This circa 2000 postcard shows the Downtown Plaza Mall, located on K Street, between Seventh and Third streets. The tapestry of stores was born out of the Downtown Plaza Associates, a group of local investors and the Hahn Group who - in concert...
This 1905 postcard provides a view of Plaza Park from the corner of Tenth and J Streets. When Sacramento's business district was raised in the 1860s, the area containing the plaza was left as a basin, making it a lake during the Winter. The plaza...
City Plaza, known in the past as Plaza Park and currently named after labor leader and migrant worker advocate Caesar Chavez Park, as it appeared looking west from Tenth and J Streets a century ago. One of the original squares donated by John...
This 1926 photograph shows on of the female figures comprising the William Coleman Fountain in Plaza Park. The fountain was the creation of Ralph Stackpole, a noted San Francisco sculptor and artist. The three women symbolize the three rivers...
Shrouded in greenery, from the corner of Tenth and J Streets, is Plaza Park. At the time of this 1905 photograph, the Plaza was adorned with several elms, orange trees, redwoods, and palms. The block underwent a 70,000 dollar facelift in 1966...
This circa 1895 postcard provides an image of the Plaza Park, bordered by I and J streets and Ninth and Tenth streets, and as seen from the park's southwest corner. Plaza Park was one of the original 10 city blocks granted to the City of...
This view of an Armistice Day parade in the 1930s was taken from a slightly elevated vantage point. It shows a youthful appearing marching band moving along I at Ninth Street. A very large crowd is assembled to view the parade near Plaza Park,...
This early twentieth-century postcard shows Plaza Park as viewed from the southeast. In the immediate foreground and under cover is a drinking fountain. To the left of that is the park's band stand and a tremendous draw from summertime concerts. ...
Sacramento's Plaza Park, as viewed from the southeast, is the subject of this postcard. In the center of the frame is the park's fountain. Long seen as stylistically outmoded and an eyesore to many, it was replaced in 1909 by a vote of the...
This postcard shows a statue dedicated to the memory of Andrew Jackson Stevens, a native of Vermont who went on to become a master builder of early Southern Pacific Railroad locomotives. Locted at Sacramento's Park Plaza at Ninth and J Streets,...
The monument to A. J. Stevens stands on the south side of Plaza Park, visible to those walking or driving down J Street. During his tenure as Master Mechanic for the Central Pacific and later the Southern Pacific Railroads Stevens made a strong...
This circa 1910 postcard depicts Plaza Park, as viewed from the southeast. As early as 1854, the plan was to set the block aside as the location for the California State Capitol building. With 300,000 dollars in hand, the commenced construction,...
This circa 1909 postcard, labeled in error, shows J Street, looking west, from its intersection with Tenth Street. Street car rails fill J Street, while, to the right, is Plaza Park, the site of Sacramento's first hay scale, and what was...
This November 1940 photograph shows Sacramento’s annual Christmas Parade as, led by Santa Claus, it proceeds east on K Street between Sixth and Seventh. Sponsored by the “Sacramento Bee,” the Sacramento Retail Merchants’ Association and...
This photograph of Chandler’s Shoes at 1022 K Street was taken in circa 1950. It shows much of the business’s storefront and a worker filling a section of display windows. Chandler’s – a nationwide chain – came to Sacramento in 1922. ...
Shown in 1949 is a photograph of the Kneeland's Apparel Shop, located at 918 Ninth Street, just west of Sacramento's Plaza Park. Minnie and Frank Kneeland Geisser were the proprietors of the business which had been located on K Street. Following...
This January 30, 1922, photograph shows the snow-layered grounds of Capitol Park. Not only did January 1922 prove to be Sacramento’s coldest month in 44 years, averaging 40 degrees, Fahrenheit, it was also the bringer of snow. Measurements of...
