Mexican fan palms frame a busy stretch of Tenth Street, between N and L Streets in this postcard. To the left of the image are, in the foreground, the Library and Courts building while, in the background, showing columns, pediment and frieze, is...
California Middle School is located at 1600 Vallejo Way in Sacramento, California. Designed by Sacramento architecture luminary Harry Devine and built at a cost of $300,000, the structure opened in November 1933 with an enrollment of 738 pupils...
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...
Pictured in 1928 is a Shell Oil service station at Seventh and L Streets. The photograph shows two service station attendants in white uniforms and bow ties. On the station's front is a play bill for the Senator Theater: "Now Showing: Fanchion &...
Photo taken August 28, 1950 of the corner of Eleventh and K Streets, showing the Bon Marche Department Store (1031 K Street), Crest Theater (1013 K Street), H.T. Harger Company Jewelers (1028 K Street), Hart's Restaurant and Pastry (919 K Street);
The iconic marquee of the Crest Theater at 1013 K Street dominates this October 30, 1949, photograph. After having been closed for three years for renovation, the theater opened on October 6 of the same year to a crowd of 5,000 giddy...
This graphically-enhanced promotional photograph of the proposed Port of Sacramento was taken in 1951. It faces east, showing both West Sacramento in the foreground and, in the distance, Sacramento proper. Plans for a freshwater shipping channel...
Taken on October 31, 1946, this photograph shows the entrance to the El Rancho Drive-In Theater on the Davis Highway, now 2000 West Capitol Avenue, in West Sacramento, California. The 13-acre, 600-car El Rancho was the first drive-in theater in...
This 1865 photograph offers a view down J Street, showing, to the right, both the Metropolitan Baths and B.F. Hastings and Company. Hastings was a long standing bank in Sacramento and held distinction as the western terminus of the Pony Express...
A view of Fourth Street, circa 1960, showing Stark's Cafe (902 Fourth Street), Hank's Barbershop (904 Fourth Street), the residence of Lum Wah (908 Fourth Street), and the State Hotel (906 Fourth Street).
A view of Fourth Street, circa 1960, showing Grey Pharmacy (1000 Fourth Street), which is located at the corner of the California Fruit Building. Several people are walking along the sidewalk toward the corner as the camera views a busy street...
View of the corner of Fourth Street and Capitol Avenue, circa 1960, showing an empty store with a tattered awning and windows covered from the inside. At 1222 Fourth Street the sign for the Iris Grill is visible.
Fourth Street showing the Iris Grill (1222 Fourth Street), Nisei Barbershop (1224 Fourth Street), the Nichi Bei Times (1226 Fourth Street), and the offices of R.M. Seto, MD, and lawyer Henry Takedo (1229 Fourth Street).
A view of Fourth Street showing the Stark Club Tavern (900 Fourth Street), an adjoining coffee shop, and Hank's Barbershop (904 Fourth Street). The Southern Pacific depot is visible to the right.
This view shows the Capitol Theater (615 K Street) alongside the Liberty Theater (617 K Street). Although the photograph can be dated to 1962, the Capitol Theater stopped showing films back in 1953. Pacific Loan Company (621 K Street), Fun Center...
A bleak shot of J Street circa 1960 showing empty stores, the Roxy Hotel (431 J Street), which also served as a rooming house, and the Army-Navy Metropolitan store (429 J Street).
