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Months of talks between Westfield Shopping Town Santa Anita and Santa Anita Park race track about building a shopping center seem to have fallen through.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2000
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2000
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Westfield Santa Anita
Santa Anita Park
Item ID
18431AN
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The Breeders' Cup will be raced at Santa Anita Park on November 6-7, 2009. It will be its second consecutive year and fifth time overall held at Santa Anita Park.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Breeders' Cup - history
Horse racing
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31114AN
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Harris & Associates will design streetscape and landscape improvements for the Santa Anita Entry Corridor, meaning Santa Anita Avenue from Huntington Drive to the Foothill 210 Freeway and on areas adjacent to the Santa Anita Avenue and Baldwin Avenue freeway ramps. The project will include pavement work. The contract for the project is for $107,211.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 29, 2003
Pages
p. 18
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 29, 2003
Pages
p. 18
Subjects
Harris and Associates - Harris & Associates
Landscaping
Item ID
31722AN
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Experts predict a massive West Nile virus outbreak in Southern California.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
West Nile Virus
San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District
Item ID
28847AN
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West Nile Virus has been discovered in two samples of mosquitoes collected at Kahler Russell Park in Covina and at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 11, 2008
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 11, 2008
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District
West Nile Virus
Item ID
31297AN
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Horse lover and photographer Karen Davis has published a book called "Santa Anita Morning Rhapsody." It is a photographic collection of the Santa Anita Park race track in the early morning.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 2006
Pages
p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 8, 2006
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Davis, Karen
Authors
Books
Photographers
Santa Anita Park -- 2001-2010
Item ID
30316AN
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Westfield Group, owner of Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita, plans to sue the City of Arcadia and developer Caruso Affiliated to prevent The Shops at Santa Anita, the outdoor mall, from being built.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
May 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Developers
Lawsuits
Malls
Mall war
The Shops at Santa Anita
Westfield Group
Item ID
30712AN
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Favored horse Sweet Catomine loses the Santa Anita Derby to Buzzards Bay making Buzzards' trainer Jeff Mullins the first trainer to earn three consecutive wins in the Santa Anita Derby.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2005
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 10, 2005
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park race track - 2001-2010
Santa Anita Derby
Race horses
Sweet Catomine
Buzzards Bay
Mullins, Jeff
Item ID
29660AN
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Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC), owner of Santa Anita Park, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Santa Anita Park may be sold to pay off Magna's debts. Frank Stronach paid $126 million for Santa Anita Park in 1996. The track has three potential buyers, including a group from Asia.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 6, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A12
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 6, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A12
Subjects
Bankruptcy
Economy
Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC)
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31592AN
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City clarifies concerns about the Santa Anita Park expansion plans.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 21, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 21, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - 1991-2000
Item ID
27965AN
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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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George Manuels, a cartoonist for Walt Disney, lived in Santa Anita Village.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1942
Pages
p. 8
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1942
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Manuels, George
Item ID
7263AN
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H & M opened at Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita mall today.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2006
Pages
p. Local 4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2006
Pages
p. Local 4
Subjects
Business and Industry
Clothing
H & M
Retail stores
Item ID
30503AN
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Proposal for two schools on land set aside in Rancho Santa Anita

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 26, 1946 p. 1 (Rancho Santa Anita School)
March 23, 1950 p. 13 (first school)
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 26, 1946 p. 1 (Rancho Santa Anita School)
March 23, 1950 p. 13 (first school)
Subjects
Schools - History - 1880s-1950
Item ID
4222AN
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A full page color advertisement solicits Arcadia residents' reviews on the new mall to be built by Caruso Affiliated on the Santa Anita Park race track parking lot. The mall will be called The Shops at Santa Anita.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 13, 2005
Pages
p. A14
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 13, 2005
Pages
p. A14
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Advertisements
Santa Anita Park race track parking lot
Shops at Santa Anita
Item ID
29920AN
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Developer Caruso Affiliated has submitted a revised plan and environmental impact report (EIR) for review for the proposed development on the parking lot of the Santa Anita Park race track, called The Shops at Santa Anita.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 29, 2006
Pages
p. News 7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 29, 2006
Pages
p. News 7
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Developers
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)
Malls
The Shops at Santa Anita
Item ID
30449AN
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Rusnak Automotive Group is considering moving to Arcadia on the old Foulger Ford site at Huntington, Santa Clara and Santa Anita.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 19, 2000
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 19, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Business and Industry
Rusnak Automotive Group
Item ID
27910AN
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Santa Anita Park has come up with two options to solve its drainage issues caused by the Cushion Track. Santa Anita Park president Ron Charles will announce his decision Thursday. Santa Anita had to cancel three consecutive days of horse racing for the first time in its 71-year history, due to heavy rainfall.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 9, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 9, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Cushion Track
Horse racing - history
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
31073AN
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Photos show shoppers the day after Thanksgiving at Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 26, 2005
Pages
p. A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 26, 2005
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita
After Thanksgiving sales
Shopping
Item ID
29977AN
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Newspaper Index
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A full page color advertisement shows student support for The Shops at Santa Anita.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 2006
Pages
p. A12
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 18, 2006
Pages
p. A12
Subjects
Shops at Santa Anita
Advertisements
Malls
Arcadia Unified School District
Item ID
30234AN
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Newspaper Index
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