Pictured on March 8, 1942, is the newly constructed Ransome truck terminal at 324 North Sixteenth Street. It was built in order to provide mechanical, lubrication, fuel and personal assistance to agricultural and industrial truckers operating in...
A smiling man and infant pose for this circa 1925 photograph, inside the open cab of a period Peerless Ice Cream delivery truck. Advertising covers the truck, one slogan reading “Peerless Ice Cream, Gives Health and Delight.” Peerless was one...
This circa 1930 photograph captures a Peerless Ice Cream Company Truck parked in front of a Sacramento-area park. Contact and advertising information covers much of the vehicle. The phrases “East Peerless Ice Cream” and “Its Flavor Means...
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...
Street front along Fourth Street shows the Acme Transfer and Storage Company (912 Fourth Street) with large sign mounted on the front of the building and with a large moving truck parked at the curb in front of the building. Hidden from view by...
Golden West Motors Company officials pose within the concern's very first truck, unveiled during a celebratory christening on July 1, 1914. Its General Manager was Mark L. Burns while its Corporate Counsel was Fred A. Sloss. The company had been...
Shown in 1913 is a J. N. Blair and Company truck, parked before an unknown address. Founded in 1899, the company developed the reputation for ably equipping butchers all throughout northern California with refrigeration and cutting tools. In the...
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...
A canny businessman and idealistic philanthropist, David Lubin and his brother-in-law Harris Weinstock made Weinstock-Lubin the Sacramento area’s best-known and most popular mercantile establishment for over a century. By the time of his death in...
This photograph provides a late 1940s view of California Pet Foods Company, home of Bonnie Brand pet foods and a leader in pet food production in northern California. A truck advertising Bonnie Meaty-Meal Dog Food is parked in front of the...
This warehouse view of the California Pet Foods Company was taken on April 6, 1948. A company truck is backed up to the loading dock just off the puddle parking lot. The warehouse had a capacity of 150,000 cases of dog food and covered an area of...
This photograph of the Fulton Market Savings Center was taken on June 27, 1936. The market was located at 2734 Y Street, and part of a Sacramento area chain of Fulton stores that grew to five as the 1930s came to an end. The principle owners of...
Looking west, from the top of the Ramona Hotel, this February 21, 1941, photograph shows the frenetic aftermath of a fire at the El Rey Hotel at 519 J Street. The fire started in one of the theater’s balconies and was likely the result of...
This photograph of the St. Nicholas Hotel, located at 1118 Fourth Street, was taken on September 16, 1932. A seminal moment for the Sacramento Fire Department came shortly after a March 1918 fire killed four tenants at the St. Nicholas. Although...
This December 2, 1947, photograph shows Goodwill Industries at 1117-1121 Sixth Street. The Goodwill had been operating in Sacramento since November of 1933 and moved out of the pictured 11,000 square-foot structure in 1949 for a new facility at...
This July 4, 1910, photograph shows horse-drawn fire engines parading along K Street, between Fourth and Fifth Streets. 30,000 Sacramentans witnessed the Independence Day parade which featured horses. Several awards were given for the fittest and...
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...
Photograph, taken in 1960, of the Goodwill Industries stores at 1121-1117 Sixth Street. The structure on the left served as the firehouse for Truck Number 1.
The El Tecolote Pool Hall (1212 Third Street) occupies a building on Third Street adjacent to an alley. There are numerous ads for beverages in the windows and mounted on the building. The large building to the right housed the Thomas Restaurant...
