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...
This June 19, 1937, photograph shows the Clunie Memorial Swimming Pool at McKinley Park, located at Alhambra and F Streets. The pool, clubhouse and recreational facilities were designed by Sacramento-based architect Harry Devine, in association...
Shown at the Grant Union High School swimming pool in 1936 are a few Sacramento Interwar luminaries, including, right to left, Grant’s first principal William Rutherford; Sacramento City Councilman and future Sacramento City Mayor Tom Monk;...
The Del Paso Country Club's new swimming pool is the subject of this August 13, 1929, photograph. The pool was christened on June 23 with a series of amateur water races, including freestyle, diving, and back stroke. The event proved the crescendo...
This August 13, 1929, photograph shows the Del Paso Country Club's swimming pool. The 40 by 90-foot tank, with a depth of nine feet, was built for 13,500 dollars. Cleverly, the pool drained into a man-made lake that also acted as a hazard for...
Shown on July 14, 1944, are the placid closing time waters of the Riverside Pool, also known as the Land Park Plunge. The reconstituted masonite and plaster pool opened in May 1937 after 20,000 dollars were spent in improvements which were...
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...
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...
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...
This photograph was taken in circa 1970 from a point just to the east of the intersection of K and Eighth Street. It reveals a reflection pool and several pedestrians. To the right of the picture and in the distance are Weinstocks and, beyond...
The El Tecolote Pool Hall (1212 Third Street) occupies a building on Third Street adjacent to an alley. There are numerous ads for beverages in the windows and mounted on the building. The large building to the right housed the Thomas Restaurant...
A circa 1960 photo of the Lucky Spot Cafe at 310 L Street, the Calexico Pool Hall at 312 L Street, and La Hispano-America (general merchandise) at 314 L Street. In partial view in the photograph are the Pastime Pool Hall at 308 L Street and rooms...
This May 3, 1947, photograph shows a teeming Land Park Plunge, located at Riverside Boulevard and Eleventh Avenue. The pool was served by an artesian well, tapped a half-mile deep, and providing a near constant flow of fresh water, always at 82...
Taken on May 3, 1947 this photograph shows some pre-summer activity at the crowded Riverside Pool, also known as the Land Park Plunge. Two lifeguards in elevated observation seats watch the men, women and children that swim, slide and dive in the...
Taken on May 3, 1947 these pictures are of a crowded Riverside Pool, located on 3640 Riverside Boulevard. Swimmers and sunbathers lounge and circulate in the area in front of the refreshment center while others take advantage of the picnic tables...
The Maleville brothers played an important role in establishing the Town and Country area of Sacramento and particularly Fulton Avenue, known from the 1940s through the 1960s as a thoroughfare loaded with quality eateries, lodges and nightclubs....
This April 1964 postcard shows the courtyard and swimming pool of the Mansion Inn, at 700 Sixteenth Street. As the story goes, Governor Pat Brown would occassionaly dart across H Street in his swimming trunks for a quick jump into the pool and then...
This circa 1945 postcard shows McClellan Field's enlisted men's swimming pool. By 1968, the sprawling base had added three more pools: one for training, one for non-commissioned officers, and one for officers.
Shown, in this circa 1962 postcard, is the pool at the Del Paso Country Club, located at 3333 Marconi Avenue. Orignally built in 1929, the pool underwent large scale repairs in 1968.
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...
