Placerville, CA in 1913

Main Street and Broadway in Placerville are the old Highway 50, the main road that used to connect Sacramento with South Lake Tahoe. Until the '40s they closed Hwy. 50 in Placerville 4 days a year: one day in the Spring for the cattle men to drive their herds from the valley to their government grazing leases in the high country; a separate day in the Spring for the sheep ranchers to drive their flocks to their summer grazing; and then 2 days in the Fall for the cattle and the sheep to return to the valley.