Resource Type: still image / Location: Arcadia (Calif.) / Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Aerial view of the Santa Anita horse paddock, likely taken on opening day of the track's fourth racing season.
Date:: [December 25, 1937]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 31, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: William F. Gettle, Beverly Hills millionaire, was kidnapped from the grounds of his Arcadia ranch home during a housewarming party on the eve of May 9th. The kidnapping attracted a great deal of attention in the community, with Mrs. Gettle even addressing the kidnappers through the pages of the Los Angeles Times. The kidnappers demanded a $60,000 ransom for the return of Gettle, which Mrs. Gettle agreed to pay. However, before the ransom was paid, two detectives of the LAPD, Chester Burris and H.P. Gearhardt, broke the case after installing a dictaphone in the home of a bank robbery suspect. Information from the dictaphone led them to a La Crescenta home where Gettle was held. He was returned, unharmed, to his family on the eve of May 14th.
Date:: May 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Rancho Santa Anita Park later became the Arboretum of Los Angeles County
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, March 27, 1938, Rancho Santa Anita, A Los Angeles County Beauty Spot. For many years closed to the public, the thirty-acre Rancho Santa Anita Park, with its lake, fifty-one varieties of shrubs and trees, some of them the largest in Southern California, and its historic buildings of the late E.J. (Lucky) Baldwin occupancy, now is open …
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ross Field was established for the training of observation balloon pilots during World War I. The site later became Arcadia County Park.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related Los Angeles Times article, March 2, 1932, “Ross Field Wrecking Rushed, Site Soon Will Be Clear of Buildings.” In less than ninety days, Ross Field, headquarters in California of training for army balloon school pilots during the World War, and in the halycon days of “Lucky” Baldwin, the center of activity for the Los Angeles Racing Association, will again be a pleasant rolling plain, dotted with trees, much as it was in the earliest days of the Santa Anita Rancho. ...
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ross Field was established for the training of observation balloon pilots during World War I. The site later became Arcadia County Park.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Four men removing roof from barracks building, with ladder at left, lumber in foreground, mountains in background
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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