I just discovered this great post about the Sweet Tooth on the “My West Sacramento Photo of the Day” blog.
Some history about the Sweet Tooth: This small 3 room building on the corner of Lisbon and Water Street was built in the late 1940s (probably 1946 or 47) to be an Ice Cream Parlor. Albino Freitas, Sn. owned the 3 lots on this corner and he thought his six children might want to have a family business. The actual carpenter work was done by Uncle Tony Pinto who built several houses in the old town of Bryte.
Unfortunately, the children after high school got jobs in Sacramento and/or joined the armed services, so the Sweet Tooth was closed until 1957. The youngest son, Dennis had gotten married to a Bryte girl (related to the Lee Family) and needed an apartment. Uncle Tony created 4 rooms out of the 3 original rooms and the newlyweds moved in. When they had 2 children and awaiting a third, they were able to move into the bigger house behind the Sweet Tooth on Water Street. “Pia” Freitas then rented the small house out as a rental.
Early photos show the Portuguese tile roof which was always part of Uncle Tony Pinto’s projects but in the early 2009, the new owner of the property replaced the hand made tiles with a standard asphlat tile roofing.