One of the interesting displays at the Manteca Historical Museum is a collection of about a dozen stylish ladies’ hats. They are neatly displayed in a hat tree in the exhibit room that includes furnishings from a doctor’s office in Manteca.

The hat collection was a gift given to the museum by the late Sadie Cabral, founder of Sadie’s Styling Salon which is not only the longest-running business of its kind owned by a single owner in Manteca but in the entire state of California. Established in 1936 in Sadie’s home, the business celebrated its 75th anniversary last year. After her demise last year, the styling salon located in the Cabral Center just across the street from Manteca High School on East Yosemite Avenue is now operated and managed by son and youngest child, Tim Cabral.

Recognizing Sadie’s support of the museum from the beginning, her children have decided that it be a recipient as well of a portion of the proceeds from her estate sale to be held Saturday and Sunday, June 23-24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.

Items that will be on sale include many antique and vintage items that she loved to collect. Among them are Royal Doulton, Hummel, Belleek, carnival glass, Fenton, Fostoria, Roseville pottery, Armani, Lefton, sets of Lenox and Noritake China, Stiffel lamps, King Edward-pattern sterling silver, fine and costume jewelry, just to name a few.

The estate sale will be held in the Southern plantation-style home, built in 1914, where Sadie lived for many years. The house is located at 135 N. Lincoln Street just around the corner from the Manteca Branch Superior Court on Center Street.



1914 house built for president of First State Bank of Manteca

The imposing house – with a quartet of white columns dominating its façade that stands out in the neighborhood, and guarded by a gigantic ginkgo tree on the front lawn – is reason alone to attend the estate sale. The white house is part of the town’s architectural history.

Amazingly, Tim Cabral said his mother religiously kept a journal-type of information pertaining to the house. The last name of the bank president was Perschwell. The Mewbom family lived next to the Perschwell family.

“Cowell-Mewbom – that’s what this place was called in 1918,” said Tim Cabral as he scanned the hand-written notes of his late mother in a small notebook.

According to the scribbled notes, the house was constructed by an uncle of Norma Hodson named Dan Baysinger who was related to Joshua Cowell, the Father of Manteca.

When the Cabral’s took ownership the house and moved into it, they became the home’s third owners. In the 1930s, Effie Harris purchased the house which she turned into a boarding house. The house had four bedrooms at the time, Tim Cabral said. The house was later sold to the family of Shirley Hopper. In 1959, the Hoppers sold the house to the Cabrals who turned the fourth bedroom into a den. That was nearly half a century after his grandparents left their old home in Sicily and came to America in 1912, six years after the great San Francisco earthquake. The family called New York their new home.

“My mom was born five years later,” Tim Cabral said.

In 1920, Sadie’s family left New York and came to California. They stayed with relatives who were living in San Jose for just a month before they made another moved that took them to Manteca for good.

The Cabral estate sale is being put together by Marilyn Amoral of Manteca who has been doing estate liquidations since 1972.