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Several streets in Arcadia have misleading signs saying "Not a Through Street" despite the fact that they are not dead ends or cul-de-sacs. Public Works Director, Chester Howard, explained that the signs were put up in response to residents who wanted to protect their neighborhoods from too much traffic.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1987
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1987
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p. A-1
Subjects
Streets
Item ID
3277AN
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Newspaper Index
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Posted speed limits on most of Arcadia's main streets will be raised, making the speeds more realistic according to prevailing road conditions and travel patterns.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 28, 1979
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 28, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Traffic Regulations
Item ID
3409AN
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Newspaper Index
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The city is in the process of installing new reflective street signs across Arcadia. The signs are made by Safeway Signs.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 30, 2002
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p. 9
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 30, 2002
Pages
p. 9
Subjects
Signage
Street signs
Item ID
30541AN
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Newspaper Index
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Four areas along the 210 freeway qualify for sound-wall construction. According to Chester Howar, Director of Public Works, one of those areas could have a wall built within 9 years, but walls for the other areas may never be built.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 9, 1987
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 9, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Noise Abatement
Item ID
2024AN
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Newspaper Index
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Streets

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1. Reminiscence of old Duarte Road by George H. Jackson. Copy from a scrapbook presented to Arcadia Public Library by Alton Green in 1968. Most clippings seem to be circa 1926-27-28. 2. Arcadia, City that rose. Printers "plate" of Huntington Drive 1926 and 1955. 3. Baldwin purchased Rancho, p…
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1. Reminiscence of old Duarte Road by George H. Jackson. Copy from a scrapbook presented to Arcadia Public Library by Alton Green in 1968. Most clippings seem to be circa 1926-27-28.
2. Arcadia, City that rose. Printers "plate" of Huntington Drive 1926 and 1955.
3. Baldwin purchased Rancho, planted trees along drive (Santa Anita Avenue). Daily News Post 2/15/62.
4. Huntington officially designated as secondary highway from ranch intersection to Foothill in Duarte. News clip n.d. (1930's?)
5. Arcadia Council seeking county aid for immediate improvement of Orange Ave. from viaduct to Monrovia city limits. Monrovia Journal 9/8/33.
6. Construction of swale across Santa Anita Wash on Orange Avenue to be started soon; paid by the County. News clip n.d. (1930's?)
7. City Council adopts report (list of trees for each street in Arcadia). Copied from scrapbook listed in item #1. Approx. 1927-28.
8. Baldwin deeds may be signed in three days. Copied from scrapbook listed in item #1. Approx. 1926-27.
9. Arcadia councilmen accept deeds to Baldwin highways after sensational session. Copies from scrapbook listed in item #1. Approx. 1927-28.
10. City Council scheduled to meet in L.A. Action sought on the widening of Huntington Drive. Arcadia Journal 7/14/36.
11. Arcadia streets. Typewritten sheet with old/new names of streets. n.d. Former street names.
12. Only two roads led out of city, 1890s (Duarte Road and Foothill Blvd.); Alone - Huntington Drive only paved street in city. Two small news clips n.d.
13. Sleepy Street (Intersection of Duarte Road and Baldwin Avenue). Arcadia Tribune news photo and caption August 1973.
14. Double Drive, 1890. (Shows Eucalyptus trees that once lined Santa Anita Avenue) Daily News Post news photo and caption 2/15/62.
15. Double Drive, 1962. Same location as photo in #14 but now showing a busy Santa Anita Avenue with no trees. Daily News Post news photo and caption 2/15/62.
16. Santa Anita Drive, Baldwin's Ranch. News photo and caption n.d.
17. Description of condition. Two automobiles crashed into the wash at Santa Anita due to Arcadia not repairing the bridge. Reference to Los Angeles Times article 12/16/1907.
18. Many view auto wrecks (at Santa Anita Wash). Los Angeles Daily Times. 12/16/1907.
19. Written reference sheet to view of First Street entrance to the Rancho.
20. Article from Sierra Madre Vista 2/2/1889 describing a drive from Pasadena through Arcadia to Alhambra.
21. Typed sheet of origin of street names. n.d.
22. Mr. E. J. Baldwin has consented to have White Oak Avenue (presently Foothill Boulevard.) opened. Copy of news clip, Sierra Madre Vista 4/19/1889.
23. There is a great need of a road from Sierra Madre to Savannah (near El Monte) necessitating cutting through the Baldwin property. News clip, Sierra Madre Vista 5/2/1888.
24. Battle of the barricades to begin. Arcadia City Council will hold a public hearing on a request by the Santa Anita Oaks Homeowners Association to barricade several streets. Arcadia Tribune 3/18/79
25. Baldwin purchased Rancho, planted trees along drive. Daily News Post 2/15/62.
26. Indians, rustlers haunt city street. Early history about Santa Anita Avenue. Arcadia Tribune 7/17/68.
27. The county has won in the matter of a road crossing the Santa Anita Ranch. Copied portion of news article in San Gabriel Valley News 5/9/1878.
28. Good photos of Huntington Drive and Baldwin Avenue business districts from 1974 City Directory.
29. Official Opening of New Highways program with banquet information on reverse. Extensions of Huntington Drive -- connecting with Huntington Drive west of Ross Field and connecting with Colorado Street in City of Pasadena. 2/26/31.
30. Huntington Drive formal opening -- (Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte) souvenir program 4/11/29.
31. Orange Avenue macadam will be laid shortly. Covina Argus 8/21/1915.
32. Chantry Flats night closure sought. Arcadia Highlander 3/11/87.
33. Mountain road closer to closure. Arcadia Highlander 3/18/87.
34. Chantry Flats gate still not in place yet. Arcadia Highlander 4/22/87.
35. View from the Foothills. News clip about the origination of the names of selected streets. n.d. (1930's?)
36. Invitation to groundbreaking ceremony held 8/25/95 at Orange Grove Park at the corner of Orange Grove Avenue and Baldwin Avenue in the City of Arcadia. Arcadia City Council, the Sierra Madre City Council and the County of Los Angeles announce the beginning of the Orange Grove Avenue Rehabilitation Project.
37. Orange Avenue now Colorado. Completes name change of long boulevard through Pasadena, Arcadia and Monrovia. Arcadia Tribune 8/17/34
38. Letter dated 10/27/93 from County of Los Angeles, Dept. of Public Works to Arcadia Public Library enclosing Orange Grove Avenue - Negative Declaration.
39. Huntington route approved by City. Councilmen recommend designation of lower artery as Route 66, a.k.a. Highway 66. Arcadia Tribune, p. 1, August 5, 1932. 2 copies.
40. "Celebrate Downtown." Flyer for family festival to commemorate the completion of the new downtown streetscape on 3/30/96.
41. After 10 years cities agree to fix potholes in shared road. (Orange Grove Avenue) Los Angeles Times 6/2/94
42. City memo dated August 7, 2003 announcing that Resolution No. 6351 was approved changing the name of the street between the back of the police station and the Methodist Hospital parking lot, bounded on both sides by Huntington Drive, to Centennial Way in honor of Arcadia's 100th birthday. Street was formerly called Civic Center Drive.
43. Widening of Huntington Drive at Santa Clara Street to make additional right-hand turn lane going east on Huntington Drive, at Santa Clara Street. Two title searches by First American Title Insurance Company. The first title search is dated January 19, 2010 and the other dated July 19, 2010 and amended July 23, 2010 to determine ownership of a strip of land needed, and supporting explanation from Carolyn Garner-Reagan (e-mail, June 7, 2011) and Phil Wray (City Council minutes, May 25, 2011). The land was once owned by Southern Pacific Railroad but has since dismissed its interest in the land.
44. "Council overrules Huntington businesses" by Scott Hettrick. A new median in center of Huntington Drive at San Rafael will block left turns. Mountain Views News. May 26, 2012, p. 6. This work is part of a plan to revise three intersections along Huntington Drive between San Rafael and Santa Anita Avenue in hopes of improving traffic flow.
45. Historic Route 66-California, turn by turn directions from Upland through Arcadia to Pasadena. Retrieved December 4, 2014 from http://www.historic66.com.
Subjects
Streets
Item ID
243AF
Collection
Subject Files
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Article, with map, about public hearing on a request by the Santa Anita Oaks Homeowners Association to barricade several streets on a temporary basis.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 18, 1979
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 18, 1979
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Streets
Item ID
3275AN
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Newspaper Index
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General items regarding streets.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 6, 1931 p. 1 (ranch roads thru Baldwin estate open)
July 27, 1947 p. 1 (17 new streets proposed)
August 4,1952 p. 1 (improvement plans)
August 22, 1955 p. 1 ( " )
March 31, 1967 p. 1 (widening streets throughout city)
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 6, 1931 p. 1 (ranch roads thru Baldwin estate open)
July 27, 1947 p. 1 (17 new streets proposed)
August 4,1952 p. 1 (improvement plans)
August 22, 1955 p. 1 ( " )
March 31, 1967 p. 1 (widening streets throughout city)
Subjects
Streets
Item ID
4267AN
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Newspaper Index
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Joseph Lopez, Arcadia's new Director of Public Works, has 28 years of public works experience.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 23, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 23, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Employees - Lopez, Joseph
Item ID
1157AN
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A program of sidewalk development will continue. A list of proposed streets is given.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 2, 1975
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 2, 1975
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Streets
Item ID
3268AN
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Newspaper Index
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A light standard with a NO U TURN sign is in the center of the photo. There is a car parked on the unidentified residential street.

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Date
c. early 1950s
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Date
c. early 1950s
Subjects
Streets
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1641
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Photographs
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A traffic light is in the center of the photo. A street sign at the far left corner identifies the intersection as E. Villa St. and El Molino Avenue.

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Date
c. early 1950s
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Date
c. early 1950s
Subjects
Streets - Villa Street
Streets - El Molino Avenue
Traffic Lights
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1642
Collection
Photographs
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Arcadia will be replacing its corner street signs with bigger, easier to read versions which include a peacock logo.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 2002
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 21, 2002
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Street signs
Item ID
22783AN
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Newspaper Index
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Orange Grove Avenue, which is the border between Arcadia and Sierra Madre, has a posted speed limit of 35 mph on the Arcadia side and 30 mph on the Sierra Madre side.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 1, 1989
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p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 1, 1989
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Streets - Orange Grove Avenue
Item ID
3285AN
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Newspaper Index
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Residents of the Arcadia portion of Hillcrest Blvd. and Valencia Way have urged the City Council to close Hillcrest and make Valencia a dead end. An alternative would be the erection of stop signs along Hillcrest.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 7, 1978
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 7, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Streets
Item ID
3271AN
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Newspaper Index
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Monrovia has offered a compromise in regards to Hillcrest Blvd If Arcadia agrees not to construct barriers at Valencia Way and Hillcrest Blvd., Monrovia will install stop signs at two Hillcrest intersections to slow traffic on the boulevard.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 21, 1978
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
September 21, 1978
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Streets
Item ID
3272AN
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Newspaper Index
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Speed limits on 17 Arcadia streets will be going up by five miles per hour as a result of a recent study conducted by the police department and public works.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 20, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 20, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Traffic Regulations
Item ID
3416AN
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Newspaper Index
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Clean-up crews are collecting wind debris. Tom Tate, Director of Public Works for Arcadia, said that "on December 10, we started a systematic clean-up of the city, starting with city crews and contractors, one on the north end, one on the south end. We plan to move through the city, street by street, and hopefully meet in the middle." Tate said his crews have moved about 5,000 tons of debris off the streets since the windstorm hit on November 30-December 1, and estimates they are at least a quarter of the way done. Arcadia Public Works is trying to keep residents updated with Twitter and their website, as well as media releases, on their progress. Tate hopes to conclude the clean-up before Christmas.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Public Works
Disasters
Tate, Tom
Trees
Weather
Wind and windstorms
Item ID
32899AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia residents may vote again on street lighting fees. Under the new proposal, single family homes on arterial streets would pay about $17 a year, while those not on arterial streets would pay about $27 a year, making the assessments more fair. Voters in 2008 rejected a proposal to fund the lighting and now the city is considering another mail-in vote.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Mail-in ballots
Street lights
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
32095AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Weekly posts a correction of photographs of Fred Peritore and Roger Sonnenberg that were incorrectly identified in last week's Arcadia Weekly.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 27, 2003
Pages
p. 18
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 27, 2003
Pages
p. 18
Subjects
Peritore, Fred
Sonnenberg, Roger
Item ID
31390AN
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Some city departments have been reorganized to increase economic development, financial planning and team building. The Finance Dept. is now Administrative Services, merging support services with finance, purchasing, data processing, and records management. The Public Works Dept. is now the Maintenance Services Dept, maintaining the city's parks, streets, and water systems.

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Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
January 19, 1995
Pages
p. 13
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Newspaper
Sierra Madre News
Date
January 19, 1995
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
City Hall
Item ID
4357AN
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Newspaper Index
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