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Fall of the House of Baldwin. Part 1 of a 6 part series about Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's younger daughter Anita Baldwin. By Galen Patterson. See hard copy in VF Baldwin, Anita

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 10, 2019
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 10, 2019
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Anoakia
Baldwin, Anita
Patterson, Galen
Item ID
35649AN
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Arcadia's new city government first formed in 1903 and its first meeting took place at Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel, located at First Avenue and Santa Clara Road. Baldwin's hotel featured gambling and fine dining along with city government. The Oakwood Hotel burned down in 1911, and the city government moved to the McCoy Building at First Avenue and St. Joseph Street. Two years later, City Hall moved across the street to the Hibbard Building. In 1917, the first building was constructed as a City Hall at Huntington Drive and Second Avenue (?). A two-story colonial building was built for $18,000. This City Hall opened on July 13, 1918. City Hall moved in 1949 to a 13-acre parcel between Huntington Drive and the Pacific Electric railroad tracks.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31749
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 17, 2003
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p. 1, 18
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 17, 2003
Pages
p. 1, 18
Subjects
Arcadia civic buildings
Arcadia City Hall - history - 1903-2003
Item ID
31946AN
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Monrovia's Aztec Hotel is showcasing fine art in its non-profit Aztec Art Center Route 66 Gallery. Visitors are not just from Monrovia, but from Pasadena, Duarte and Arcadia. A painting by Manuel Barillas is pictured. The hotel is owned by Kathie Reece-McNeill. The hotel was designed in 1925 by English architect Robert Stacy-Judd and was inspired by Mayan and Aztect structures. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2009
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p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2009
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Art
Aztec Hotel - Monrovia, California
Barillas, Manuel
Historic Buildings
Monrovia Association of Fine Arts
Pettie, Ron
Route 66 Gallery
Reece-McNeill, Kathie
Scully, Richard
Stacy-Judd, Robert
Item ID
31572AN
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Arcadia Fire Captain Tom Devlin was injured December 26 after part of a burning structure fell on him on Chestnut Avenue in Monrovia. He suffered second and third degree burns.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 30, 2015
Pages
p. A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 30, 2015
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
Arcadia firefighters
Devlin, Tom
Rivera, Anissa
Item ID
34584AN
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The Arcadia City Council has voted to request that the Board of Supervisors designate Arcadia fire stations as Safe Surrender sites for newborn babies 72 hours old or younger.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 29, 2003
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p. 18
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 29, 2003
Pages
p. 18
Subjects
Arcadia fire stations
Safe havens
Safe surrender
Item ID
31718AN
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Structure fire in Arcadia reveals indoor marijuana cultivation site.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 7, 2019
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p. 1, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 7, 2019
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department
Cannabis
Cruz, Isabelle
Fires
Item ID
35563AN
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Le Meridien hotel by Marriott to break ground next week on the former site of Santa Anita Inn. See hard copy in VF Hotels and Motels.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 21, 2018
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 21, 2018
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Hotels and motels
Le Meridien
Marriott
Mixed use development
Item ID
35398AN
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Dr. Charles H. Strub brought horse racing back to Arcadia. After the state made it legal again in 1930, Anita Baldwin tried to revive her father, Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's dream of a Santa Anita Racetrack. She worked with Joe Smoot but he couldn't achieve this, even though Arcadia City Council licensed his Santa Anita Jockey Club. San Francisco dentist Charles H. Strub (pronounced Stroob), owner of the San Francisco Seals baseball team, got a license for the Los Angeles Turf Club and founded Santa Anita Park with Hal Roach and other promoters. The track was designed by Gordon Kaufman and opened December 25, 1934.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 7, 2003
Pages
p. 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 7, 2003
Pages
p. 10
Subjects
Horse racing
Los Angeles Turf Club
Santa Anita Jockey Club
Santa Anita Park - history
Smoot, Joe
Strub, Dr. Charles H.
Strub, Robert
Item ID
31969AN
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Arcadia Depot and Oakwood Hotel historical marker dedication January 26 at Arcadia Transit Plaza, the former site of Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Arcadia Depot. It is the Arcadia Historical Society's 11th History Lives Here historical marker.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 19, 2017
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 19, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Arcadia Historical Society
Railroad history
Item ID
34975AN
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A class action lawsuit filed against the city of Arcadia and Extended Stay Hotels claims the city "improperly levied a daily room tax" on guests staying beyond 30 days and violated state and local law.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 17, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Extended Stay Hotels
Hotel occupancy tax
Lawsuits
Item ID
33264AN
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A new magazine called "Atomic Ranch" will be dedicated to the boxy tract homes built after World War II and found in Arcadia, Duarte and Hastings Ranch and east Pasadena.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2004
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 19, 2004
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Housing
Item ID
27584AN
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Online company Expedia has pulled out of the Arcadia, CA marketplace because of the recently approved Measure D, which adds a 10 percent hotel occupancy tax to services provided by online travel companies.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2012
Pages
p. A13
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2012
Pages
p. A13
Subjects
Ballot measures
Hotels
Occupancy taxes
Item ID
33302AN
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The Hugo Reid Adobe still stands in disrepair at the Los Angeles County Arboretum five years after preservation and restoration efforts should have started. At issue is whether it should be preserved as the Hugo Reid Adobe or reinterpreted as the Elias J. ("Lucky") Baldwin Adobe.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 11, 2006
Pages
p. B1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 11, 2006
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Getty Foundation
Historic Buildings
Hugo Reid Adobe
Landmarks
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
Preservation
Item ID
30424AN
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President Eric Chen of Chateau Group and Robb Macmillan, Development Director, to share plans for new Marriott Le Meridien Hotel and Conference Center to be located directly across from the historic Santa Anita Park Race Track. Construction to start in 2018 and be completed by fourth quarter of 2019. On the site of the former Santa Anita Inn and Ramada Inn.

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Mountain Views News
Date
March 3, 2018
Pages
p. 6
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Mountain Views News
Date
March 3, 2018
Pages
p. 6
Subjects
Chateau Group
Chen, Eric
Development
Hotels and motels
Macmillan, Robb
Marriott Le Meridien Hotel and Conference Center
Item ID
35290AN
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Projected Marriott hotel development breaks ground in 2018; Seqoia trees already down (on site of Santa Anita Inn). The developer did try to save some redwood trees on the site.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 31, 2017
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p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 31, 2017
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Environment
Marriott Hotels
Santa Anita Inn
Trees
Item ID
35145AN
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Sparks thrown from a cutting torch ignited debris in a dorm structure causing a fire at Anoakia.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 22, 2000
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 22, 2000
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Anoakia
Fires
Item ID
27875AN
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Arcadia voters consider extending hotel-room tax in the ballot Measure D. It is meant to close a loophole in a city ordinance on the transient tax. Currently, the city imposes a tax rate of 10% of the rent paid by guests to occupy a room up to 30 consecutive days. If the measure passes by a majority vote, the occupancy tax would be imposed the first 90 days of a stay.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32909
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2012
Pages
p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2012
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Elections, April 2012--Ballot Measure D
Hotel room tax
Item ID
33106AN
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Arcadia Fire Chief Kurt Norwood is retiring after thirty years in the fire service.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 30, 2016
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p. 1, 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 30, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 15
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Chiefs
Arcadia Fire Department employees
Norwood, Kurt
Item ID
34793AN
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Historical information on Baldwin Lake, the four-acre body of water that adjoins the Queen Anne Cottage in the historical section of the Los Angeles County Arboretum, is presented. The history of lake extends from time of the Native Americans (they called their village Aleupkigna), to Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch in 1873, to the movies and television shows in which it has appeared. Baldwin Lake played host to movie stars Johnny Weismuller, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour. The lake has appeared in Safari, Roots, and Fantasy Island. See also VF "Arboretum" for hard copy of article.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 8, 2002
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p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 8, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia History - Rancho Santa Anita - 1875-1909
Baldwin Lake
Films
Lakes
Los Angeles County Arboretum
Motion Pictures
Ponds
Queen Anne Cottage
Water
Item ID
30717AN
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Arcadia Fire Department responded to a $40,000 structure fire in the 200 block of E. Haven Avenue in Arcadia. No one was injured. It was a single-story single-family dwelling.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32681
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Arcadia Weekly,
Date
December 15, 2011
Pages
p. 7
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly,
Date
December 15, 2011
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Arcadia Fire Department
Fires
Item ID
32878AN
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