Sonoma County Pictures

1930's

The Golden Gate Bridge, shown under construction in the 1930s, opened Sonoma County and the North Bay to the rest of California

The Golden Gate Bridge, shown under construction in the 1930s

The new Rosenberg's Department Store, built in an Art Modern design in 1937 after a fire destroyed the old store the previous year.

Partly in response to concern over diseases plaguing local flocks of chickens in a town with an economy heavily dependent upon poultry, J.E. Keyes opened the world's only chicken pharmacy in Petaluma, which sold remedies for all sorts of chicken complaints.