Gene Glasco, City Clerk 2012-2024. Retired in 2024. This photo c. 2020. Gene Glasco is a native Californian and long time resident of Arcadia. Gene attended Highland Oaks Elementary school, First Avenue Junior High School, and is a graduate of Arcadia High School where he lettered in Football and played second chair trombone in the award-winning AHS Marching Band. Gene is Arcadia’s first elected City Clerk that is a graduate of Arcadia High School.
Gene served six years in the United States Navy. He spent fourteen months in Vietnam as a Radioman in support of US Navy riverboat activities in the Mekong Delta and is a service-connected disabled Veteran. Gene is an Honor Role graduate of Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. He attended San Jose State University where he majored in Public Relations with a minor in Asian American History. After thirty years in the foodservice industry, Gene retired from Glasco and Associates, Inc. He also has practiced real estate in Arcadia.
A view of dirt path or trail, trees, shrubs, and the San Gabriel Mountains, looking northeast from Wilderness Park on a cloudy day. Photo by Terry Miller.
A view of dirt path or trail, trees, shrubs, and the San Gabriel Mountains, looking northeast from Wilderness Park on a cloudy day. Photo by Terry Miller.
Aerial view north toward San Gabriel Mountains from a position above Huntington Drive near First Avenue. Santa Anita Avenue can plainly be seen running north and south in front of six-story building in center of photo. The 210 Foothill Freeway is top band running across photo from east to west.
View across large crowd at a love-in at Arcadia County Park. Newspaper account of event said it attracted young people from as far north as Santa Barbara and as far south as San Diego. Young people in foreground begin a dance.
"El Camino Real," Arcadia's float entry in the 1967 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. Father Serra, founder of historic California missions, is shown traveling the famed thoroughfare. Arcadia's Queen, Christine Ramos, graces the throne. The scroll is covered with yellow chysanthemums, gladioli, orchids and roses. A framed copy of this removed from wall outside Admin. office and currently stored in map case in basement, as of February 2017.
Looking east toward front entrance and grounds of Westerner Motel. San Gabriel Mountains show very prominently in the background. There are two cars in the parking area.
Side and back view of the yet unfinished Arcadia Police Department and its parking lot at 250 W. Huntington Drive. View of the San Gabriel Mountains is clear in the background.
Flood damage on N. Santa Anita Avenue. This view was taken at Perkins and Santa Anita. A sign pointing toward Sierra Madre is visible on the left and the San Gabriel Mountains are visible in the background. There is a car on the right.
Flood damage on N. Santa Anita Avenue. A house is visible to the right and a person is standing with his/her back to the camera on the left. There are two sawhorses visible. The San Gabriel Mountains are seen in the background.
Flood damage on N. Santa Anita Avenue. The front end of a car is just visible in the left foreground. A sign nailed to a tree reads "STRAWBERRIES FOR SALE." The San Gabriel mountains are seen in the background.
Looking north toward San Gabriel Mountains at devastating Monrovia Peak fire on first night. It was to eventually burn more than 13,000 acres and be out of control for five days.
Vi Chaffers Mahr at the wheel of a convertible decorated for Arcadia Public Library's entry in Arcadia's 50th birthday party parade. San Gabriel Valley Lumber Company building is visible in the background. Location is approximately First Avenue and Wheeler Street.