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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

  1 image

Date
c.1890
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
897
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail
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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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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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
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Another view of Oakwood Hotel just after being destroyed by fire. Standing beside structure are an older and younger sister of Vesta Tucker Reeves. Their father was Lowen Tucker, ranch foreman for Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin.

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Date
Nov. 12, 1911

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Date
Nov. 12, 1911
Subjects
Oakwood Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1079
Collection
Photographs
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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
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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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Photo enlargement of a postcard of about 1909 advertising Tally-Ho trips to Baldwin's Ranch. Printing on card begins: the home of Strathmead at Lucky Baldwin's famous ranch.

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Date
1909

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Date
1909
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Baldwin Ranch
Physical Description
8x10 color
ID
135
Collection
Photographs
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Flamingo Hotel/Motel at 130 W. Huntington, built about 1956 or 1957. Part of Ramada Inn chain. Before it was the Flamingo, the Pony Express Museum was at this address. The Flamingo Hotel (Ramada) stayed here 1955-c. 1984. It reopened as the Santa Anita Inn on February 8, 1986. On the same site, the Le Meridien Hotel, part of the Marriott chain, broke ground in June 2018 and opened in 2021.

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Date
c.1959-1960

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Date
c.1959-1960
Subjects
Flamingo Motor Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
287
Collection
Photographs
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About 18 people are seen seated outdoors at tables under trees decorated with Japanese paper lanterns. A waiter stands by closest tree. Printed on photo are words: FAIRYLAND PARK BALDWIN'S RANCH.

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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
927
Collection
Photographs
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A 22 year old Monterey Park man was shot and killed after leaving the Sportsrock Cafe about 1:30am and getting involved in an argument with 10-15 men in a nearby parking lot. He was shot with an illegal pen gun.

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Newspaper
Star-Tribune
Date
February 18, 1993
Pages
p. A-2
Newspaper
Star-Tribune
Date
February 18, 1993
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Crime and Criminals see also murder
Murder
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
253AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Church of Transfiguration is now located where this view shows. Path in photo is First Avenue of today. Shows what appears to be orchard and possible strawberry patch on left side of photo between First and Second Avenues.

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Date
c.1910-1915

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Date
c.1910-1915
Subjects
Agriculture
Church of the Transfiguration
Arcadia(City)-History-1903-1919
Physical Description
2x3 b&w vertical
ID
14
Collection
Photographs
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View east across lawn to front of Arcadia City Hall shortly after addition of new offices situated in low building seen in front here and connected to main building by a covered walk.

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Date
March 25, 1959

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Date
March 25, 1959
Subjects
City Hall
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
492
Collection
Photographs
Images
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