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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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Plans are underway for "Peacock Corner" at the fountain and entrance at Arcadia County Park at Santa Anita Avenue and Huntington Drive. The bronze peacock will be 8 feet tall.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29054
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 15, 2001
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 15, 2001
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Santa Anita Park
Peacock Corner
Public Art
Item ID
29240AN
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Arcadia County Park fountain rededicated. The fountain in the park, which is a memorial to wartime casualties, was rededicated to honor those who perished in last year's September 11th terrorist attack. The fountain is being redone and will have a bronze peacock on the top of the fountain. The renovated landmark will be called Peacock Corner.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper23028
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2002
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2002
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Parks - Arcadia County Park - Fountain
Peacock Corner
Item ID
23236AN
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A call for docents at the Arboretum includes a history of the city of Arcadia and the Los Angeles County Arboretum.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31605
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2009
Pages
p. A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 16, 2009
Pages
p. A7
Subjects
Arcadia - history
Los Angeles County Arboretum - history
Volunteers
Item ID
31802AN
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Magna Entertainment Corporation, owners of Santa Anita Park race track, is bidding to purchase the September race dates at the Los Angeles County Fair for September 13-29. The Breeders Cup will be returning to Santa Anita Park next October after a gap of ten years.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30231
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 25, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Breeders Cup
Horse racing
Los Angeles County Fair
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
30418AN
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The fountain at Peacock Corner (southwest corner Santa Anita Avenue and Huntington Drive) is taking on a new look. Student volunteers are placing small mosaic tiles on the facade of the fountain. Local interior designer Shirley Farris volunteered to coordinate the project.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33438
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2002
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p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 14, 2002
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Arcadia Rotary Club
Farris, Shirley
Fisher, Ardelle
Kovacic, Gary
Lee, Jaime
Lin, Lisa
Item ID
33634AN
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Arcadia will host the City's eighth annual Holiday Snow Festival in the parking lot of Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26983
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2003
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 8, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
City History - 2000 - 2009
Westfield Santa Anita
Item ID
27182AN
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Temple City will not try to annex an unincorporated area near Arcadia, bounded by Daines Drive on the north, Tyler Avenue on the east, West Hondo Parkway on the south and Santa Anita Avenue on the west. Temple City will continue efforts to expand the city's north and south boundaries but wanted to avoid a fight with Arcadia for this area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30103
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 22, 2006
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
June 22, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Annexation
Temple City
Unincorporated areas - Los Angeles County
Item ID
30290AN
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The city has taken its first step toward condemning part of a desirable downtown block to make way for the expansion of the Rusnak Mercedes Benz. The City Council voted unanimously to move forward with eminent domain proceedings against Arcadia Self Storage, a four-story building on Huntington Drive just west of Santa Anita Avenue. This building is one of five under threat of condemnation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29948
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 9, 2006
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 9, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Eminent domain
Rusnak Mercedes Benz - expansion
Automobile Dealerships
Arcadia City Council
Item ID
30134AN
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The City will pay $25,000 of city money toward putting a 10-foot tall bronze peacock at Peacock Corner, in front of Arcadia County Park, on the corner of Huntington Drive and Santa Anita Avenue. The sculpture will emerge from the center of the fountain at the corner. The actual cost of the sculpture and base is $36,500. The fountain was originally donated by Rotary Club 35 years ago.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30678
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Fountains
Peacock Corner
Sculptures
Statuary
Item ID
30866AN
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Arcadia celebrated 100 years of cityhood with a cameo appearance by Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin, portrayed by John Reuter. Activities included a scavenger hunt, author book signing for Visions of Arcadia, and the unveiling of the bronze peacock topping the fountain. The peacock was sculpted by Dave Chapple.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25952
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 2003
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 6, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Centennial Celebrations, 2003
Arcadia County Park
Reuter, John
Chapple, Dave
Item ID
26154AN
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The City Council awarded a $30,000 commission to an Irvine artist, David Chapple, to create a bronze peacock sculpture as the focal point for the fountain at "Peacock Corner" in Arcadia County Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24843
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 8, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 8, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Parks - Arcadia County Park
Peacock Corner
Chapple, David
Item ID
25039AN
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Cats have turned up dead with .22 caliber bullet wounds at the Santa Anita Park race track stable. Police launch an investigation into animal cruelty.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29068
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 8, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 8, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Cats
Animal cruelty
Santa Anita Park 2001 - 2010
Stray animals
Item ID
29254AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31772
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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The annual Girl Scout Cookie sales drive was launched this year at the county park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper22572
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2002
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Parks - Arcadia County Park
Girl Scouts
Item ID
22784AN
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Arcadia City Council has gone on record as supporting the building of a new city hall that would be built on the other side of the Civic Center property. Out of three options presented by city manager Bill Kelly, the council consensus was for a new building at a cost of $6.6 million and adjacent to Huntington Drive West.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31146
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 6, 2003
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 6, 2003
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia City Hall building
Item ID
31341AN
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Arcadia--City of Sin, part II by Charles A. Coulombe. Continued from November 1, 2001. Arcadia's early history from 1903-1914.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33428
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2001
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p. 8
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2001
Pages
p. 8
Subjects
Baldwin, Clara
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
City of Arcadia--history--incorporation
Clara Villa
Oakwood Inn--Fairyland Park
Stocker, Harold
Item ID
33624AN
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Community members watched as the POW/MIA Flag was raised in memory of all who are missing in action or were prisoners of war in America's conflicts.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper20239
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2001
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 26, 2001
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia (City) history - 2001 - 2009
Item ID
20473AN
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Santa Anita Park race track is remodeling its main entrance on Huntington Drive at Colorado.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30512
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 15, 2002
Pages
p. 15
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 15, 2002
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Remodeling
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010
Item ID
30699AN
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Men and women who served in battles from World War II to Desert Storm attended the ceremony at Arcadia County Park on Saturday to honor the veterans and to remember our servicemen.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper24770
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2002
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Veterans
Parks - Arcadia County Park
Item ID
24964AN
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Newspaper Index
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