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Decorated vet to celebrate 100th birthday. U.S. Air Force vetean Edward Lopez was a fighter pilot in both World War II and the Korean War. Born in Los Angeles and living in Arcadia for more than 50 years, he is one of the last living members of the Air Force's 365th Fighter-Bomber Group known as The Hell Hawks, a reserve fighter squadron in the U.S. Marine Corps. See hard copy in VF People.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36505
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 2023
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 15, 2023
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Centenarians
Lopez, Edward J.
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World War II veteran B-17 bomber pilot Jack McEwan is honored by Baldwin Stocker Elementary School students for Veterans Day.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34358
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 2015
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 11, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
McEwan, Jack
McEwan, Richard
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Veterans Day
World War II veterans
Item ID
34551AN
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World War II B-17 bomber pilot Jack McEwan shares his story with Baldwin Stocker Elementary School students.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 12, 2015
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p. 1, 21
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 12, 2015
Pages
p. 1, 21
Subjects
Lau, Jayden
McEwan, Jack
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Veterans Day
World War II veterans
Item ID
34539AN
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World War II vet Art Del Rey and other veterans still meet on the first Wednesday of every month at Coco’s in Arcadia. The group started 3 years ago.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35296
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
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p. 1, 10
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 10
Subjects
Del Rey, Art
World War II veterans
Item ID
35485AN
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Interview with author Brad Pearson who wrote the book The Eagles of Heart Mountain. He tackles the injustice of Japanese-American incarceration through the exploits of a World War II camp football team. Article mentions many evacuees were detained at Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia before being shipped out.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 2021
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p. C7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 10, 2021
Pages
p. C7
Subjects
Authors
Football
Japanese-Americans
Pearson, Brad
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
World War II
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Congressional Gold Medal of Honor presented to Sierra Madre Nisei soldier Shoso Nomura, age 93. It has been 68 years since Nomura served as a Japanese-American intelligence officer for the U.S. Army in World War II. He was born on Lucky Baldwin's daughter Anita Baldwin's ranch (corner of Foothill Boulevard and Double Drive--known today as Santa Anita Avenue).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32855
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 1, 2012
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p. 1, 6
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 1, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 6
Subjects
Kunihiro, Mitsuo
Nomura, Shoso
World War II
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33052AN
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Veterans group and Arcadia Mayor April Verlato celebrate World War II veteran Jack McEwan's 100th birthday. He was a pilot on a B-17 bomber from 1942-1943.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35631
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2020
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2020
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p. 3
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McEwan, Jack
Verlato, April
Veterans
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Harry Horak of Arcadia is 100 years old today. He is a World War II veteran and retired tax accountant. Includes more biographical information.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2021
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p. A3, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 19, 2021
Pages
p. A3, A7
Subjects
Centenarians
Horack, Harry
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Valley veteran returns to Hawaii for first time since Pearl Harbor. Arthur Del Rey, 90, enlisted when he was 19. See hard copy in VF "Biography."

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2013
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p. A8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 10, 2013
Pages
p. A8
Subjects
Del Rey, Arthur
Veterans
World War II
Item ID
33873AN
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Paul Graf, 90, of New Albany, Indiana, came back to Arcadia to see Santa Anita Park again. He had been based there as a United States Army staff sergeant during World War II, when the track was turned over to the Army Ordnance Corps for training purposes and was officially renamed Camp Santa Anita. Graf said he used to run for exercise on the Anita Chiquita training track, which was eliminated when the Santa Anita Fashion Park was built in the 1970s. Graf had arrived at Camp Santa Anita around November 1942, after the site had already been used as the Japanese Assembly Center. Photo shows Graf holding an issue of Man O' War, a newspaper issued by army personnel at Camp Santa Anita.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32550
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 27, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Camp Santa Anita
Graf, Paul
Santa Anita Park--1934-1942
United States Army Ordnance Corps
Veterans--World War II
Item ID
32749AN
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Arcadia Vietnam War Monument placed in Arcadia County Park. It is 22,000 pounds. From 1966-1972, 14 U.S. servicemen from Arcadia became casualties of the war in Vietnam. There are 4 plaques on the monument honoring veterans from World War I, World War II, the wars in Korean, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. See also Arcadia Weekly, p. 1, 17, June 2, 2016.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2016
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p. 1, 17
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 26, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 17
Subjects
Arcadia Vietnam War Monument Memorial
Glasco, Gene
Holidays-Memorial Day
Veterans
Item ID
34764AN
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World War II veteran Joe Sciarra, 95, makes history come alive at Holy Angels School in Arcadia during a Veterans Day assembly. Other veterans in attendance were Julian Andrews, 86 of Temple City (a veteran of the Korean War) and Darren Parsons, 45, a former U.S. Marine.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35611
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2019
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p. A15
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2019
Pages
p. A15
Subjects
Andrews, Julian
Parsons, Darren
Rivera, Anissa
Sciarra, Joe
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Pasadena native and World War II veteran Weston Embree celebrates 100th birthday. Embree's father Guy founded Embree Buses Inc., a Pasadena institution. Weston Embree met his wife Shirlee, originally of Arcadia, at the Methodist Church.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36326
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 2, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 2, 2022
Pages
p. A3, A4
Subjects
Centenarians
Embree, Shirley
Embree, Weston
Embree Buses Inc.
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Gene Glasco, Vietnam War veteran and elected Arcadia City Clerk, will preview the Vietnam War Monument at the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce meeting. The dedication ceremony for the memorial will be Saturday, May 28 at Los Angeles County Park.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34465
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 18, 2016
Pages
p. 15
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 18, 2016
Pages
p. 15
Subjects
Antonovich, Michael D.
Glasco, Gene
Statuary
Vietnam War Monument
Item ID
34657AN
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Arcadia man's 100th birthday to be family affair. Art Del Rey turns 100 this weekend. He is a World War II veteran (United States Navy). He had a successful career in real estate and started his own business in 1963, Art Del Rey Realty, Inc. in Arcadia, which thrives to this day.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36569
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2023
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 5, 2023
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p. A3
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Art Del Rey Realty, Inc.
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Del Rey, Art
Realtors
Senior Citizens
Veterans
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Gene Glasco at Chamber of Commerce networking breakfast on May 19, will talk about his vision for the Arcadia Vietnam War Monument to be installed at L.A. County Park veterans event on May 28, Memorial Day. Artist's rendering. Glasco is a Vietnam veteran and Arcadia City Clerk. Includes a description of the war memorial monument and its location (across the street from Arcadia Elks Lodge 2025).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34557
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 12, 2016
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p. 1, 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
May 12, 2016
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p. 1, 16
Subjects
Arcadia Vietnam War Monument
Glasco, Gene
Statuary
Vietnam veterans
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34749AN
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Statistics of high school baseball leaders in the San Gabriel Valley area. Three from Arcadia: for pitching-best records W/L: Gabriel Lopez 4-0. ERA: Fernando Palencia 0.00, 10 inn. Strikeouts: Ian Hoffstetter (28)

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2023
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p. B2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 10, 2023
Pages
p. B2
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Baseball
Hofstetter, Ian
Lopez, Gabriel
Palencia, Fernando
Sports
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TV's Mario Lopez to host Lucky Baldwin Poker Tournament on June 10. It is a fundraiser to preserve the 1880s architecture of Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's home at the site of Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 30, 2017
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
March 30, 2017
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
Lopez, Mario
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
Preservation
Viera, Margaux
Item ID
35032AN
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Arcadia Elks Lodge has a new partnership with the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration to thank and honor Vietnam veterans for their service and sacrifice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34343
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 12, 2015
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p. 16
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 12, 2015
Pages
p. 16
Subjects
Acosta, Bobby
Arcadia Elks Lodge
August, Hank
Bookings, Dennis
Bowman, Dean
DiGioia, Rob
Glaso, Gene
Vietnam War veterans
Item ID
34536AN
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World War II internees reunite. Japanese Americans detained at Santa Anita Park before being sent to camps share photos, memories and friendship, at 75th anniversary event in Little Tokyo. See hard copy in VF Assembly Center.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34856
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 2017
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 16, 2017
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Howo, Niko Makino
Japanese American National Museum
Mitarai, Evie Shigekuni
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Santa Anita Park (1934-1942)
Item ID
35046AN
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