This photograph shows Folsom's Rainbow Bridge as it stood in circa 1930. The arch-style bridge was built in 1917/18. An old truss bridge shown in the background was taken down and then erected over the Klamath River at Walker, on a Forest Service...
This April 2, 1936, photograph captures the imposing spires of the Tower Bridge, as seen from the western side of the Sacramento River. The builder of the truss vertical-lift bridge was Sacramento’s George Pollock Construction Company. The...
This March 7, 1941 photograph shows the entrance to Melgrims Millinery on 817 K Street. The store was opened in February 1933 at 1006 K Street under the leadership of Kansas native Mabelle Frank. Frank was a veteran of the retail industry, having...
The Pioneer Baking Company at 3226 Montgomery Street is captured in this February 18, 1929, photograph. A few years prior to the photograph, the company spent 25,000 dollars to improve facilities and roll out a new type of bread made from...
Pictured on October 1, 1931, at 1513 Eleventh Street, is a new restaurant building with a unique look. Although the home to different eateries throughout the years, the spot is best known for its association with Posey’s Cottage, founded in...
Lundstrom’s Mercury-Lincoln car dealership is pictured at 1631 K Street in this July 25, 1948 photograph. The business was founded in 1941 by the Wisconsin-born Fred Lundstrom. A man known for his automotive connections, it is said that he was...
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...
The venerable Breuner's furniture store rests at its 604 K Street location in 1945. John Breuner - after sailing around Cape Horn in the early 1850s - started his business in 1856 and it stayed in operation for over 120 years. Bruener's was...
Pictured in circa 1924 is Sacramento Solon great Earl McNeely. Born in Sacramento in 1898, the speedy, center-fielding McNeely went on to become the hero of the 1924 World Series as, while playing for the Washington Senators, he drove in the...
The storefront of the Remington Rand Company at 1107 J Street is shown in this 1960 photograph. The business was formed during the summer of 1927 as a producer of office equipment. Its location would be on the floor level of the Elks Building for...
Taken on April 5, 1937, this photograph captures the entry to the Goodrich Silvertown building at 1200 I Street. On the right side of the photograph, two young boys are peering through the storefront window at First World War ephemera. President...
This 1948 photograph of the Goodyear Tire Store at 1724 Tenth Street reveals the scale of the building which measured some 23,000 square feet in area. In 1934, Sacramento's Goodyear branch became the highest seller of Goodyear products in the...
Pictured in 1946 are support facilities of Lester Motors Ford at 900 Thirteenth Street. The photograph was taken from 1300 I Street, where the business’s showroom was located. This location formed the culmination of Lester’s business...
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...
This August 4, 1940, photograph shows Chinn-Beretta Optometry at 1022 K Street. Prominent is a display window of glasses and indication of the business’ staff optometrists, Bolling Chinn and W.B. Leonard. At the time the photograph was taken,...
This July 20, 1929, photograph shows the Sacramento Tire Company at 1530 L Street. A few years later, Goodyear would take over the L-shaped and Spanish-style property that was built, also in 1929, for 20,000 dollars by the Standard Oil Company of...
This 1950 photograph shows a 2121 Thirteenth Street Hertz Rent-A-Car location, then known as "Driv-Ur-Self Station." Less than ten years later, Hertz would also be offering the option to "Rent-A-Plane" at the Sacramento Municipal Airport, making...
Taken from Thirty-Ninth Street while looking north, this September 3, 1931, photograph shows the rear of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street. The church’s rectory sits in the foreground. To the right of the rectory are the...
Taken from Thirty-Ninth Street while looking north, this February 29, 1932, photograph shows the rear of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 3860 J Street. The church’s rectory sits in the foreground. To the right of the rectory are the...
This March 11, 1931, photograph shows the Byzantine Italianate-style Westminster Presbyterian Church as it rests at the corner of Thirteenth and N Streets. It was dedicated on December 18, 1927, to its capacity of 1,300 members, with presiding...
