Home of Charles and Pearl Strong at 460 W. Duarte Road. View shows small clapboard house standing by itself. There is a high-sided trailer standing at left of house. What appears to be chicken houses show in the photo. Claimed to be first white leghorn chicken ranch in Arcadia.
Aerial view west toward Santa Anita Ave. from above First Avenue, site of new grammar school. Long driveway heads to Jaspar N. Teague home in center of 10 acre orange grove. (Address in City Directory for this name is 1380 S. Santa Anita.) House to left and south was that of Charles W. Stewart in another 10 acre plot. Both ranches are now occupied by First Avenue Junior High School.
Cuccia Peach orchard, 60 acres from Lovell to Holly Avenue and Leroy to Norman. Shows one man on ladder picking in grove; one man standing picking; boxes of fruit.
Looking SW from mountains north of Arcadia. Major tree-lined street running from mountains south is Santa Anita Avenue. Southernmost tree-lined street cutting across entire middle of photo is Duarte Road. Barracks at the Balloon School can be seen just below Huntington Drive. Notice that Huntington Drive stops just west of the Balloon School, at the Baldwin Ranch. Much of Foothill area was planted to citrus.
Aerial view north. Main tree-lined street is Santa Anita Avenue. Most of the orange grove in center of photo was owned by Jaspar Teague family. They had built a circular art gallery on their property at 1380 South Santa Anita Avenue. The large buildings north of Teague's and to the west of Santa Anita Avenue are chicken houses. Duarte Road is the east/west street across photo near top of photo.
Mr. Aloyosius Mauch is seen loading blackberries packed in wooden crates onto flatbed truck. A dog sits on top of one crate. Mr. Mauch's sons helped run the five acre ranch which was at Palm Avenue and Holly Avenue. Information provided by son Henry (86 years old in 1980) and his wife.
Unidentified sheepherder who would bring his flock to the fields across from Mauch ranch at Holly Avenue and Palm Avenue. He would bring the sheep after the field crop had been harvested to let them graze on stubble. Dog is also visible next to sheepherder.
Harry Ainsworth Ranch, upper grove looking north to mountains. Present day Highland Oaks School would be located about where trees block the end of the row of citrus trees.
Truck float bearing the name of Jr. Exchange and Pep Commission. Eight young people are shown on the float. Photo taken along Campus Drive by County Golf Course during Diamond Jubilee Parade.
Newly planted strawberries are seen covered by paper cups for protection. Mr. Mauch said they learned to do this from their Japanese neighbors. This view is looking north toward mountains from Mauch ranch at Holly Avenue and Palm Avenue.
Twelve people are seen picking strawberries on the Mauch ranch at Palm Avenue and Holly Avenue. All are wearing hats. The large white-colored hangars still standing on the Balloon School property can be seen behind the trees in left half of photo.
1. Everybody raised chickens in the old days. Arcadia Tribune. June 8, 1978. 2. City chicken ranches dwindle to twelve. Arcadia Tribune. July 22, 1959. 3. Ad showing what was apparently a large plaster rooster at Pike-Kronz Hatchery. news ad December 7, 1934. 4. Third Annual Poultry Show o…
1. Everybody raised chickens in the old days. Arcadia Tribune. June 8, 1978.
2. City chicken ranches dwindle to twelve. Arcadia Tribune. July 22, 1959.
3. Ad showing what was apparently a large plaster rooster at Pike-Kronz Hatchery. news ad December 7, 1934.
4. Third Annual Poultry Show opens today at racetrack. Arcadia Tribune. December 1, 1938.
5. First readings of 3 proposed ordinances regulating...poultry. news clip. March 1956.
6. Fifth Annual Santa Anita Poultry, Pigeon and Game Bird Show premium list and program. December, 1940.
7. "Poultry ordinance passed by council on initial reading." Arcadia Tribune, Thursday, March 22, 1956.
8. Arcadia Municipal Code 4136--Keeping Restricted. After January 1, 1961, no person shall keep or maintain upon any premises in the City chickens, rabbits, poultry or fowl, ... in excess of ten..." Printed from the World Wide Web on April 14, 2005.
9. "Six hens for every family." Arcadia Journal, March 30, 1918, page 1.
10. Newspaper ad for auction of Commercial Chicken Ranch at 1210 S. Fourth Avenue, Arcadia, California. Lot size and equipment are given, 3500 chickens included in the sale. Los Angeles Times, September 16, 1945.
11. Newspaper ad for Pike-Krenz Hatchery at 641 Lemon Avenue, Arcadia, CA. Shows Pike-Krenz logo. Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1927.
12. Ad for Golden West Rhode Island Red Poultry Ranch, 752 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA. O.A. Talle, proprietor. Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical), November 29, 1925.
13. Many Chickens. Deputy Assessor G. G. Meade finds that there are 140,000 chickens in Arcadia, at 93 ranches. Pasadena Star News, May 16, 1921.
View north up Santa Anita Avenue with mountains in background. This photo was taken about where present Orange Grove Avenue intersects with Santa Anita Avenue. Note orange groves all along west side of Santa Anita as far as the mountains. Street is not paved.