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Two Olympic torchbearers on Santa Anita Avenue as part of the Olympic Torch Relay for the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles. Motorcycle police escort also visible.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1279
Date
July 22, 1984

  1 image

Date
July 22, 1984
Subjects
Olympic Games, 1984
Olympic Torch Relay, 1984
Physical Description
5x7 color
ID
1270
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Welcome to Arcadia sign. Community of Homes. Location unidentified. Photograph by Terry Miller. See also ID 2207.

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Date
April 2001

  1 image

Date
April 2001
Subjects
Arcadia welcome signs
Physical Description
4x6 b&w
ID
2215
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Close-up of two Olympic torchbearers on Santa Anita Avenue in Arcadia as part of the Olympic Torch Relay for the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1278
Date
July 22, 1984

  1 image

Date
July 22, 1984
Subjects
Olympic Games, 1984
Olympic Torch Relay, 1984
Physical Description
5x7 color
ID
1269
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Night time view of Huntington Drive where "Arcadia" sign (also referred to as a Welcome sign) and Pines Coffee Shop (left) are visible. Was the scene of car crash involving two or more automobiles outside Thrifty Drug Store. See also 1775, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782. Back side is handwritten, "Peo. Ex A-1, #21583."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1865
Date
1940s or 1950s

  1 image

Date
1940s or 1950s
Subjects
Arcadia Police
Automobiles
Physical Description
8 x 10 b & w
ID
1786
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Three signs on electric light pole read Welcome to Arcadia, Neighborhood Watch Program in Force, and Fireworks-Use, Sale, Storage and Possession Prohibited. Location unknown. Photograph by Terry Miller. See also ID 2215.

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Date
April 2001

  1 image

Date
April 2001
Subjects
Arcadia welcome signs
Physical Description
4x6 b&w
ID
2207
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Part of Olympic Torch Relay for the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles with old car in front. Torchbearers not visible.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1280
Date
July 22, 1984

  1 image

Date
July 22, 1984
Subjects
Olympic Games, 1984
Olympic Torch Relay, 1984
Physical Description
5x7 color
ID
1271
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Police escort for Olympic Torch Relay for the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles with two torchbearers barely visible.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1281
Date
July 22, 1984

  1 image

Date
July 22, 1984
Subjects
Olympic Games, 1984
Olympic Torch Relay, 1984
Physical Description
5x7 color
ID
1272
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

The library does not have a print of this negative. See also descriptions of 983A and 983B. This negative is of the last two pages of Baldwin advertising brochure, c.1891. It appears on p.49 of WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1396
Date
original dated c.1891

  1 image

Date
original dated c.1891
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Physical Description
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 negative
ID
983C
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View of Herbert's Cafe from center of Alice Street right at intersection with Santa Anita. (Main fire house for Arcadia is presently located there.) There is a wagon wheel mounted near front. It was owned by Herbert and Catherine Schmidt from 1939-1957. See Arcadia VF-Restaurants, bars, etc. for further information regarding special days and how they were celebrated here.

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Date
c. 1950

  1 image

Date
c. 1950
Subjects
Restaurants-Herbert's Cafe
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
843
Collection
Photographs
Images
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The Hiram Unruh home located on SE corner of First Avenue and Huntington Drive. This view is looking SE from center of Huntington Drive. Overhead is highway sign (also referred to as a "Welcome" sign) which hung over this intersection reading: ARCADIA.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs962
Date
c.1927 or 1928 or 1933 (see VF Historic Houses Item #6)

  1 image

Date
c.1927 or 1928 or 1933 (see VF Historic Houses Item #6)
Subjects
Historic houses
Unruh, Hiram Augustus
First Avenue
Huntington Drive
Welcome signs
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
956
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Portraits of eight members of the Arcadia Fire Department, taken from a page of the "Arcadia Police & Fireman Relief Association Annual Souvenir" (see Arcadia VF-Police-Archives). Pictured are Paul Armstrong, Frank Roush, P.J. Schumacher, A.P. VanWormer, John Market, Donald Ott, P. Weberg, and J.C. Hinman.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1347
Date
1927

  1 image

The library does not have a print of this negative. This negative, along with negatives 983A and 983C, appears on p.49 of WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET. They are of a Baldwin advertising brochure, c.1891. This negative is of the first two pages of narative. See also description of 983A and 983C.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1395
Date
original dated c.1891

  1 image

Date
original dated c.1891
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Physical Description
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 negative
ID
983B
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Scene of car crash involving two or more automobiles outside Thrifty Drug Store at night. A fire truck is on the scene. "Arcadia" sign (also referred to as a welcome sign) and neighboring Vail's Jewelers are visible. This Thrifty Drug Store was listed at 59 E. Huntington Drive, starting in the 1952 city directory. See also 1775, 1777, 1778, 1779, 1780, 1782, 1786. Back side is handwritten, "Peo. Ex A-7, #21583."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1860
Date
Early 1950s

  1 image

Date
Early 1950s
Subjects
Arcadia Police
Automobiles
Physical Description
8 x 10 b & w
ID
1781
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View north across ranch fields from approximate location of Huntington Drive near present Baldwin White Building. May have been fruit packing shed according to map drawn from memory by Lupe Cuellar. (See photo #123. Also see photo #15 taken from almost the same location.) San Gabriel Mountains across photo.

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Date
1937

  1 image

Date
1937
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Baldwin Ranch
San Gabriel Mountains
Physical Description
6x10 b&w
ID
122
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Wider angle back view of the scene of car crash involving two or more automobiles outside Thrifty Drug Store at night. Part of "Arcadia" sign (also referred to as a "Welcome" sign) and neighboring Vail's Jewelers are visible. This Thrifty Drug Store was listed at 59 E. Huntington Drive, starting in the 1952 city directory. See also 1775, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1786. Back side is handwritten, "Peo. Ex A-3, #21583."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1858
Date
Early 1950s

  1 image

Date
Early 1950s
Subjects
Arcadia Police
Automobiles
Physical Description
8 x 10 b & w
ID
1779
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Female employees of the Arcadia Police Department. Standing is Flora Mae Keeville, the Chief's secretary September 1956-March 1959, flipping through a file cabinet. There is a radio on top of the cabinet. Sitting is Mary Desmond, a steno clerk from October 1955-November 1958, at a manual typewriter. See also photograph #1761.

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Date
Mid 1950s

  1 image

Date
Mid 1950s
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Keeville, Flora Mae
Desmond, Mary
Physical Description
8 x 10 b & w
ID
1762
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring Olympic rings, flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior furnishings and details such as globe pendant lights, and shelving

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Date
1968

  1 image

Date
1968
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989
Summer Reading Club
Reading programs
Physical Description
5x3 1/2 color
ID
2259F
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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

  1 image

Date
c.1962
Subjects
Balloon School
Arcadia County Park
Hoeppel, John H.
Physical Description
9x11 b&w
ID
185
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Automobile accident on unknown street, believed to be in Arcadia, CA. People and police stand near the scene of the car crash, while traffic lines the opposite side of the street. See also 1773.

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Date
1940s or 1950s

  1 image

Date
1940s or 1950s
Subjects
Arcadia Police
Automobile accidents
Physical Description
8 x 10 b & w
ID
1783
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View north toward mountains from Huntington Drive near Golden West at the time of the opening of Santa Anita Village Tract. Note on the large sign the price of $695 for a lot. Tract opened March 29, 1939. See also History Room Box A and History Room Box 2.

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Date
c.1940

  1 image

Date
c.1940
Subjects
Santa Anita Village
San Gabriel Mountains
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
874
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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