Arcadia Recreation Department event "Arcadia Pet Show." A baby is seated next to a turtle or tortoise. Written on back of photograph is "July 13, 1974." Stamped on back is "Milton K. Bell, Photographer, 174 N. Madison Ave., Monrovia, CA. July 11, 1974."
Arcadia Recreation Department event "Arcadia Pet Show." A young girl stands next to her dog. Dog is wearing a tutu. Written on back of photograph is "Special Award, July 13, 1974." Stamped on back is "Milton K. Bell, Photographer, 174 N. Madison Ave., Monrovia, CA. July 11, 1974."
Arcadia Recreation Department event "Arcadia Pet Show." A young girl named Robin Williams kneels next to two dogs. Frodo is the small dog and Contessa is the big dog. Written on back of photograph is "2nd Special, July 13, 1974." Stamped on back is "Milton K. Bell, Photographer, 174 N. Madison Ave., Monrovia, CA. July 11, 1974."
Arcadia Recreation Department event "Arcadia Pet Show." Man wearing a sweater vest is holding onto a duck, a toddler stands nearby. Written on back of photograph is "Fowl most unusual, Don Dugo or Don Diego (?), July 13, 1974." Stamped on back is "Milton K. Bell, Photographer, 174 N. Madison Ave., Monrovia, CA. July 11, 1974."
Camino Grove School May Festival with a royal court in a procession on the school yard, by Milton K. Bell, photographer. Girls are wearing tiara crowns, boys are wearing capes. Back of photo stamped with date May 19, 1967.
Arcadia Recreation Department event "Arcadia Pet Show." Several children sit on benches with about seven birdcages between them. Written on back of photograph is "Parakeet Row."
Interview with Geraldine Waite who, with husband Harold, has cared for several desert turtle pets for 28 years. The turtles do require special care and diet.
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.
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."
Nine sulkies and horses with drivers racing at Santa Anita Park. View is across track and racers into grandstand. Photo by photographer Milton Bell of Monrovia.
An Arcadia man with a rare neurological condition, David Ireland has authored a book entitled "Letter to an Unborn Child." These reflect compassion and understanding and were written to his child in the event he did not live.
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."
Assistance League of Arcadia holds annual holiday boutique to fund clothing and school supplies for Operation School Bell Program at the Bargain Box Thrift Shop, 64 East Live Oak Avenue, Arcadia, CA
Abandoned pet turtles, specifically red-eared slider turtles that are native to Louisiana, are turning up at the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia (shown in photograph), Huntington Library, and local golf courses. It is illegal to buy turtles less than 4 inches long and to dump them. They threaten to push out the state's only native turtles species in urban and natural waters here.
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.
Marguerite Towsley and Dr. Robert Bell, veterinarian, have been named citizens of the year. Towsley is best known for the fundraising events she has chaired for numerous philanthropic organizations. Bell, president of Parent Alert, has made a considerable contribution toward helping to educate local citizens to the problems of drug abuse an providing guidance in combating them.
Two men are shown shaking hands and holding a baseball trophy. The photograph is by Michael F. Wells Photography, 335 Arbolada Drive, Arcadia, CA (stamped on back).