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1) City of Arcadia. Torrens Title Record. Paper record bound in ledger. Includes lot, block, tract and name of registered owner. c. 1930-1950. Items were transferred from Arcadia City Hall on September 17, 2008. 2) City of Arcadia. Office of City Clerk. Certificates of Redemption of Real Estate. Paper record, bound in ledger. c. 1932-1936. 3) City of Arcadia. Record of Sale of Real Estate sold for the non-payment of taxes of the City of Arcadia. Paper record, bound in ledger. Fiscal year 1930-31 and 1931-32. Items were transferred from Arcadia City Hall on September 17, 2008.

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City of Arcadia Torrens Title Record

Location

Basement

Box Number

Box 99

Shelf Number

Shelf H21

Item ID

406AF

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1. 20 cents per ride to Los Angeles from Arcadia. photocopy of ad.

2. Visitors to Southern California. photocopy of ad from OUT WEST.

3. The oldest beautiful electric ride in the west. photocopy of ad from THE LAND OF SUNSHINE, March 1898.

4. Kite shaped track. photocopy of ad from THE LAND OF SUNSHINE, March 1898.

5. Monrovia and Baldwin's Ranch. photocopy of Pacific Electric brochure.

6. Monrovia-Glendora line. photocopy of route through Arcadia from RIDE THE RED CAR by Spencer Crump.

7. Santa Anita fans used the red cars. Arcadia News Post August 8, 1969.

8. Fix schedule for newest P.E. flyer. Arcadia Journal September 23, 1922.

9. Brief history of Pacific Electric Railway. photocopy from materials of Los Angeles County Park Department.

10. Arcadia included on P.E. bus line. Arcadia Tribune. March 6, 1947.

11. Pacific Electric to fete anniversary. Arcadia Tribune. April 3, 1952.

12. The Red Car. Arcadia Tribune. March 9, 1978.

13. Monrovia-Glendora Line. photocopy, text and pictures, from THE LINES OF PACIFIC ELECTRIC, SPECIAL NO. 16, by Ira Swett (Interurban Publishing).

14. Pacific Electric station in Arcadia was located...Note from old-time resident's recollection. (Reference to another file)

15. City to take land with Lucky's bans. newsclip April 16, 1962.

16. September 17, 1951 will see the end of Pacific Electric cars on Huntington Drive. Note of information in Scrapbook #9, p.62.

17. Good information on effect of Pacific Electric. Note referring to an article to be found in another file.

18. Tickets to Santa Anita Park races... Ad for P.E. transportation as it appeared in program of races - 1907; copied from the original owned by Jack McCaskill. Added 1981.

19. Pacific Electric Rail and Motor Coach Lines. Rail Service Timetable 13 for Arcadia-Monrovia-Azusa Glendora Line. Sierra Madre Line. Effective December 16, 1946.

20. Pacific Electric Rail and Motor Coach Lines. Rail Service Timetable 13 for Arcadia-Monrovia-Azusa Glendora Line. Sierra Madre Line. Effective May 22, 1947.

21. Pacific Electric Rail and Motor Coach Lines. Motor Coach Service timetable 15 for Los Angeles, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Temple City, South Arcadia, Arcadia. Effective March 11, 1949.

22. Pacific Electric Rail and Motor Coach Lines. Motor Coach Service timetable 14 for Pasadena-Pomona Motor Coach Line serving Arcadia, Monrovia, Duarte, Azusa, Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne. Effective June 10, 1949.

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Pacific Electric Railway

Item ID

162AF

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1. Regional Recreation Center at Arcadia, California (Arcadia County Park) Specifications, Blueprints

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Regional Recreation Center at Arcadia, California (Arcadia County Park)

Location

History Room

Box Number

Box 37

Shelf Number

Shelf B4

Item ID

346AF

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1. "Santa Anita Ordnance troops reviewed." News clip, circa 1942-1943?

2. "Camp Santa Anita houses Polish refugees." Arcadia Bulletin, November 8, 1943.

3. "Army camp needs told." Arcadia Tribune, October 29, 1942.

4. "Arcadia camp 'showplace'." News clip, January 21, 1943.

5. "G.I. Santa Anita." Westways, December 1943, p. 12-13.

6. Four issues of Man O' War, publication of the camp from 1943 and 1944. See also bound volume of this in Arcadia archives.

7. "Veterans visit their old camp." Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1967, Part II-S.

8. Notes taken from interview with William Dillon, Captain in the 14th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, once assigned to Camp Santa Anita. August 27, 1980.

9. "Camp Santa Anita remembered: during WWII it was the Great Arms Place." Los Angeles Times, December 25, 1981, Part III, page 1 by Shav Glick.

10. "Dear Joe." Handbook for soldiers stationed at Camp Santa Anita.

11. "Santa Anita goes to war." Source and date unknown.

12. "Colonia Santa Rosa." Copy of Spanish brochure regarding Polish refugees at Camp Santa Anita. Also includes correspondence regarding refugees.

13. Letter from Bronislaw Keilbasa to the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce, April 2, 1995. It requests information on Polish refugees that stayed near Arcadia during World War II. Enclosed was an article, "Wartime living - happiness in California," dated November 15, 1942.

14. Copies of documents regarding Polish refugees at Camp Santa Anita, courtesy of Bronislaw Kielbasa. 35 pages.

15. Letter to Mrs. Pat Corpe Krig from Jane Breiseth dated July 16, 1999, with information about Annadorf and Camp Santa Anita. (cc: Mary Beth Hayes) Three attachments: (1) Listing of soldiers who worked at Annadorf while stationed at Camp Santa Anita, people interested in Annadorf , and sources for further research. (2) copies of photos of Annadorf and Art Monaco receiving Legion of Merit at Camp Santa Anita. (3) Information on Camp Santa Anita copied from the United States Army in World War II: The Technical Service: The Ordnance Department Planning Munitions for War. 11 pages total.

16. Letter from Mary Beth Hayes to Jane Breiseth dated September 15, 1999, thanking Ms. Breiseth for information about Annadorf.

17. Letter from Mary Beth Hayes to Phillip C. Kellison requesting information on the images Mr. Kellison might have of Camp Santa Anita. Referred to by Researcher Jane Breiseth. September 15, 1999.

18. All bets were off. Shav Glick , a longtime Times sportswriter, recalls when he served at the Camp Santa Anita Army training camp during World War II. Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2003, p. D1.

19. Santa Rosa Colony: story of a Polish War-Refugee Camp, in Mexico. English translation of document #12 above.

20a. Annadorf: a German town in the San Gabriels. Part 1 of 3. Published by Wrightwood Historical Society, December 7, 2001. Printed from Internet Website http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/WrightwoodHistorical/ on December 30, 2005.

20b. Annadorf: a German town in the San Gabriels. Part 2 of 3. Published by Wrightwood Historical Society, January 4, 2002. Printed from Internet Website http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/WrightwoodHistorical/ on December 30, 2005.

20c. Annadorf: a German town in the San Gabriels. Part 3 of 3. Published by Wrightwood Historical Society, February 1, 2002. Printed from Internet Website http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/WrightwoodHistorical/ on December 30, 2005.

21. Down the home stretch at Santa Anita: the week the race track became a camp for Polish refugee children, October 1943. By Joyce Young-Kelly. Submitted to Professor Charles Roberts, Department of History, California State University, Sacramento. With cover letter from Joyce Kelly to librarian Yvonne Ng.

22."Santa Anita Park to be Nazi Camp: German Prisoners of War Will be Kept at Former Race Track Plant." Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1944.

23. "Santa Anita transformed: former Jap Assembly Center fast becoming army training hub." Los Angeles Times, December 14, 1942.

24. "Lee Side o' L.A. by Lee Shippey. A journalist's description of Camp Santa Anita." Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1943.

25. "Nation's armed might show attracts 50,000: 'Times'-Army Ordnance in action display at Exposition Park also will be open today." Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1943.

26. "Santa Anita will house 2000 Nazis: Army confirms plan for Prison Camp. " Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1944.

27. "Santa Anita Park ready in month." Los Angeles Times, September 20, 1944.

28. Wartime living: happiness in California. 727 Poles discovered happiness at the barracks of Camp Santa Anita. Polish refugees, 350 children who were wards of Poland's Government in Exile, stayed for six days on their way to Mexico City. Time Magazine, November 15, 1943.

29. Editor of U.S. Army camp paper Man O' War of Santa Anita, California Army Ordnance Training Center will be the editor of Toykyo Express, a new newspaper for the Pacific theater. Time Magazine, June 5, 1944.

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Camp Santa Anita (U.S. Army Ordnance Center)

Item ID

42AF

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1. Arcadia Tribune news clip circa 1950 concerning Oakwood Hotel that lists four boxers who trained here in Arcadia.

2. "Birdleg" Collins who fought here in Arcadia. Copy of photo given by boxing historian Dave Coapman on November 13, 1979.

3. Information on boxers from authority G. Phillips; received from Dave Coapman in September 1979.

4. Notes..."among others who trained at Oakwood..."

5. Note on Kid McCoy.

6. Note on Barney Oldfield.

7. Note on reminiscences of Don Ott as to boxers he saw at the ring at the Oakwood Hotel.

8. John L. has to say. news clip February 21, 1893 recounts John L. Sullivan and Corbett fight; notes Corbett stayed at Baldwin Hotel in San Francisco. Given to us by Dave Coapman.

9. Police Gazette article February 17, 1906 about efforts of Morris Levy to build a professional fight club in Arcadia.

10. Arcadia Club of Los Angeles makes the first of its offers of large purses...news clip from unidentified newspaper September 1906 regarding fight in Arcadia. Given to us by Dave Coapman May 1981.

11. Root boxing teacher at Camp Arcadia, CA. Milwaukee Free Press October 16, 1918.

12. Giants' Pitcher Visits Arcadia. Fred Fitzsimmons of the New York Giants, noted "knuckleball" pitcher of the National League visits in-laws Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Borgers at 121 East Walnut Street, for the winter. He will assist his brother-in-law John Borger with raising fancy chickens here. Pasadena Star News, November 1, 1928. Duplicate copy in Folder "Arcadia (city) history-1920-1930.

13. "A Hall of Famer" (Bruce Matthews to be inducted into National Football League Hall of Fame), The Weekly Star, Thursday, July 26, 2007.

14."Ice skating champion Nagasu isn't your average teenager" by Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 2008. Fourteen year old Arcadia High School freshman Mirai Nagasu won the U.S. figure skating title.

15. "California trio dominates at junior world championships: Mirai Nagasu leads the pack" by Philip Hersh, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2008.

16."Arcadia skater leads U.S. sweep," The Associated Press, March 1, 2008. Mirai Nagasu of Arcadia led a 1-2-3 U.S. sweep in the short program.

17. "Figure skating; Flatt edges Zhang and Nagasu for title" by Philip Hersh, Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2008.

18. "Arcadia teen on Olympic Ice" by Stacey Wang, The Weekly Star, February 18, 2010. Mirai Nagasu will figure skate in the Winter Olympics at Vancouver.

19. Chivas USA signs USMNT World Jimmy Conrad. From www.sbnation.com. Retrieved December 28, 2010. Soccer player Jimmy Conrad is a native of Arcadia.

20. Two obituaries on Babe Dahlgren, died in Arcadia, CA. "Babe Dalhgren, 84, successor to Gehrig when streak ended," New York Times biographical service, September 6, 1996. "Babe Dalhgren, man who replaced Gehrig, dead at 84,"Los Angeles Times, September 5, 1996.

21. Arcadian David Small displays his father Irving W. Small's Olympic medal at arcadia Public Library. Irving W. Small was captain of the United States ice hockey team which won the silver medal in the 1924 winter games at Mont-Blanc in the French Alps. Article and photographs. Unknown newspaper, August 26, 1976.

22. After heartbreak, U.S. figure skater Mirai Nagasu again takes aim at Olympic bid. Pasadena Star News, January 2, 2018.

23. Figure skater Mirai Nagasu Olympics Winter 2018. 6 items. 1) Depth is a problem, Pasadena Star News, January 27, 2018. 2) Letter from Michael R. Pence, Vice President of the United States to Mayor of Arcadia Peter Amundson honoring Arcadia's Mirai Nagasu as a member of the U.S. Olympic Team competing in PyeongChang, South Korea. 3) Americans capture bronze in team event but it was Mirai Nagasu's momentous achievement that stole the show, Los Angeles Times online, February 11, 2018. 4) Axel-ent Nagasu gives U.S. bronze, Pasadena Star News, February 12, 2018 (newsprint is in this file too). 5) Mirai Nagasu was once a Colorado Avalanche Ice Girl, Los Angeles Times online, February 13, 2018. 6) Mirai Nagasu holding nothing back in search of Olympic individual medal, Pasadena Star News online, February 18, 2018.

Subjects

Sports Figures

Item ID

240AF

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