This March 16, 1935, photograph shows a Union Oil Service Station at the corner of Alhambra and J Streets. Union Oil’s presence in Sacramento goes back to 1906 with its decision to install production facilities at Front and Y Streets. Operated...
This 1960 photograph shows the Union Iron Works at 1415 Front Street. The business was founded in 1860, but was purchased by its highest-profile owner, Otto F. Link, in 1940. The Auburn-native went to work for Union in 1925, eventually working...
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 Nineteenth Street and Capitol Avenue headquarters of what Mark Twain once referred to as the most influential newspaper on the West Coast, the "Sacramento Union," is shown in this circa 1955 photograph. The Union -- long associated with...
This portrait of the Grant Union High School football team was taken on October 24, 1935. It was a breakout season for the Pacers who defeated Sacramento High School 32 to 0, the first time Grant had done so after the school's founding in 1932. ...
This 1922 photograph shows San Juan Union High School military cadets in drill formation. Their official designation was the Eighty-Fourth Company, California High School Cadets. The statewide arrangement was founded in 1911, and required every...
Indicative of a rich railroading history, this circa 2000 postcard shows a Union Pacific 0-6-0 switching locomotive, making its way along Front and L streets in Old Sacramento State Historic Park. The engine was built in Lima, Ohio, in 1920. In...
C.K. McClatchy Senior High School is located at 3066 Freeport Boulevard in Sacramento, California. Named after “Sacramento Bee” newspaper editor and owner Charles Kenny McClatchy, the school was built in 1937 by way of Public Works...
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 1945 photograph shows the auditorium of San Juan Union High School, located at 7551 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights, California. The school was founded in 1913, making it the second oldest school in Sacramento County behind Sacramento...
This June 22, 1938, photograph shows poolside sunbathing and table tennis at Grant Union High School. On September 14, 1942, the Sacramento Bee called the pool, which was built in 1934 with grant money from the Federal Government, "the...
Taken in 1940, this photograph shows the front entrance to North Sacramento's Grant Union High School. Although the school had existed since 1931, its physical location didn't open until the spring of 1935 with an average faculty age of 25. ...
The entrance to Grant Stadium at Grant Union High School is shown here in 1939. The venue was built the same year by the Works Progress Administration. Its design was intended to mirror that of Stanford University's Stanford Stadium, complete...
This 1938 aerial view of Grant Union High School shows campus buildings, including an under-construction Grant Stadium in the upper, right corner. Nearly all of the structures on the Grant campus came courtesy of the Works Progress Administration...
An October 20, 1939, photograph reveals the front entrance to the Auditorium of Grant Union High School. The Auditorium held the school's prized pipe organ, an instrument whose quality and design was matched by those in only three other venues in...
The facade of the gymnasium at Grant Union High School is captured in this May 12, 1940, photograph. It was finished in May 1939 with a seating capacity of 2,000 and its first event was a homecoming day assembly. The school nickname - Pacers -...
Just less than five years from the country's entry into the Second World War, this May 11, 1937, photograph captures a military training class in progress at Grant Union High School. In 1943, the high school was chosen as the site for a Women's...
