Looking east, this 1960 photograph captures a blighted section of Merchant Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets. The thoroughfare was first called Oak Avenue, then changed to California Street sometime before 1880. It became Merchant Street...
Shown in 1960 is a photograph of the blighted south side of Merchant Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets. Central to the photograph and behind a tree is the abandoned Inland Press building at 508 through 510 Merchant Street. In the distance is...
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...
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...
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...
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