William Parker Lyon, owner of Pony Express Museum, dressed in plaid shirt with black sleeve protectors common to the trade of the printer. He is standing beside an old printing press. Behind him can be seen the compartments which held the type.
Group of 30 students and one teacher standing by the "little red schoolhouse." It was on corner of California and Santa Anita Avenue and had been converted out of a vacant saloon. It was pressed into service when students outgrew new building that opened in 1907. We believe African-American boy in second row is Julian Fisher.
Lyon Pony Express Museum -- Sharp's Indian Trading Post was one of several buildings that comprised W. Parker Lyon's Pony Express Museum in Arcadia. Located at the intersection of Huntington Drive and Colorado Place, the Museum was a popular City attraction from the mid-1930s until the early 1950s.
Lyon Pony Express Museum -- Sharp's Indian Trading Post was one of several buildings that comprised W. Parker Lyon's Pony Express Museum in Arcadia. Located at the intersection of Huntington Drive and Colorado Place, the Museum was a popular City attraction from the mid-1930s until the early 1950s.
Scale on display at Pony Express Museum. This is a photocopy. Original is in the Pony Express Museum Scrapbook, Box 31, in the Arcadia History Room shelf B.
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.
Some Holly Avenue School students on front lawn of school (fronting on Duarte Road) dressed in bird costumes for a May Day program. The only one identified is 4th from left in front row. She is Myrtle Van Houten Baker.
Photo from the program of the MUSIC MAN shows: Linda Smith (as Mrs. Paroo); John Samson (as Winthrop Paroo); and James Dean (as Professor Harold Hill). All were in the production put on by the High School.
William Parker Lyon Pony Express Museum-entryway to exhibit room. Sign reads W. Parker Lyon, from which a bell hangs. Another sign reads Wells Fargo & Co Express. Watch or clock shaped signs read Ingersoll Watches and Sherrard Jeweler. Hobby horses and small wooden chairs on either side of the entrance. Print of this photo is in the W. Parker Lyon Pony Express Museum Scrapbook, Box 31, in History Room, Shelf B3.
Kay and Ruth Clifford (he was recent member of Arcadia School Board) are being driven in Diamond Jubilee Parade in what looks like old Ford convertible with a rumble seat.
Photo of a single sheet on the Parker Lyon Pony Express Museum that gives names of officers and directors. There are also two photos of Museum on sheet.
Four gardeners working on a grassy lawn, with tools of their trade--lawn mower, buckets, and shovel--possibly on a golf course, and probably Par 3 Golf Course in Arcadia.