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.
Home of Charles and Pearl Strong at 460 W. Duarte Road. View shows small clapboard house standing by itself. There is a high-sided trailer standing at left of house. What appears to be chicken houses show in the photo. Claimed to be first white leghorn chicken ranch in Arcadia.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Arcadia had a reputation as a poultry raising community. There were many poultry ranchers in Arcadia, including a Denmark royal family member named Prince Eric, cousin of the King of Denmark.
1. Everybody raised chickens in the old days. Arcadia Tribune. June 8, 1978. 2. City chicken ranches dwindle to twelve. Arcadia Tribune. July 22, 1959. 3. Ad showing what was apparently a large plaster rooster at Pike-Kronz Hatchery. news ad December 7, 1934. 4. Third Annual Poultry Show o…
1. Everybody raised chickens in the old days. Arcadia Tribune. June 8, 1978.
2. City chicken ranches dwindle to twelve. Arcadia Tribune. July 22, 1959.
3. Ad showing what was apparently a large plaster rooster at Pike-Kronz Hatchery. news ad December 7, 1934.
4. Third Annual Poultry Show opens today at racetrack. Arcadia Tribune. December 1, 1938.
5. First readings of 3 proposed ordinances regulating...poultry. news clip. March 1956.
6. Fifth Annual Santa Anita Poultry, Pigeon and Game Bird Show premium list and program. December, 1940.
7. "Poultry ordinance passed by council on initial reading." Arcadia Tribune, Thursday, March 22, 1956.
8. Arcadia Municipal Code 4136--Keeping Restricted. After January 1, 1961, no person shall keep or maintain upon any premises in the City chickens, rabbits, poultry or fowl, ... in excess of ten..." Printed from the World Wide Web on April 14, 2005.
9. "Six hens for every family." Arcadia Journal, March 30, 1918, page 1.
10. Newspaper ad for auction of Commercial Chicken Ranch at 1210 S. Fourth Avenue, Arcadia, California. Lot size and equipment are given, 3500 chickens included in the sale. Los Angeles Times, September 16, 1945.
11. Newspaper ad for Pike-Krenz Hatchery at 641 Lemon Avenue, Arcadia, CA. Shows Pike-Krenz logo. Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1927.
12. Ad for Golden West Rhode Island Red Poultry Ranch, 752 W. Huntington Drive, Arcadia, CA. O.A. Talle, proprietor. Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical), November 29, 1925.
13. Many Chickens. Deputy Assessor G. G. Meade finds that there are 140,000 chickens in Arcadia, at 93 ranches. Pasadena Star News, May 16, 1921.
A USDA rule change went into effect Thursday requiring California to change the way meat and poultry packaging is weighed. It requires inspectors to use a dry tare form of testing in which all fluids within a package must be credited as part of its content. Tare is the weight of packaging and all materials, tags, clips, stickers, absorbent soakers. Consumers could be paying more for less meat at the market.