Shown in circa 1965, are the swimming pool, room units and front parking lot of the Caravan Inn on Auburn Boulevard at Bell Street. When this postcard was new Auburn Boulevard served as part of Highway 40 and was a main thoroughfare dotted with...
This black and white linen-finished postcard features one of the many family-owned and operated courts, bungalows, cabin and motels that sprang up on highways and main thoroughfares throughout the Sacramento region during the 1920s and 1930s. An...
This circa 1968 postcard shows the Rolling Green Motel. The following description, taken from the postcard's back, promoted one of the many popular motels and lodges that once appeared at regular intervals along Sacramento-area main thoroughfare...
Early view of the Sacramento Inn, 1401 Arden Way at what is now Highway 80. In 1959 there were 35 entries under 'Motels and Auto Courts' in the Sacramento City Directory while the Sacramento Suburban Directory listed 93 similar businesses outside...
Offering deluxe rooms for $2.00, the Sacramento Motel on U.S. Highway 40 and 99 E in North Sacramento was similar to dozens of locally owned and run motels and auto courts in the Sacramento Valley. Before the rise of freeways that bypassed the...
This November 4, 1937, photograph captures The Pacific Gas and Electric Building and other businesses on the south side of K Street, where it meets Eleventh Street. The PG and E building is flanked to the left by the Zinke’s Shoe Renewing...
In this 1945 photograph, Bode and Bode Locksmith's clever slogan - ""Keys That Fit"" - adorns a sign on the side of the business at 1401 J Street. To the right of Bode and Bode are the Gil Culver Studio, the Hotel Rene, and Ralph Jones Used Cars....
This 1940 photograph captures the northeast corner of Eighth and K Streets. The upper floors of the structure were occupied by the 200-room Hotel Clunie at 805 K Street. It was built in 1917 and then renovated in 1929 for 70,000 dollars by hotel...
Taken between 1927-1929, this photograph shows the Hotel Sacramento, resting at the southeast corner of Tenth and K Streets. From its opening, onward, the Sacramento was looked upon as one of the more cosmopolitan spots in the city. In March of...
The elegant Hotel Sacramento is captured in this March 28, 1938, photograph. In 1907, a 50 year, 10 month lease was signed by hotel management. The deal expired in 1957 and, with it, the lifespan of one of Sacramento's most prominent downtown...
Pictured are the Golden Eagle Hotel (627 K Street), and the Pantages Theater (615 K Street), circa 1909. The Golden Eagle was built of brick for 25,000 dollars in 1853 by D.C. Callahan. It stood three stories high and covered nearly 3,360 square...
In this circa 1924 photograph of K Street, several business fronts are visible. They include the Golden Eagle Hotel (627 K Street), the Bon Marche women's clothing store (631 K Street), the Liberty Theatre (617 K Street), and Heeseman Clothing...
This circa 1930 photograph shows the 50-room Ryde Hotel in Ryde, California. Built in 1927, at the zenith of the Prohibition era, the Art Deco-style structure hosted an illegal basement saloon or "Speakeasy," where liquor and jazz flowed amply. ...
Pictured on April 11, 1928, and located directly across from the Esquire Theater, is the Del Rio Hotel on 1212 K Street. Visible is the façade of the structure with various cars parked before it. By late 1941, however, it was converted into a...
The 225-room Hotel Sacramento and Lavenson's Shoes book end the Romanesque K Street entrance to Herman Davis and Sons Optometry in this March 30, 1938, photograph. The Ransom Construction Company of San Francisco built the concrete reinforced...
This circa 1938 photograph shows a bustling intersection at Tenth and K Streets with the Hotel Sacramento looming in the background. The frontage of the Hotel measured some 160 feet on Tenth Street and 140 feet on K Street. In 1928, W.S. and H.H....
Here is a view of the Hotel Sacramento as it sits under construction in circa 1908. The primary building medium was concrete - the floors, stairways and columns were all composed to it. Just two to three years out from the San Francisco...
This March 28, 1938, photograph captures western side of the Hotel Sacramento. Visible on the structure's first floor are the Hotel Sacramento's Coffee Shop (1107 Tenth Street), and Dr. Locke's X-Ray Shoe Store (1115 Tenth Street). The five-story...
Pictured on March 8, 1929, and just days after opening, is the façade of the 148-room Hotel Ramona, at the southeast corner of Sixth and J streets. The Spanish Mission-style structure was built with five stories and represented an investment of...
This photograph of the St. Nicholas Hotel, located at 1118 Fourth Street, was taken on September 16, 1932. A seminal moment for the Sacramento Fire Department came shortly after a March 1918 fire killed four tenants at the St. Nicholas. Although...
