A California anomaly - snow and oranges. This postcard, printed by the Detroit Publishing Company, was sent from Monrovia and is dated March 27, 1906. "The snows are melting fast and all the streams are swollen by recent heavy rains - Love and kisses Fred."
From the Gary Boen collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
The 1939 Twentieth Century Fox movie, 20,000 Men a Year, was filmed at the Monrovia Airport. Here are Randolph Scott, Margaret Lindsay, and George Earnest? Here is the IMDB description of the movie. From the Gary Boen collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
The "Monrovia House," at 130 and 132 E. Colorado, was built as a rooming house in 1887 by G.W. McCabe. It is one of 5 commercial buildings built in 1887 still standing in 2017. [And standing today.] From the Dave Baker collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
On March 5, 1968, Steve Flannes was "Police Chief for the Day." From the Myron Hotchkiss collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Monrovia's merchants and professionals came to the aid of local orange growers during a harvesting manpower shortage in 1943, at the height of World War II. Top, on ladders, Everett J. Simonds, YMCA secretary, left, and Charles S. Dandridge, banker. Middle row, from left, Pro Elliott, grove owner; Jack Zelkowitz, shoe store owner; Alexander. R. Currie, retired produce executive; Stanley C. McClintic, Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte (MAD) High vice principal; O. B. Hart, retired gold dredger; and the Rev. Haven Davis, minister. Bottom row, from left, Charles A. Wiley, cleaner; Ted McBratney, Old Town merchant; and Ed Hart, exchange manager. From the Dick Singer collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
A 1930 road map published by Security-First National Bank showing two of the bank's branch offices, at Myrtle and Lime and Myrtle and Orange (now Colorado). If you click through, it also shows a street map, motor routes and street index for Monrovia and Arcadia, and a motor route map of the state of California. From the Myron Hotchkiss collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Click to enlarge photo. Here are the children and teachers at the First Wildrose School, at the same location as the current school, 232 Jasmine Avenue. This school was built in 1912. From the Myron Hotchkiss collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Advertising post card for Miller Ford Sales, at 147 E. Huntington Drive, on the north side of the street a block east of Myrtle at Ivy. Probably from the early 1960s. From the Steve Baker collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
A photo of the home of an early Monrovia newspaper, The Planet, located on Lemon. Published in 1933 by the Monrovia News-Post for Monrovia's 47th birthday. From the Myron Hotchkiss collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Map of Monrovia from February 1908. Click to enlarge. If it's still too small, try this link. Do you recognize Banana, White Oak, JIC, Orange, Falling Leaf, or Santa Fe avenues? They have new names now. Map compliments of C.E. Slosson, Real Estate Dealer. Shows southern subdivisions with alphabetical streets Alta, Bonita, California, Diamond, El Dorado, Fano, Genoa. Also Pottenger Sanatorium Co., Sawpit Canyon, Sawpit Wash, Gold Hill. From the Steve Baker collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Helen Lisk Keller Baker, the mother of former City Historian Steve Baker. Helen married Robert Munson Baker in 1938 and they had three children: Stephen Robert Baker, Susan Keller and Sherry Lynn, who died very young. From the Steve Baker collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Studio picture of Mary Jane Monroe, wife of Monrovia founder William Newton Monroe, taken in 1884, when they settled in Monrovia and built their cottage. From the Monrovia Historical Museum collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Studio picture of 14-year-old George Otto Monroe, son of Monrovia founder William Newton and Mary Jane Monroe. From the Monrovia Historical Museum collection. See full details here.
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Monrovia High School class of 1896. It's grown a bit since then. The fellow with the beard looks as if he may be the teacher. From the Myron Hotchkiss collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
A Happy New Year from Monrovia founder, William Monroe. This is his Happy New Year business card. From the Monrovia Historical Museum collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
An 1899 Christmas gift card with gifts noted on back: "Mrs. Dexter = apron. Yetta = Handkerchief. Emma = Handkerchief." The card is tradmarked "Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd. Publishers to Their Majesties the King & Queen." From the Steve Baker collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
Monrovia founder William Monroe spent time in Alaska building a railroad, so this well-worn 1902 card shows he was a card carrying member of the "Arctic Brotherhood." From the Monrovia Historical Museum collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
A 1910 view of Monrovia's famous Pottenger Sanatorium, located off of North Canyon and founded by Dr. Francis Pottenger. People were treated there for tuberculosis. This is the front of a postcard from Homer to his sister Myrtle Baika, in Huntington Beach, mailed at the extravagant price of one penny. From the Kim Anderson collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
A postcard showing a residential section of North Myrtle in the early days, bordered by pepper trees. From the Kim Anderson collection. See full details here.
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- Brad Haugaard
