Arcadia Chinese Association Chinese New Year luncheon for Arcadia city employees at Arcadia Community Center. Arcadia Police Chief Ronnie Garner (1995) is standing between two members of the Arcadia Chinese Association.
Arcadia City Council members in a decorated Hupmobile Touring Car parked on Huntington Drive next to City Hall. Behind is a fire truck, also decorated, with 10 firemen on the truck or near by. The man at the wheel of the fire truck is Jim Nellis. The Councilmen are: Rear seats,L-R: Ferd E. Gram; Arthur N. Multer; and Charles Hawk. Front seat,L-R: Samuel L. Wheeler; John T. Joyce, the Hupmobile Dealer. Fifth member of Council, John Granville was not present. Seated at the base of the pillar of City Hall is Adrian Winkler and standing beside him is George Newton. The vehicles are on their way to dedication of new concrete span over Santa Anita Wash.
Arcadia Public Library Board meeting in conference room at 20 W. Duarte Road. Left to right: City Librarian Richard Miller, Roberta Camphouse, Mary Fran Andregg, Secretary to Board and City Librarian Betty Sprang, Shirley McNall, Edward Butterworth (liaison from City Hall), and Dr. Robert Stragnell.
Betty Rochefort, President of the Friends of the Library, joins Gloria and S.H. Wen and Kent Ross, City Librarian at the Arcadia Public Library, during a recent Day at the Races benefit for the Arcadia Public Library Foundation. S.H. Wen is a member of the Foundation Board.
Betty Sprang, secretary to City Librarian, is shown seated with Ruth Ogilvie, clerk, in Art & Lecture Room at Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road, under large painting on the wall.
Children's Room at Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Standing left to right: Judith Moore, Mary Lou Fitts, Hazel Boulton, Mary Lou Harbin, Geneva Jones, teacher. In foreground, in white blouse, is Louise DuMond, City Librarian.
Circulation workroom, library staff, Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: June Davies, Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, Mary Louise Fitts, Hazel Bolton.
Four people standing in front of palm tree and other tree. They are, L-R: Elmer Westerhouse, superindentent of schools; Ellison Leake, first graduate of Arcadia School; Mary Robelard, first teacher; and Walter G. Coombs, principal.
Four women standing in a bay window area of the Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: Library staff Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, children's author Margaret Richardson, and library staff June Davies. Mrs. Richardson lived in Arcadia and wrote SEVEN LITTLE PIFFLESNIFFS.
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the remodel/expansion project at Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road. A number of people are standing under the white tent. At the extreme left is Betty Rochefort. Standing next to her with the white hat is John Reuter.
Group of 16 faculty members from First Avenue School pictured. Front row, L-R: Fannig Duvall, Elvira Orsburn, Faye Penny, Genevieve McMahon, Virna Ruth, Ethel Flory, unknown, Dorothy May Butts, and Thelma Johnson. Back row, L-R: unknown, Walter Coombs, Etta Russell White, Helen Rinde Diedrich, Agnes McInturff, unknown, Miriam Haddox Wibeck, unknown, unknown, unknown, Frank Boyer, unknown, Elmer E. Westerhouse, unknown, Constance Ellison Rose, unknown.
Group of eight women and three men standing at entrance of Arcadia Grammar School, which later became First Avenue Junior High School. As identified in 1979 by Mr. Walters (82 year old former principal), left to right: 1. Reed Clark 4. Grace Benham 5. Martha Hoegee 6. Elvira McMillen 8. Elsie Anderson 9. Max Ireland 10. Elmer Neher. Back row #11. Domenica Loyacano. Not identified: #2,3,7.
Group of girls in a cooking class at Arcadia Grammar School. All have white headbands and most are identified by writing on photo. Identification on picture says it is 7th and 8th grades.
Group photo of entire staff at Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road. SEE REVERSE OF PHOTO FOR NAMES. Missing from photo: part time reference librarian Pat McAdam.
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.
Page 15 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photographs of U.S. Balloon School officers, all lieutenants. L. Heath, J.J. Fitzgerald, H.C. Hahlbeck, Stanley W. Hahn, George K. Barnes, Robert Drake, Rolla W. Wybrant, William D. Geiger, Harry R. Rafferty, Wayne Burbank, T.N. Wrenn, George Parish, William Barnard, Charles N. White, William B. Gemmill, and William Simpson. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_117 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Photo of Arcadia Police Chief L.C. Roosevelt wearing a white hat and suit with tie. It is blown up from a photo picturing him with two motorcycle officers, one on each side of him. The negative shows these two officers, Borger on left and William S. Orr on right.
Police Force. "Know Your Policeman" a photograph of a display case showing police staff photos, titles, dates of appointment, and birthplaces. Top row (L to R): Chief of Police Neil F. Anderson, Captain William S. Orr, Eric R. Topel. Row 2 (L to R): Harry E. Peterson "Pete," Virgil Mayne, Richard J. Williams, James F. Hayes, Thomas G. Bednark, Florence Wilson. Row 3 (L to R): Joan Hames, Dudley M. Covell, Wayne G. Moore "Dinty," Jack Tillotson "Tillie," James W. Clark, Joseph V. Calvechie, Earl A. Cann. Row 4 (L to R): William L. Reddington, Herman H. Decker, Emil H. Leese, Jack P. Jordan "Rocky," Ray E. Owen, John H. Brown, Edward W. Goldsberry. Row 5 (L to R): Donald J. Molden "Jack," Kaare E. Nordlie "Ken," Paul R. Bird, William M. White, Billy D. Oliver, Richard S. Chatwin, Fred R. Smith "Smitty." Bottom row (L to R): Martin Renteria, William A. Goodman.