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...
This photograph, taken in 1921, shows a batboy of the Sacramento Senators showing his stuff at Moreing Field. Sacramento’s first organized semi-professional baseball team was the Altas , who became the Senators in 1890, and played the 1891 and...
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...
This 1930 photograph shows the Paintersville Bridge spanning the Sacramento River at a spot just south of Courtland. The bridge, a length of 200 feet, was named after Indiana native Levi Painter, who, in 1855, purchased a 123 acre ranch, and...
The 1301 L Street location of the O’Neil Brothers Service Station is shown in this photograph, taken on December 18, 1935. The site was purchased in 1929 by brothers Joe and John O’Neil for 47,500 dollars. Once in hand, the third generation...
This April 12, 1941, photograph shows the California State Capitol building lobby and its statue of Columbus' last appeal to Queen Isabella of Spain. Carved in Florence, Italy, the statue was donated to the State in 1883 by local banker D.O. Mills...
Pictured here in 1935, the auto top and upholstery business of Fred P. Fritz shared 1615 J Street with William H. Bartlett's Automobile Body Work, Auto Painting, Fender and Body Repair Shop. The employees of both enterprises, along with two...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
This 1935 photograph shows an ivy-covered Libby, McNeill and Libby cannery, bordering Stockton Boulevard. On the left side of the photograph is the cannery’s first floor receiving area while just above is the can storage room. In September...
This March 6, 1929, photograph shows the newly-completed First Evangelical Church, located at 1506 Tenth Street. Built in less than six months, the brick church cost its congregation 25,000 dollars. The First Evangelical Church – comprised...
The façade of the English Gothic-style First Baptist Church at 2324 L Street is captured in this January 16, 1929, photograph. The real estate for the structure was purchased in the spring of 1924 while the church itself was dedicated in the...
Taken on May 1, 1940, this photograph captures the California State Business and Professions Building, also known as State Office Building Number 3. Located at 1020 N Street, the structure was built in 1939 to house the State Department of...
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 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....
This November 14, 1948, photograph shows the Town and Country Village, located at the intersection of Fulton and Marconi avenues. A brainchild of contractor, Jere Strizek, the open air shopping center opened in 1946 and, by 1951, was home to 73...
This circa 1893 photograph captures the staff of Mason’s Steam Laundry as they pose before the business’s complex at Twelfth and D Streets. The engines driving the business’s growth were native-German Fred Mason and his wife Caroline, a...
This 1953 airborne photograph shows the 17-acre Hotel El Rancho Resort, located at 1075 West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento, California. Built in 1932 by millionaire Thomas Hull, the El Rancho was visited by the likes of Clark Gable, Robert...
Pictured here in May of 1942, and located in North Sacramento at 1917 Del Paso Boulevard, is the Grand Theater. The Grand operated from 1943 to 1960. A church called Evangel Temple rented the theater space after it closed. The church purchased...
Taken on May 18, 1929, this photograph shows a band procession at McClatchy Park, the previous home of the Joyland amusement park. Situated on Fifth Avenue, between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Seventh Streets, Joyland opened on June 6, 1913 to over...
Pictured is Sacramento's Central Library as it looked in circa 1949. The view is from one of the upper floors of the Post Office, on the north side of I Street. After the City Commission, in 1914, purchased a section of land at Ninth and I Streets...
