View west on Duarte Road from near intersection with Santa Anita. Street is lined on both sides with pepper trees. Note mailbox on left bears the number 20 W. Duarte Road - the current address of Arcadia Public Library. Groups of students are walking on south side of street to newly opened Arcadia High School which is on the right.
Some Holly Avenue School students on front lawn of school (fronting on Duarte Road) dressed in bird costumes for a May Day program. The only one identified is 4th from left in front row. She is Myrtle Van Houten Baker.
Brick wall on Campus Drive side of Arcadia High School that is in front of Administration Buildings. On the wall are metal letters, spelling Arcadia High School.
Corner of Baldwin Avenue and Duarte Road, with West Arcadia Prescription Pharmacy seen across the street. Photo is of the traffic signal and telephone pole on the corner.
Photo of Lois Margaret Strong, who became Lois Rife, on tire swing at family home, 460 W. Duarte Road in about 1926. Note Pepper trees along Duarte Road.
Photo taken toward SW at front of Arcadia Grammar School. Possibly was taken after Holly Avenue School was opened. Note tree beyond telephone pole. This is probably large magnolia at First Avenue Junior High School today.
Arcadia High School marching band under direction of Ray Bowman, seen at left, marches in President Eisenhower's inaugural parade in Washington, D.C., January 1957. Note Capitol dome in background.
Looking east on Duarte Road, from the intersection at Baldwin Avenue. Businesses on the south side of Duarte Road include Cal Fed Bank, Business Bank, Borland's Physical Therapy, and Essentials for Hair. Five cars face westward, while a Honda Accord turns left onto Duarte Road.
Photograph by Terry Miller.