In 1961, the State Highway Commission announced its plans for the completion of Interstate 5, extending from Mexico to the Canadian border. The city council unanimously supported putting the freeway on the Sacramento side of the river, thus wiping...
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 May 1939 photograph captures the World's Fair Rodeo Parade. Riders make their way east on K Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets, while spectators line the route. Businesses along the route include as follows: Auslender's Women's...
This circa 2002 aerial shot provides an ideal view of the Sacramento as a hub of intra and interstate freeways. Interstate 5, Interstate 80, California State Route 99, U.S. Route 50 are all prominenet, as are views of the American and Sacramento...
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...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
Throngs of spectators watch six riders pass by on their horses. All six men are dressed in western-style clothing, one wearing heavy woolen chaps, and they ride within the rail-line tracks along the parade route.
This westerly view of McKinley Boulevard and, to the right, Theodore Judah School was taken on January 16, 1941, from the street’s intersection with San Antonio Way. The school, located at 3919 McKinley Boulevard, was built in 1939, and then...
Making its way to Promontory Point, Utah, in May 1869, is the Central Pacific Railroad’s locomotive “Jupiter,” known also as number 60. Once there, the legendary driving of the golden spike would consummate the nation’s first...
The Ritz Motel at 2228 Auburn Boulevard, also known at the U.S. Route 40, was one of many lodges - the Rolling Green, Town and Country and Pacific - that lined the pre-U.S. 80 stretch between Sacramento and Reno. With the advent of the super...
Captured in 1960, this photograph reveals the Samuel Brannan Building, built in 1853, at 1007 through 1009 Front Street. It was at this same spot - in February 1849 and at the southeast corner of J and Front Streets - that Brannan built a...
A marching band and drill team in military uniforms led by a man with a baton is the focus of this 1927 photograph. K Street was a popular parade route and the stretch between Seventh and Tenth is the one traveled here. Onlookers line the street,...
A small group of seventeen men dressed in military uniforms and civilian clothes march along as part of a much larger parade. Just passing Sixth Street on K circa 1924 the marchers pass large crow of spectators lining the street. Business signs...
Pictured in 1935 is the George W. Manhart American Legion junior baseball team. In August of the same year, the squad captured the western states region championship by defeating the Tucscon, Arizona, based Morgan-McDermott post by a score of 3 to...
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...
A military parade, circa 1937, related to the Commandery of Modoc (Alturas, CA) and Vacaville proceeds down K Street between Eighth and Tenth Streets. Bearing a large banner with a crucifix and sporting plumed hats a delegation of The Knights of...
A group of Shriners dressed in parade costumes proceeds down K Street between Eighth and Tenth Streets during this 1937 parade featuring farternal organizations from Northern California. Businesses along the route include Walgreen's Drugs (930 K...
Young men and women wearing capes and dressed in white march down K Street between Eighth and Tenth Streets playing a variety of instruments, mainly brass. Businesses along the route include Walgreen's Drugs (930 K Street), Rubin's Millinery (926 K...
Members of the Alturas Knights of Columbus bearing flags and swords and wearing plumed hats command K Street in this photograph as they march between Eighth and Tenth Streets. Businesses along the route include Walgreen's Drugs (930 K Street),...
As part of the May 1939 World's Fair Rodeo Parade, several riders, including some children, make their way east on K Street. Throngs of spectators, a few resting upon parked cars, crowd the parade route. Visible businesses include as follows: ...
