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The history book, ARCADIA, WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET, is finished and available.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 15, 1981
Pages
p. A-4 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 15, 1981
Pages
p. A-4 photo
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History
Item ID
1719AN
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The pictorial history book "Arcadia: Where Ranch and City Meet" is in the final stages of layout. Delivery of the book is expected in the fall.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 13, 1981
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 13, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History
Item ID
1718AN
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Hundreds of Arcadians attended the reception held at historic Anoakia where they toured the house and grounds and picked up their copies of the new history book ARCADIA: WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 22, 1981
Pages
p. A-6 photos
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 22, 1981
Pages
p. A-6 photos
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History
Item ID
1720AN
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A pictorial history entitled "Arcadia: Where Ranch and City Meet" is being published by the Friends of the Arcadia Public Library. The book is written and compiled by Pat McAdam of the Arcadia Public Library and Sandy Snider of the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History
Friends of the Arcadia Public Library
McAdam, Pat
Snider, Sandy
Item ID
1716AN
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Article anticipates changes in the City in 1989. Demographic changes, increased traffic and further redevelopment will affect the city.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 4, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 4, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History 1980 - 1989
Item ID
1724AN
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Article reviews events of 1988. Touted as the city's biggest achievement were the redevelopment projects.

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Arcadia Tribune p A-1 photos
Date
January 1, 1989
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Arcadia Tribune p A-1 photos
Date
January 1, 1989
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History 1980 - 1989
Item ID
1723AN
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Arcadia's City Council has re-adopted an urgency ordinance to prevent any "adult" business establishments from being opened in the next 45 days.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 9, 1987
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 9, 1987
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Planning
Item ID
1202AN
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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1838-1947)

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Start Date
1838
End Date
1947
Contents
1. Chain of title. Three copies given to Arcadia Public Library on the Rancho's fiftieth anniversary. 2. "Santa Anita Rancho history told in book." News clip, circa 1956. 3. "Our community." Article from Arcadia Savings and Loan brochure. 4. "Arcadia, City of Arcadia." San Gabriel Valley Adver…
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Start Date
1838
End Date
1947
Contents
1. Chain of title. Three copies given to Arcadia Public Library on the Rancho's fiftieth anniversary.
2. "Santa Anita Rancho history told in book." News clip, circa 1956.
3. "Our community." Article from Arcadia Savings and Loan brochure.
4. "Arcadia, City of Arcadia." San Gabriel Valley Advertiser, February 26, 1969 by I. Hope.
5. "Arcadia gets publicity." News clip, 1927 copied from Alton Green's scrapbook.
6. "The Romance of Rancho Santa Anita." Booklet by Rancho Santa Anita, circa 1948. Eight copies.
7. Lasca Leaves, October 1967. Three copies.
8. "The Romance of the Ranchos." Booklet by Palmer Conner, Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1941. Six copies. Insert of 1919 map of Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County.
9. "Rancho Santa Anita ... trials of ownership." Lasca Leaves, December 1975. Two copies.
10. "The people of Rancho Santa Anita, Part II." Lasca Leaves, July 1956.
11. "From romance to racehorses." Westways, February 1974.
12. "Ranch Santa Anita." Section of the book, Brief Sketches of the History of the Ranchos San Pascual, Santa Anita ...etc. by J.M. Miller.
13. Lasca Leaves, December 1975.
14. a. "Historic Santa Anita: the development of the land." Brochure by the Arboretum, circa 1976. 14b. Historic Santa Anita the Development of the Land, undated. 14c. Historic Santa Anita the Development of the Land, originally printed by California Arboretum Foundation 1976, Revised and reprinted by Los Voluntarios 2006.
15. "Expedients." Four pages detailing Reid's claim. Copied from the collection of Huntington Library.
16. "Santa Anita Ranch, Rancho Santa Anita." Articles from The Westerner's Brand Book, published by Los Angeles Corral, 1956.
17. "The old and new Santa Anita." Westways, January 1948.
18. "Chain of horticulture." Lasca Leaves, July 1951.
19. "The restorations at Rancho Santa Anita." Lasca Leaves, January 1961.
20. "Background to Rancho Santa Anita." By Florence Slocum, circa 1969.
21. "People say." Arcadia Tribune, February - April, 1941. A series of eight articles commemorating Rancho Santa Anita's 100th birthday.
22. "Rancho Santa Anita 'Place of Many Waters.'" Lasca Leaves, October 1967 by Susanna Bryant Dakin.
23. Historic calendar of events of Ranch Santa Anita. Peacock Call, September/October 1978.
24. Manuscript of Mrs. C.W. (Emma Elinor Hines) Young. From the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, October 1978. Photocopy of handwritten manuscript and typed copy.
25. "Owners and cattle brands of the Rancho Santa Anita." The Branding Iron, June 1979 by Jack McCaskill.
26. "The Baldwin legacy." Lasca Leaves, June 1976 by Sandy Snider.
27. "Santa Anita Rancho - history told in book." Pasadena Independent, January 11, 1953. Pasadena Star News, September 23, 1956.
28. "Pasadena the Crown of the Valley: a souvenir." Pasadena Board of Trade, 1893-1894 by E. Norman Baker. From the historical collection of William F. Salisbury.
29. "Rancho Santa Anita - 'Place of Many Waters'." Junior League Community News, October 1957 by Susanna Bryant Dakin.
30. "Rancho Santa Anita's colorful past." News clip, undated.
31. "Rancho Santa Anita, chuck full of early California memories; one of the Southland's most beautiful spots." Arcadia Tribune, December 6, 1937, page 1.
32. "Historic ranchos' sale recalls pioneer days." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1936, Part V, page 1.
33. "Two famous holdings to be subdivided soon. Santa Anita and La Cienega Ranch acreage purchased for vast residential development." Los Angeles Times, April 5, 1936, Part V.
34. Town Rambler by Marjorie Hesse: description of Rancho Santa Anita and the arrangement of the rooms at the old adobe house as told by Miss Lena McCulley and second cousin of E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin, Mrs. H. H. Cross. Arcadia Tribune, June 22, 1938. Copied from Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, April 1936-Jan. 1, 1939. Arcadia Historical Society.
35. "The Romance of California Land Titles" by Stuart O'Melveny. Title Insurance and Trust Company, 1928. (Rancho Santa Anita mentioned on page 13.)
36. Rancho Santa Anita and the development of San Marino and Sierra Madre. From pages 91, 93, 94, 100 of the book Pasadena Area History by Manuel Pineda and E. Caswell Perry (1972).
Subjects
History-Rancho Santa Anita (1838-1947)
Physical Description
2 folders
Item ID
103AF
Collection
Subject Files
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Article offers review of events of 1980.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 1, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photos
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 1, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photos
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History 1980 - 1989
Item ID
1721AN
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Article reviews events of 1981.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 3, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 3, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History 1980 - 1989
Item ID
1722AN
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The Arcadia Welfare and Thrift Shop is beginning its 51st year. Thrift shop manager Dorothy Smith tells of the changes and growth since its opening during the depression, and describes the types of merchandise to be found in the "non-profit department store with thrift shop prices."

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 6, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 6, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arcadia Welfare and Thrift Shop
Item ID
511AN
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A group under the direction of the Arcadia Friendship Club will visit Tripolis, Greece, Sister City of Arcadia. A special proclamation honoring Tripolis' Mayor Tasos Sehiotes and Greek Independence Day has been prepared for presentation.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Sister City - Tripolis, Greece
Item ID
3239AN
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By mid-May 1987 the buildings on the south side of Huntington in the east part of Arcadia should be all gone. 400 days after that, at the latest, there should be a shopping center on the land. By mid-May of 1989, 3 office buildings should join the shopping center according to Arcadia's city manager, Peter Kinnahan.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 11, 1986
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 11, 1986
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Planning
Item ID
1201AN
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The three women employed and trained to handle parking citations in the city are averaging 108 citations a day. Article describes various parking violations and their fines.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Automobile Parking
Item ID
584AN
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Article describes two June events: a wine and cheese social and a continental breakfast. The history of the founding of the Arboretum, now celebrating its 33rd year, is reviewed.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 28, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
456AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Marching Koalas School Band from Arcadia's Sister City, Newcastle, Australia, will visit the city for the second time in five years.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 18, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3236AN
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Two teachers and sixteen students from Newcastle, Australia, Arcadia's sister city, were here for a visit.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 29, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 29, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Sister City - Newcastle, Australia
Item ID
3235AN
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Eight candidates for City Council spoke at a forum sponsored by the Santa Anita Village Association. William Carpenter and James Neumeister were not present.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1986
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1986
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1986
Item ID
1119AN
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Fearing a glut of smut near their schools and churches, 1000 local people, including more than 500 Arcadians, signed a petition against adult business zoning and presented it to the Arcadia City Council.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 7, 1988
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 7, 1988
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Planning
Item ID
1209AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Redevelopment Agency members briefly considered four possible developments on the south side of Huntington Drive in east Arcadia, then discussed whether to increase the size of the development area to include the city yards just south of the current project area.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1985
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1985
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Community Redevelopment
Item ID
1306AN
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Newspaper Index
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