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The Santa Anita Inn sign at 130 West Huntington Drive. Photograph by Terry Miller.

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Date: April 2001

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Date: April 2001

Subjects: Hotels and motels; Santa Anita Inn; Signs

Physical Description: 4x6 b&w

ID: 2222

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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Dewey Butler's Sweet Corn Stand is shown next to the Santa Anita Motor Inn, which opened in 1938. There are four cars parked in front of the stand. Hand written note in scrapbook states, "Dewey Butler's - Golden Bantam Corn, and Melon Stand on Huntington Drive just west of the Santa Anita Motor Inn. The Sweetest corn and melon's you ever tasted, grown in the matchless soil of Old Rancho Santa Anita."

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Date: c.1938-1939

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Date: c.1938-1939

Subjects: Dewey Butler's Corn Stand; Hotels, motels, etc - Santa Anita Motor Inn

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1528

Collection: Photographs

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Dewey Butler's Sweet Corn stand with three cars parked at an angle in front is shown next to the Santa Anita Motor Inn, which opened in 1938 at 101 W. Huntington Drive.

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Date: c.1938-1939

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Date: c.1938-1939

Subjects: Dewey Butler's Sweet Corn; Hotels, motels, etc - Santa Anita Motor Inn

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1527

Collection: Photographs

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Ramada Inn at 130 W. Huntington Drive. Photo taken from across Huntington Drive. Includes the sign and parking lot. Former location of Lyon's Pony Express Museum.

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Date: 1979

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Date: 1979

Subjects: Ramada Inn; Pony Express Museum

Physical Description: 4x5 color

ID: 1220

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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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Charles Gilb at the podium.

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Date: January 11, 1990

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Date: January 11, 1990

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Council; Arcadia Community Center groundbreaking; Gilb, Charles

Physical Description: 3 3/4 x 4 1/2 color

ID: 1966

Collection: Photographs

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Roger Chandler at the podium.

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Date: January 11, 1990

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Date: January 11, 1990

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Council; Arcadia Community Center groundbreaking; Chandler, Roger

Physical Description: 3 3/4 x 4 1/2 color

ID: 1967

Collection: Photographs

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Mary Young at the podium.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1988

Date: January 11, 1990

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Date: January 11, 1990

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Council; Arcadia Community Center groundbreaking; Young, Mary

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 color

ID: 1968

Collection: Photographs

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Robert Harbicht at the podium.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1989

Date: January 11, 1990

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Date: January 11, 1990

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Council; Arcadia Community Center groundbreaking; Harbicht, Robert

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 color

ID: 1969

Collection: Photographs

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Dennis Lojeski at the podium.

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Date: January 11, 1990

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Date: January 11, 1990

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Council; Arcadia Community Center groundbreaking; Lojeski, Dennis

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 color

ID: 1970

Collection: Photographs

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Construction in progress of the one-story Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Workers are pouring concrete or cement with a funnel into the foundation. Seven men shown. Cars and trucks from the 1950s era are parked along the construction site.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1784

Date: 1956

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Date: 1956

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department

Physical Description: 8 x 10 b & w

ID: 1817

Collection: Photographs

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City council member Charles Gilb holds the end of a shovel, with unidentified woman.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1998

Date: January 11, 1990

1 image

Date: January 11, 1990

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Council; Arcadia Community Center groundbreaking; Gilb, Charles

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 color

ID: 1978

Collection: Photographs

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Construction site of a multi-story building at NW corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue.

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Date: July 8, 1987

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Date: July 8, 1987

Subjects: Arcadia(City)-History-1980-1989; Huntington Drive; First Avenue

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1191

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of Westerner Hotel/Motel built c. 1947, at 161 Colorado Place. View is toward NE and the mountains near Sawpit Canyon.

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Date: c.1949

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Date: c.1949

Subjects: Westerner Motel

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

ID: 286

Collection: Photographs

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City council member Robert Harbicht holds a shovel and shakes hand with unidentified man.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs2000

Date: January 11, 1990

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Date: January 11, 1990

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia City Council; Arcadia Community Center groundbreaking; Harbicht, Robert

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 color

ID: 1980

Collection: Photographs

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Side view photo of Oakwood Hotel with a Tally Ho stopped here with its full party. Hotel was built in 1889 and was situated about where parking lot of the Sportsrock Cafe is now.

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Date: c.1890's

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Date: c.1890's

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 285

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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Looking toward front entrance and show room area of Huntington Ford (automobile dealership) which was located at 55 W. Huntington Drive. Note left side of photo, the tower of Santa Anita Motor Inn can be seen.

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Date: May 1966

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Date: May 1966

Subjects: Huntington Ford

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1033

Collection: Photographs

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Huntington House apartment buildings at 891 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA. Built by Dolph Carter Dodds. 1950s cars parked in front of apartments.

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Date: 1950s

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Date: 1950s

Subjects: Apartments; Dodd, Dolph Carter

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 2169D

Collection: Photographs

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The Santa Anita Inn sign at 130 West Huntington Drive. Photograph by Terry Miller.

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Dewey Butler's Sweet Corn stand with three cars parked at an angle in front is shown next to the Santa Anita Motor Inn, which opened in 1938 at 101 W. Huntington Drive.

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Ramada Inn at 130 W. Huntington Drive. Photo taken from across Huntington Drive. Includes the sign and parking lot. Former location of Lyon's Pony Express Museum.

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Huntington Bank on First Avenue between Wheeler and Santa Clara Streets. Former site of Oakwood Hotel.

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Charles Gilb at the podium.

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Roger Chandler at the podium.

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Mary Young at the podium.

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Robert Harbicht at the podium.

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City Council member Dennis Lojeski at the podium.

Images

Construction in progress of the one-story Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Workers are pouring concrete or cement with a funnel into the foundation. Seven men shown. Cars and trucks from the 1950s era are parked along the construction site.

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City council member Charles Gilb holds the end of a shovel, with unidentified woman.

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Construction site of a multi-story building at NW corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue.

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Photo of Westerner Hotel/Motel built c. 1947, at 161 Colorado Place. View is toward NE and the mountains near Sawpit Canyon.

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ID #1966-1987 show groundbreaking ceremony for the Arcadia Community Center, to be built soon at the site at Holly Avenue and Huntington Drive. City council member Robert Harbicht holds a shovel and shakes hand with unidentified man.

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Side view photo of Oakwood Hotel with a Tally Ho stopped here with its full party. Hotel was built in 1889 and was situated about where parking lot of the Sportsrock Cafe is now.

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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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Looking toward front entrance and show room area of Huntington Ford (automobile dealership) which was located at 55 W. Huntington Drive. Note left side of photo, the tower of Santa Anita Motor Inn can be seen.

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Huntington House apartment buildings at 891 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA. Built by Dolph Carter Dodds. 1950s cars parked in front of apartments.

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