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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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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 24, 1980
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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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The history book, ARCADIA, WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET, is finished and available.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 15, 1981
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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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An illustrated capsule history of Arcadia briefly describes the growth of the city from mission days to the present.

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Arcadia Tribune Special Supplement p
Date
October 16, 1980
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"p. 4,5 photos"
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Arcadia Tribune Special Supplement p
Date
October 16, 1980
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"p. 4,5 photos"
Subjects
Arcadia (City) - History
Item ID
1717AN
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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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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 13, 1981
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 13, 1981
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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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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 22, 1981
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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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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has passed an ordinance lifting a 25-year-old ban on the sale of alcoholic beverages at County botanical gardens, including the Arboretum in Arcadia.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1980
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p. A-3
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 4, 1980
Pages
p. A-3
Subjects
Alcohol - Law and Legislation
Item ID
343AN
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97 new trees have been planted at Arcadia County Park.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 14, 1986
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 14, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Parks - Arcadia County Park
Item ID
2139AN
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If Santa Anita Park race track and other tracks cannot successfully compete with the just instituted state lottery that results from the passage of Proposition 37, the horse racing industry may go to Sacramento to seek tax relief, according to Robert Strub, president of the Los Angeles Turf Club.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1984
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park - Los Angeles Turf Club
Item ID
2426AN
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Suzanne Gilstrap, who was paralyzed for life when a 20-foot-long tree limb fell on her at the Los Angeles County Arboretum on July 25, 1977, has won a $1,625,000 settlement from the County. Miss Gilstrap, now 16, has appeared as a paraplegic in a recent television movie, "Skyward," with Bette Davis.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 1, 1982
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
July 1, 1982
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
458AN
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The Arcadia County Park was visited by members of the Society for Creative Anachronism dressed in Renaissance attire.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 26, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Parks - Arcadia County Park
Item ID
2142AN
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Governor George Deukmejian signed into law legislation transferring title of Arcadia and Monrovia's arboreta from the state to the county of Los Angeles.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1987
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 27, 1987
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
459AN
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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)
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Item ID
103AF
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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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Arcadia High School students accepted a third-place trophy for their performance in the 40th Los Angeles County Academic Decathlon. The third-place award is for the North Los Angeles County region. Countywide, Arcadia ranked ninth, compared with its fourth-place finish in 1988.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 3, 1989
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 3, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2998AN
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The city council agreed to spend no more than $3000 per year to maintain the big dish fountain at Santa Anita Avenue and Huntington Drive. The fountain broke several years ago and the county felt it could not justify the cost of fixing it.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1987
Pages
p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 25, 1987
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Parks - Arcadia County Park
Item ID
2140AN
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Article discusses severe budget and staff cuts at the Arboretum. Since 1975 the staff has been cut by 40 percent. The most recent county budget cut another $250,000 from the department.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 9, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 9, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
457AN
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Closure of the Arcadia Mental Health Center and four other Los Angeles County centers was delayed by the State Supreme Court until it can hear the case.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 1, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 1, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arcadia Mental Health Service
Item ID
504AN
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Vocational training is offered at Arcadia High School through the Los Angeles County Recreational Occupational Program. Arcadia offers Building Remodeling, Diversified Office Procedures, Fashion Clothing Alterations, Industrial Drafting and TV Production.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 21, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photos
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 21, 1982
Pages
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Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
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Charles E. Gilb, Arcadia city councilman, was elected president of the Independent Cities Association of Los Angeles County.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 3, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 3, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Gilb, Charles E.
Item ID
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Sandy Snider, a historian at the L. A. County Arboretum, has published a biography of Lucky Baldwin, entitled "Lucky Baldwin -- California Visionary."

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 22, 1987
Pages
p. B-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 22, 1987
Pages
p. B-1 photo
Subjects
Arcadia authors - Snider, Sandy
Item ID
575AN
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