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Demolition of the Santa Anita Motor Inn is being completed. Built in 1938, it had become an architectural curio - built as it was to resemble a ship with streamlined characteristics.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1840
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 5, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 5, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Hotels, Motels, Etc. - Santa Anita Motor Inn
Item ID
1839AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Dewey Butler's Sweet Corn Stand is shown next to the Santa Anita Motor Inn, which opened in 1938. There are four cars parked in front of the stand. Hand written note in scrapbook states, "Dewey Butler's - Golden Bantam Corn, and Melon Stand on Huntington Drive just west of the Santa Anita Motor Inn. The Sweetest corn and melon's you ever tasted, grown in the matchless soil of Old Rancho Santa Anita."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1544
Date
c.1938-1939

  1 image

Date
c.1938-1939
Subjects
Dewey Butler's Corn Stand
Hotels, motels, etc - Santa Anita Motor Inn
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1528
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Dewey Butler's Sweet Corn stand with three cars parked at an angle in front is shown next to the Santa Anita Motor Inn, which opened in 1938 at 101 W. Huntington Drive.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1543
Date
c.1938-1939

  1 image

Date
c.1938-1939
Subjects
Dewey Butler's Sweet Corn
Hotels, motels, etc - Santa Anita Motor Inn
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1527
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail