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A no longer extant section of Sixth Street between J and K Streets photographed in the 1950s. Yee Drugs 1008 Sixth Street, Sacramento Hat Works at 1010 Sixth Street, the Stewart Hotel at 1012 Sixth Street, the Keystone Cafe at 1014 Sixth Street, Frank's Club at 1016 Sixth Street; and the Thasos Coffee Shop at 1018 Sixth Street are all visible.
Raymond Wing Yee owned Yee Drugs and faced charges of dispensing narcotics without a prescription in 1951.
The Keystone Cafe opened in 1941 under the ownership of Tony Nero. Nero sold it to Cyrus Aller the following year after being drafted into the war effort. Aller sold the cafe in 1948 to Greek immigrant Tom Kallas and his son Peter.
By 1957, John C. Fitzgerald owned the cafe, eventually selling it to Leona Newell who owned it until its demolition in 1962.
Greek immigrant Frank Stathos owned Frank's Club, which passed to his sons after his death in 1959.
Thasos Coffee Shop closed due to its owner falling ill in 1955.
The Sacramento Redevelopment Agency demolished these buildings as part of midcentury "urban renewal" programs.
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