C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
This photograph of the Shell Service Station at 3001 M Street was taken on February 11, 1940. Shell was one of several oil companies in mid-century Sacramento, reaping benefits from a mobile Capital market. Associated Oil Company, California...
Pictured here in 1935, the auto top and upholstery business of Fred P. Fritz shared 1615 J Street with William H. Bartlett's Automobile Body Work, Auto Painting, Fender and Body Repair Shop. The employees of both enterprises, along with two...
Taken on April 5, 1937, this photograph captures the entry to the Goodrich Silvertown building at 1200 I Street. On the right side of the photograph, two young boys are peering through the storefront window at First World War ephemera. President...
Pictured on March 8, 1942, is the newly constructed Ransome truck terminal at 324 North Sixteenth Street. It was built in order to provide mechanical, lubrication, fuel and personal assistance to agricultural and industrial truckers operating in...
This July 20, 1929, photograph shows the Sacramento Tire Company at 1530 L Street. A few years later, Goodyear would take over the L-shaped and Spanish-style property that was built, also in 1929, for 20,000 dollars by the Standard Oil Company of...
The Saint John's Lutheran Church, located at 1701 L Street, is captured in this 1925 photograph. Founded on December 1, 1867, by Reverend Matthias Goethe, along with many of Sacramento's German immigrants, the church was first called the German...
The altar of North Sacramento's St. Joseph's Catholic Church, located at 1725 El Monte Avenue, is the subject of this February 1928 photograph. Named in honor of Joseph of Nazarene, the parish was founded with the development of North Sacramento...
This deserted street scene at Fourteenth and I Streets reveals the facades of three automobile service businesses: Lamus-Lundlee Company (1411 I Street), United Motor Service (1411 I Street), and Howard Benedix Garage and Machine Shop (1415 I...
Pictured on July 17, 1928, is the Disabled American Veterans building at 2317 Eleventh Street. Balanced above its entrance are two bombs that would have been used for aerial targeting in World War One. Club rooms, dressing rooms, a caretaker room...
Pictured in 1927 is a flooded Del Paso Boulevard. The Woodlake Service Station at 1212 Del Paso Boulevard is partially submerged. Noteworthy is the advertisement of gasoline at 19 cents a gallon. The station was vacated by after the flood, only...
Notes from the Sacramento Railroad Museum indicate that this freight engine, Number 654, of the Sacramento Northern Railway, was brand new in 1930 and running on X Street in Sacramento. The line was part of an interurban service that ran from Chico...
Pictured in 1926, at Sixteenth Avenue and Freeport Boulevard, is William Land Park’s World War One Veteran’s Memorial. The 2,000 dollar monument was donated by the Women’s Council of Sacramento County and reads as follows: “Dedicated To...
A long stretch of J Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, is the focus of this circa 1959 photograph. Prominent is the antique façade of the Van Voorhies-Phinney building at 322 and 324 J Street. The Grey Pharmacy, at 1000 Fourth Street, and...
A group of Secret Service agents stand at the ready during Vice President Walter Mondale's visit to Sacramento in 1980. The Vice President is not visible in the photograph.
A circa 1960 photograph of Fifth Street, with Hotel Alexander at 1121 Fifth Street, Marie Kay's Beauty Salon at 1123 Fifth Street, rooms for rent at 1123 Fifth street, an empty store at 1125 Fifth Street, and Shell Service Station at 1127-1131...
A circa 1960 view of the Shell Service Station at 501 L Street (northeast corner), the Alexander Hotel at 1121 Fifth Street, and the Delta Hotel at 511 L Street.
Archibald O. Hoover sits in his City Hall office in this 1951 photograph. The Texas native served as Sacramento's Deputy City Controller between 1932 and 1934 and was the city's primary Controller from 1935 through 1960, retiring from public...
Single story structures house the Orangevale Department Store and Galen Jackson Appliances in 1950's Orangevale. A large residential structure lies between the appliance store and a Hancock gas station to the right. Barely visible is the sign for...
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...
