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...
Pictured in circa 1950 is the Joseph Magnin store on 913 K Street. Based in the San Francisco, the women’s clothing company opened the 400,000 dollar building in September 1946. Company Vice President, Cyril Magnin, called the store the model...
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...
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...
The evening of May 27, 1942, is enlightened by the neon sign of the Art Deco-style Hart's Restaurant at 919 K Street location. The location, previously occupied by the Vienna Restaurant, opened in the fall of 1937 with a chromium metal marquis,...
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...
The façade of the Westminster Presbyterian Church at Thirteenth and N Streets is illuminated by the sun in this June 18, 1928, photograph. Constructed by Campbell Construction in 1926/27 for 350,000 dollars, the church was designed to be...
This photograph, taken on July 29, 1929, reveals the palatial courtroom of both the California State Supreme and Appellate Courts, located inside the Library and Courts building at 914 Capitol Avenue. The Courts occupied the first floor of the...
Taken on August 31, 1928, this photograph shows the granite facade the State of California Office Building Number One, located at 915 Capitol Avenue. The picture was shot from the northeast edge of the Library and Courts Building. The first of...
This screenward shot of the Hippodrome Theater's interior was taken in circa 1942. The 1013 K Street venue had changed much since its opening in 1913, when it was known as the Empress. At that time, it provided vaudeville-style entertainment and a...
This photograph of a pristine interior of the California State Capitol Governor's Office was taken in 1942. Levy Olson was the Governor at this time. The Governor's office was moved to the Capitol annex in 1951, when this room was then occupied...
Sacramento's Foreman and Clark clothing store was established in 1930. Shown here in 1947, and touting itself "The World's Largest Upstairs Clothier," it was located on the southwest corner of Seventh and K streets or 624 K Street. J. C....
This 1873 photograph shows the prime facilities of the Central Pacific Railroad shops. In the foreground is the 90 by 230-foot car building shop. To the left of it is the 60 by 125-foot blacksmith shop. Behind both is the cabinet shop, boasting...
A Sacramento Northern passenger car idles in front of the Charles Swanston and Son Packing House in this circa 1920 photograph. Located along the Haggin Grant, just north of American River, the plant was built for 250,000 dollars, just a few years...
This 1956 photograph shows the northwest corner of Sixth and J Streets. Visible are Israel Schneiderman’s Big Ben Loan Office at 531 J Street, the 924 Club at 924 Sixth Street and the G n M Club at 526 J Street. Big Ben occupied what had been...
The corner of K Street at Ninth is occupied by Leon's Club, a tavern (228 K Street), Dave's Mens Wear (230 K Street) on the street level, the Hotel St. Claire (228 K Street), El Prado Hotel (226 K Street), Ringside Second Hand Store (226 K Street),...
J Street at Fifth in the 1960's is dominated by the old Sacramento Bank Building now occupied by the Metropolitan Army and Navy Store (431 J Street). Cars are parked at the curb and a pedestrian is carrying his laundry wrapped in paper and hanging...
The Capitol soon after its completion. Notes on reverse read: "Started - Sept. 24, 1860 Cornerstone - Masonic ceremonies - May 15, 1861 Completed 1874 First occupied 1869 $2,600,000."
Taken in circa 1926 is a photograph of the entrance to the Saint Francis Oaks real estate development. It occupied the area from Twenty-First to Twenty-Fourth Streets and 2150 Markham Way to Second Avenue. This photograph depicts a large...
This 1953 photograph shows an architect's sketch for Las Palmas Junior High School in North Sacramento, located at Las Palmas Avenue and Sixth Street. The 1,018,750 dollar school was occupied by its 760 students in February 1953 and was designed to...
