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Three girls wearing identical dress costumes and ballet shoes, in dance poses outside Arcadia City Hall. There is a fountain behind the girls that no longer exists. The City Hall tile mosaic wall (mural) depicting Arcadia history, by artist Jay Rivkin, is seen in the background (noted November 27, 2013-the murals had been covered by stucco for many years but were restored this year).

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Date: unknown

1 image

Date: unknown

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Hall; Dancers

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1890

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Recreation Department program "Dancing," indoors at County Park. Four girls in ballet poses behind a cluster of four chairs. Many other children also look like participants. Some adults in the audience are visible.

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Date: 1951

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Date: 1951

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children

Physical Description: 5 1/2 x 6 b&w

ID: 1904

Collection: Photographs

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Children, both boys and girls, approximately ages 6 to 8, on a playground, jumping rope. One girl is bouncing a ball.

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Games

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1891

Collection: Photographs

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Five children in photo outside a school building (?). One boy in the middle is barefoot, wearing cut-off jean shorts, and drinking a can of Shasta Cola. The boy on the right has opened a can but the soda is squirting straight up. Girl on the left reaches into a paper bag. Two onlookers.

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Date: c. 1970s

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Date: c. 1970s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection

Physical Description: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" b&w

ID: 1888

Collection: Photographs

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View across large crown attending a love-in at Arcadia County Park. In foreground is a circle of about 14 young people in a round dance. This photo and #1014 are very similar.

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Date: June 4, 1967

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Date: June 4, 1967

Subjects: Social life and customs; Arcadia(City)-History-1960-1969; Arcadia County Park

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 1015

Collection: Photographs

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Anita Baldwin feeding pet deer, Caza. Anita is dressed in long sleeved white blouse and long skirt. High buttoned shoes.

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Date: unknown

1 image

Date: unknown

Subjects: Baldwin, Anita

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 93

Collection: Photographs

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Big Hoss Saloon and Dance Hall is located at the Santa Anita Park race track. The dance club has been in existence for four years.

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Newspaper: Sierra Madre News

Date: May 30, 1996

Pages: p. 10

Newspaper: Sierra Madre News

Date: May 30, 1996

Pages: p. 10

Subjects: Restaurants Bars etc - Big Hoss Saloon and Dance Hall

Item ID: 5891AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Camino Grove School May Festival with a royal court in a procession on the school yard, by Milton K. Bell, photographer. Girls are wearing tiara crowns, boys are wearing capes. Back of photo stamped with date May 19, 1967.

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Date: May 1967

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Date: May 1967

Subjects: Camino Grove School; May Festival; Recreation Department Collection; Schools--Elementary Schools

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1871A

Collection: Photographs

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First Avenue class picture with no identification of the students. There is a row of boys sitting Indian-style in the front row, then two rows of girls and a fourth row of boys at the top.

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Date: c.1938

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Date: c.1938

Subjects: First Avenue School

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1427

Collection: Photographs

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Big Hoss Saloon & Dance Hall began its fifth season on April 25.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 8, 1997

Pages: p. 24

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 8, 1997

Pages: p. 24

Subjects: Big Hoss Saloon & Dance Hall

Item ID: 9521AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia High School juniors Catrina McAlister and Ammar Moussa are the Pasadena Star News girls and boys Runners of the Year, and Arcadia High School coach Jim O'Brien is the Boys Coach of the Year.

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Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: December 23, 2009

Pages: p. B1 w/photos

Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: December 23, 2009

Pages: p. B1 w/photos

Subjects: Arcadia High School - sports - cross country runners; Arcadia High School - Students; McAlister, Catrina; Moussa, Ammar; O'Brien, Jim; Runner of the Year

Item ID: 32049AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Orrick W. Hampton, founder of Kare Youth League, Rio Hondo Prep and the Boys' and Girls' Christian League, died at the age of 75.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 25, 1982

Pages: p. C-6 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 25, 1982

Pages: p. C-6 photo

Subjects: Hampton, Orrick W.

Item ID: 1680AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Some members of Arcadia Christian Academy's boys basketball team acted as heroes after a 65 year-old woman lost control of her Mercedes and ran it through a group of children and adults in Eagle Rock, where the team attended a game. The boys ran to the scene and helped lift the car off two children and an adult. There were no fatalities.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 7, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 21

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: February 7, 2002

Pages: p. 1, 21

Subjects: Arcadia Christian Academy--boys basketball; Heroes

Item ID: 33625AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Apparently taken in the High School gymnasium which has been decorated for special event. Many students are seated at tables, for what probably was a dinner following graduation.

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Date: c.1954

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Date: c.1954

Subjects: Arcadia High School

Physical Description: 10x13 b&w mounted on board

ID: 720

Collection: Photographs

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Children showing off their pets at the Arcadia Recreation Department Pet Show. Sitting from left to right: boy with a duck, girl with a cat, girl with a tortoise, girl with a gerbil (or guinea pig, hamster or rodent?). Standing from right to left: girl with a little monkey left shoulder, girl wearing sunglasses with undetermined pet on her right hand, girl with a pet (possibly a dog) dressed in a cowboy costume, and boy wearing a cowboy hat with his horse. Back of photo is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo, August 6, 1956."

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Date: 1956

1 image

Date: 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Pets

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1876

Collection: Photographs

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Winners (two boys and two girls) of a ping pong tournament receive trophy awards from a man, pictured one end of a ping pong table.

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Children; Competitions; Contests; Ping pong or table tennis; Sports

Physical Description: 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 b&w

ID: 1902

Collection: Photographs

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Five women sit around an outdoor patio table with umbrella, at Par 3 Golf Course in Arcadia. Some of the ladies are wearing golf shoes. The building behind them has a sign reading "Club, Bag and Cart Area." The woman on the right has a cigarette in her hand.

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Date: unknown

1 image

Date: unknown

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Par 3 Golf Course

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1923

Collection: Photographs

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Two boys and two girls were born to Feda and Samer Shalabi on Friday, October 4, at the Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The quadruplets were conceived through invitro fertilization.

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Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: October 8, 2002

Pages: p. A1

Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: October 8, 2002

Pages: p. A1

Subjects: Births; Shalabi, Feda and Samer; Quadruplets

Item ID: 24845AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Dylan Shen completes Eagle Scout project in Arcadia Wilderness Park. He restored the historic fire circle there. The Fire Circle was first presented to the City in April 1964.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 30, 2014

Pages: p. 3

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: January 30, 2014

Pages: p. 3

Subjects: Eagle Scouts; Shen, Dylan; Wilderness Park--Arcadia, CA

Item ID: 33936AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Gymnasium at Anoakia, modeled after Greek Temple. Anita Baldwin had it built for her children.

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Date: November 1976

1 image

Date: November 1976

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 37

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Recreation Department program "Dancing," indoors at County Park. Four girls in ballet poses behind a cluster of four chairs. Many other children also look like participants. Some adults in the audience are visible.

Images

Children, both boys and girls, approximately ages 6 to 8, on a playground, jumping rope. One girl is bouncing a ball.

Images

Five children in photo outside a school building (?). One boy in the middle is barefoot, wearing cut-off jean shorts, and drinking a can of Shasta Cola. The boy on the right has opened a can but the soda is squirting straight up. Girl on the left reaches into a paper bag. Two onlookers.

Images

View across large crown attending a love-in at Arcadia County Park. In foreground is a circle of about 14 young people in a round dance. This photo and #1014 are very similar.

Images

Anita Baldwin feeding pet deer, Caza. Anita is dressed in long sleeved white blouse and long skirt. High buttoned shoes.

Images

Big Hoss Saloon and Dance Hall is located at the Santa Anita Park race track. The dance club has been in existence for four years.

Camino Grove School May Festival with a royal court in a procession on the school yard, by Milton K. Bell, photographer. Girls are wearing tiara crowns, boys are wearing capes. Back of photo stamped with date May 19, 1967.

Images

First Avenue class picture with no identification of the students. There is a row of boys sitting Indian-style in the front row, then two rows of girls and a fourth row of boys at the top.

Images

Big Hoss Saloon & Dance Hall began its fifth season on April 25.

Arcadia High School juniors Catrina McAlister and Ammar Moussa are the Pasadena Star News girls and boys Runners of the Year, and Arcadia High School coach Jim O'Brien is the Boys Coach of the Year.

Orrick W. Hampton, founder of Kare Youth League, Rio Hondo Prep and the Boys' and Girls' Christian League, died at the age of 75.

Apparently taken in the High School gymnasium which has been decorated for special event. Many students are seated at tables, for what probably was a dinner following graduation.

Images

Images

Winners (two boys and two girls) of a ping pong tournament receive trophy awards from a man, pictured one end of a ping pong table.

Images

Five women sit around an outdoor patio table with umbrella, at Par 3 Golf Course in Arcadia. Some of the ladies are wearing golf shoes. The building behind them has a sign reading "Club, Bag and Cart Area." The woman on the right has a cigarette in her hand.

Images

Two boys and two girls were born to Feda and Samer Shalabi on Friday, October 4, at the Arcadia Methodist Hospital. The quadruplets were conceived through invitro fertilization.

Dylan Shen completes Eagle Scout project in Arcadia Wilderness Park. He restored the historic fire circle there. The Fire Circle was first presented to the City in April 1964.

Gymnasium at Anoakia, modeled after Greek Temple. Anita Baldwin had it built for her children.

Images