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 1953 photograph shows the southern entrance to the Sixteenth Street Public Bean and Grain Cleaner Warehouse located at 1501 Spear Avenue. In the foreground are old railroad spurs. The building was constructed in the mid-1920s with eight-inch...
This 1940 photograph shows the Bekins Capital Van and Storage Company warehouse and trucks, located at 1800 Twenty-first Street. The optimistic assurance of a "fireproof warehouse" is included in signage at the top of the building. Bricks, the...
This 1955 photograph reveals the north side of the Western Warehouse Company at 100 through 114 K Street. The picture was taken from an ally on the north side of K Street, between Front and Second Streets. Several cars, including an older...
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 August 26, 1931, photograph reveals the east side of the Sixteenth Street Public Bean and Grain Cleaner and Warehouse, located at 1501 Spear Avenue. By the 1950s, the building had become part of the California Packing Company's industrial...
This 1948 photograph shows the façade of the Koehring Company warehouse, located at 111 I Street. The company was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1907, by Philip Koehring and G.H. Miller as a supplier of construction equipment. It opened its...
This 1946 photograph shows rice processing facilities along the west bank of the Sacramento River, just off of River Road. The large structure to the right of the water tower are the rice mill and warehouse of the Rice Growers Association of...
This 1955 photograph captures the north flank of the Western Warehouse Company at 100 through 114 K Street. The picture was taken from an ally on the north side of K Street, between Front and Second Streets. Several cars are in view and to the...
Pictured in 1955 is the Front Street side of the Western Warehouse Company at 100 through 114 K Street. Visible is signage for the building’s previous tenants, the Western Van and Storage Company, and to the left of the frame, the faint writing...
This 1960 phothograph of Breuner's at 600 K Street, and Goodwill Industries Department Store at 1117 Sixth Street, was taken from the northwest coerner of Sixth and K Streets. Resting at the business's original 1856 location, the pictured building...
Pictured on September 24, 1936, is the Crane Company Plumbing Supplies warehouse at Front and M Streets. The four-story, brick and concrete structure was built between 1921 and 1924 for 150,000 dollars. When the facility opened in April 1924 it...
Pictured in 1952 is the recently completed McKesson and Robbins warehouse at the corner of Richards Boulevard and Seventh Street. Opened in the fall of 1950 and costing nearly $1,000,000, the facility was designed by the accomplished Sacramento...
This circa 1925 photograph shows a short strip of businesses on the south side of Main Street in Elk Grove, California. From left to right are the Rowe and Pedient Pool Room, a barber shop, a Martha Washington Grocery Store, the Poppy lunch room...
This September 5, 1946, photograph shows the Thomson-Diggs warehouse resting on the southwest corner of Third and R Streets. Founded in 1900, the business was a hardware wholesaler with an impressive geographic reach throughout California and...
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...
Taken in 1944, this photograph shows Lester Motors Studebaker, located at 1301 K Street. At the time of the photograph, Lester – founded by Edward “Ted” Lester – was the northern California distributor of Studebaker cars. With World War...
This February 14, 1947, photograph reveals the facade of the Standard Oil Company of California, located at 909 Twelfth Street. After a year-long renovation the building was opened for Standard's use in November of 1942. The company's Sacramento...
Pictured is the California Pine Box Distributors warehouse as it sat on December 10, 1938. Located at 1401 Front Street, on the eve of the Great Depression, the company was one of four boxers and distributors in the city, which collectively were...
