Pictured on October 1, 1931, at 1513 Eleventh Street, is a new restaurant building with a unique look. Although the home to different eateries throughout the years, the spot is best known for its association with Posey’s Cottage, founded in...
This May 23, 1922, photograph captures a procession of costumed children moving down through the 600 block of J Street during the Days of ’49 celebration. The event was started in 1922 to commemorate the founding of Sacramento. The parade...
Founded on February 24, 1918, the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church rests at 1350 Twenty-Fifth Street in this 1943 photograph. Originally the home of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, the Lutheran congregation purchased the building in 1918 and, under...
This 1949 photograph shows the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at 1350 Twenty-Fifth Street. Since 1944, Zion had been under the direction of Reverend Elmer Johnson. The congregation closed doors at the pictured location in the 1949/50 in favor...
This circa 1957 photograph shows the Arcade Baptist Church during construction at its 3927 Marconi Avenue location. When completed in 1959, the 165,000 dollar structure had a seating capacity of 850 persons and would include a pastor's study,...
This January 6, 1945, photograph shows a group portrait of Legionarios Del Trabajo, Lodge number 618, also known as the Camellia Lodge. The picture was taken at the Legionarios Del Trabajo Temple at 225 Capitol Avenue. Founded in San Francisco in...
Pictured here, in circa 1916, is a group of nurses standing in front of the White Hospital at the northeast corner of Twenty-Ninth and J Streets. Pictured, in no particular order, are Ella Peacock, Alma Herndon, Ida Farrell, Elizabeth Hall, Martha...
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 on July 15, 1947, is a meeting of the Sacramento Credit Women’s Breakfast Club. Members sit at a u-shaped banquet table, looking toward the camera. Born out of a desire for credit office workers to organize and socialize, the...
This 1960 photograph shows a repurposed Eureka Engine Company Number Four Fire House at 1017 Fifth Street. Built in 1855, in the photograph, the structure holds the Happy Time Cafe at 1017 Fifth Street. The restaurant was operated by Peter Carli,...
Street scene circa 1960 of a corner building, the Olympic Hotel (501 J Street). In 1941 this location housed the Y.M.C.A., ten years later the Sacramento City Directory lists the Olympic Hotel, the Church Council of Sacramento and Sacramento...
A weathered B.F. Hastings building is the backdrop for this circa 1960 photograph. Two automobiles are parked at the curb and a group of men stand talking behind automobiles. A single person is crouched in a doorway to the left.
Captured in 1960 is Second Street, between J and K Streets. In view are the entrance to the Timber Club at 1008 Second Street, with a single man walking along the sidewalk in front of it. Next door a man is crouched in a doorway, and a small...
In this circa 1960 photograph, pedestrians walk along the south side of Second Street and a small group gathers in front of the Olympia Grill at 1028 Second Street. The Union Cafe at 1024 Second Street is next to the street level entrance to the...
The photograph is dominated by the Duke's Men's Wear sign painted on the curved facade of the building at 214 K Street. Automobiles are parked along the curb in front of the businesses: Star Hotel (218 K Street), Lafayette Card Room (218 K...
A group of men assemble in a doorway of a tavern in this desolate scene on L Street circa 1960. To the left is an abandoned building with boards nailed across the upstairs windows. To the right of this is a strip of cafes and taverns leading to...
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.
Pictured in circa 1910 are members of the Sacramento Athletic Club. The group’s prime interests were track and field. The marathon held particular appeal, especially after Dorando Pietri’s dramatic finish at the 1908 London Olympics. In its...
A group of excited citizens gather in July 1914 for a peek at the opening of the Golden West Motor Company, located on a severn-acre site, just one block west of the intersection of Seventh Avenue and Riverside Boulevard. Golden West specialized...
