Search Results | Arcadia History Collection

It appears no script is enabled within your browser. Please enable JavaScript to use this site.

Arcadia History Collection

Revise Search

Advanced Search

2 records – page 1 of 1.

Fisher family reunion celebrated during Monrovia Day. Forty-four descendants of Julian Fisher and Gladys Fisher are still around in this area. Julian Fisher was Monrovia's first African American police officer and his father was recruited to come work on Lucky Baldwin's race horses. Julian and Gladys Fisher had 11 children.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35514

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 23, 2019

Pages: p. 5

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: May 23, 2019

Pages: p. 5

Subjects: African Americans; Fisher, Gladys; Fisher, Julian; Fisher, Vivian; Thomas, Frederick; Vance, Jason

Collection: Newspaper Index

Ribbon cutting for first segment of Foothill Freeway completed through Arcadia, September 1968. Pictured L-R: Roger Ferguson, Mayor of Monrovia; next not identified; Sherrill Watson; Frank Bonelli, L.A.County Supervisor; Haig Ajamain; Don Hage, Mayor of Arcadia; next not identified; and Mayor Prentiss R. Ham of Duarte.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1069

Date: September 1968

1 image

Date: September 1968

Subjects: Foothill Freeway; Ferguson, Roger; Watson, Sherrill; Bonelli, Frank; Ajamian, Haig; Hage, Donald; Ham, Prentiss R.

Physical Description: 4x6 b&w

ID: 1060

Collection: Photographs

Images