Shown on this circa 1950 postcard is the Beauty Rest Motel, located at 5969 Stockton Boulevard. Set in the southern reaches of Sacramento County, the American Automobile Association-approved motor court claimed to provide a heated, insulated,...
A canny businessman and idealistic philanthropist, David Lubin and his brother-in-law Harris Weinstock made Weinstock-Lubin the Sacramento area’s best-known and most popular mercantile establishment for over a century. By the time of his death in...
Founded in 1876 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools at the southwest corner of Twelfth and K Streets, Christian Brothers School has held subsequent locations at Twenty-First and Broadway, and 4315 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. After a...
The William Land Park Community Clubhouse is visible in this circa 1930 photograph. It was built with the remains of ranch buildings, including a hop kiln, on the Swanston-McDevitt tract at the time of the city’s purchase. In addition, an 8,000...
The abandoned Consulado de Mexico at 1004 Seventh Street can be seen in this 1962 photograh. On December 18, 1962, the Mexican Consulate was relocated to 809 Eighth Street. Pearl's Beauty Shop at 1008 Seventh Street is visible to the left of the...
Pearl's Beauty Shop at 1008 Seventh Street and the Magic Kitchen Restaurant at 1010A Seventh Street are visible in this 1961 photograph. 1006 Seventh Street was vacant at the time the photgraph was taken.
A photograph of the Upthegrove School of Beauty Culture (806 K Street). In the windows are V for victory stickers supporting the World War II war effort. The Green-Hayden Shoe Company (808 K Street) is in the photo. An unidentified jewelry store...
Art view of the Beauty Rest Motel at 5969 Stockton Boulevard "within city limits" as stated on the postcard. The California State Automobile Association star of approval on the front was a valuable marketing technique and the card proved an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Growing children with no available outlet for further education was incentive enough for sixteen elementary school districts to establish California’s first union high school in Elk Grove. The initial building was housed in what is now Old Town...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
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 April 24, 1937, photograph shows units of the American Legion as they march easterly through the intersection of Ninth and K Streets. The parade was the inaugural event in a convention that drew over 5,000 legionnaires to Sacramento. It...
This circa 1920 view of the pond at Southside Park comes from the southwest. Planning for the park at Seventh and V Streets, was started in the spring of 1906 when the city passed an ordinance to purchase lands and establish a recreational area...
A circa 1960 photograph of 1123-1125 Fifth Street, with Marie Kay's Beauty Salon at 1123 Fifth Street. There were rooms for rent at 1123 and an empty store at 1125 Fifth Street. A Shell Gasoline station, built in 1909, stood at the corner.
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...
