Men and women who served in battles from World War II to Desert Storm attended the ceremony at Arcadia County Park on Saturday to honor the veterans and to remember our servicemen.
Arcadia, the Community of Homes, starkly divided on helping the homeless. Residents are unhappy with homeless encampment at Second Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. The City proposes helping unhoused people with the Tiny Shelter project. The plan involves building a village of tiny homes on county land at Peck Park access road site. Residents expressed opposition to that, too.
Former Arcadia resident, Chris Wachter, who is an Air Force captain and served in the Iraq War, met with Temple city resident Vernon Isgrig who trained pilots during World War II. Isgrig encouraged Wachter to become a pilot.
Group of people on grassy area, some in costumes. A youngster dressed as an old-fashioned child is standing near left of photo eating cotton candy. This is part of Peach Blossom Festival festivities.
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to support legislation establishing February 19 as "Remembrance Day" for those Japanese who were sent to internment camps during World War II. Locally, an internment camp was set up at Santa Anita Park.
A new street in Honolulu, Hawaii, has been named Asher Court after Arcadia resident and World War II Veteran Fred Asher who saved the USS Blue at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
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.
Charles Norm Stevens is a World War II veteran and former bombadier who shares his experiences flying in the Army Air Corps and Air Force in his two books, "The Innocent Cadet" and "An Innocent at Polebrook." Stevens, a resident of Monterey Park, signed books at a Friends of the Arcadia Public Library event last week.
Ed Inouye of West Covina, whose family was sent to the internment camp at Santa Anita Park during World War II, died on February 19th. He was instrumental in getting the government to pay reparations to some of the imprisoned families.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at Arlington Mortuary in Riverside for Edwin Francis Lindros of Arcadia. He spent more than three years as a prisoner of war in World War II.
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.
1. Peach Blossom Festival. Packet on all aspects of the first festival. March 14, 1949. 2. Souvenir program cover of the first festival March 26, 1949. 3. The annual peach blossom festival. undated page from the program. 4. Second Peach Blossom festival. Packet including program and newspap…
1. Peach Blossom Festival. Packet on all aspects of the first festival. March 14, 1949.
2. Souvenir program cover of the first festival March 26, 1949.
3. The annual peach blossom festival. undated page from the program.
4. Second Peach Blossom festival. Packet including program and newspaper clippings. March 25, 1950.
5. Invitation to the first annual peach blossom festival. March 26, 1949.
6. Peach festival made fellowship bloom. Arcadia Tribune July 20, 1978.
7. Festive city awaits big day (second annual peach blossom festival). Entire issue of Arcadia Tribune March 23, 1950.
8. A few pictorial highlights of the second peach blossom festival. Arcadia Tribune March 30, 1950 p.3, p.10.
9. Queen, princesses get ready for peach blossom festival; enthusiasm grows for fete. Arcadia Bulletin March 11, 1950, p.2.
10. Official program from the Third Annual Arcadia Peach Blossom Festival, March 31, 1951. See middle for photo of the Peach Blossom Queen candidates for 1951: Bobbie Nichols, Anne Antista, Dorothy Daniels, Shirley Robey, Gretchen Kambeitz, Donna Gilmour, Diane Dotson, Joan Herscher.
11. Peach Blossom Time in Arcadia--original sheet music and lyrics written for Peach Blossom Festival by Elizabeth Graeme and given to the Library on 11/15/1981 by Lynn Stubblefield, whose mother was one of the founders of the Festival.
12. Peach Blossom Festival purple ribbon. No date.
13. History of the Peach Blossom Festival, written by John McCrea (Jack McCrea), February 12, 2016.
What appears to be an American Legion Girl's Drum & Bugle Corps marching on Huntington Drive near Santa Anita Race Track parking lot during Peach Blossom Festival.