View NW up Santa Anita Wash toward San Gabriel Mountains. Caption says this was taken from Pacific Electric Railroad tracks toward Orange Street (this is present day Colorado Street).
View north from present Huntington Drive up Santa Anita Avenue. Eucalyptus trees on either side appear to be about 60 feet tall. Surface of street seems to be dirt.
Aerial view north up Santa Anita Avenue. Note Chantry Flats Road on mountain near right side of photo. This view was taken from just south of Huntington Drive. This image belongs to Arcadia Historical Society.
View north toward mountains and Chantry Flats Road. From vicinity just east of Santa Anita, where present Orange Grove intersects, showing orange groves. An open field apparently planted to grain and having a large oak tree, would be present site of Highland Oaks School. Eucalyptus trees lining Santa Anita are on left in photo, this property belonged to Harry and Hattie Ainsworth.
Aerial view north. Main tree-lined street is Santa Anita Avenue. Most of the orange grove in center of photo was owned by Jaspar Teague family. They had built a circular art gallery on their property at 1380 South Santa Anita Avenue. The large buildings north of Teague's and to the west of Santa Anita Avenue are chicken houses. Duarte Road is the east/west street across photo near top of photo.
Looking north up Santa Anita Ave near its intersection with Orange Grove Avenue. Note it is still a dirt road at this time. There is a young lady with long two-piece suit with a sailor collar (back to camera) and farther up the Avenue, a man is seen.
Main north/south running street to right of center is Michillinda Avenue. Oval adjacent to Michillinda Avenue is Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's training track. Lower right corner of photo is abandoned project of Anita Baldwin and Joe Smoot, c. 1933 (about where May Company was and where Vons, a Safeway Company, Southern California Division Headquarters is now, at 618 Michillinda Avenue). Street running east/west across center of photo is present day Colorado Boulevard. East/west-running street near top of photo is present Foothill Boulevard. Wash along left side of photo is Eaton Wash, Pasadena. Scale: 1 inch=660 feet.
Aerial view toward the east taken from about over present Club House at Santa Anita Park Race Track. The main street running North/South is Santa Anita Avenue. View shows the oval of Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's race track in what is currently Arcadia County Park. The buildings would be barracks of Ross Field U.S. Army Balloon School. Duarte Road can be seen coming into photo at right edge of photo near intersection with Santa Anita Avenue. The broad street along left side would be Huntington Drive. Railroad tracks can be seen in lower left corner.
View north to Clubhouse and Grandstand at Santa Anita Race Track. There is large oak in foreground on right side of photo. San Gabriel Valley Mountains in background.
View north up Santa Anita Avenue taken from center of Duarte Road (printed on curb). A double row of eucalyptus extends from this point as far north as you can see, planted in center. Printed across bottom is Santa Anita Ave. Arcadia, California.
Flood damage on N. Santa Anita Avenue. This view was taken at Perkins and Santa Anita. A sign pointing toward Sierra Madre is visible on the left and the San Gabriel Mountains are visible in the background. There is a car on the right.
View toward NE on a winter's day that shows snow on San Gabriel Mountains. The street seen is Holly Avenue which has just been paved. This was taken from the Mauch Ranch on Holly Avenue near Palm Avenue.
Panoramic view of Santa Anita Park taken from south parking area near water drainage course that formerly cut across property. View is looking north toward the mountains and includes everything from the club house(on the right) to the far west end of the grandstand. It is a crystal clear day.
Aerial view south on Colorado Street just over large turn to the west. The residential area known as Santa Anita Gardens shows along upper left section of photo. Note that the only commerical development along the north side of Colorado Street is the Westerner Motel just near intersection with Huntington Drive. Santa Fe Railroad tracks are seen in lower left corner of photo. Santa Anita Park Race Track is on right.
Harry Ainsworth Ranch, upper grove looking north to mountains. Present day Highland Oaks School would be located about where trees block the end of the row of citrus trees.
Close-up view of one row of about 11 units of tarpaper covered housing put up for the evacuees at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Santa Anita Canyon can be seen in about the center of the mountains in the background.
View up one street in Santa Anita Gardens area just off Huntington Drive (to the north) with houses under construction on both sides of the street. Writing on the photo indicates that it is part of Tract 12506 "Y". This tract includes San Antonio Road. Cars of the workmen are parked nearby. The Chantry Flats Road is clearly seen on the mountains in background.
View up Oakwood Avenue from Sierra Madre Blvd. following a snowfall. Note Santa Anita Ave. on the left marked by eucalyptus trees. Snow in the San Gabriel Mountains.
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.