This August 28, 1950, photograph captures the northern stretch of K Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Streets. The Bon Marche department store at 1031 K Street was known to be one of the premier women’s clothing merchants in Superior...
Pictured is the California State Automobile Association building as it sat on November 23, 1942, at the corner of Seventeenth and L Streets. Just six years earlier, thieves broke into the building and took the organization's safe which contained...
This May 23, 1922, photograph captures a procession of costumed children moving down through the 600 block of J Street during the Days of ’49 celebration. The event was started in 1922 to commemorate the founding of Sacramento. The parade...
The Ritz Motel at 2228 Auburn Boulevard, also known at the U.S. Route 40, was one of many lodges - the Rolling Green, Town and Country and Pacific - that lined the pre-U.S. 80 stretch between Sacramento and Reno. With the advent of the super...
This circa 1960 photograph shows a stretch of K Street, between Sixth and Seventh Streets. Visible businesses are the Games Galore Fun Center at 619 K Street, the Pacific Loan Jewelry Company at 621 K Street, and Golden Tavern at 623 J Street.
A stretch of K Street, just east of its intersection with Second Street, is the focus of this 1960 photograph. To the far right of the frame is the primeval Fratt Building. Its K Street neighbors include the Owl Cafeteria at 210 K Street, the...
Taken in 1960, this photograph features the Oasis Club, a tavern located at 1015 Fifth Street at the corner of California Street. A short stretch between I and J Streets, The signs for the establishment advertise liquor, Hires Root Beer and a...
A long stretch of J Street, between Third and Fourth Streets, is the focus of this circa 1959 photograph. Prominent is the antique façade of the Van Voorhies-Phinney building at 322 and 324 J Street. The Grey Pharmacy, at 1000 Fourth Street, and...
A stretch of K Street, just east of its intersection with Second Street, is the focus of this 1960 photograph. To the far right of the frame is the primeval Fratt Building. Its K Street neighbors include the Owl Cafeteria at 210 K Street, the...
Taken in circa 1960 is a stretch of Third Street, offering a view of the home to the pagoda-style Bing Kong Tong Association building at 910 through 914 Third Street. It was built in 1949. Next door is a fenced vacant lot. Numerous automobiles...
This circa 1960 photograph shows a stretch of Third Street, between L and M Streets. The Tokyo Hotel sits at 1222 Third Street. Within its first floor is the El Ranchero Cafe. to the right is the Moonlight Cafe at 1218 Third Street and the...
Photographed in circa 1960, this stretch of businesses along Third Street, between L and M Streets, includes the El Arizona Restaurant at 1213 Third Street, Tijuana Billares at 1211 Third Street, the Coffee Cup at 1215 Third Street, the Stag Pool...
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. ...
Taken in circa 1960, this photograph covers a stretch of of J Street between Fifth and Sixth. Visible businesses are the Wilbur Hotel at 512 J Street, Keystone Press Printers at 514 J Street, Tore Martino's Used Clothing Store at 516 J Street,...
A lonely stretch of Front Street is captured in this 1959 photograph. The buildings represent the former homes of Ace Upholstery at 1021 Front Street, the Rooney Brothers Company at 1019 Front Street, and what is identified in the 1959 City...
Pictured in 1950 is a stretch of Sixth Street, between I and J Streets. Visible businesses include the Civic Barber Shop at 916 Sixth Street, the Victory Rooms at 918 Sixth Street, and Audrey's Second Hand Store at 920 Sixth Street.
This stretch of Second Street, between I and J Streets, was photographed in 1960. Visible are the World's Rescue Workers Mission at 918 Second Street, the K. Suey Laundry at 922 Second Street, the Europe Rooms at 922 Second Street, and the...
A stretch of Sixth Street, between J and K Streets, is shown in this circa 1960 photograph. The Trutime Watch Shop at 1027 Sixth Street, the Victory Laundry at 1027 Sixth Street, and United Shoe Shop at 1029 Sixth Street are all visible.
A marching band and drill team in military uniforms led by a man with a baton is the focus of this 1927 photograph. K Street was a popular parade route and the stretch between Seventh and Tenth is the one traveled here. Onlookers line the street,...
Photograph circa 1943 of the New Helvetia Homes Housing Project at 816 Revere Street, a short stretch south of Broadway that dead ends at Sacramento's Old City Cemetery.
