H. D. Cowan Co., Inc., manufacturer of fixtures for stores, banks and office buildings, will open a new manufacturing facility at 130 N. First Street. This property was formerly a furniture manufacturing facility.
View east on Huntington Drive from a position west of Santa Anita Avenue. Shopping Bag Market is on northeast corner of this intersection (Currently, the site of a Denny's Restaurant, noted 6/19/2013). Pine's Cafe was still located near the SW corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue. A sign reading "19 cent Burger" in the middle is prominent, as if "Real Pit Bar-B-Q" on the left.
John Pomazi of Temple City owns a business called Antique Radios at 125 E. Santa Clara Street in Arcadia. He collects and repair antique radios. He may have the only business of this kind in the San Gabriel Valley.
Shares of Safeway Inc. fell 4.5 percent after the Pleasanton-based parent company of Arcadia-based Vons/Pavilions said it expects second-quarter earnings will be below Wall Street estimates.
The addition of a new hotel on the corner of Second Avenue and Santa Clara Street in Arcadia would bring an additional 159 rooms to an area which already boasts eight hotels along a one mile stretch of the Huntington Drive corridor.
View of NE corner of First Avenue and Wheeler Street when property at 100 N. First Ave. was occupied by Robert L. Walker, Real Estate & Krutzsch and Walker, Insurance. Sign reads: Choice north location, 7 rm. 2 bdrm. panled (sic) den, stores, transp., Highland Oak School, $13250; $3500 down.
View of Herbert's Cafe from center of Alice Street right at intersection with Santa Anita. (Main fire house for Arcadia is presently located there.) There is a wagon wheel mounted near front. It was owned by Herbert and Catherine Schmidt from 1939-1957. See Arcadia VF-Restaurants, bars, etc. for further information regarding special days and how they were celebrated here.
Spotlight on Stephanie Aikin and her business Move Your Mountain Fitness, located at 120 E. Santa Clara Street in downtown Arcadia. It is a studio for personal and semi-private fitness training. Most of her clients are over age 55, baby boomers, but her business serves all ages.
May 13, 1965 p. 1; May 20, 1965 p. 1; May 23, 1965 p. 1; May 30, 1965 p. 1; June 10, 1965 p. 1; June 17, 1965 p. 1; June 20, 1965 p. 1; June 24, 1965 p. 1; July 15, 1965 p. 1; July 29, 1965 p. 1; September 5, 1965 p. 1; September 9, 1965 p. 1; September 16, 1965 p. 1; October 24, 1965 p. 1; July 28, 1966 p. 33; August 4, 1966 p. 37 (opens)
May 13, 1965 p. 1; May 20, 1965 p. 1; May 23, 1965 p. 1; May 30, 1965 p. 1; June 10, 1965 p. 1; June 17, 1965 p. 1; June 20, 1965 p. 1; June 24, 1965 p. 1; July 15, 1965 p. 1; July 29, 1965 p. 1; September 5, 1965 p. 1; September 9, 1965 p. 1; September 16, 1965 p. 1; October 24, 1965 p. 1; July 28, 1966 p. 33; August 4, 1966 p. 37 (opens)
Exterior view of Rod's Grill showing the west side of restaurant, its sign, customers waiting outside, and the street signs where it was located, the corner of Huntington Drive and Morlan Place. Rod's was located at 41 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia, along Historic Route 66, from 1957 through February 2023.
Small Businesses Adapt to Economic Uncertainty in Arcadia. The COVID-19 outbreak has frozen one of the world’s most powerful economies and suspended the fate of many business owners worldwide. During these uncertain times, many small businesses are searching for any method or reason to stay open, and in Arcadia, some have gone to great lengths to do so.
View south, perhaps from top of City Hall on Corner of First and Huntington Drive, to Arcadia Drive-In Market. Located on SW corner of the same intersection there was, in addition to the Service Station, a dry cleaners, a bakery, a fresh vegetable market, a meat market, a grocery store, and the Pines Cafe. First Avenue is street seen on the left.
