Search Results | Arcadia History Collection

Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Marks celebrate 64th wedding anniversary.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: August 4, 1948

Pages: p. 4

Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: August 4, 1948

Pages: p. 4

Subjects: Marks, J. L. (Rev. & Mrs.)

Item ID: 9068AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Chief Andrew J. Beahm received a Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 17, 1943

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 17, 1943

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Beahm, Andrew J.

Item ID: 7269AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Birth. Born to Mr. and Mrs. L. Richards.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 21, 1944

Pages: p. 3

Announcement Type: Birth

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 21, 1944

Pages: p. 3

Announcement Type: Birth

Subjects: Richards, son

Item ID: 7229AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Citizens Bank-new banking firm opens here April 15 at temporary structure at 140 East Huntington Drive, while a permanent home is being built on the property. Features drive-in tellers. Citizens Bank has operated in Monrovia since 1926. It is under the direction of Robert L. Smith, executive vice president. See hard copy in VF Banks and Banking.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 20, 1947

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 20, 1947

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Business and Industry - Citizens Bank; Smith, Robert L.

Item ID: 3716AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Cook, Jr., Mar. 3.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 11, 1948

Pages: p. 7

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 11, 1948

Pages: p. 7

Subjects: Cook, Frank L III

Item ID: 8894AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

J. C. Penny store opening

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 18, 1948

Pages: p. 13

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: November 18, 1948

Pages: p. 13

Subjects: Business and Industry - J. C. Penny

Item ID: 3723AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Information regarding J. Victor Covell

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 19, 1932 p. 1 (appointed Postmaster); April 15, 1932 p. 1; August 2, 1935 p. 2 (article and photo)

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: February 19, 1932 p. 1 (appointed Postmaster); April 15, 1932 p. 1; August 2, 1935 p. 2 (article and photo)

Subjects: Postal Service; Covell, J Victor

Item ID: 4137AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

After 25 years, Alfred L. Jean has been awarded the Purple Heart in recognition of wounds received in action on the western front in France.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 13,1944

Pages: p. 2

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 13,1944

Pages: p. 2

Subjects: Jean, Alfred L.

Item ID: 7986AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

William J. Duffy, assistant manager at Carpenter's Cafe, was robbed of $5000.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: December 21, 1949

Pages: p. 3 (See basement box 112.)

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: December 21, 1949

Pages: p. 3 (See basement box 112.)

Subjects: Carpenter's Cafe; Duffy, William J.

Item ID: 33246AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Dr. and Mrs. J. S. Barbee describe their property at 2006 S. Santa Anita Ave.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 19, 1943

Pages: p. 4

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: August 19, 1943

Pages: p. 4

Subjects: Barbee, J. S.

Item ID: 7271AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadian Dr. William J. Tennison III is the new President of St. Luke's hospital medical staff.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: December 28, 1949

Pages: p. 1 (See basement box 112.)

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: December 28, 1949

Pages: p. 1 (See basement box 112.)

Subjects: Tennison, William J. (Dr.)

Item ID: 29887AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

History-Rancho Santa Anita (1875-1909)-Elias J. Baldwin

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Start Date: 1875

End Date: 1909

Contents: 1. " 'Lucky' Baldwin's retreat." Article by Susanna B. Dakin. 2. Article from Touring Topics, March 1929, page 41. 3. "One of many entrances to 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907. 4. "First street entrance to Fairyland Park, Baldwin's ranch." Page…

Start Date: 1875

End Date: 1909

Contents: 1. " 'Lucky' Baldwin's retreat." Article by Susanna B. Dakin.; 2. Article from Touring Topics, March 1929, page 41.; 3. "One of many entrances to 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.; 4. "First street entrance to Fairyland Park, Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.; 5. "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.; 6. "Rancho Santa Anita."Lasca Leaves, March 1976, by Sandy Snider.; 7. "Pastoral - it's scenes like this that gave Arcadia its name." News photo mounted on gray paper, circa 1950.; 8. "This is Santa Anita." Arcadia Tribune, March 23, 1950. News photo of Baldwin store.; 9. "Baldwin's boat house." Arcadia Tribune, August 11, 1960. News photo of boat house.; 10. "List of ranches and acreage planted to various crops." Century Magazine, October 1883, Volume XXVI, Number 6. Compiled 1978.; 11. "Last remnant of the Rancho." Thoroughbred, November 1965 by Dick Nash. Six pages.; 12. "Days of yore - progress is wonderful, but ..." Arcadia Tribune, March 24, 1949. News photo of Baldwin cattle pastures.; 13. " 'Beast' Baldwin and his two great loves." Sports Illustrated, February 19, 1962 by Dolly Connelly.; 14. "1894 photo of the bell tower of Mission San Gabriel." Article confirming bell from Mission was at ranch.; 15. "History of Santa Anita." Westways, October 1955 by M. Richard Marx.; 16. "Life at Guenoc (breeding farm owned by Lily Langtree). Westways, August 1957 by Idwal Jones.; 17. "Mission-period Rancho." Arcadia Tribune, April 2, 1978.; 18. "About 1876 or 1877, Baldwin hired a distant relative, Julius A. Kelly." Los Angeles Herald Tribune, December 30, 1960. Typed notes.; 19. "Rancho was lucky for Baldwin." Arcadia Tribune, April 6, 1978.; 20. The Peacock Call, September/October 1978. Rancho area residents' newsletter with article and map on Ranch. Also: a chronology on Rancho by Joe Buck.; 21. "Life and death." Golden West, January 1966, pages 20-21+. Regarding Workman and Temple tragedy.; 22. Ad in Sierra Madre Vista for Baldwin store. March 16, 1889.; 23. February 1889 notice in Sierra Madre Vista telling of corn sale by Baldwin.; 24. Story of Blas Cuellar recalls days of Baldwin Reign; 40 descendants still live in Arcadia. Arcadia Tribune, March 24, 1949. Cuellar had come from Mexico.; 25. Letter relating to observation of the Ranch in 1883. Article in Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly, March 1979.; 26. "Baldwin large operator - acquired much land in Los Angeles County." Chapter 3 from the book _California Memories_ by Jackson A. Graves, published by Times Mirror Press, 1930. Copied at Huntington Library, 1979.; 27. "Lucky Baldwin's energy turning to the swamp lands of his great ranch." Valley Vista, March 31, 1900. Regarding lands in El Monte and Savanna areas.; 28. "Mr. E.J. Baldwin was presented with four Java oyster shells by a captain of a vessel from China." San Gabriel Valley News, March 28, 1878.; 29. "The Los Angeles Herald recently contained the following about E.J. Baldwin's Santa Anita Ranch: a long account of the ranch and its developing." Sierra Madre Vista, February 5, 1891.; 30. Boat house construction." Sierra Madre Vista, May 28, 1891.; 31. "Baldwin money for road up Mount Wilson." Sierra Madre Vista, May 3, 1889.; 32. "Brick manufacture at Santa Anita." Sierra Madre Vista, April 14, 1888.; 33. "Banana trees." Sierra Madre Vista, May 31, 1889.; 34. List of numbers of fruit trees, grape vines, and head of livestock. Sierra Madre Vista, January 15, 1891.; 35. "Acreage being sold for small ranches." Sierra Madre Vista, November 20, 1890.; 36. "Estimated worth of ranch, 1891. Sierra Madre Vista, August 13, 1891.; 37. Description of ranch from newspaper. Sierra Madre Vista, January 8, 1890.; 38. "E.J. Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch is undoubtedly the most beautiful." Los Angeles Daily Herald, March 30, 1887. Copied from the Los Angeles Public Library by Sandy Snider of the Los Angeles County Arboretum.; 39. "Water." San Gabriel Valley News, February 28, 1878. Regarding Baldwin building flumes to carry water from Big Santa Anita Canyon.; 40. "The Santa Anita Ranch." Two pages from California of the South, by Walter Lindley, publisher, 1888.; 41. "The Builders. VI Where Ranch and City Meet." Outing, October 1906 by Ralph D. Paine.; 42. "In 1880, 'Lucky' Baldwin orange grove of 75 acres at Sierra Madre was planted to navels." Historical Society of Southern California Bulletin, December 1943, page 152.; 43. "A large number of fine varieties of plants received for Mr. Baldwin." San Gabriel Valley News, February 28, 1878. From the Huntington Library.; 44. Map showing irrigated lands, canals, pipe lines and pumping plants in the Pasadena Quadrangle, 1907. Original owned by Mrs. Robert Pitzer.; 45. Letter from H. Unruh to Richard Garvey on E.J. Baldwin office letterhead featuring Bird's Eye Map. Original owned by Jack Donnelly. Obtained March 3, 1981.; 46. "Notice of claim to water." Legal notice filed by E.J. Baldwin on August 23, 1883 in Court in Los Angeles. Regarding his right to water from Santa Anita Canyon. Original at County Hall of Records.; 47. "Santa Anita Store." Ad in Sierra Madre Vista, circa late 1880's.; 48. The Land of Sunshine: a magazine of California and the Southwest, February 1898, edited by Chas. F. Lummis. Photos and mentions of Arcadia on marked pages.; 49. "Typical views of California." Los Angeles Times. Large photographic prints. (NOTE: OVERSIZE! See bottom drawer of photo file cabinet with oversize photos.); 50. "Childhood visit to Baldwin home recalled by former Los Angeles mayor." Arcadia Tribune, April 23, 1956, page 1. Article and photo.; 51. "Rancho Santa Anita once vast Baldwin empire of more than 54,000 acres." News clip, circa April 1948.; 52. "Lucky Baldwin's Rancho Santa Anita." by Percy L. Bonebrake. From the Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral. Book six, Los Angeles Westerners, 1956, page 83-85.; 53. "Elias Jackson 'Lucky' Baldwin and his Santa Anita Ranch." by Carey S. Bliss. From the Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral. Book six, Los Angeles Westerners, 1956, page 79-82.; 54. "20 cents an acre! - The Santa Anita Rancho story." The Realty Scene, Pasadena (Ca.) Independent, January 11, 1953 by Independent Real Estate Editor, Jack Cressman.; 55. Ad in the Monrovia Planet, January 15, 1887, page 2. For the sale of 5-20 acre lots (out of 2,000 for sale) by E.J. Baldwin.; 56. Arcadia Notes in the Monrovia Planet, May 21, 1887, page 2. Regarding buildings and road work, etc. for Arcadia at that time.; 57. Article in the Monrovia Planet, March 15, 1887, page 3. Regarding the sale of two lots by E.J. Baldwin to the two Studebaker brothers.; 58. Articles regarding the orange trees E.J. Baldwin will set out. Monrovia Messenger, March 27, 1890 and November 13, 1890.; 59. Article regarding the placing of several thousand acres of land on the Santa Anita Ranch by E.J. Baldwin. Monrovia Messenger, January 8, 1891.; 60. Lucky Baldwin's Ranch: a Southern California paradise of sixteen thousand acres. (Description of the ranch). The Daily Constitution, March 22, 1877.; 61. It was too much. (Description of the ranch). Chicago Daily Tribune, May 25, 1877.; 62. Lucky Baldwin's Ranch. Chicago Daily Tribune, June 17, 1879. Description of the acreage, trees, fruits, etc.; 63. Lucky Baldwin's 'Arcadia': establishes sporting city on Santa Anita Ranch in defiance of strenuous opposition. New York Times, June 23, 1903. Arcadia is incorporated, and it promises to be the "sportiest" place in the country, despite opposition from the State Anti-Saloon League. The town is located on Baldwin's ranch of 18,000 acres.; 64. "A Corner in Arcady," a chapter copied from History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley California, Vol. 1 (1930) by Harold Carew.

Subjects: History-Rancho Santa Anita (1875-1909)-Elias J. Baldwin

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Item ID: 111AF

Collection: Subject Files

Marriage. 50th Anniversary.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: March 2, 1947

Pages: p. 5

Announcement Type: Marriage

Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: March 2, 1947

Pages: p. 5

Announcement Type: Marriage

Subjects: Summer, J. L. (Mr. & Mrs.)

Item ID: 8391AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

In 1934, William F. Gettle was kidnapped from his Arcadia home and held for ransom. Larry Kerrigan, Jimmy Kirk and Roy Williams received life sentences for the crime.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 18, 1941

Pages: p. 2

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 18, 1941

Pages: p. 2

Subjects: Gettle, William F.; Kerrigan, Larry; Kirk, Jimmy; Williams, Roy; Crime and Criminals

Item ID: 6519AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Miss Virginia Bower, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bower of 126 Wheeler Street, will be heard in her first major operatic role when she sings the lyric soprano role of Amy Everton in the opera "Shanewis."

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Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: March 7, 1948

Pages: p. 3 photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: March 7, 1948

Pages: p. 3 photo

Subjects: Bower, Virginia

Item ID: 9527AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Marriage. (Some time between February 14, 1944 and February 12, 1945. (Article not located or missed during survey of papers.)

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Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: February 12, 1945

Pages: p. 1

Announcement Type: Marriage

Newspaper: Arcadia Bulletin

Date: February 12, 1945

Pages: p. 1

Announcement Type: Marriage

Subjects: Scitt, Jeanne L; Brinton, Caleb J. III

Item ID: 7445AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Marriage. Name of bride, a woman from Alhambra, not given.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 3, 1931 p. 2

Announcement Type: Marriage

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 3, 1931 p. 2

Announcement Type: Marriage

Subjects: Nelson, Mr. N. J.

Item ID: 4625AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Items regarding social life in Arcadia.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 23, 1936 p. 1 (gambling); December 31, 1956 p. 1 (progress article); May 5, 1958 p. 1 ( " ); August 20, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); August 27, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); September 3, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); September 10, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); September 17, 1967 p. 1 ( " )

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 23, 1936 p. 1 (gambling); December 31, 1956 p. 1 (progress article); May 5, 1958 p. 1 ( " ); August 20, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); August 27, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); September 3, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); September 10, 1967 p. 1 ( " ); September 17, 1967 p. 1 ( " )