Interior view of order and pick up windows at Taco Lita restaurant with menu on display above. Set in the colorful orange, yellow and white tiles on counter base is plaque: Taco Lita is dedicated to Dixie and George Muniz, September 8, 2007. Taco Lita is located at 120 E. Duarte Road in Arcadia.
Exterior view of Rod's Grill showing the south side of restaurant with its rock mosaic wall and both the sign on the front of the building and the pole sign bearing its name that stands on the west side. Customers can be seen waiting outside. Rod's was located at 41 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia, along Historic Route 66, from 1957 through February 2023.
Exterior view of Rod's Grill showing the west side of restaurant, its sign, customers waiting outside, and the street signs where it was located, the corner of Huntington Drive and Morlan Place. Rod's was located at 41 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia, along Historic Route 66, from 1957 through February 2023.
Interior view of Rod's Grill showing customers eating at counter and at tables in booths. Also pictured are some waitresses and cooks, as well as two of the historic photos that the restaurant displayed on its walls. Rod's was located at 41 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia, along Historic Route 66, from 1957 through February 2023.
Interior view of Rod's Grill showing customers eating at the counter, sitting in colorful turquoise seats. Waitresses and cooks can be seen in the kitchen area, as well as a portion of two of the historic photos that the restaurant displayed on its walls. Rod's was located at 41 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia, along Historic Route 66, from 1957 through February 2023.
Exterior view of Sir George's Restaurant at the northwest corner of Las Tunas and Santa Anita Avenue. Address was 9 West Las Tunas in Arcadia. Food was served smorgasbord / buffet style. Photograph by Terry Miller.
James N. Walker, on left and Robert L. Walker on right, owners of Walker's Bar-B-Q, are pictured in front of their business at 63 W. Huntington Drive. Their menu is painted on the building.
Exterior view of Sir George's Restaurant at the northwest corner of Las Tunas and Santa Anita Avenue, with cars in parking lot. Address was 9 West Las Tunas in Arcadia. Food was served smorgasbord / buffet style. Photograph by Terry Miller.
View north east across Huntington Drive to Carpenter's Santa Anitan, a drive-in restaurant located at 125 W. Huntington Drive. It opened on Nov. 11, 1939 and remained a popular eating and gathering place for many years.
View of portion of Diamond Jubilee Parade along Campus Drive, shows white car, followed by vintage cars carrying, first, Councilman Charles Gilb, and second, former Councilwoman Floretta Lauber.
View of Santa Anita Park Race Track, address 285 West Huntington Drive and the Santa Anita mall (address 400 South Baldwin Avenue). Skies are cloudy and palm trees in the foreground. Photo taken from the second floor of 125 West Huntington Drive. See also aerial views in the David Stevens Collection. Any use of this image must be credited "Photograph by David Stevens. Copyright David Stevens."
Aerial view south on Baldwin Avenue. From position just north of Huntington Drive (during racing season) showing great number of cars coming east on Huntington Drive to races through Gate #1. One building in Santa Anita Park Race Track parking lot is Fire Station at 630 S. Baldwin Avenue. Duarte Road is distantly seen in upper portion of photo, about 1 1/4 in. from top of photo. The multi-storied Medical Building seen is at 612 W. Duarte Road.
The Derby (Restaurant and Tavern) taken from south side of Huntington. An arched gate leads into restaurant area which is shaded by two large oak trees. Numerous cars are parked around it. Sign proclaims: "Sandwiches, Chicken-Steak Dinners. Dinners 75 cents".
Skewed exterior view of front of Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Young trees and lack of landscaping indicate this was taken around when the police station opened in 1957.
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.
Aerial view showing Eaton's Santa Anita in foreground, looking south from Colorado Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue. Lucky Baldwin's one mile training track built in 1876 is visible with stud barn buildings on south end of track.