Sonoma County Pictures

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1940's

A fighter plane from the nearby naval Air Station leads a parade and rally down Fourth Street in Santa Rosa to sell World War II war bonds.

Japanese American men from Sonoma County were trucked to a train that took them to a World War II internment camp in Colorado.

Alfred Hitchcock, third from right, directed "Shadow of a Doubt" in what is now Santa Rosa's Railroad Square.

Santa Rosa in the 1940s, before it was split in two by Highway 101. The county courthouse is in the center with Mendocino and Santa Rosa avenues running diagonally through the center of the picture from left.

Construction crews begin building Highway 101 through Santa Rosa