. Beyond the parking lot and moving left to right are a Lucky supermarket, W. T. Grant Company variety store, and a branch of Bank of...
This August 12, 1948, photograph shows the firefighters of Carmichael Fire Protection District No. 1 and Fire Chief Dan Donovan, Assistant Fire Chief Fontain Johnson and Commissioner Bob Wall standing next to fire engine No. 7, a 1946-7...
This 1922 photograph shows San Juan Union High School military cadets in drill formation. Their official designation was the Eighty-Fourth Company, California High School Cadets. The statewide arrangement was founded in 1911, and required every...
This circa 2000 postcard shows the Mt. Vernon Memorial Park Cemetery, located at 8201 Greenback Lane, in Fair Oaks, California. Founded in 1965, the 49-acre property was modeled after the Virginia estate of President George Washington.
This 1928 photograph shows the mausoleum and administrative buildings of the East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery at Forty-third Street and Folsom Boulevard. The 250,000 dollar mausoleum, constructed in 1925/26, was built by the Fresno-based Robert...
Fireside Lanes Bowling Alley at 7901 Auburn Boulevard is shown in 1960. Constructed in the same year and set in the Grand Oaks Shopping Center, the 24-lane structure contained a coffee shop and cocktail lounge, the latter containing the alley's...
In this 1927 photograph, the "Montgomery Way Oak" also referred to as a "Monarch Oak" sits in front of 2751 Montgomery Way in the South Curtis Oaks neighborhood of Sacramento. The 200-year-old tree was felled in 1996 because of an advanced decay...
Photograph of a golf foursome at the dedication of the new Municipal Golf Course on October 1, 1932. In 1952 the name was changed to Haggin Oaks Municipal Golf Course South. Tommy LoPresti, a long-time Sacramento professional is shown second from...
