Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
This circa 1955 photograph shows several storefronts on the south side of K Street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets. Dohrmann’s, at 1326 K Street, opened in 1952, offering over 200 patterns from nationally known brands of dinnerware,...
This 1950 photograph shows a 2121 Thirteenth Street Hertz Rent-A-Car location, then known as "Driv-Ur-Self Station." Less than ten years later, Hertz would also be offering the option to "Rent-A-Plane" at the Sacramento Municipal Airport, making...
This June 21, 1938, photograph captures the Florida Inn Motel, located at 6150 Auburn Boulevard. Owned by Henry and Ann Coldani, the Florida was a classic roadhouse, offering its signature half-fried chicken, some of the best parties and live...
Pictured on March 31, 1947, are the Esquire Theater and Stanley T. Lovett Jewelers at 1219 and 1217 K Street, respectively. Designed by noted theater architect William B. David of San Francisco, the Esquire opened at 5:00 pm on March 14, 1940, for...
Offering “24-Hour Service” and pictured in circa 1960 is the Court Garage at 610 through 614 I Street. Across the street was the business’s namesake, the Sacramento County Superior Courthouse, at 615 I Street. The garage was operated by...
Taken in circa 1960 is a stretch of Third Street, offering a view of the home to the pagoda-style Bing Kong Tong Association building at 910 through 914 Third Street. It was built in 1949. Next door is a fenced vacant lot. Numerous automobiles...
This 1936 photograph reveals the unbridled pleasure of children running between classrooms at Marshall Elementary School, at 2700 G Street. At the time this photograph was taken, the school was offering a kindergarten through ninth-grade...
This 1930 photograph shows graduates of the Keeney School, located at 2200 Twenty-First Street. Established in 1915 by mother and daughter team Susanna and Miriam Keeney, respectively, the school had an enrollment of 75 students when this picture...
This black and white photograph showcases the Necchi Sewing Center at 2422 Maryal Drive in the Del Paso Manor Shopping Center in 1953. Necchi Sewing machines first appeared in the United States in 1948 and when this shot was taken the company was...
This circa 1980 photograph shows a man walking a bicycle across the venerable I Street Bridge, built in 1911 to replace two earlier bridges on the same spot. It is a double-decked bridge, offering pedestrian and rail traffic on the lower level and...
This circa 1955 photograph shows two men posing inside Johnson’s Restaurant at 1019 Tenth Street. To the left is restaurateur George Johnson, a Greek-American who immigrated to the United States in 1913. After spending his formative years on...
Offering deluxe rooms for $2.00, the Sacramento Motel on U.S. Highway 40 and 99 E in North Sacramento was similar to dozens of locally owned and run motels and auto courts in the Sacramento Valley. Before the rise of freeways that bypassed the...
The Hotel Sequoia (as the Sequoia Hotel) first appeared in the 1911 Sacramento City Directory at 911 K Street, right next door to the Sequoia Theater, one of almost a dozen venues on K Street offering motion pictures at that time. Owned by the...
Sitting on the northeast corner of Eleventh and H Streets is one section of the 85-unit Capitol Travelodge. Opened in 1957, the motel survived a bomb scare in 1977, but could not escape sale and a 6 million dollar rennovation, in 2007/08, into a...
This circa 1925 postcard shows McKinley Park's Lake Kiesel. The body of water was in jeopardy of drying up in early spring 1936; not because of drought, but because of the water lilies that were parching it. Park superintendent Frederick N. Evans...
Shown at 7115 Greenback Lane, in 1977, is the Fountain Square Nursery. Founded in 1977, the semi-enclosed property specialized in roses, offering over 350 varieties for sale. In addition to arbored pathways and cascading fountains, the...
The Granada Room of the El Mirador Hotel was the talk of the town in 1959, offering "intimate dining" for 100 customers. According to a promotional piece in the Sacramento Bee the last week 1959, the heavily-furnished addition "reminds one of the...
Shown on this postcard, prior to 1911, is the Sacramento Boat Club, as situated on the west banks of the Sacramento River at Broderick. The group attempted to move from the depicted site in April 1911 and away from the recently built, yet ominous,...
This circa 1960 postcard promotes Pacifc Metal Awning Company, located at 5050 Perry Avenue. Offering flexalum aluminum "for the world's finest awning," it was one no less than 50 awning contractors in the Sacramento area, accommodating a...
