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Arcadia Recreation Department event "Arcadia Pet Show." Several children sit on benches with about seven birdcages between them. Written on back of photograph is "Parakeet Row."

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Date
c. 1950s
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Date
c. 1950s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Animals
Birds
Pets
Physical Description
6x7 b&w
ID
1900
Collection
Photographs
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25-year-old entrepreneurs Dustin Nicolarsen and Michael Thomas co-own The Derby, the historic Arcadia steakhouse. The two give back to their community by hosting a fundraiser to benefit their high school.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30786
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Nicolarsen, Dustin
Restaurateurs
Restaurants, bars, etc.
The Derby
Thomas, Michael
Item ID
30974AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A 2-year-old legal battle between the city of Arcadia and Taboo Gentlemen's Club, a strip club, will most likely result in the club being closed or sold off by April, 2009. The federal court case started when the city revoked Taboo Gentlemen's Club's business license for breaking the city's adult business codes. The club's owners Bill Badi Gammoh and Chawkat Jajieh sued in response, claiming city and police had obstructed business and violated their civil rights. The city's adult business ordinance prohibits lap dances, sexual contact, private dance booths and direct tipping. It requires licensed dancers to perform on an elevated stage.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Gammoh, Bill Badi
Jajieh, Chawkat
Lawsuits
Strip clubs
Taboo Gentlemen's Club
Item ID
31449AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A profile of Nancy Henriquez's business called Zot's Self Serve Pet Wash, located at 342 E. Foothill Boulevard in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30268
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 2006
Pages
p. News 8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 6, 2006
Pages
p. News 8
Subjects
Business and Industry
Henriquez, Nancy
Pets
Zot's Self Serve Pet Wash
Item ID
30455AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Rod's Grill, in Arcadia since 1956, fights City Hall's eminent domain proceedings. This article gives the history of the restaurant started by Rod Wellman and the history of current owner Romero's battles and City's negotiation efforts.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Rod's Grill
Romero, Manny
Wellman, Rod
Eminent domain
Diners
Restaurants
Business and Industry
Googie architecture
Item ID
30172AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Rusnak Mercedes-Benz has moved from Pasadena to the old Foulger Ford property at 55 W. Huntington Drive in Arcadia. A photo shows city officials and top business people at the ribbon cutting on the site.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2002
Pages
p. 21
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 14, 2002
Pages
p. 21
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Business and Industry
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Item ID
30877AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Downtown Arcadia business owners establish a Community Benefit District, mandating they each pay an annual assessment on their property taxes to fund marketing programs and activities in hopes of bringing more people to the area. It is called a Property-Based Business Improvement Model. It is a private-sector initiative that bills local businesses by the same criteria used in Old Pasadena--according to their frontage, lot size and scope of any buildings on a given property. 60% of downtown Arcadia owners chose the plan, the result of a three year effort.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 20, 2013
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Downtown Business Association
Business and Industry
McSweeny, Matt
Item ID
33786AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Macy's will relaunch at more than 800 sites nationwide, after parent company Federated Department Stores acquired May Department Stores in August 2005. The Robinsons-May in Arcadia became property of the Westfield Group and plans for the site have not been announced.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 2006
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 6, 2006
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business and Industry
Federated Department Stores
Macy's
Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita - 2001-2010
Item ID
30377AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The peafowl population in Arcadia continues to grow and annoy some residents living near the Arboretum. Others defend the peafowl. A census three years ago found there are 228-250 peafowl in the city.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 22, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Peafowl
Peacocks
Residents
Nuisances
Birds
Item ID
29840AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia's largest individual sales tax producer, Rusnak Mercedes Benz, announced it wants to move out of Arcadia. It would mean an estimated loss of $800,000 to the City. Having faced expansion roadblocks, Rusnak says the City hasn't been able to deliver the acreage and properties as promised. The announcement came as a shock to City Manager Bill Kelly who knew nothing about it.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 7, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Automobile Dealerships
Business and Industry
Rusnak Mercedes-Benz
Item ID
30753AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Selfie Selfie Photo Studio has opened in Arcadia at 28 1/2 E. Huntington Drive. It offers private rooms where customers can snap quality and even costumed shots of themselves using a remote control. It is a venture of the popular 321 Photo Studio Franchise in China.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2015
Pages
p. A8
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2015
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Business and Industry
Photographs
Photography
Selfie Selfie Photo Studio
Item ID
34261AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia launches the new Arcadia Downtown Business Association, with plans to revitalize the downtown district. Matt McSweeney is the association's chairperson and owner of Matt Denny's Ale House Restaurant on East Huntington Drive. City officials will spend about $90,000 on a parking study and about $18,000 in redevelopment funds to get Arcadia Downtown Business Association off the ground. The revitalization plans should work nicely with the slated opening of the Gold Line station at the northwest corner of North First Avenue and East Santa Clara Street by 2014.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 20, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A9
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 20, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A9
Subjects
Arcadia Downtown Business Association
Business and Industry
Redevelopment
Item ID
32552AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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California's minimum wage increase is going to force some restaurants to hike food prices, cut back on employee hours and reduce advertising. McGrath's Fish House in Arcadia may be forced to reduce employee hours. The minimum wage is now $7.50 per hour. Another 50 cent increase goes into effect January 1, 2008.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30358
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
Subjects
Business and Industry
Minimum wage
Restaurants
Item ID
30545AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Dr. Stephen Liu, CEO and chairman of the board of Tomato Bank, is shown in photo. Tomato Bank is opening a branch in Arcadia at 1317 S. Baldwin Avenue with a grand opening celebration on Saturday.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 31, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 31, 2007
Pages
p. Local 3
Subjects
Banks
Business and Industry
Liu, Stephen
Tomato Bank
Item ID
30750AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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End of an era--Colonial Pharmacy in Arcadia succumbs to a difficult economy. Arcadia's oldest pharmacy, Colonial Pharmacy, which has been serving the community since 1939, will be closing. Owner Mark Burstyn (photo) has worked there since October 1990.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 8, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 18
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 8, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 18
Subjects
Business and Industry
Burstyn, Mark
Colonial Pharmacy
Drug Stores
Pharmacies
Item ID
33063AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Spotlight on Arcadia local Dave Berkus, a renowned capitalist and self-made man. He is the founder and president of Berkus Technology Ventures. He started out as the owner of his own record company, then wrote software, and is now a venture capitalist. Photo.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2011
Pages
p. A17
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2011
Pages
p. A17
Subjects
Berkus, Dave
Business and Industry
Venture capitalists
Item ID
32522AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Three city-owned lots at 521 N. First Avenue, adjacent to the Foothill Freeway, were sold last week by the Arcadia City Council to the W. D. Wilson Co., which will construct a building on the site and move from its present location in South Pasadena. James J. Melas, president of the W. D. Wilson Co. and an Arcadia resident said his firm deals in sophisticated biomedical supplies and unusual alloys and fittings for medical instruments. Selling price was $41,500. The city originally purchased the lots from the state Department of Highways for $33,000.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1978
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 19, 1978
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Business and Industry
Melas, James J.
Real property
W. D. Wilson Company
Item ID
32718AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Bradbury resident Richard Dootson, founder of the Arcadia-based Dootson School of Trucking, died from a heart attack and brain hemorrhage on Tuesday, May 24, 2005. He was 79 and famous for his wacky television commercials.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2005
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 25, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Dootson, Richard
Dootson School of Trucking
Obituary / death notice
Business and Industry
Item ID
29724AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Westfield Group expects to complete its second expansion project at Westfield Shoppingtown Santa Anita in three years -- an $85 million, 185,000 square feet wing that would convert the mall into a cross between a traditional indoor mall and an outdoor shopping center.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2005
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 9, 2005
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Westfield Santa Anita - 2001-2010 - expansion
Retail stores
Malls
Business and Industry
Westfield Group
Item ID
29688AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Health-oriented eating establishments are drawing more customers. Executives of Garden Fresh Restaurant Corporation, which operates Souplantation, believe people are interested in their low-carb, low-calorie and high-quality meals.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2005
Pages
p. A15
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2005
Pages
p. A15
Subjects
Souplantation
Restaurants
Business and Industry
Item ID
29570AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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