The 1301 L Street location of the O’Neil Brothers Service Station is shown in this photograph, taken on December 18, 1935. The site was purchased in 1929 by brothers Joe and John O’Neil for 47,500 dollars. Once in hand, the third generation...
Pictured are the Golden Eagle Hotel (627 K Street), and the Pantages Theater (615 K Street), circa 1909. The Golden Eagle was built of brick for 25,000 dollars in 1853 by D.C. Callahan. It stood three stories high and covered nearly 3,360 square...
This circa 1928 photograph reveals Mercy Hospital at 4001 J Street, as viewed from the southeast. Yet another monumental design by Sacramento architect Rudolph Herold, Mercy was considered a model of modernity. X-ray facilities, sound absorbing...
Taken on January 1, 1933, this photograph shows a plaque, placed on the same day to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Young American Engine Company Number Six firehouse at 917 Tenth Street. The event was attended by...
This November 14, 1948, photograph shows the Town and Country Village, located at the intersection of Fulton and Marconi avenues. A brainchild of contractor, Jere Strizek, the open air shopping center opened in 1946 and, by 1951, was home to 73...
The Stop-N-Shop market at 2851 Fulton Avenue is the subject of this 1950 photograph. The Stop-N-Shop name was a familiar one to Sacramentans, the chain having opened its first location in 1928 at Twenty-Eighth Street and Broadway. The store was...
Martha Washington Candy Store at 3130 J Street is shown here on May 4, 1934. The photograph was taken on the opening day of the new business which included free ice cream cones for visitors. The design of the store was meant to carry Sacramentans...
This July 11, 1935, photograph reveals the north side of the Hotel Sacramento as it runs along K Street. Occupying its first floor, and moving left to right, are Margaret Burnham's Cottage Candies, Salzman Furs, Mason's Men's Shop, Grebitus...
This January 1, 1933, photograph captures a firefighting reenactment, held to celebrate the Seventy-Fifth anniversary of the Young American Engine Company Number Six. In the wake of a November 1852 fire that destroyed 70 percent of the central...
This July 4, 1910, photograph shows horse-drawn fire engines parading along K Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. 30,000 Sacramentans witnessed the Independence Day parade which featured horses. Several awards were given for the fittest and...
The iconic marquee of the Crest Theater at 1013 K Street dominates this October 30, 1949, photograph. After having been closed for three years for renovation, the theater opened on October 6 of the same year to a crowd of 5,000 giddy...
Taken on May 18, 1929, this photograph shows a band procession at McClatchy Park, the previous home of the Joyland amusement park. Situated on Fifth Avenue, between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Seventh Streets, Joyland opened on June 6, 1913 to over...
Pictured in 1953 is the Senator Theater at 912 K Street. The main attraction is How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, and Lauren Bacall. Set within what had been Turner Hall, the theater was designed by architect...
This 1929 view of Southside Park's lake comes from the northeast. The lake has long been the park's focal point. The 1929 boating season opened in January, availing citizens to a fleet of rowboats which could be used for no charge. The lake was...
March 23rd through 28th of 1922 meant the "Days of '49" celebration, a city-wide homage to Sacramento's Gold Rush past. Pictured are members of the Whiskerino Club, a few of the hundreds of Sacramentans who let their mustaches grow for the...
This photograph shows the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, located at 1515 J Street. Long one of Sacramento's most iconic structures, it was opened on February 22, 1927, to honor those Sacramentans who died in the First World War. The building's...
In this January 1997 photograph, waters of a flooded American River tear below Folsom's Rainbow Bridge. At the time of the flood, only seven percent of Sacramento properties absorbing damage held flood insurance. Overall, and at the time of the...
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. ...
This circa 1915 postcard shows Sisters' Hospital, located at Twenty-Third and R Streets. Originally constructed in 1897, the thirty bed hospital saw a modern operating room added in 1900, a chapel in 1905 a chapel, and a new wing added in 1908...
A massive palm tree stands sentinel over McKinley Park's rose garden in this circa 1950 postcard. The garden was designed by Harvard-educated Frederick N. Evans, the city's first parks superintendent. Far from an easy task, Evans was forced to...
