This photograph was taken in circa 1970 from a point just to the east of the intersection of K and Eighth Street. It reveals a reflection pool and several pedestrians. To the right of the picture and in the distance are Weinstocks and, beyond...
Busy street scene looking east on K Street. Many pedestrians and vehicles are in this photo. There is a horse and wagon in the foreground and female pedestrians crossing K Street at Tenth Street. The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is in the...
This 1939 photograph captures a busy scene on K Street, near its intersection with Tenth Street. In the foreground, street car 15, carded number five, makes its way west while two pedestrians look for a sidewalk. Hanging above number 15 is a...
Taken in 1930, this photograph captures the southwestern corner of Eighth and K Streets. Pedestrians wait to cross K Street and a large billboard for Zukor’s Dresses stands over the pictured building. Businesses visible are Zukor's Dresses at...
This March 5, 1931, photograph of the west side of the dome of the California State Capitol building was taken from the grounds of the Capitol Extension buildings at Tenth Street and Capitol Avenue. Several period cars are parked on Tenth Street...
This westerly view, from the intersection of Twelfth and K Streets, was taken in 1939. On the right are the towering spires of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, built in 1889 for 250,000 dollars. Its design was directed by the Sacramento...
This extremely crowded street scene suggests some activity may have just ended. The sidewalk along both sides of K Street is packed with pedestrians and young men in uniform.
Framed by fruit-laden orange trees that dwarf the two pedestrians present, this view of the Capitol building from the 1930s was taken facing south. One of the many Irish yews lining this Capitol Park path at that time is visible on the lower right.
Sacramento pedestrians brave a slushy southwest corner of Ninth and K Streets in this March 14, 1942, photograph. The surprise weather brought out the eccentric in Capital citizens: from skiing down K Street to the hurling of snowballs at passing...
Pedestrians, most unprepared for the weather conditions, shuffle their way by S.H. Kress and Company at 818 and Montgomery Ward at 830 K Street in this snowy March 14, 1942, photograph. On that day – between 1 and 3 p.m. – temperatures dropped...
Pictured in 1960 are True-Time Watch Repair at 1128 Seventh Street, the Equipoise Card Club at 1126 Seventh Street, and the Marshall Hotel at 1122 Seventh Street. With a history dating back to the 1930s, the Equipoise, originally located at 415 K...
This photograph of the Palace Hotel Building including Hunter's Drug Company (201 J Street), Copa De Oro Restaurant (925 Second Street), Zakar Shoe Repair (931 Second Street) was taken circa 1960. Pedestrians trod the sidewalks, two men look at a...
This stretch of Third Street, between I and J Streets, reveals several businesses. To the far left of the frame is the Big Mug, a tavern at 231 J Street. The walls to the right are covered with large advertisements for Coca-Cola and Seven Up. ...
Seen from the street, this building, which appears well maintained, has four street level entrances. The entrance at the left is Lim Yuen Caf (925 Third Street). It has a tidy awning over the doorway and Chinese characters written on the window. ...
Photograph, circa 1960, of the Hotel Rialto and Rialto Cafe, located at 228 and 230 J Street. What became known as the Rialto Building replaced two structures built in the 1860s. The present buildings originally housed clothing and general...
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...
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...
A few pedestrians stroll along the sidewalk in front of the buildings shown in this 1960s J Street scene. Storefronts include the Blue Front Grocery (502 J Street), Peniel Mission (506 J Street), Stevens Hotel (510 J Street), and Ansonia Hotel...
Looking south from Plaza Park, this circa 1977 street scene of the corner of Ninth and J Streets features pedestrians and window-shoppers. A myriad of extended signs promoting a wide variety of businesses line the block above head level with the...
Taken in circa 1975, this photo of the K Street Mall shows not simply pedestrians crossing at Ninth and K Streets, but the diversity that would come to define so much of latter twentieth-century Sacramento. Population distribution for Sacramento,...
