The first local high school built north of the American River was a first in many ways, the result of a need for a school district to educate the far-flung school-age children in the area combined with the practical need for a civic center to bring...
This 1962 photograph captures a razed lot between J and K Streets and Third and Fourth Streets. In the distance are Dave’s Men’s Store at 230 K Street and the Club Café Tavern at 231 K Street. Beyond that, one can see the spires of the Tower...
Two buildings at 6th and I Streets adjacent to a vacant lot are shown in this photograph taken in 1960. A sign visible on the corner building identifies a street level entrance to the Marconi Hotel and there is a partially covered sign painted on...
A circa 1960 view of a parking lot at the northeast corner of Front and L Streets. Beyond the parking lot is the Lawrence Mayflower Moving and Storage warehouse at 1115 Front Street, also known as The Embarcadero.
A car show occupies the massive parking lot of Country Club Centre in this 1958 photograph. The development, designed by San Francisco-based architect William B. David, covered a lot of 13-acres and was considered to be Sacramento's first regional...
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...
Pictured in circa 1900, at the northeast corner of Twelfth and ""H"" Streets, is the City Brewery. It was established in 1856 by German expatriates Wilhelm Borchers and Benedict Hilbert. The two-story structure was made of brick, rested on a lot...
This warehouse view of the California Pet Foods Company was taken on April 6, 1948. A company truck is backed up to the loading dock just off the puddle parking lot. The warehouse had a capacity of 150,000 cases of dog food and covered an area of...
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...
Sacramento's outlet for International Business Machines - known to most of the world as IBM - located itself at 1015 Thirteenth Street in 1935. From its opening, until the year that this photograph was taken in 1949, the store's manager was...
This circa 1925 photograph shows a relatively new Scottish Rite Temple at the southwest corner of Twenty-Eighth and L Streets. Placed on a 90 by 160 foot lot, the structure was built of brick, stone and concrete in 1916/17 for a cost of 125,000...
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...
Taken in 1953, this photograph shows the Stop and Shop pawnshop at 218 J Street and the Rio Rita Café at 214 J Street. The signage for Stop and Shop reads “We Buy and Sell.” Between the two businesses is a vacant lot, overgrown with native...
This 1960 photograph shows a gaggle of businesses on the south side of K Street, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. The following businesses are visible: the Valley Hotel at 506-and-a-half K Street, People’s Clothing Store at 506 K Street, the...
