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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cedar Walk on Ranch. Hugo Reid Adobe appears to be directly at the end of this walk. Note bell from San Gabriel Mission hanging in shelter made for it. Framed photos are of Baldwin's three hotels: Tallac at Lake Tahoe, Baldwin Hotel & Theater, San Francisco, and the Oakwood, Arcadia.
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.
Cook & Woodley tract just north of Foothill Blvd. and one block east of Santa Anita Ave. This tract was developed on land owned by Clara Baldwin. House seen on right still stands at SE corner of Sycamore and Oakwood Ave. It was home of James B. Slemons.
Close up of five Board of Trustees for City of Arcadia (now, City Council). Upper left, Hiram Unruh; upper right, Melville Lawrence (manager of Oakwood Hotel). Lower left, Harold Stocker; lower right, George Lowen Tucker; center, E.J.Baldwin. This was from first issue of Arcadia Bulletin.
Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin Packing House which was located just north of Oakwood Hotel and beside Santa Fe Railroad tracks. Printing on the roof is announcement of Baldwin property for sale in Los Angeles, Arcadia, Monrovia and El Monte. On sides of building, the fruits and wines available are given. This photo belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.
"Ye Fairy of Ye Oak," 1915 Pasadena Tournament of Roses float entered by Mrs. Anita Baldwin McClaughry. Dextra McClaughry (age 13) and Baldwin McClaughry (age 10), children of Anita, rode on the float. Dextra, the Queen of Fairyland, stood beneath a spreading oak while the floor of the carriage was converted into a meadowland of softest green upon which shell pink roses, lilies-of-the-valley and hyacinths grew.
House at 180 West Huntington Drive, Arcadia, located just north of the municipal athletic field adjacent to Arcadia City Hall, showing part of Le Meridien Hotel to the northeast (left), taken from across the street on Huntington Drive. It was part of the Le Meridien hotel land but is being sold Salvation Army and moving to Pasadena. In the year 2000 this was the location of Oakcrest Adult Rehabilitation Center. In this photo, its downstairs windows are boarded up. See document "State Wars on Bookies." A house at 180 West Huntington Drive in Arcadia was raided and four men were arrested who were using binoculars to catch the race results and flashing them to bookmakers throughout the nation. Los Angeles Times, January 17, 1938.
First building used as City Hall. (The very first City Hall offices were located in the Oakwood Hotel and next in the McCoy Building.) This apparently was known as the A.W. Hibbard Building (see Eberly, p. 69) and was used for only about two years; June 1914 to April 1916. It was on First Street at LaPorte. Sign on left above window reads: Standard Oil Co. Scrip Accepted. Back of photo reads, "first City Hall, 1913, Walter and Nell Schrader. Mr. Schrader converted old City Hall into garage." Arcadia Garage building shown with a car/truck "for sale" and a little boy posing by the back tire.