Search Results | Arcadia History Collection

Boy plays a tuba, while other children, holding clarinets and trumpets, watch.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1929

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Musicians

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 b&w

ID: 1910

Collection: Photographs

Images

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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1923

Date: 1951

1 image

Date: 1951

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children

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

ID: 1904

Collection: Photographs

Images

Children playing checkers. One girl has a doll beside her. A boy is playing chess next to them.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1928

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Games

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 b&w

ID: 1909

Collection: Photographs

Images

Winners (one boy and one girl) crowned in the Arcadia Recreation Department "Baby Show."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1922

Date: c. 1960s

1 image

Date: c. 1960s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Children; Competitions; Contests

Physical Description: 6 1/2 x 7 1/2 b&w

ID: 1903

Collection: Photographs

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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1907

Date: c. 1970s

1 image

Date: c. 1970s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection

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

ID: 1888

Collection: Photographs

Images

17 children and two adults pose on a stage in three rows. Children are dressed in various costumes. Written on back: Arcadia Children's Chorale "Around the World in Song," a performance of Disney songs. Directors William Pirigyi and Adele Pirigyi. Saturday, March 29th. Prior to Holly Avenue PTA movie. According to the perpetual calendar, March 29 was a Saturday in 1969 and 1975, so it could be either.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1905

Date: Probably 1975

1 image

Date: Probably 1975

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia Children's Chorale; Pirigyi, Adele; Pirigyi, William; Singers

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1886

Collection: Photographs

Images

Group of at least six boys play marbles on dirt.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1911

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Games

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1892

Collection: Photographs

Images

One boy representing each of the following schools in a group picture: Highland Oarks, Hugo Reid, Camino Grove, Baldwin Stocker, Santa Anita, Longley Way, Bonita Park, Holly Avenue. Each boy is wearing a sports team tee-shirt with school's name and number imprinted. Four boys stand in the back row and four boys kneel in the front.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1902

Date: 1969

1 image

Date: 1969

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 1883

Collection: Photographs

Images

Arcadia Recreation Department Yo-Yo program. Boy on the left is demonstrating a yo-yo trick called "Rock the Baby." Girl on the right is holding a yo-yo. The champion awards sit atop a table between the children. The program might have taken place at County Park because "Co." is written on the back of the photograph. The year 1956 is engraved on the trophies.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1925

Date: 1956

1 image

Date: 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Children; Games

Physical Description: 4x4 b&w

ID: 1906

Collection: Photographs

Images

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

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1910

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Games

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1891

Collection: Photographs

Images

Arcadia Recreation Department program "How it's done." Four teenage boys in this photo. One has what appears to be an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He and the boy directly behind wear their hair in the "ducktail" style.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1920

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Teenage boys

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

ID: 1901

Collection: Photographs

Images

Two men wearing suits and hats. The man on the left is holding a baseball. It would appear to be nighttime.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1938

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Baseball

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1919

Collection: Photographs

Images

A group of 14 children and two adults pose in two rows for photograph in front of a Hugo Reid sign. Some are dressed in Hawaiian or Polynesian attire. Back stamped with "Photo by A. E. Block (or Black?), 9044 Southview Road, San Gabriel, CA."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1903

Date: c. 1970s

1 image

Date: c. 1970s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Hugo Reid Elementary School

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

ID: 1884

Collection: Photographs

Images

Large group photo of mostly young adults outdoors, likely summer time at a park of campground with pine trees. Man in back row, center is wearing an Arcadia Recreation tee- shirt. Man in front, center is wearing a KROQ 106.7 (FM radio station) tee-shirt.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1949

Date: c. 1981

1 image

Date: c. 1981

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 1930

Collection: Photographs

Images

Basketball team of 6 unidentified boys, who are the 1955-56 Recreation Basketball Champions. They are in line posing with trophies. The first boy is shaking hands with a man on the left. Another man wearing eyeglasses and a suit stands on the far right. L to R: unidentified adult, Marty Kordick, Al Bonfiglio, Ray Dombrowski, the rest are unidentified.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1937

Date: 1956

1 image

Date: 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Basketball; Boys; Bonfiglio, Al; Dombrowski, Ray; Kordick, Marty

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1918

Collection: Photographs

Images

Recreation Department Easter Egg Coloring event. Many children seated on benches are participating in egg dyeing, an Easter tradition. Several adult women are supervising or instructing.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1913

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Easter; Holidays; Social life and customs

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1894

Collection: Photographs

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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1921

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

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

Images

Two men in sporty baseball clothing grip a baseball bat. A third man wearing a suit and bowtie stands in the middle. They appear as though they are at home plate, since there is a fence directly behind them. The man on the left wears a shirt imprinted with B.C.L. Sons.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1935

Date: c. 1950s

1 image

Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Baseball

Physical Description: 4 x 6 1/2 b&w

ID: 1916

Collection: Photographs

Images

A boy and a girl, possibly young teenagers, stand next to their bicycles. A man in a pinstripe suit stands between them. Location unknown. Back is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo" and "Recreation Department, PO Box 567, Arcadia, CA."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1894

Date: 1950s

1 image

Date: 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Bicycles

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1875

Collection: Photographs

Images

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."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1895

Date: 1956

1 image

Date: 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Pets

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1876

Collection: Photographs

Revise Search

Boy plays a tuba, while other children, holding clarinets and trumpets, watch.

Images

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 playing checkers. One girl has a doll beside her. A boy is playing chess next to them.

Images

Winners (one boy and one girl) crowned in the Arcadia Recreation Department "Baby Show."

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

Images

Group of at least six boys play marbles on dirt.

Images

Images

Images

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

Images

Arcadia Recreation Department program "How it's done." Four teenage boys in this photo. One has what appears to be an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He and the boy directly behind wear their hair in the "ducktail" style.

Images

Two men wearing suits and hats. The man on the left is holding a baseball. It would appear to be nighttime.

Images

A group of 14 children and two adults pose in two rows for photograph in front of a Hugo Reid sign. Some are dressed in Hawaiian or Polynesian attire. Back stamped with "Photo by A. E. Block (or Black?), 9044 Southview Road, San Gabriel, CA."

Images

Large group photo of mostly young adults outdoors, likely summer time at a park of campground with pine trees. Man in back row, center is wearing an Arcadia Recreation tee- shirt. Man in front, center is wearing a KROQ 106.7 (FM radio station) tee-shirt.

Images

Images

Recreation Department Easter Egg Coloring event. Many children seated on benches are participating in egg dyeing, an Easter tradition. Several adult women are supervising or instructing.

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

Two men in sporty baseball clothing grip a baseball bat. A third man wearing a suit and bowtie stands in the middle. They appear as though they are at home plate, since there is a fence directly behind them. The man on the left wears a shirt imprinted with B.C.L. Sons.

Images

A boy and a girl, possibly young teenagers, stand next to their bicycles. A man in a pinstripe suit stands between them. Location unknown. Back is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo" and "Recreation Department, PO Box 567, Arcadia, CA."

Images

Images