History Talks
Check out the Museum's YouTube page to see some videos highlighting Arcadia History! Click here to view.
Join Curator Stevy Acevedo as we learn about items in the Gilb Museum's Collection. Check out the full You Tube playlist here.
Ranch Owners of Santa Anita
To Learn more about past ranch owners of Rancho Santa Anita, please click HERE.
Mandarin Translation
Spanish Translation
- Online Collection
- Arcadia: Where Ranch and City Meet by Pat McAdam and Sandy Snider
- Visions of Arcadia edited by Gary Kovacic
- More Visions of Arcadia edited by Gary Kovacic
- Santa Anita Rancho Anoakia Breeding Farm Catalog (1916)
- Santa Anita Pacemaker - 1942
- San Gabriel Mission Museum
- California Missions Resource Center - Mission San Gabriel
- Santa Fe Springs, Heritage Park, Tongva Village Exhibit
- To be Visible
- News from Native California
- Heyday Books
- Tending the Wild/KCET
- Tending Nature/KCET
- Mapping Indigenous LA
- Kuruvungna Sacred Springs
- Saging the World
- Densho
- Santa Anita Detention Facility (Densho Encyclopedia)
- Japanese American National Museum
- Pomona Detention Facility (Densho Encyclopedia)
- Heart Mountain Confinement Site
- Manzanar National Historic Site
- Rohwer Heritage Site
- Topaz Museum
- Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition
- Letters from the Japanese Internment – Miss Breed
- Riyo Sato Biography (Densho Encyclopedia)
- Prisoner in My Homeland
- Calisphere
- Library of Congress
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collections
- Los Angeles Public Library Visual Collections
- Huntington Library
- National Archives and Records Administration
- American Folklore Society
- UCLA Film and Television Archive
- American Film Institute

Exterior view of 100-to-1 cocktail bar at 100 W. Huntington Drive
Courtesy, Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia, California
In January 2015, the City of Arcadia acquired the parcel, including the building and all its contents, at 100 West Huntington Drive. This site had been used for many years as a bar/tavern called the 100-to-1 Club. A few of the building’s items were kept for historic preservation, including the murals depicting pari-mutuel and horse racing scenes that hung at the entrance and over the bar.
The original owner of the Club, Eugene Pelozzi, was responsible for the installation of the murals that were hanging at the Club since it opened. The murals were installed at the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage in 2016 in the Museum’s front lobby and Research Library.
Installation of Mural Panels at The Gilb Museum’s Lobby
Installation of Mural Panels at the Gilb Museum’s Research Library
Mural Panels at Gilb Museum
Santa Anita 100 to 1 Club Sign
Mr. Pete Siberell, the Director of Community Service and Special Projects at Santa Anita Racetrack, purchased the iconic neon sign. He had the sign restored and it now the centerpiece of the new 100 to 1 Club on the third floor of the racetrack.
Exterior view of 100-to-1 cocktail bar at 100 W. Huntington Drive.
Courtesy, Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia, California
This area that was the location of the 100 to 1 Club is now the location for the Le Meridien Pasadena Arcadia Hotel at 130 W. Huntington Drive. 
Exterior View of Le Meridien Pasadena Arcadia Hotel
Le Meridien Pasadena Arcadia Hotel
