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Interior of Seaquist's Pharmacy showing proprietor Oscar Seaquist standing in center of the store. Note fountain counter on the left. Store was located on north First Avenue not far from Santa Fe tracks. It was the first drug store in Arcadia.

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Date: c.1924

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Date: c.1924

Subjects: Seaquist's Pharmacy; Seaquist, Oscar; Stores

Physical Description: 7x9 b&w hard board original

ID: 211

Collection: Photographs

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View of Seaquist's Pharmacy taken from position just north of Santa Fe railroad tracks. For information on store see information for photos #189 and #190.

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Date: c.1920

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Date: c.1920

Subjects: Seaquist's Pharmacy; Arcadia(City)-History-1903-1919; Stores

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

ID: 191

Collection: Photographs

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Some of Seaquist family photographed on front of Seaquist's Pharmacy on N. First Avenue. Left to right: Older man with white hair, then apparently Oscar Seaquist holding newspaper, next perhaps is wife of Oscar, and then an older woman.

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Date: c.1920

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Date: c.1920

Subjects: Seaquist's Pharmacy; Arcadia(City)-History-1903-1919

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 b&w

ID: 192

Collection: Photographs

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Thrifty Drug Store building at NW corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue. There are no identifying signs on the building. The signs were removed after the store closed. Former site of first City Hall.

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Date: 1979

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Date: 1979

Subjects: Thrifty Drug Store; City Hall; Stores

Physical Description: 4x5 color

ID: 1232

Collection: Photographs

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Two men pictured. Man in dark suit on right is Oscar Seaquist, formerly first druggist in Arcadia.

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Date: September 6, 1942

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Date: September 6, 1942

Subjects: Seaquist, Oscar; Seaquist's Pharmacy

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

ID: 194

Collection: Photographs

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View NE looking up First Avenue from near Santa Fe Station to Seaquist's Pharmacy on east side of First Avenue. In 1928 City Directory there is a W.A. Graves Pharmacy listed at 228 N. First and apparently this was formerly Seaquist's. Note Santa Fe station sign on extreme left side of photo.

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Date: c.1920

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Date: c.1920

Subjects: Seaquist's Pharmacy; Arcadia(City)-History-1903-1919

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

ID: 190

Collection: Photographs

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Seaquist's Drug Store. Pictured in front are three people: younger man in light suit, woman seated, and older man in dark suit. Among other signs in the window is one for polo at Midwick Country Club which was between Alhambra and Monterey Park. On side of building is painted ad for Wrigley's P.K. chewing gum. Located about 200 block of N. First Avenue.

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Date: c.1913

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Date: c.1913

Subjects: Seaquist's Pharmacy; Arcadia(City)-History-1903-1919; Stores

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 b&w

ID: 189

Collection: Photographs

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Paul and Selma Backert, who operated a dry goods store at 221 N. First Avenue from at least 1928 to approximately 1940. They came to Los Angeles area in about 1890 and operated general merchandise stores in Newhall and Lancaster. They lived at 212 N. Myrtle in Monrovia.

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Date: c.1898

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Date: c.1898

Subjects: Arcadia Department Store; Business & industry; Stores

Physical Description: 3x5 oval original

ID: 409

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of nine people sitting and standing in front of a home. Man in back row, extreme left, is Oscar Seaquist, first druggist in Arcadia.

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Date: c.1940

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Date: c.1940

Subjects: Seaquist, Oscar; Seaquist's Pharmacy

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

ID: 193

Collection: Photographs

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Clark's Drug Store

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 30, 1966

Pages: p. 26

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 30, 1966

Pages: p. 26

Subjects: Business and Industry - Clark's Drug Store

Item ID: 3717AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Groves Drug Store

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 30, 1931

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 30, 1931

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Business and Industry - Groves Drug Store

Item ID: 3720AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Rexall Drug Store

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 18, 1931

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 18, 1931

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Business and Industry - Rexall Drug Store

Item ID: 3733AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Thrifty Drug Co. leases property and will build a store at the corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue, the former site of Arcadia City Hall.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: March 22, 1950

Pages: p. 1 (See basement box 112.)

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: March 22, 1950

Pages: p. 1 (See basement box 112.)

Subjects: Drug Stores; Thrifty Drug Co.

Item ID: 33239AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia City Council in its role of Arcadia Redevelopment Agency Tuesday night moved very close to an agreement for the sale of the former Thrifty Drug Store site at the northwest corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 7, 1983

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 7, 1983

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Thrifty Drug Store

Item ID: 829AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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.

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Date: Market opened 1929

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Date: Market opened 1929

Subjects: Arcadia Drive-In Market; Gas stations; Huntington Drive; Stores

Physical Description: 6 1/2 x 10 b&w

ID: 892

Collection: Photographs

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Drug store on First Avenue

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Newspaper: Arcadia Journal

Date: June 8, 1918

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Journal

Date: June 8, 1918

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Business and Industry

Item ID: 3701AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

SW corner First Avenue and St. Joseph Street is parking lot for Acapulco Restaurant across the street. Former site of McCoy building.

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Date: 1979

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Date: 1979

Subjects: Acapulco Mexican Restaurant; McCoy Building; Historic houses

Physical Description: 4x5 color

ID: 1225

Collection: Photographs

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View of west side of Baldwin looking north from intersection with Naomi Avenue. Street trees obscure names of most shops but Nash's Department Store and Hinshaw's Department Store are visible.

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Date: c. late 1960's

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Date: c. late 1960's

Subjects: Baldwin Avenue; Hinshaw's Department Store; Nash's Department Store; Stores

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 605

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia (City) History (1940-1950)

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Contents: 1. "The first year." Arcadia Bulletin, circa 1940. Article delineating progress in Arcadia. 2. "Arcadia has famous track -- and a lot more." Daily News, December 4, 1946. Article by Leslie Claypool describes city in a lengthy report. 3. "Controversy on location (of City Hall) raged for more tha…

Contents: 1. "The first year." Arcadia Bulletin, circa 1940. Article delineating progress in Arcadia.; 2. "Arcadia has famous track -- and a lot more." Daily News, December 4, 1946. Article by Leslie Claypool describes city in a lengthy report.; 3. "Controversy on location (of City Hall) raged for more than five years." Daily News Post, January 30, 1962. News photo and caption of City Hall built in 1948.; 4. "One of the coldest nights in Southern California History." Los Angeles Herald Examiner, August 7, 1977. News photo and caption of 1949 weather milestone.; 5. "Great years for Arcadia." Arcadia Tribune, January 1, 1948. Summary of 1947.; 6. "Historic Santa Anita Tract deed delivered to County." Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1947, page 5.; 7. "Something must be done." Arcadia Tribune, May 14, 1942. Article by Hal Roach describing great need for top sewer system.; 8. "Chamber of Commerce group hears fine program." Arcadia Tribune, April 19, 1942. Summary of problems facing Arcadia as of April 1942.; 9. "Nixon got early political start in Valley." Daily News Post, January 16, 1969. Interviews with people who remembered Nixon started career here.; 10. Copy of #9.; 11. "Literature on defense lines at library." Arcadia Tribune, April 2, 1942.; 12. "Sewers or Cesspools." Four page fact book published by "pro" group regarding bond election of May 8, 1945.; 13. Copies of programs given at Arcadia Christian Reform Church during war time. Includes program of V.E. Day Service.; 14. "V .... ---" Mail; 15. Speech given to the Arcadia Historical Society on July 21, 1955 on the history of Arcadia from 1936 to 1955. Given by F. Wesley Davies of the Chandler Syndicate, which purchased 1300 acres (approximately 47%) of Arcadia in 1936.; 16. "Santa Anita's Flood Control Project Starts: completion of $33,000 job set before rain season." Pasadena Post, September 13, 1941. "County Plans to Strengthen Canyon Walls: work will start soon on improvements above Arcadia." Pasadena Post, August 24, 1941.; 17. "Arcadia Council Slashes Tax Rate Two Cents." Pasadena Post, August 8, 1941.; 18. "Developing Arcadia: Harry Chandler (with photo). Publisher of the Los Angeles Times, head of the Rancho Santa Anita developments in Arcadia. It is the Chandler group behind Arcadia's enormous building boom. And the boom is just starting." Monrovia Journal, January 4, no year given. And excerpt of a story about Elias J. Lucky Baldwin's employee Fisher, a young Black boy, who Baldwin convinced to move out west to work at his livery stable in San Francisco, after having been enslaved to a Mr. Butler.; 19. Rising price of land astounds Arcadia (land near City Hall Civic Center on Huntington Drive that is occupied by a National Guard Armory), Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1986.

Subjects: Arcadia (City) History (1940-1950)

Item ID: 118AF

Collection: Subject Files

Bob Donaldson's suits against Thrifty Drug Store and the City concerning the vacant Thrifty Drug Store property at Huntington Drive and First Avenue.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 18, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 18, 1980

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Actions and Defenses

Item ID: 3AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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Interior of Seaquist's Pharmacy showing proprietor Oscar Seaquist standing in center of the store. Note fountain counter on the left. Store was located on north First Avenue not far from Santa Fe tracks. It was the first drug store in Arcadia.

Images

View of Seaquist's Pharmacy taken from position just north of Santa Fe railroad tracks. For information on store see information for photos #189 and #190.

Images

Some of Seaquist family photographed on front of Seaquist's Pharmacy on N. First Avenue. Left to right: Older man with white hair, then apparently Oscar Seaquist holding newspaper, next perhaps is wife of Oscar, and then an older woman.

Images

Thrifty Drug Store building at NW corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue. There are no identifying signs on the building. The signs were removed after the store closed. Former site of first City Hall.

Images

Two men pictured. Man in dark suit on right is Oscar Seaquist, formerly first druggist in Arcadia.

Images

View NE looking up First Avenue from near Santa Fe Station to Seaquist's Pharmacy on east side of First Avenue. In 1928 City Directory there is a W.A. Graves Pharmacy listed at 228 N. First and apparently this was formerly Seaquist's. Note Santa Fe station sign on extreme left side of photo.

Images

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Paul and Selma Backert, who operated a dry goods store at 221 N. First Avenue from at least 1928 to approximately 1940. They came to Los Angeles area in about 1890 and operated general merchandise stores in Newhall and Lancaster. They lived at 212 N. Myrtle in Monrovia.

Images

Photo of nine people sitting and standing in front of a home. Man in back row, extreme left, is Oscar Seaquist, first druggist in Arcadia.

Images

Clark's Drug Store

Groves Drug Store

Rexall Drug Store

Thrifty Drug Co. leases property and will build a store at the corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue, the former site of Arcadia City Hall.

Arcadia City Council in its role of Arcadia Redevelopment Agency Tuesday night moved very close to an agreement for the sale of the former Thrifty Drug Store site at the northwest corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue.

Images

Drug store on First Avenue

SW corner First Avenue and St. Joseph Street is parking lot for Acapulco Restaurant across the street. Former site of McCoy building.

Images

View of west side of Baldwin looking north from intersection with Naomi Avenue. Street trees obscure names of most shops but Nash's Department Store and Hinshaw's Department Store are visible.

Images

Arcadia (City) History (1940-1950)

Bob Donaldson's suits against Thrifty Drug Store and the City concerning the vacant Thrifty Drug Store property at Huntington Drive and First Avenue.