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David J. Roberts is the new principal at Baldwin Stocker Elementary School, succeeding John Pisula. The article provides biographical information.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 15, 2003
Pages
p. 24
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 15, 2003
Pages
p. 24
Subjects
Educators
Roberts, David J. - biography
Principals
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Item ID
31655AN
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Incumbents Yvonne Bullock, David Hall, Melinda Taylor, and a challenger John J. Nicoloro were announced winners of the Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte- Town Council election.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 30, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 30, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Elections - Town Council
Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte Town Council
Bullock, Yvonne
Hall, David
Nicoloro, John J
Taylor, Melinda
Item ID
26868AN
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The Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte Town Council will swear in the newly elected Town Council members. Incumbents Yvonne Bullock, David Hall and Melinda Taylor retained their seats and newcomer John J. Nicoloro was elected.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2004
January 2, 2004
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 1, 2004
January 2, 2004
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Monrovia - Arcadia - Duarte Town council
Bullock, Yvonne
Hall, David
Nicoloro, John J
Taylor, Melinda
Item ID
27411AN
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Newspaper Index
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There are seven people running for two seats in the April 11 Arcadia City Council election: Sheng Chang, Charles "Chuck" Chivetta, Mary Dougherty, Vincent J. Foley, John S. MacDonnell, Gino Roncelli and Mark "Mickey" Segal.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2000
Pages
p. A3 w / photos
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 8, 2000
Pages
p. A3 w / photos
Subjects
City Council - Elections, 2000
Chang, Sheng
Chivetta, Charles "Chuck"
Dougherty, Mary
Foley, Vincent J.
MacDonnell, John S.
Roncelli, Gino
Segal, Mark "Mickey"
Item ID
18988AN
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Arcadia celebrates its 100th birthday on August 5, 2003. The date reflects the anniversary of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors certifying the results of the cityhood election. Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin was talking about creating a city as early as 1886. He wanted to name the city Baldwin. On July 27, 1903, thirty-nine residents voted for cityhood.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 3, 2003
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 3, 2003
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia centennial
Arcadia (city) history
Pacific Electric Red Car
Item ID
31793AN
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A Thailand student heaps praise on the English class taught by Mr. John Fung and other volunteers at the Arcadia Public Library.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 3, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 3, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library-2000-2009
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Fung, John
Volunteers
Item ID
27885AN
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Margarethe (Gretel) Dietrich, turned 100 on July 27.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2000
Pages
p. D3 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2000
Pages
p. D3 w/photo
Subjects
Dietrich, Margarethe (Gretel)
Item ID
19525AN
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Birth notice.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
March 26, 1921
Pages
p. 6
Announcement Type
Birth
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Arcadia Journal
Date
March 26, 1921
Pages
p. 6
Announcement Type
Birth
Subjects
Roth, (Baby son)
Item ID
4551AN
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Fire Chief Peter Bonano discusses the December 27 fires.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 6, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 6, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Fires
Item ID
27364AN
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Newspaper Index
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A profile of local 27 year old opera singer Jamie Chamberlin.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2006
Pages
p. U17
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2006
Pages
p. U17
Subjects
Chamberlin, Jamie
Singers
Musicians
Item ID
30136AN
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The Arcadia branch of the American Legion celebrated 80th anniversary of its founding, July 27.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 11, 2001
Pages
p. D1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 11, 2001
Pages
p. D1
Subjects
American Legion
Item ID
21673AN
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In January, the City Council appropriated $334,000 to handle the mudslide in the wake of the Dec. 27, 1999 Santa Anita wildfire.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2000
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 25, 2000
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Santa Anita Fire
Mudslides
Item ID
18724AN
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Newspaper Index
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A photograph shows Kevin Koeper, 27, of Arcadia, running the 2006 Sierra Madre Mount Wilson Trail Race.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 28, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 28, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Koeper, Kevin
Sierra Madre Mount Wilson Trail Race
Item ID
30249AN
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Owners of the 27-year old Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita have submitted an expansion proposal to City Council.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2001
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 26, 2001
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Westfield Santa Anita
Item ID
20684AN
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A profile of Arcadia mom Margarethe Else Dietrich, born 100 years ago on July 27, 1900. She joins the ranks of centenarians.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 27, 2000
Pages
p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 27, 2000
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Dietrich, Margarethe Else ("Gretel")
Item ID
27880AN
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Arcadia Weekly columnists: Dennis Mountjoy writes commentary, p. 3; Pat Ostrye writes the "Around Town" social page, p. 27.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 25, 2003
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 25, 2003
Subjects
Mountjoy, Dennis
Ostrye, Pat
Item ID
31981AN
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The city has extended the comment period for the Shops at Santa Anita environmental impact report. The public will have until February 27 to file questions and observations.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2006
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2006
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Environmental impact reports (EIR)
Caruso, Rick
Shops at Santa Anita
Developments
Malls
Item ID
30070AN
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The Jack Lantz Big Band will perform big band swing music on April 27, 2003, at the Arcadia Community Center as part of the Arcadia centennial celebration.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 27, 2003
Pages
p. 19
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 27, 2003
Pages
p. 19
Subjects
Arcadia centennial events
Big bands
Swing music
Jack Lantz Big Band
Item ID
31389AN
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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…
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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 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
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Subject Files
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Juanita Gilbert Morgan, a 40-year volunteer with the Assistance League of Arcadia, died Feb. 9 after a brief illness.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2001 p. A4
February 16, 2001 p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2001 p. A4
February 16, 2001 p. A4
Subjects
Morgan, Juanita Gilbert
Item ID
20464AN
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