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Panoramic view of Santa Anita Park taken from south parking area near water drainage course that formerly cut across property. View is looking north toward the mountains and includes everything from the club house(on the right) to the far west end of the grandstand. It is a crystal clear day.

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Date: c.1953

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Date: c.1953

Subjects: Santa Anita Park-1945-1980

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 987

Collection: Photographs

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Zoning map of City of Arcadia.

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Date: June 1940

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Date: June 1940

Subjects: Real estate; City planning

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 530

Collection: Photographs

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Page of articles relating to Arcadia real estate and zoning.

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Date: Dec. 1939

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Date: Dec. 1939

Subjects: Real estate; City planning

Physical Description: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 b&w

ID: 533

Collection: Photographs

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Same setting as photograph #1757, but eighteen men in suits standing. Pennant on the wall reads Arcadia Mounted Police with "Queen City" seal. Fourth man from the left, front row, is holding a lit cigarette.

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Date: 1940s or 1950s

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Date: 1940s or 1950s

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department

Physical Description: 8 x 10 b & w

ID: 1758

Collection: Photographs

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Village street scene from set of "On the Road to Singapore," filmed at the Arboretum in 1940. Film starred Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

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Date: c.1940

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Date: c.1940

Subjects: Arboretum; Film industry; Motion pictures

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1361

Collection: Photographs

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Clara Baldwin Stocker on right with unidentified man and woman standing behind a mock railroad car bearing a sign which reads, "RENO SPECIAL." This appears to be the same setting as in photo #1554, with a different man.

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Date: c.1914-1915

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Date: c.1914-1915

Subjects: Baldwin Stocker, Clara

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1556

Collection: Photographs

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House at 180 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, located just north of the municipal athletic field adjacent to Arcadia City Hall, showing tree in front, taken from across the street on Huntington Drive. It was part of the Le Meridien hotel land but is being sold Salvation Army and moving to Pasadena. In the year 2000 this was the location of Oakcrest Adult Rehabilitation Center. In this photo, its downstairs windows are boarded up. See document "State Wars on Bookies." A house at 180 West Huntington Drive in Arcadia was raided and four men were arrested who were using binoculars to catch the race results and flashing them to bookmakers throughout the nation. Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1938.

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Date: November, 2020

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Date: November, 2020

Subjects: Historic houses

Physical Description: Digital image

Collection: Photographs

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House at 180 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, located just north of the municipal athletic field adjacent to Arcadia City Hall, peeking out over the fence that separates it from the athletic field. It was part of the Le Meridien hotel land but is being sold Salvation Army and moving to Pasadena. In the year 2000 this was the location of Oakcrest Adult Rehabilitation Center. In this photo, its downstairs windows are boarded up. See document "State Wars on Bookies." A house at 180 West Huntington Drive in Arcadia was raided and four men were arrested who were using binoculars to catch the race results and flashing them to bookmakers throughout the nation. Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1938.

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Date: November, 2020

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Date: November, 2020

Subjects: Historic houses

Physical Description: Digital image

Collection: Photographs

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Man is riding bicycle on a path inside Rancho Santa Anita Park and Lake (later, the Arboretum), with many palm trees. Sign reads "Open to the Public Daily until 7PM, private property" and "Curves, drive slowly through park." The following information is from Sandy Snider: This is indeed, today’s Arboretum, but at the time the property was owned by a real estate syndicate named Rancho Santa Anita Inc. The enterprise was headed by the Chandler family (Harry until he died), and they bought the land from Anita Baldwin in 1936 for purposes of residential development. About 1939 they opened “the park” to visitors in hopes of encouraging land sales. About 30 acres surrounding the lake was sort of set aside as Santa Anita Park and Lake, that was roughly the area made available for movie location rentals and clearly for bicyclists, etc. 1939 is the circa date for this photograph, but it could have been anytime between 1936 and 1947 (when the land was sold to State and County for use as an Arboretum). The granite boulders lining roadways were typical Baldwin Ranch landscape features, and the pillars seen in the photo are also from Baldwin times. In the background you can see more boulders in a circular sort of shape – likely the old Baldwin Lily Pond.

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Date: c.1939

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Date: c.1939

Subjects: Arboretum; Rancho Santa Anita

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 2170

Collection: Photographs

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House at 180 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, located just north of the municipal athletic field adjacent to Arcadia City Hall, showing part of Le Meridien Hotel to the northeast (left), taken from across the street on Huntington Drive. It was part of the Le Meridien hotel land but is being sold Salvation Army and moving to Pasadena. In the year 2000 this was the location of Oakcrest Adult Rehabilitation Center. In this photo, its downstairs windows are boarded up. See document "State Wars on Bookies." A house at 180 West Huntington Drive in Arcadia was raided and four men were arrested who were using binoculars to catch the race results and flashing them to bookmakers throughout the nation. Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1938.

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Date: November, 2020

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Date: November, 2020

Subjects: Historic houses

Physical Description: Digital image

Collection: Photographs

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Officers from Ross Field gathered around (and in) basket of balloon which landed on Baldwin Avenue.

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Date: unknown

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Date: unknown

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1273

Collection: Photographs

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Three men in suits, posing with a National Safety Council Award for the Arcadia Police Department. Date on award reads 1955-1956. Men in the middle is Eric Topel. See also photo ID 1769.

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Date: 1956

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Date: 1956

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department; Awards; Topel, Eric

Physical Description: 8 x 10 b & w

ID: 1768

Collection: Photographs

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Three men in suits, holding a National Safety Council Award for the Arcadia Police Department. Date on award reads 1955-1956. Man on the right is Eric Topel. See also photo ID 1768.

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Date: 1956

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Date: 1956

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department; Awards; Topel, Eric

Physical Description: 8 x 10 b & w

ID: 1769

Collection: Photographs

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Winners of the Bicycle Rodeo, an event sponsored by Arcadia Police Department and Arcadia Recreation Department, from left to right: Albert Schneider (winner boys 8-14 year old group), Bruce Frazier (winner boys 8 and under), Juanita Curti (winner girls 14 and under), Betsy Bosil (winner girls 8 and under). Pictured behind the children left to right are Police Chief William Orr and Patrolman William Goodman. The Bicycle Rodeo was a contest in bicycle safety and riding skill. Winners received nighttime riding lights and electric horns. The awards were the culmination of bicycle safety instruction offered at Arcadia playgrounds throughout the summer by William Goodman. A similar version of this photograph appeared in Arcadia Tribune, p. 6, August 23, 1956.

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Date: August 1956

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Date: August 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Bicycle safety; Bosil, Betsy; Children; Curti, Juanita; Frazier, Bruce; Goodman, William; Orr, William; Schneider, Albert

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

ID: 1905

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of Louis Paulhan flying his Farman plane on its return to Aviation Park after setting an air distance record by flying to circle the Baldwin Ranch and returning to Dominguez Hills. This photograph belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date: January 1910

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Date: January 1910

Subjects: Aeronautics; Paulhan, Louis

Physical Description: 7x9 b&w

ID: 1131

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of one plaque that was placed commemorating Balloon School and another plaque in honor of Lt. John Hoeppel, who was responsible for getting the land from U.S. government for Los Angeles County Park. See also photo #184.

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Date: c.1962

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Date: c.1962

Subjects: Balloon School; Arcadia County Park; Hoeppel, John H.

Physical Description: 9x11 b&w

ID: 185

Collection: Photographs

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View looking south down Santa Anita Ave. from a point just where road starts up toward Chantry Flats. Note that eucalyptus trees have been removed from Santa Anita and present plantings are still very small. As of 1980, houses fill land shown in foreground of the photo.

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Date: c.1960

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Date: c.1960

Subjects: Santa Anita Avenue

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 902

Collection: Photographs

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House at 180 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, located just north of the municipal athletic field adjacent to Arcadia City Hall. It was part of the Le Meridien hotel land but is being sold Salvation Army and moving to Pasadena. In the year 2000 this was the location of Oakcrest Adult Rehabilitation Center. In this photo, its downstairs windows are boarded up. See document "State Wars on Bookies." A house at 180 West Huntington Drive in Arcadia was raided and four men were arrested who were using binoculars to catch the race results and flashing them to bookmakers throughout the nation. Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1938.

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Date: November, 2020

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Date: November, 2020

Subjects: Historic houses

Physical Description: Digital image

Collection: Photographs

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House at 180 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, located just north of the municipal athletic field adjacent to Arcadia City Hall. It was part of the Le Meridien hotel land but is being sold Salvation Army and moving to Pasadena. In the year 2000 this was the location of Oakcrest Adult Rehabilitation Center. In this photo, notice its house numbers in disrepair. See document "State Wars on Bookies." A house at 180 West Huntington Drive in Arcadia was raided and four men were arrested who were using binoculars to catch the race results and flashing them to bookmakers throughout the nation. Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1938.

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Date: November, 2020

1 image

Date: November, 2020

Subjects: Historic houses

Physical Description: Digital image

Collection: Photographs

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Photo taken looking north from possibly Duarte Road, of 120 acres of tomatoes being grown on Baldwin Ranch land. In photo, highest mountain on right side of photo is Monrovia Peak. Big Santa Anita Canyon comes down to the left of it. Oversized.

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Date: 1914

1 image

Date: 1914

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita; Baldwin Ranch; San Gabriel Mountains

Physical Description: 3x15 b&w

ID: 124

Collection: Photographs

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Panoramic view of Santa Anita Park taken from south parking area near water drainage course that formerly cut across property. View is looking north toward the mountains and includes everything from the club house(on the right) to the far west end of the grandstand. It is a crystal clear day.

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Zoning map of City of Arcadia.

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Page of articles relating to Arcadia real estate and zoning.

Images

Same setting as photograph #1757, but eighteen men in suits standing. Pennant on the wall reads Arcadia Mounted Police with "Queen City" seal. Fourth man from the left, front row, is holding a lit cigarette.

Images

Village street scene from set of "On the Road to Singapore," filmed at the Arboretum in 1940. Film starred Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

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Clara Baldwin Stocker on right with unidentified man and woman standing behind a mock railroad car bearing a sign which reads, "RENO SPECIAL." This appears to be the same setting as in photo #1554, with a different man.

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Officers from Ross Field gathered around (and in) basket of balloon which landed on Baldwin Avenue.

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Three men in suits, posing with a National Safety Council Award for the Arcadia Police Department. Date on award reads 1955-1956. Men in the middle is Eric Topel. See also photo ID 1769.

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Three men in suits, holding a National Safety Council Award for the Arcadia Police Department. Date on award reads 1955-1956. Man on the right is Eric Topel. See also photo ID 1768.

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Photo of Louis Paulhan flying his Farman plane on its return to Aviation Park after setting an air distance record by flying to circle the Baldwin Ranch and returning to Dominguez Hills. This photograph belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Photo of one plaque that was placed commemorating Balloon School and another plaque in honor of Lt. John Hoeppel, who was responsible for getting the land from U.S. government for Los Angeles County Park. See also photo #184.

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View looking south down Santa Anita Ave. from a point just where road starts up toward Chantry Flats. Note that eucalyptus trees have been removed from Santa Anita and present plantings are still very small. As of 1980, houses fill land shown in foreground of the photo.

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Photo taken looking north from possibly Duarte Road, of 120 acres of tomatoes being grown on Baldwin Ranch land. In photo, highest mountain on right side of photo is Monrovia Peak. Big Santa Anita Canyon comes down to the left of it. Oversized.

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