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Oakwood Hotel

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Contents: 1. The Oakwood resort hotel. ("The View from Arcadia," August 10, 1972) 2. Arcadia's Oakwood Hotel. news The from T.V.Facts October-November 1973? 3. Oakwood Hotel - site. Information sheet. 4. Popular name. Handwritten information sheet on popular name. 5. The Oakwood Hotel was built. new…

Contents: 1. The Oakwood resort hotel. ("The View from Arcadia," August 10, 1972); 2. Arcadia's Oakwood Hotel. news The from T.V.Facts October-November 1973?; 3. Oakwood Hotel - site. Information sheet.; 4. Popular name. Handwritten information sheet on popular name.; 5. The Oakwood Hotel was built. news The, n.d.; 6. Arcadia's birth place. Daily News Post March 20, 1962.; 7. Fifty years ago today - March 1912. news clip, March ? 1962 about subsequent owner of Oakwood.; 8. Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel. photocopy of letterhead December 17, 1890.; 9. Pacific Coast hotel and apartment record - 1916. copied form original at Huntington Library.; 10. Oakwood Hotel closes in spring...handwritten note taken from news clip March 2, 1908.; 11. Lucky's lavish hotel put Arcadia on the road to respectability. news clip February 16, 1978; 12. Hotel used as boxing training camp. news clip February 1, 1979 and February 9, 1979.; 13. Fairyland Park - Baldwin's Ranch. photocopy photo from L.A. Racing Association Souvenir Program, 1907.; 14. Advertisement in Sierra Madre Vista paper. January 26, 1889.; 15. The Hotel Oakwood at Arcadia opened for the season recently. Copied from original news clips of November 20 and December 25, 1890 at the Huntington Library.; 16. Bill of Fare Fair. news clip Arcadia Tribune c. 1950.; 17. Notes on Oakwood taken from Monrovia Messenger December 26, 1889. Information provided by Sandy Snider, Los Angeles County Arboretum, 1979.; 18. Copy of letter dated May 20, 1890 from H. Unruh to R. Garvey on Oakwood Hotel stationary. Copied from original owned by Jack Donnelly March 3, 1981.; 19. First wheels, then ponies go round near City Hall. Daily News Post January 30, 1972.; 20. A monster hotel (a $500,000 four story building for Arcadia). Monrovia Planet April 2, 1887 p.2.; 21. The Baldwin Tallac Oakwood - E.J. Baldwin Proprietor. Copy of promotional brochure of Baldwin's Hotel Oakwood, n.d.

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Item ID: 157AF

Collection: Subject Files

View of Oakwood Hotel from across the railroad tracks. On the front of the photo is written, "Lucky Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel Arcadia - Calif. 1895." There are several people standing in front of the hotel. A carriage is to the left by the large oak tree.

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Date: c.1895

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Date: c.1895

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 4x5 b&w

ID: 282

Collection: Photographs

Images

Three tally-hos are seen parked in front of the Oakwood Hotel. Sign on the front of the hotel reads BALDWIN'S HOTEL OAKWOOD. The middle tally-ho has a white horse. There are people sitting in the tally-hos and one man standing at the rear of the middle tally-ho.

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Date: unknown

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Date: unknown

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1632

Collection: Photographs

Images

View of Oakwood Hotel, close enough to show its brick construction. There appears to be a bird cage on front terrace of Hotel.

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Date: 1890's

1 image

Date: 1890's

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 281

Collection: Photographs

Images

Oakwood Hotel seen as just a brick shell immediately after the fire which destroyed it.

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Date: Nov. 11 or 12, 1911

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Date: Nov. 11 or 12, 1911

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1078

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of a page from the 1907 Los Angeles Racing Association Souvenir Booklet showing "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's Ranch." The Oakwood Hotel is just visible to the right of the photo. The large oak tree dominates the center of the photo.

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Date: 1907 season

1 image

Date: 1907 season

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1352

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

1 image

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

1 image

Date: c.1895

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 283

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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One carriage and two tally hos are stopped in front of Oakwood Hotel. About 18 people are seated in the conveyances. White horses hitched to middle tally ho, have white plumes fixed to their harness. Sign above reads: Hotel Oakwood - Entrance to Fairyland. On the bottom of photo is printed: Baldwin's Ranch, Arcadia, Cal.

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Date: c.1905

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Date: c.1905

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel; Fairyland Park

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 928

Collection: Photographs

Images

Oakwood Hotel. On right edge of photo, Santa Fe steam engine is coming into view. There are four men seen standing near Hotel. There is a man in a buggy with two horses standing in shade of what appears to be an oak tree. One lady stands on second floor porch.

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Date: c.1890

1 image

Date: c.1890

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 897

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of a portion of veranda around ground floor of Oakwood Hotel. One man is seen walking, two are sitting and one lady is seen at the far right. A horse is partly seen on the right.

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Date: c.1898

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Date: c.1898

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 939

Collection: Photographs

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Another view of Oakwood Hotel just after being destroyed by fire. Standing beside structure are an older and younger sister of Vesta Tucker Reeves. Their father was Lowen Tucker, ranch foreman for Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin.

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Date: Nov. 12, 1911

1 image

Date: Nov. 12, 1911

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1079

Collection: Photographs

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Photo reduction of p.13 pt. I of November 28, 1911 Los Angeles Times newspaper. Contains photo with caption describing fire which totally destroyed Oakwood Hotel on November 26, 1911, a Sunday night.

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Date: 1911

1 image

Date: 1911

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 390

Collection: Photographs

Images

General information re library

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 1, 1961 p. 3 (historical documents buried in "Time Box"); July 8, 1962 p. 1; July 15, 1962 p. 1; July 22, 1962 p. 1 - (controversy over "The Tropic of Cancer"); July 12, 1962 p. 1; July 19, 1962 p. 1 - (Protest over American Civil Liberties Union meeting in auditorium); November 29, 1962 p. 1; December 2, 1962 p. 1; December 6, 1962 pp. 1,10,27; December 13, 1962 p. 1; January 13, 1963 p. 1; January 20, 1963 p. 1; February 3, 1963 p. 1; March 3, 1963 p. 1 (controversy over "the Last Temptation of Christ"); December 2, 1962 p. 1; March 21, 1963 p. 1 (City Council upholds book circulation policy); April 21, 1963 p. 1 (closed book shelf policy discussed); June 23, 1963 p. 1; July 4, 1963 p. 1 (policy rejected); October 3, 1963 p. 1 (financial cooperation with Arcadia School board discussed); October 17, 1963 p. 1 (Children's room opens); October 20, 1963 p. 1 (Internal Policy and Public Relations Committees formed); May 16, 1965 p. 1 (Art and Lecture Room partially funded by City); May 15, 1966 p. 1; October 19, 1967 p. 1 (charter revisions regarding Library discussed); May 22, 1966 p. 1 (annual book loss); January 11, 1968 p. 6 (sundial); April 4, 1968 p. 16; April 14, 1968 p. 13; April 21, 1968 p. 3; May 19, 1968 p. 1; May 23, 1968 p. 1 (general articles); June 20, 1968 p. 1; June 27, 1968 p. 1 (book budget cut); April 30, 1972 p. 1 (rules of conduct tightened)

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 1, 1961 p. 3 (historical documents buried in "Time Box"); July 8, 1962 p. 1; July 15, 1962 p. 1; July 22, 1962 p. 1 - (controversy over "The Tropic of Cancer"); July 12, 1962 p. 1; July 19, 1962 p. 1 - (Protest over American Civil Liberties Union meeting in auditorium); November 29, 1962 p. 1; December 2, 1962 p. 1; December 6, 1962 pp. 1,10,27; December 13, 1962 p. 1; January 13, 1963 p. 1; January 20, 1963 p. 1; February 3, 1963 p. 1; March 3, 1963 p. 1 (controversy over "the Last Temptation of Christ"); December 2, 1962 p. 1; March 21, 1963 p. 1 (City Council upholds book circulation policy); April 21, 1963 p. 1 (closed book shelf policy discussed); June 23, 1963 p. 1; July 4, 1963 p. 1 (policy rejected); October 3, 1963 p. 1 (financial cooperation with Arcadia School board discussed); October 17, 1963 p. 1 (Children's room opens); October 20, 1963 p. 1 (Internal Policy and Public Relations Committees formed); May 16, 1965 p. 1 (Art and Lecture Room partially funded by City); May 15, 1966 p. 1; October 19, 1967 p. 1 (charter revisions regarding Library discussed); May 22, 1966 p. 1 (annual book loss); January 11, 1968 p. 6 (sundial); April 4, 1968 p. 16; April 14, 1968 p. 13; April 21, 1968 p. 3; May 19, 1968 p. 1; May 23, 1968 p. 1 (general articles); June 20, 1968 p. 1; June 27, 1968 p. 1 (book budget cut); April 30, 1972 p. 1 (rules of conduct tightened)

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library - 1961-

Item ID: 3993AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

General information re ordinances

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Newspaper: Arcadia Journal

Date: March 16, 1918 p. 1; March 23, 1918 p. 1 (building code); July 27, 1918 pp. 3-9 (Ordinance 81 dealing with fire limits and construction regulations); October 12, 1918 p. 1 (movies on Sunday)

Newspaper: Arcadia Journal

Date: March 16, 1918 p. 1; March 23, 1918 p. 1 (building code); July 27, 1918 pp. 3-9 (Ordinance 81 dealing with fire limits and construction regulations); October 12, 1918 p. 1 (movies on Sunday)

Subjects: Ordinances, Municipal

Item ID: 4034AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

General information re ordinances

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 7, 1933 p. 1; April 14, 1933 p. 1 (beer ban); April 21, 1933 p. 1 (sale legalized); May 26, 1933 p. 1; June 9, 1933 p. 1 (rules for sale); June 30, 1933 p. 1 (public dancing); November 24, 1933 p. 1 (subdivision); December 8, 1933 p. 1 ("Gangster" ordinance); March 23, 1934 p. 1 (fire zone created); August 3, 1934 p. A-2 (1914 "Dice Shaking Ordinance" 48); August 17, 1934 p. 1 (Santa Anita Race Track license fee); May 24,1935 p. 1 (study of race track license); December 6, 1935 p. 1 (Ordinance 299; Santa Anita Race Track business license); November 25, 1936 p. 1 (gambling); March 4, 1937 p. 1 (building); March 5, 1937 p. 1 (health); August 18, 1937 p. 1 (hand bills); November 29 ,1937 p. 1 (bookies); May 30, 1940 p. 1 (animals); November 28, 1940 p. 1; December 1, 1946 p. 1 (air pollution); February 20, 1947 p. 1 (curfew); March 6, 1947 p. 1 (Planning Commission); January 21, 1954 p. 1 (throw away ban); February 4, 1954 p. 1 (throw away ban); Begruary 18, 1954 p. 1 (liquor repealed); September 23, 1954 p. 1 (swimming pool cover); January 13, 1955 p. 1 (animal); September 23, 1955 p. 1 (fly control); September 29, 1955 p. 1 (burning ban); November 7, 1955 p. 1 (fly control); December 12, 1955 p. 1 (animal); December 26, 1955 p. 1 (burning ban); January 5, 1956 p. 1 (animals); January 9, 1956 p. 1 (fly control); January 26, 1956 p. 1 (rubbish); June 11, 1956 p. 1 (dog vaccination); June 21, 1956 p. 1 (lot split); July 12, 1956 p. 1 (lot split); February 14, 1957 p. 1 (liquor curfew); September 26, 1957 p. 1 (ammendment to rubbish ordinance); March 6, 1958 p. 1 (Coordinating Council suggest ban on betting by minors); February 9, 1972 p. 1 (animal regulations in R-1 area)

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: April 7, 1933 p. 1; April 14, 1933 p. 1 (beer ban); April 21, 1933 p. 1 (sale legalized); May 26, 1933 p. 1; June 9, 1933 p. 1 (rules for sale); June 30, 1933 p. 1 (public dancing); November 24, 1933 p. 1 (subdivision); December 8, 1933 p. 1 ("Gangster" ordinance); March 23, 1934 p. 1 (fire zone created); August 3, 1934 p. A-2 (1914 "Dice Shaking Ordinance" 48); August 17, 1934 p. 1 (Santa Anita Race Track license fee); May 24,1935 p. 1 (study of race track license); December 6, 1935 p. 1 (Ordinance 299; Santa Anita Race Track business license); November 25, 1936 p. 1 (gambling); March 4, 1937 p. 1 (building); March 5, 1937 p. 1 (health); August 18, 1937 p. 1 (hand bills); November 29 ,1937 p. 1 (bookies); May 30, 1940 p. 1 (animals); November 28, 1940 p. 1; December 1, 1946 p. 1 (air pollution); February 20, 1947 p. 1 (curfew); March 6, 1947 p. 1 (Planning Commission); January 21, 1954 p. 1 (throw away ban); February 4, 1954 p. 1 (throw away ban); Begruary 18, 1954 p. 1 (liquor repealed); September 23, 1954 p. 1 (swimming pool cover); January 13, 1955 p. 1 (animal); September 23, 1955 p. 1 (fly control); September 29, 1955 p. 1 (burning ban); November 7, 1955 p. 1 (fly control); December 12, 1955 p. 1 (animal); December 26, 1955 p. 1 (burning ban); January 5, 1956 p. 1 (animals); January 9, 1956 p. 1 (fly control); January 26, 1956 p. 1 (rubbish); June 11, 1956 p. 1 (dog vaccination); June 21, 1956 p. 1 (lot split); July 12, 1956 p. 1 (lot split); February 14, 1957 p. 1 (liquor curfew); September 26, 1957 p. 1 (ammendment to rubbish ordinance); March 6, 1958 p. 1 (Coordinating Council suggest ban on betting by minors); February 9, 1972 p. 1 (animal regulations in R-1 area)

Subjects: Ordinances, Municipal

Item ID: 4035AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

General information re drug abuse

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 15, 1971 p. 1; September 26, 1971 p. 1 (survey results); May 4, 1972 p. 1 (Teen Challenge program); January 7, 1973 p. 2 (IMPACT rehabilitation center)

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 15, 1971 p. 1; September 26, 1971 p. 1 (survey results); May 4, 1972 p. 1 (Teen Challenge program); January 7, 1973 p. 2 (IMPACT rehabilitation center)

Subjects: Drug Abuse

Item ID: 3898AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

General information re Arcadia Tribune

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 27, 1931 p. 1 (first anniversary; general history; list of owners and employees.); December 27, 1935 p. 1 (starts daily publication); December 17, 1936 p. 1 (first publication of United Press Serice); February 21, 1938 p. 1 (editorial policy); August 4, 1938 (Anniversary issue); October 4, 1954 p. 1 (new plant); August 17, 1972 p. 2 (history of the paper)

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 27, 1931 p. 1 (first anniversary; general history; list of owners and employees.); December 27, 1935 p. 1 (starts daily publication); December 17, 1936 p. 1 (first publication of United Press Serice); February 21, 1938 p. 1 (editorial policy); August 4, 1938 (Anniversary issue); October 4, 1954 p. 1 (new plant); August 17, 1972 p. 2 (history of the paper)

Subjects: Newspapers - Arcadia Tribune

Item ID: 4028AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

General information re Gerald O'Keefe.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 3, 1955 p. 1 (Domestic Prelate to the Vatican); March 17, 1955 p. 1 (investiture); March 11, 1973 p. 1 (retires)

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 3, 1955 p. 1 (Domestic Prelate to the Vatican); March 17, 1955 p. 1 (investiture); March 11, 1973 p. 1 (retires)

Subjects: O'Keefe, Gerald

Item ID: 4032AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

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Oakwood Hotel

View of Oakwood Hotel from across the railroad tracks. On the front of the photo is written, "Lucky Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel Arcadia - Calif. 1895." There are several people standing in front of the hotel. A carriage is to the left by the large oak tree.

Images

Three tally-hos are seen parked in front of the Oakwood Hotel. Sign on the front of the hotel reads BALDWIN'S HOTEL OAKWOOD. The middle tally-ho has a white horse. There are people sitting in the tally-hos and one man standing at the rear of the middle tally-ho.

Images

View of Oakwood Hotel, close enough to show its brick construction. There appears to be a bird cage on front terrace of Hotel.

Images

Oakwood Hotel seen as just a brick shell immediately after the fire which destroyed it.

Images

Photo of a page from the 1907 Los Angeles Racing Association Souvenir Booklet showing "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's Ranch." The Oakwood Hotel is just visible to the right of the photo. The large oak tree dominates the center of the photo.

Images

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.

Images

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.

Images

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

Images

Images

Oakwood Hotel. On right edge of photo, Santa Fe steam engine is coming into view. There are four men seen standing near Hotel. There is a man in a buggy with two horses standing in shade of what appears to be an oak tree. One lady stands on second floor porch.

Images

Photo of a portion of veranda around ground floor of Oakwood Hotel. One man is seen walking, two are sitting and one lady is seen at the far right. A horse is partly seen on the right.

Images

Another view of Oakwood Hotel just after being destroyed by fire. Standing beside structure are an older and younger sister of Vesta Tucker Reeves. Their father was Lowen Tucker, ranch foreman for Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin.

Images

Photo reduction of p.13 pt. I of November 28, 1911 Los Angeles Times newspaper. Contains photo with caption describing fire which totally destroyed Oakwood Hotel on November 26, 1911, a Sunday night.

Images

General information re library

General information re ordinances

General information re ordinances

General information re drug abuse

General information re Arcadia Tribune

General information re Gerald O'Keefe.