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Balloon apparently being secured on the ground. Approximately 26 men working to secure it.

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Date: c.1917-1918

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Date: c.1917-1918

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 2x3 b&w

ID: 159

Collection: Photographs

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Appears to have been taken just a few minutes after photo #167. Large balloon with a target-like figure painted on its side is down on the ground and being secured by men. Overcast day.

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Date: c.1917-1918

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Date: c.1917-1918

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 168

Collection: Photographs

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Balloon just off ground with men working to secure it (readying to release it). Shows structure of balloon quite well.

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Date: c.1917-1918

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Date: c.1917-1918

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 178

Collection: Photographs

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Advertisement for Schulenberg Riding School includes picture of approximately 16 mounted people.

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Date: 1928

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Date: 1928

Subjects: Schulenberg Riding School; Recreation

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1180

Collection: Photographs

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Advertisement photographed from Arcadia City Directory showing information on Schulenberg Riding School.

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Date: c.1927

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Date: c.1927

Subjects: Recreation; Schulenberg Riding School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1113

Collection: Photographs

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View northeast over Pacific Electric Railroad. Ross Field Balloon School occupies portion on right side of photo over to the railroad tracks. The street marking its northern boundary would be Huntington Drive. The large rectangle just north of this street was Rancho Resevoir, converted into a swimming pool. The principal street marking east boundary of Balloon School property running north to south across this photo about at middle, is Santa Anita Avenue.

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Date: November, 1929

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Date: November, 1929

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Balloon School; Pacific Electric Railway; Railroads; Ross Field

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 630

Collection: Photographs

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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.

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Date: c.1942

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Date: c.1942

Subjects: Camp Santa Anita (U.S.Army Ordnance Center)

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 951

Collection: Photographs

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One balloon in sky (extreme left) and one balloon on ground with approximately 23 men making it secure. High wire fence in foreground. San Gabriel Mountains form background.

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Date: c.1917 or 1918

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Date: c.1917 or 1918

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 157

Collection: Photographs

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Copy of souvenir photo that may have been program cover for something called Flying Circus held February 22, 1919. Shows left to right: [a] bi-plane; [b] parachute and balloon in same shot; [c] balloon being secured by group of men; [d] parachute coming to the ground with group of people watching. [e] ? [f] aerial view of base.

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Date: 1919

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Date: 1919

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 183

Collection: Photographs

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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.)

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Date: c.1900

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Date: c.1900

Subjects: Monrovia

Physical Description: 4x6 b&w

ID: 385

Collection: Photographs

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"King of Sports," Arcadia's float entry in the 1936 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, featured three horses at the starting gate with children riding them.

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Date: January 1936

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Date: January 1936

Subjects: Tournament of Roses-Floats-1936

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1288

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view from east looking west over Santa Anita Race Track shortly after its opening. Baldwin Avenue shows just faintly as a white line above track barns. Note total absence of homes in what we call Santa Anita Village and Lower Rancho.

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Date: c. December 1934

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Date: c. December 1934

Subjects: Santa Anita Park-1934-1942

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 555

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of Charles and Billie Eaton, taken at what might have been a 50th wedding anniversary celebration. They are both in formal attire. A 3-tier cake is visible just over Mrs. Eaton's shoulder.

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Date: unknown

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Date: unknown

Subjects: Eaton, Charles B.; Eaton, Billie

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1381

Collection: Photographs

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Ten people around a table marked off in grids labeled A.B.C.D.E.F., and they are identified as volunteers keeping track of airplanes over this sector during WWII. None of the people have been identified. Facility was called a Filter Center.

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Date: c.1942

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Date: c.1942

Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Arcadia(City)-History-1940-1949

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 373

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Recreation Department program "How it's done." Four teenage boys in this photo. One has what appears to be an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He and the boy directly behind wear their hair in the "ducktail" style.

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Teenage boys

Physical Description: 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 b&w

ID: 1901

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Recreation Department Yo-Yo program. Boy on the left is demonstrating a yo-yo trick called "Rock the Baby." Girl on the right is holding a yo-yo. The champion awards sit atop a table between the children. The program might have taken place at County Park because "Co." is written on the back of the photograph. The year 1956 is engraved on the trophies.

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Date: 1956

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Date: 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Children; Games

Physical Description: 4x4 b&w

ID: 1906

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Recreation Department summer concert at First Avenue School front lawn. A band plays on a stage for people who have brought their own lawn chairs. Although the back of this photograph is stamped with its processing date of August 1997, "Summer Concert 1996" was handwritten on the envelope it came in from Arcadia Recreation Department.

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Date: c. Summer, 1996

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Date: c. Summer, 1996

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Middle Schools--First Avenue School; Summer concerts

Physical Description: 4 x 10 color

ID: 2054

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view looking west over Santa Anita Park. Photo was taken from about over intersection of Colorado Place and Huntington Drive. Note area that was to become Los Angeles County Arboretum across top of photo. Note an open Grandstand has been added to the west of original covered one. There is a small dirigible in lower right corner carrying a sign that seems to read:modern motel. Present Baldwin Avenue would run where road in this photo is seen parallel to top of photo.

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Date: December 28, 1935

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Date: December 28, 1935

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Santa Anita Park-1934-1942

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 975

Collection: Photographs

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"Showboat," Arcadia's float entry in the 1990 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, pays tribute to musical theater with its salute to the musical Showboat. The boat, with its giant paddle wheel, carries the Arcadia Rose Court, dancers, singers and a Dixieland band.

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Date: January 1990

1 image

Date: January 1990

Subjects: Tournament of Roses-Floats-1990

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 1320

Collection: Photographs

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First community dial office in the Bell system was located in this 29 ft. x 33 ft. building at 19 East Alice. It belonged to Southern California Telephone Company.

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Date: c.1928

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Date: c.1928

Subjects: Telephone

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 206

Collection: Photographs

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Balloon apparently being secured on the ground. Approximately 26 men working to secure it.

Images

Appears to have been taken just a few minutes after photo #167. Large balloon with a target-like figure painted on its side is down on the ground and being secured by men. Overcast day.

Images

Balloon just off ground with men working to secure it (readying to release it). Shows structure of balloon quite well.

Images

Advertisement for Schulenberg Riding School includes picture of approximately 16 mounted people.

Images

Advertisement photographed from Arcadia City Directory showing information on Schulenberg Riding School.

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Images

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One balloon in sky (extreme left) and one balloon on ground with approximately 23 men making it secure. High wire fence in foreground. San Gabriel Mountains form background.

Images

Images

Images

"King of Sports," Arcadia's float entry in the 1936 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, featured three horses at the starting gate with children riding them.

Images

Aerial view from east looking west over Santa Anita Race Track shortly after its opening. Baldwin Avenue shows just faintly as a white line above track barns. Note total absence of homes in what we call Santa Anita Village and Lower Rancho.

Images

Photo of Charles and Billie Eaton, taken at what might have been a 50th wedding anniversary celebration. They are both in formal attire. A 3-tier cake is visible just over Mrs. Eaton's shoulder.

Images

Ten people around a table marked off in grids labeled A.B.C.D.E.F., and they are identified as volunteers keeping track of airplanes over this sector during WWII. None of the people have been identified. Facility was called a Filter Center.

Images

Arcadia Recreation Department program "How it's done." Four teenage boys in this photo. One has what appears to be an oxygen tank strapped to his back. He and the boy directly behind wear their hair in the "ducktail" style.

Images

Images

Images

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"Showboat," Arcadia's float entry in the 1990 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, pays tribute to musical theater with its salute to the musical Showboat. The boat, with its giant paddle wheel, carries the Arcadia Rose Court, dancers, singers and a Dixieland band.

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First community dial office in the Bell system was located in this 29 ft. x 33 ft. building at 19 East Alice. It belonged to Southern California Telephone Company.

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