Foothill Dairy, Azusa Canyon

The Foothill Dairy.  The above photograph is from the Lefty Woodside Collection, reprinted here with permission from Nancy Woodside.  

Have heard nothing about the owners of the farm or dairy, when they sold or where they moved to, but today you can see lots and lots of townhomes, beautiful I might say, up againt the foothills now.  

The farm and dairy operations both were located on the east side of Highway 39 at the foot of Beatty Canyon where you can see the pipeline run down from Glendora Ridge Mountain Way.  On the west side of Hwy 39 stood the VFW and the fish farm, Happy Jacks, owned by the Cocoran Brothers and located about where the Church of Latter Day Saints sits today.   Here is a 1997 LA Times article about Azusa Canyon that you might find interesting.

Dairy cows gaze out of wooden pens at the Foothill Dairy at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Azusa.

from Calisphere:

Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film’s DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937.

Azusa Canyon

This is a distant shot of the East Fork Bridge.  I spent hundreds of hours fishing up here with Paul Parker, friends, and his dad.  It’s strange to spend so much time with someone where the only communication is a move up stream or another point on a lake.  I took Paul’s friendship for granted, thinking that he’d be around forever.  He’s around just not around Southern California.  Paul Parker was the best fisherman that I’d ever known with the possible exception of his dad.

This is a shot of the San Gabriel Dam just south of the East Fork bridge.

Driving to Baldy.

A very full San Gabriel Reservoir.

East Fork River flows into the San Gabriel Reservoir.

East Fork River

East Fork

East Fork Road ends.  This is shot from the parking lot at the end of East Fork Road.  About a mile around that bend there to the right is where I learned to fish streams with Eric Bergquist using salmon eggs.  That was 1971.  Since then it was always with Paul Parker that I fished up here.  The way Paul fished was that he would hit a pool with 2 or 3 casts, read the shallow or deep channels on the other edge of the stream to see what the fish were doing, cast a few times, then move to the next pool upstream.

East Fork from the end-of-the-road parking lot.

East Fork River looking east.

East Fork River.

Cave across the river from Camp Williams.

Follows Camp.

East Fork

East Fork

East Fork

West Fork parking lot.

West Fork River parking lot.

San Gabriel Reservoir letting out water.