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...
Taken in circa 1975, this photograph captures a view of the K Street Mall, looking east from the intersection Twelfth and K Streets. To the left of the frame are the venerable McCurry's Photography at 1131 K Street and Lauter and Son's Gifts. To...
Shown in circa 1980 is the intersection of Second and J streets in Old Sacramento State Historic Park. To the left of the frame is the Heywood Building, built in 1857; to the right of the frame is the Hastings Building, built in 1852/53. In the...
This circa 1907 postcard shows a portion of N Street, looking east near Capitol Park. Visible to the right of the frame is a carriage and horse near a series of carriage steps. To the left of the frame is the palm-lined edge of Capitol Park.
Shown in circa 1915 is the intersection of the Eighth and K streets. Sitting in the middle of the frame, at the intersection's northwest corner, is the six-story Nicolaus building. In the background, at Eighth and J streets, is the People's...
This circa 1988 postcard shows a relatively new lightrail operating along K Street, near Eleventh Street. Lightrail began operation in 1987, and extended itself as far east as Mather Field in 1998. Notable structures are, in the middle of the...
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 1927 aerial view, from the southeast side of the Capitol and Capitol Park, shows Sacramento's downtown area. In the middle of the frame is the Capitol building and, to the left of it, are the recently completed Capitol Extension buildings. The...
The Twentieth-Century Market, located at the corner of Sixteenth and L Streets and surrounded by elm trees, is the subject of this June 25, 1937, photograph. The business opened in September of 1935 as one of the Sacramento’s twelve Cardinal...
This March 6, 1929, photograph shows the newly-completed First Evangelical Church, located at 1506 Tenth Street. Built in less than six months, the brick church cost its congregation 25,000 dollars. The First Evangelical Church – comprised...
The interior of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, is revealed in this photograph, taken in 1939, the same year that the church was built for 140,000 dollars. Located at 2231 Capitol Avenue, the large steel frame, concrete-reinforced structure...
A flooded Del Paso Boulevard is the subject of this February 1927 photograph. A rain and wind storm on February 16/17 pushed the American and Sacramento Rivers over their banks. In spite of the flooded artery, residential sections of North...
This 1956 photograph shows the west side of J Street, between Second and Third Streets. Businesses include the Red Front Shoe Shop at 206 J Street, Hop Wo Laundry at 212 J Street, and the Jamall Hotel at 208 J Street. The Jamall was set in the...
This 1962 photograph shows the storefront of Economy Clothing at 611 K Street. Its owner, Harry Redler, was a mainstay of Sacramento’s men’s clothing industry for nearly 50 years, also operating the Hub Clothes store and a similar business in...
Captured in 1960, this photograph reveals a southern section of J Street, between Third and Fourth Streets. Visible are the Broadway Café at 316 J Street, the Capital Cigar and Liquor Company at 318 J Street, and Van Voorhies-Phinney Leather...
A weatherworn section of Fourth Street is shown in this 1955 photograph. Mary’s Confectionery and Fountain at 1202 Second Street appears to the left of the frame while George H Takahashi’s Optometry business at 1200 Second Street sits to the...
This side view of the Silvius and Schoenbackler bookbindery, at 423 J Street, was captured in this 1955 photograph. Also visible is Charley’s Shoppe at 425 J Street and the Tip Top Parking Lot. In the middle of the frame is a Sacramento Area...
This circa 1960 photograph of the I Street Bridge was taken, looking north, from the intersection of I and Front Streets. When it was built in 1911, it was intended to endure “100 years’ service.” To the left of the frame are Southern...
This circa 1960 photograph shows a series of businesses on the south side of K Street, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. They are the shuttered New Royal Theater at 526 K Street, the Central Hotel at 522-and-a-half K Street, Mal’s Discount House...
This 1960 photograph shows the inviting storefront of the Wonder Café at 1116 Seventh Street. The restaurant was operated by Mary Yee. To the far right of the frame is the P.C. Penney department store on the southwest corner of Seventh and K...
