The parking lot at the Arcadia Community Center will be expanded by including the lot where the Arcadia Historical Museum was formerly located. New electrical equipment will be installed. Total cost will be $104,600.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30833
- Newspaper
- Arcadia Weekly
- Date
- January 16, 2003
- Pages
- p. 17
- Subjects
- Arcadia Community Center
- Item ID
- 31021AN
- Collection
- Newspaper Index
Baseball player, possibly Johnny Lindell, talking to a crowd of about 23 boys at an Arcadia Recreation Department event on a baseball field. Johnny Lindell grew up in Arcadia in the 1930s, went to Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School and USC, before being signed by the Yankees. He was both a pitcher and outfielder, and played several years in the 1950s for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1891
- Date
- 1950s
1 image
Baseball player, possibly Johnny Lindell, demonstrating a technique at the grip of a baseball bat to a crowd of boys at an Arcadia Recreation Department event on a baseball field. Some boys are wearing baseball caps and mitts. Bleachers are visible in the left rear of the photo. Johnny Lindell grew up in Arcadia in the 1930s, went to Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School and USC, before being signed by the Yankees. He was both a pitcher and outfielder, and played several years in the 1950s for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1892
- Date
- 1950s
1 image
Families on a baseball field at an Arcadia Recreation Department event. Location unknown. Photographer is Jim Hayes. Back of photo is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo Sgt. Jim Hayes, Arcadia Police."
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1893
- Date
- 1950s
1 image
A boy and a girl, possibly young teenagers, stand next to their bicycles. A man in a pinstripe suit stands between them. Location unknown. Back is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo" and "Recreation Department, PO Box 567, Arcadia, CA."
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1894
- Date
- 1950s
1 image
- Date
- 1950s
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Bicycles
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1875
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Children showing off their pets at the Arcadia Recreation Department Pet Show. Sitting from left to right: boy with a duck, girl with a cat, girl with a tortoise, girl with a gerbil (or guinea pig, hamster or rodent?). Standing from right to left: girl with a little monkey left shoulder, girl wearing sunglasses with undetermined pet on her right hand, girl with a pet (possibly a dog) dressed in a cowboy costume, and boy wearing a cowboy hat with his horse. Back of photo is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo, August 6, 1956."
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1895
- Date
- 1956
1 image
- Date
- 1956
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Pets
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1876
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Three people show off their pet birds (in cages) at the Arcadia Recreation Department Pet Show, with onlookers. Seated from L to R: unidentified, Bill Zogg (Arcadia High School football coach in 1957), Mariam Clarke (Arcadia High School teacher, see 1958 yearbook). Back of photo is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo, August 6, 1956."
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1896
- Date
- 1956
1 image
A boy and a girl pose, each with an egg, standing behind crates, while a crowd looks on at Arcadia Recreation Department Easter egg event. San Gabriel Mountains in the background. Photograph by Paul Kennedy, Arcadia, CA.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1897
- Date
- c. early 1950s
1 image
Arcadia Recreation Department event shows a crowd of children and adults (families) on grass at Los Angeles County Park (?). Background left is a statue and County Park buildings are visible. Fenced area could be the County pool. Photograph by Paul Kennedy, Arcadia, CA.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1898
- Date
- c. 1940s (?)
1 image
A crowd, mostly of children, looks on from bleachers at Arcadia Recreation Department event featuring a cowboy doing rope tricks with both hands, and a horse, perhaps a rodeo demonstration, on a baseball field. Photograph by Paul Kennedy Studios, Arcadia, CA.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1899
- Date
- c. 1950s (?)
1 image
A crowd, mostly of children, looks on from bleachers at Arcadia Recreation Department event, featuring a cowboy doing rope tricks atop a horse, perhaps a rodeo demonstration on a baseball field. Photograph by Paul Kennedy Studios, Arcadia, CA.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1900
- Date
- c. 1950s (?)
1 image
A crowd, mostly of children, looks on from bleachers at Arcadia Recreation Department event, featuring a cowboy on a horse, perhaps a rodeo demonstration, on a baseball field. Photograph by Paul Kennedy Studios, Arcadia, CA.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1901
- Date
- c. 1950s (?)
1 image
One boy representing each of the following schools in a group picture: Highland Oarks, Hugo Reid, Camino Grove, Baldwin Stocker, Santa Anita, Longley Way, Bonita Park, Holly Avenue. Each boy is wearing a sports team tee-shirt with school's name and number imprinted. Four boys stand in the back row and four boys kneel in the front.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1902
- Date
- 1969
1 image
- Date
- 1969
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Physical Description
- 8x10 color
- ID
- 1883
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
A group of 14 children and two adults pose in two rows for photograph in front of a Hugo Reid sign. Some are dressed in Hawaiian or Polynesian attire. Back stamped with "Photo by A. E. Block (or Black?), 9044 Southview Road, San Gabriel, CA."
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1903
- Date
- c. 1970s
1 image
- Date
- c. 1970s
- Physical Description
- 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" b&w
- ID
- 1884
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Children at a dance in a gymnasium. Some girls wear big circle skirts and saddle shoes. Many of the boys wear cuffed jeans.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1904
- Date
- c. 1950s
1 image
- Date
- c. 1950s
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1885
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
17 children and two adults pose on a stage in three rows. Children are dressed in various costumes. Written on back: Arcadia Children's Chorale "Around the World in Song," a performance of Disney songs. Directors William Pirigyi and Adele Pirigyi. Saturday, March 29th. Prior to Holly Avenue PTA movie. According to the perpetual calendar, March 29 was a Saturday in 1969 and 1975, so it could be either.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1905
- Date
- Probably 1975
1 image
- Date
- Probably 1975
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Arcadia Children's Chorale
- Pirigyi, Adele
- Pirigyi, William
- Singers
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1886
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Five children engaged in an eating contest. Their hands are behind their backs and they are eating off a plate on the grass.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1906
- Date
- c. 1970s
1 image
- Date
- c. 1970s
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Physical Description
- 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" b&w
- ID
- 1887
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Five children in photo outside a school building (?). One boy in the middle is barefoot, wearing cut-off jean shorts, and drinking a can of Shasta Cola. The boy on the right has opened a can but the soda is squirting straight up. Girl on the left reaches into a paper bag. Two onlookers.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1907
- Date
- c. 1970s
1 image
- Date
- c. 1970s
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Physical Description
- 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" b&w
- ID
- 1888
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Four children, each with a trophy, one woman, and an Arcadia motorcycle police officer in photo outside a school building (?).
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1908
- Date
- unknown
1 image
- Date
- unknown
- Subjects
- Recreation Department Collection
- Awards
- People
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1889
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Three girls wearing identical dress costumes and ballet shoes, in dance poses outside Arcadia City Hall. There is a fountain behind the girls that no longer exists. The City Hall tile mosaic wall (mural) depicting Arcadia history, by artist Jay Rivkin, is seen in the background (noted November 27, 2013-the murals had been covered by stucco for many years but were restored this year).
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1909
- Date
- unknown
1 image
