A boy and a girl pose, each with an egg, standing behind crates, while a crowd looks on at Arcadia Recreation Department Easter egg event. San Gabriel Mountains in the background. Photograph by Paul Kennedy, Arcadia, CA.
Recreation Department Easter Egg Coloring event. Many children seated on benches are participating in egg dyeing, an Easter tradition. Several adult women are supervising or instructing.
Recreation Department Easter Egg event. Two boys and a girl seem to have been each awarded an Easter basket by a man. Onlookers are behind a fence. Names listed on back of photo: Jack Wiltse, Georgia Emmett, Ken Scott, James Edward Connor.
A boy and girl are shown with live Easter bunnies, with two men and four other children standing around. Hugo Reid statue is in the background at Arcadia County Park. Hugo Reid Statue has since moved to a location between the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage and the Arcadia Community Center. Photograph by Paul Kennedy, Arcadia, CA.
Photo of complimentary day pass to 1908-1909 season at Baldwin's Santa Anita Race Track signed by F.G. Randle, secretary and treasurer of Los Angeles Racing Association.
A view of dirt path or trail, trees, shrubs, and the San Gabriel Mountains, looking northeast from Wilderness Park on a cloudy day. Photo by Terry Miller.
A view of dirt path or trail, trees, shrubs, and the San Gabriel Mountains, looking northeast from Wilderness Park on a cloudy day. Photo by Terry Miller.
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.
Intersection of Huntington Drive and First Avenue on Armistice Day, 1936 (1934?). There are two girls dressed as nurses driving a carriage pulled by a horse. Both carriage and horse and decorated. The Arcadia sign hangs overhead.
View NW up Santa Anita Wash toward San Gabriel Mountains. Caption says this was taken from Pacific Electric Railroad tracks toward Orange Street (this is present day Colorado Street).
Arcadia High School under construction with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background. There is a large sign giving name of construction company and the architectural firm responsible.
View toward NE on a winter's day that shows snow on San Gabriel Mountains. The street seen is Holly Avenue which has just been paved. This was taken from the Mauch Ranch on Holly Avenue near Palm Avenue.
Apparently another view taken on visitors' day at Ross Field (as in photo #176). In this photo, balloon is on the ground with basket. Military truck shows on right side of photo with a sign marked "4" in front of truck. Group of people on left; small girl in checkered blouse is closest figure.
Monrovia donkey car on Myrtle Avenue. These people identified: extreme left, John McWilliams, driver and owner; Sammy Wilson in big hat; Ben Crews (pharmacist whose daughter was a Monrovia librarian), Archie Wiggins, in apron. (note: Donkey would pull the car up the hill and when it made the run back down Myrtle, donkey would stand on a platform at back of car and ride down.)
Eight civic minded men armed with shovels have apparently just installed sign reading: Give the Boys a Lift. This would have been during World War II when thousands of Army personnel were stationed in Arcadia and the sign designed to encourage residents to give the soldiers rides into Pasadena or other locations.