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Oakwood Hotel seen as just a brick shell immediately after the fire which destroyed it.

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Date
Nov. 11 or 12, 1911

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Date
Nov. 11 or 12, 1911
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1078
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo of a page from the 1907 Los Angeles Racing Association Souvenir Booklet showing "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's Ranch." The Oakwood Hotel is just visible to the right of the photo. The large oak tree dominates the center of the photo.

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Date
1907 season

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Date
1907 season
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1352
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo reduction of p.13 pt. I of November 28, 1911 Los Angeles Times newspaper. Contains photo with caption describing fire which totally destroyed Oakwood Hotel on November 26, 1911, a Sunday night.

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Date
1911

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Date
1911
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
390
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View of Oakwood Hotel from across the railroad tracks. On the front of the photo is written, "Lucky Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel Arcadia - Calif. 1895." There are several people standing in front of the hotel. A carriage is to the left by the large oak tree.

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Date
c.1895

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Date
c.1895
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
4x5 b&w
ID
282
Collection
Photographs
Images
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One carriage and two tally hos are stopped in front of Oakwood Hotel. About 18 people are seated in the conveyances. White horses hitched to middle tally ho, have white plumes fixed to their harness. Sign above reads: Hotel Oakwood - Entrance to Fairyland. On the bottom of photo is printed: Baldwin's Ranch, Arcadia, Cal.

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Date
c.1905

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Date
c.1905
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Fairyland Park
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
928
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View of Oakwood Hotel, close enough to show its brick construction. There appears to be a bird cage on front terrace of Hotel.

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Date
1890's

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Date
1890's
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
281
Collection
Photographs
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Three tally-hos are seen parked in front of the Oakwood Hotel. Sign on the front of the hotel reads BALDWIN'S HOTEL OAKWOOD. The middle tally-ho has a white horse. There are people sitting in the tally-hos and one man standing at the rear of the middle tally-ho.

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Date
unknown

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Date
unknown
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1632
Collection
Photographs
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Three youngsters from Lowen Tucker family stand by trees near a fence. This was along Poplar Lane (so called because it had many Lombardy Poplars along it) on Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin Ranch. Lane led from center of ranch west to training track. L-R: Irna Tucker, Bud Doble, and Vesta Tucker.

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Date
c.1903

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Date
c.1903
Subjects
Reeves, Vesta Tucker
Tucker, Bud Doble
Rohlf, Irna Tucker
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1081
Collection
Photographs
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View across dining room of Oakwood Hotel with tables set for service. There is a full-length mirror on a stand near left side of photo.

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Date
c.1895

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Date
c.1895
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
283
Collection
Photographs
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Side view photo of Oakwood Hotel with a Tally Ho stopped here with its full party. Hotel was built in 1889 and was situated about where parking lot of the Sportsrock Cafe is now.

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Date
c.1890's

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Date
c.1890's
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
285
Collection
Photographs
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Contents
1. The Oakwood resort hotel. ("The View from Arcadia," August 10, 1972) 2. Arcadia's Oakwood Hotel. news The from T.V.Facts October-November 1973? 3. Oakwood Hotel - site. Information sheet. 4. Popular name. Handwritten information sheet on popular name. 5. The Oakwood Hotel was built. new…
Contents
1. The Oakwood resort hotel. ("The View from Arcadia," August 10, 1972)
2. Arcadia's Oakwood Hotel. news The from T.V.Facts October-November 1973?
3. Oakwood Hotel - site. Information sheet.
4. Popular name. Handwritten information sheet on popular name.
5. The Oakwood Hotel was built. news The, n.d.
6. Arcadia's birth place. Daily News Post March 20, 1962.
7. Fifty years ago today - March 1912. news clip, March ? 1962 about subsequent owner of Oakwood.
8. Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel. photocopy of letterhead December 17, 1890.
9. Pacific Coast hotel and apartment record - 1916. copied form original at Huntington Library.
10. Oakwood Hotel closes in spring...handwritten note taken from news clip March 2, 1908.
11. Lucky's lavish hotel put Arcadia on the road to respectability. news clip February 16, 1978
12. Hotel used as boxing training camp. news clip February 1, 1979 and February 9, 1979.
13. Fairyland Park - Baldwin's Ranch. photocopy photo from L.A. Racing Association Souvenir Program, 1907.
14. Advertisement in Sierra Madre Vista paper. January 26, 1889.
15. The Hotel Oakwood at Arcadia opened for the season recently. Copied from original news clips of November 20 and December 25, 1890 at the Huntington Library.
16. Bill of Fare Fair. news clip Arcadia Tribune c. 1950.
17. Notes on Oakwood taken from Monrovia Messenger December 26, 1889. Information provided by Sandy Snider, Los Angeles County Arboretum, 1979.
18. Copy of letter dated May 20, 1890 from H. Unruh to R. Garvey on Oakwood Hotel stationary. Copied from original owned by Jack Donnelly March 3, 1981.
19. First wheels, then ponies go round near City Hall. Daily News Post January 30, 1972.
20. A monster hotel (a $500,000 four story building for Arcadia). Monrovia Planet April 2, 1887 p.2.
21. The Baldwin Tallac Oakwood - E.J. Baldwin Proprietor. Copy of promotional brochure of Baldwin's Hotel Oakwood, n.d.
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Item ID
157AF
Collection
Subject Files
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General information re Oakwood Hotel

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 23, 1950 p. 4
July 15, 1950 p. 3
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 23, 1950 p. 4
July 15, 1950 p. 3
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Item ID
4031AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Oakwood Hotel. On right edge of photo, Santa Fe steam engine is coming into view. There are four men seen standing near Hotel. There is a man in a buggy with two horses standing in shade of what appears to be an oak tree. One lady stands on second floor porch.

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Date
c.1890

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Date
c.1890
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
897
Collection
Photographs
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Huntington Bank on First Avenue between Wheeler and Santa Clara Streets. Former site of Oakwood Hotel.

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Date
1979

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Date
1979
Subjects
Huntington Bank
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
4x5 color
ID
1228
Collection
Photographs
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Many horses with riders are seen galloping west across infield of original Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin Santa Anita Race Track. We were told by Vesta Tucker Reeves, that the infield was used for rodeos when racing season was not in progress. This apparently was taken from grandstand.

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Date
c.1909

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Date
c.1909
Subjects
Santa Anita Park,1907-1912
San Gabriel Mountains
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1082
Collection
Photographs
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Photo of a portion of veranda around ground floor of Oakwood Hotel. One man is seen walking, two are sitting and one lady is seen at the far right. A horse is partly seen on the right.

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Date
c.1898

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Date
c.1898
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
939
Collection
Photographs
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Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin Packing House which was located just north of Oakwood Hotel and beside Santa Fe Railroad tracks. Printing on the roof is announcement of Baldwin property for sale in Los Angeles, Arcadia, Monrovia and El Monte. On sides of building, the fruits and wines available are given. This photo belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date
c.1902

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Date
c.1902
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909
First Avenue
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
833
Collection
Photographs
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View of the swimming pool and motel at Eaton's Santa Anita Hotel. Eaton's motel units opened next to Eaton's Restaurant in 1941. In this view, six people are lounging beside the pool.

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Date
unknown

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Date
unknown
Subjects
Restaurants-Eaton's Santa Anita Hotel and Restaurant
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1372
Collection
Photographs
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View of pool and motel area of Eaton's Santa Anita Hotel and Restaurant. The motel rooms were added in 1941. In this view, there are lounge chairs with no cushions beside a roped-off pool. No one is visible.

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Date
unknown

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Date
unknown
Subjects
Restaurants-Eaton's Santa Anita Hotel and Restaurant
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1373
Collection
Photographs
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Apparently photo of Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin taken beside lake on Baldwin Ranch when he was quite elderly. Printing across photo reads: Baldwins Ranch.

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Date
c.1907

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Date
c.1907
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
121
Collection
Photographs
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