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Arcadia officially unveiled the design for its city centennial float last week. Designed by Phoenix Builders, it features the Queen Anne Cottage, the wishing well fountain from Santa Anita, and a giant peacock. It cost $100,000. A list of float riders is included.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 15, 2002
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 15, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia centennial
Parade floats
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade (2003)
Item ID
30703AN
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Bradford Hack, Dawn Pejsar, and Nicholas Campbell will be some of the riders on the 2003 float representing Arcadia in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. Other riders are named as well.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 28, 2002
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p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 28, 2002
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Arcadia Centennial - 1903-2003
Campbell, Nicholas
Hack, Bradford
Pejsar, Dawn
Parade floats
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade - 2003
Item ID
30909AN
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The float design for the 1976 Rose Parade has been chosen. It features five stylized peacocks under a canopy of flowering trees.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3461
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 2, 1975
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 2, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
3347AN
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Lane Barcham and Alison Chien will ride on the Arcadia city float at the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade in 2003.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
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p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 31, 2002
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Barcham, Lane
Chien, Alison
Parade floats
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade - 2003
Item ID
30846AN
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Arcadia's 100th birthday festivities will begin in January with the city's float entry in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. Riders on float include Jon Dorian Shafer, Lane Barcham and Alison Chien. Other activities for the centennial year are outlined.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 7, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia Centennial - 1903-2003
Barcham, Lane
Chien, Alison
Ha, Derek
Parade floats
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade - 2003
Shafer, Jon Dorian
Item ID
30849AN
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The American Indian will be spotlighted on three floats in this year's Tournament of Roses Parade. Farmers Insurance Group's float will depict an Indian on horseback. Arcadia's float theme is "The First Americans" and the County of Los Angeles' float theme is "The Proud American."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32542
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 26, 1974
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 26, 1974
Pages
p. A3 w/photo
Subjects
Floats
Tournament of Roses Parade--1975
Item ID
32741AN
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Local girl and boy scouts have the honor of carrying banners announcing the award-winning floats in the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2005.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2004
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 27, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chan, Alysha
Chan, Melany
Girl scouts--Troop 421
Mt. Wilson Vista Council
Honors
2005 Tournament of Roses
Item ID
29532AN
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The Arcadia float in the 2003 Tournament of Roses Parade will be built by Bill Lofthouse, dean of Rose Parade float builders and owner of Phoenix Floats.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 9, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 9, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Lofthouse, Bill
Phoenix Floats
Tournament of Roses Parade - 2003
Item ID
30477AN
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An 82-year tradition ended Monday when the Arcadia Tournament of Roses Association announced it will disband and not enter a float in the next Pasadena Rose Parade.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 24, 1998
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 24, 1998
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
12756AN
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The Boy Scouts of America's highest award of Eagle Scout was recently presented to Martin Gregory Wells.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 31, 1992
Pages
p. A-6 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 31, 1992
Pages
p. A-6 photo
Subjects
Wells, Martin Gregory
Item ID
73AN
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For the first time ever, the Arcadia float in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses will be animated.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3488
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 26, 1986
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 26, 1986
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
3374AN
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Arcadia's entry in the 1990 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade is a showboat.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3499
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 7, 1989
Pages
p. A-2 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 7, 1989
Pages
p. A-2 photo
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
3385AN
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Arcadia's float saluting its centennial was awarded the Queen's Trophy. The float was called "100 Years of Good Health, Happiness and Prosperity."

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2003
Pages
p. 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2003
Pages
p. 17
Subjects
Arcadia Centennial - 1903-2003
Awards
Floats
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade - 2003
Item ID
31018AN
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Using the theme "100 Years of Good Health, Happiness and Prosperity," an Arcadia Rose Parade float commemorates the city's centennial. Riding on the float will be a doctor, a nurse, a graduate of Arcadia Methodist Hospital's neonatal program, US Army Captain Jon Shafer, a horseracing figure, and two local children. The two children will be chosen by random drawing.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2002
Pages
p. 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 10, 2002
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Arcadia centennial
Parade floats
Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade - 2003
Item ID
30813AN
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Michael Dougherty of Boy Scout Troop 103 has attained the rank of Eagle Scout. Fewer than two percent of all scouts nationally earn the Eagle rank, the highest honor that can be achieved in the Boy Scouts of America.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Dougherty, Michael
Item ID
1434AN
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Purdy Tran of Arcadia is crowned by Pasadena Tournament of Roses President Gary Dorn. The 17 year old will reign over the 1998 Tournament of Roses Court.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 1997
Pages
p. A1 w/photo
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Tran, Purdy
Item ID
11110AN
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Arcadia will have 2 of the 7 members of the 1994 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Royal Court. The 2 are the Queen, Erica Beth Brynes, 18, and Princess Therese Kathleen Erdman, who waved last year as a member of the Arcadia float.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1993
Pages
p. A-3 photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 12, 1993
Pages
p. A-3 photo
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
707AN
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Arcadia Tournament of Roses Queen Carol Louden and her royal court Pauline Coke, Barbara Nordine, Cheryl Davis, Cheryl Hartzler (photo). They will represent Arcadia on the Arcadia float at the January 1968 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 7, 1967
Pages
p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 7, 1967
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Coke, Pauline
Davis, Cheryl
Hartzler, Cheryl
Louden, Carol
Nordine, Barbara
Item ID
32240AN
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Arcadia's 1984 Rose Parade float under construction in Azusa.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 27, 1983
Pages
p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 27, 1983
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Item ID
3360AN
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Arcadia resident Linda Baum will serve as the Grand Marshall for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses equestrian unit. Baum will ride her 17-year-old pinto, Royal Warrior.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3495
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 2, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 2, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Tournament of Roses
Baum, Linda
Item ID
3381AN
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