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 circa 1900 photograph shows several inmates at work in one of Folsom Prison’s lower yard quarry. A derrick is at the ready for lifting extracted rock. To the lower-right of the photograph is a portion the prison’s electric-powered rock...
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 east side of Second Street, between K and L, is the subject of this 1955 photograph. Captured are the Brown and MacGregor Employment Agency at 1017 Second Street, the Saddle Rock Restaurant at 1019 Second Street, the Rock of Ages Mission at...
The Saddle Rock Restaurant at 1019 Second Street, the Brown and MacGregor Employment Agency at 1017 Second Street, and the Rock of Ages Mission at 1021 Second Street, are featured in this 1955 photograph.
This photograph, capturing the operations of the Perkins Gravel Company, located at 1846 Thirty-Seventh Street, was taken on October 27, 1941. Ready-mixed concrete, crushed rock, road rock, sand and gravel formed the purview of the company, a...
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...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
The arrival of the Sisters of Mercy from San Francisco in 1857 began a tradition of education that served Sacramento for over a century. Commercial and traditional subjects along with lessons in musical instruments were the courses taught at St....
San Juan Union High School is located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. Founded in 1913, it stands as Sacramento County’s second oldest high school behind that of Sacramento High School, established in 1856. The school’s...
In this 1960 photograph of the north side of Second Street, between K and J Streets, are the Saddle Rock Restaurant at 1019 Second Street, the Union Gospel Mission at 1021 Second Street, Barrel House Liquor Store at 1023 Second Street, and the Fong...
This 1960 view reveals three vehicles parked in front of the following businesses: the New York Second Hand Store at 1013 Second Street, the Saddle Rock Restaurant at 1019 Second Street, the Lincoln Restaurant at 1011 Second Street, and Apex Rooms...
A line of Folsom Prison inmates make their way toward the lower yard rock quarry in this circa 1910 photograph. Prisoners who worked the quarries toiled daily for seven-and-a-half hours and without a lunch. Starting in 1884, the prison resolved...
This circa 1910 postcard shows N Street, looking westerly from Fifteenth Street. In the 1890s, sections of the city roads, including N Street, were paved with bituminous rock with an underlayer of concrete.
This circa 1963 postcard shows the exterior of Danny's Garden Restaurant at 5675 Freeport Boulevard. It was set within the Blomberg Center, built in 1950 by the basalite rock construction company, Blomberg Builders. The company touted basalite as...
Hops was a specialty crop grown in rows. However this crop was found only in a few areas of the Sacramento Valley. “Yuba County claimed the most extensive hop fields in the world with over a thousand acres near Wheatland.’ (Mc Gowan’s...
Shown in circa 1940 postcard shows the southwestern edge of the Memorial Auditorium. Built in 1926 and opened in February 1927, the Byzantine-style structure has served as venue for artist, from opera singer Marion Anderson to rock band Led...
