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Description
This 1930 photograph shows riverboats anchored at dock along the Sacramento River. Excursion boats berth beside a number of flat boats loaded with undetermined items under a sign for the Star Lines, which merged with three riverboat services in 1932. For more than fifty years competition was fierce among the river transportation companies that plied their way up and down the river to San Francisco and sailing times were determined by the arrivals and departures of the Central Pacific and later Southern Pacific railroad companies. The River Lines terminal where these boats rest was just downstream from the West Capitol Avenue bridge.
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