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General information regarding the Foothill [210] Freeway.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 26, 1954 p. 1; November 10, 1955 p. 1; April 19, 1956 p. 1; December 17, 1956 p. 1 (description of plans); January 6, 1958 p. 1; January 9, 1958 p. 1; January 16, 1958 p. 1 (presented o Planning Commission); February 20, 1958 p. 1; February 27, 1958 p. 1 (protests); March 6, 1958 p. 1 (cost comparisons); May 29, 1958 p. 1 ("Taxpayers League"protest); July 7, 1958 p. 1 (map); July 10, 1958 p. 1; January 1, 1959 p. 1; March 21, 1960 pp. 3, 7 (map); November 21, 1960 p. 1; December 29, 1960 p. 1; February 13, 1961 p. 1; May 29, 1961 p. 1; August 14, 1961 p. 1; November 9, 1961 p. 1; April 2, 1962 p. 1; April 5, 1962 p. 1; June 28, 1962 p. 1 (railroad crossing); August 1, 1962 p. 1; August 30, 1962 p. 1 (state pact with city); January 20, 1963 p. 1; January 24, 1963 p. 1; January 31, 1963 p. 1 (map showing route); March 10, 1963 p. 1 (map of interchange); July 28, 1963 p. 1; August 8, 1963 p. 1; July 12, 1964 p. 1 (map); August 2, 1964 p. 1; May 12, 1966 p. 1 (final stages of plans); July 31, 1966 p. 1; September 29, 1966 p. 1 (Arcadia-Azusa link); December 4, 1966 p. 1 (link to Monrovia); August 13, 1967 p. 1 (link to Duarte); August 17, 1967 p. 1 (funds); October 26, 1967 p. 1 (Rosemead Blvd. to San Dimas Section); June 30, 1968 p. 1; July 31, 1968 p. 1; August 11, 1968 p. 1; August 14, 1968 p. 1; August 18, 1968 p. 3; August 25, 1968 p. 1; October 27, 1968 p. 1 (section from San Bernardino Freeway to 605); December 22, 1968 p. 1 (Highland Ave to Duarte link); December 18, 1968 p. 1 (extension to Rosemead); October 10, 1969 p. 1; November 26, 1969 p. 1 (open to Grand Ave.); May 24, 1970 p. 1 (Santa Fe Railroad poles); May 27, 1970 p. 1; May 31, 1970 p. 1 (poles); January 13, 1971 p. 1 (dedication); July 4, 1971 p. 1 (open between Santa Clara to Rosemead); October 17, 1971 p. 1; October 20, 1971 p. 1; December 8, 1971 p. 1; January 19, 1972 p. 1 (noise abatement); May 28, 1972 p. 1 (wall to combat noise studied); July 20, 1972 p. 1 (CHP monitors noise)

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 26, 1954 p. 1; November 10, 1955 p. 1; April 19, 1956 p. 1; December 17, 1956 p. 1 (description of plans); January 6, 1958 p. 1; January 9, 1958 p. 1; January 16, 1958 p. 1 (presented o Planning Commission); February 20, 1958 p. 1; February 27, 1958 p. 1 (protests); March 6, 1958 p. 1 (cost comparisons); May 29, 1958 p. 1 ("Taxpayers League"protest); July 7, 1958 p. 1 (map); July 10, 1958 p. 1; January 1, 1959 p. 1; March 21, 1960 pp. 3, 7 (map); November 21, 1960 p. 1; December 29, 1960 p. 1; February 13, 1961 p. 1; May 29, 1961 p. 1; August 14, 1961 p. 1; November 9, 1961 p. 1; April 2, 1962 p. 1; April 5, 1962 p. 1; June 28, 1962 p. 1 (railroad crossing); August 1, 1962 p. 1; August 30, 1962 p. 1 (state pact with city); January 20, 1963 p. 1; January 24, 1963 p. 1; January 31, 1963 p. 1 (map showing route); March 10, 1963 p. 1 (map of interchange); July 28, 1963 p. 1; August 8, 1963 p. 1; July 12, 1964 p. 1 (map); August 2, 1964 p. 1; May 12, 1966 p. 1 (final stages of plans); July 31, 1966 p. 1; September 29, 1966 p. 1 (Arcadia-Azusa link); December 4, 1966 p. 1 (link to Monrovia); August 13, 1967 p. 1 (link to Duarte); August 17, 1967 p. 1 (funds); October 26, 1967 p. 1 (Rosemead Blvd. to San Dimas Section); June 30, 1968 p. 1; July 31, 1968 p. 1; August 11, 1968 p. 1; August 14, 1968 p. 1; August 18, 1968 p. 3; August 25, 1968 p. 1; October 27, 1968 p. 1 (section from San Bernardino Freeway to 605); December 22, 1968 p. 1 (Highland Ave to Duarte link); December 18, 1968 p. 1 (extension to Rosemead); October 10, 1969 p. 1; November 26, 1969 p. 1 (open to Grand Ave.); May 24, 1970 p. 1 (Santa Fe Railroad poles); May 27, 1970 p. 1; May 31, 1970 p. 1 (poles); January 13, 1971 p. 1 (dedication); July 4, 1971 p. 1 (open between Santa Clara to Rosemead); October 17, 1971 p. 1; October 20, 1971 p. 1; December 8, 1971 p. 1; January 19, 1972 p. 1 (noise abatement); May 28, 1972 p. 1 (wall to combat noise studied); July 20, 1972 p. 1 (CHP monitors noise)

Subjects: Foothill Freeway - (210)

Item ID: 3934AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Baldwin Avenue extension south okayed. Street will extend from Huntington Drive to Ramona Boulevard.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: January 11, 1950

Pages: p. 6 Section 2, (See basement box 112.)

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: January 11, 1950

Pages: p. 6 Section 2, (See basement box 112.)

Subjects: Baldwin Avenue

Item ID: 33069AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Baldwin Avenue extension south from Huntington Drive to Ramona Boulevard has been approved.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: January 11, 1950

Pages: p. 6 Section 2 (See basement box 112.)

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: January 11, 1950

Pages: p. 6 Section 2 (See basement box 112.)

Subjects: Baldwin Avenue; Streets

Item ID: 33214AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Carl's Sweet Corn stand opens for 19th year locally a 75 Las Tunas Drive, one block west of Santa Anita Avenue. Operated as a family affair by Carl Kophamer.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 2, 1953

Pages: Section 2, p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: July 2, 1953

Pages: Section 2, p. 1

Subjects: Agriculture; Business and Industry; Corn; Kophamer, Arlowyn; Kophamer, Carl Christian; Kophamer, Maurice

Collection: Newspaper Index

The site of Arcadia's first home, the Unruh house at the corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue, is now occupied by the new Standard Station.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune & News p 2 w / photo

Date: December 13, 1951

Pages: p 2 w / photo

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune & News p 2 w / photo

Date: December 13, 1951

Pages: p 2 w / photo

Subjects: Uhruh, Hiram; Business & Industry - Standard Station

Item ID: 11176AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Thrifty Drug Co. leases property and will build a store at the corner of Huntington Drive and First Avenue, the former site of Arcadia City Hall.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: March 22, 1950

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

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: March 22, 1950

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

Subjects: Drug Stores; Thrifty Drug Co.

Item ID: 33239AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

New Ralphs market will open at corner of Live Oak and Santa Anita Avenue on April 20.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: April 12, 1950

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

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: April 12, 1950

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

Subjects: Grocery Stores; Ralphs market

Item ID: 33242AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

New El Rancho Building, a 2-story store and office affair, located at 1200 W. Huntington Drive, is nearing completion, with occupancy expected in March. Rancho Santa Anita, Inc. are the owners of the new building. Architect is Rowland H. Crawford.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: January 25, 1950

Pages: p. 8 (See basement box 112.)

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: January 25, 1950

Pages: p. 8 (See basement box 112.)

Subjects: Buildings; Business and Industry; El Rancho Building

Item ID: 33222AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

New Ralphs market will open tomorrow at corner of Live Oak and Santa Anita Avenue on April 20. Manager is Leon Rowland.

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Newspaper: The Journal

Date: April 19, 1950

Pages: p. 2 (See basement box 112.)

Newspaper: The Journal

Date: April 19, 1950

Pages: p. 2 (See basement box 112.)

Subjects: Grocery Stores; Ralphs market; Rowland, Leon

Item ID: 33244AN

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.