A double-decker horse drawn streetcar from the 1890's era will be Arcadia's float for the 1977 Rose Parade.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 7, 1976

Pages: p. A-1 drawing

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 7, 1976

Pages: p. A-1 drawing

Subjects: Tournament of Roses

Item ID: 3348AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

"Sunday Afternoon, California, 1903," Arcadia's float entry in the 1977 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, features a horsedrawn streetcar with passengers wearing authentic period costumes.

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Date: January 1977

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Date: January 1977

Subjects: Tournament of Roses-Floats-1977

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 1307

Collection: Photographs

Images

Monrovia Planet Building

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Artist: Edna Lenz

Description: Monrovia "Planet" Building -- The Monrovia Townsite Committee offered E.L. Buck the landsite if he would start a newspaper. Buck built this structure on East Lemon, between Myrtle and Ivy Avenues; he used the first floor as a publishing plant and lived upstairs. The first issue of "The Monrovia Pla…

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Artist: Edna Lenz

Description: Monrovia "Planet" Building -- The Monrovia Townsite Committee offered E.L. Buck the landsite if he would start a newspaper. Buck built this structure on East Lemon, between Myrtle and Ivy Avenues; he used the first floor as a publishing plant and lived upstairs. The first issue of "The Monrovia Planet" was printed on Saturday, November 10, 1886.

Item ID: 46L

Collection: Paintings

Images

County area near Monrovia

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 12, 1972

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 12, 1972

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Annexation (Municipal Government)

Item ID: 3575AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Monroe, William Newton. Monrovia

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Artist: Justine Wishek

Description: Monroe House -- This is the home (known as The Oaks) of William Newton Monroe, a Los Angeles Councilman, who in 1886 bought 60 acres as a townsite and laid out the town of Monrovia, which was incorporated in 1887. It was located on Primrose Avenue.

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Artist: Justine Wishek

Description: Monroe House -- This is the home (known as The Oaks) of William Newton Monroe, a Los Angeles Councilman, who in 1886 bought 60 acres as a townsite and laid out the town of Monrovia, which was incorporated in 1887. It was located on Primrose Avenue.

Item ID: 43W

Collection: Paintings

Images

Monrovia will pay Arcadia $100,000 a year to have the Arcadia Fire Department dispatchers answer calls for the Monrovia Fire Department.

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Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: August 5, 1993

Pages: p. H-7; Hometown section

Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: August 5, 1993

Pages: p. H-7; Hometown section

Subjects: Fire Department

Item ID: 173AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Profile of author and former Monrovia city librarian.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 20, 1974

Pages: p. A-6

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 20, 1974

Pages: p. A-6

Subjects: Arcadia Authors - Ainsworth, Katherine

Item ID: 561AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Schools - High Schools - Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte

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Contents: 1. Lay corner stone for this fine high school tomorrow. News photo and caption, n,d, (circa 1926?) - completed 1928. 2. Fifty-Seventh Annual Commencement Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School, June 1951. Last commencement for combined high school. 3. Arcadia students had been attending high sc…

Contents: 1. Lay corner stone for this fine high school tomorrow. News photo and caption, n,d, (circa 1926?) - completed 1928.; 2. Fifty-Seventh Annual Commencement Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School, June 1951. Last commencement for combined high school.; 3. Arcadia students had been attending high school in Monrovia since 1920. History of Monrovia City High School by Thelma Thompson, former English teacher there.; 4. Union High School at Monrovia. Photo and caption from rotogravure section of early Los Angeles Times (?) , n.d.; 5. The Wildcat. Copy of school paper dated November 5, 1943. Gift received June 1980.; 6. Copy of mid-year graduation program and commencement, January 28, 1943. Copied from the original loaned by Vera Van Houten Iwaaden in September 1980.; 7. Help Arcadia Get Justice. Copy of hand bill for Arcadians opposing bond election for funds for a unified district. States that Arcadians pay a disproportionate amount - 41% of taxes with only 80 pupils in school against 330 from Monrovia and 25 from Duarte. April 1923.; 8. Bulletin and Catalogue of Information, 1937. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.101.; 9. The Foothill School Bulletin, February 1938. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.99.; 10. The Foothill School Bulletin, January 1939. Copied from the original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #3.; 11. The High School Bulletin, April 1940. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.91.; 12. Directory of Schools 1937-38. Copied from the original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.97.; 13. Parent-Teacher Association of Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School annual dues envelope for 50 cents c/o Lorna Frey. (Found in the American Rose Annual for 1948); 14. Girls Physical Education Department towel receipt dated January 24, 1944.; 15. Welcome to High School, map of the school and The Merit System. 3pgs; 16. MAD Forty Year Reunion book for class of 1948. 2 copies; 17. Monrovia Arcadia Duarte High School Catalog of Information dated January 11, 1944.; 18. MAD Wildcats . Three decals (transfers). c. 1943; 19. MAD Information for New Girls. c. 1944.; 20. Notepad and stationery pages of "The Wildcat" school newspaper.

Subjects: Schools - High Schools - Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte

Item ID: 220AF

Collection: Subject Files

Schools - High Schools - Monrovia High School

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Contents: 1. Thirty-second annual commencement - Monrovia High School, 1926. Copy of complete program, copied from original loaned by Adrian Winkler in January 1981. note: before M.A.D. was built, Arcadia students went to Monrovia H.S. 2. Monrovia High School history, from book The Schools in Our Town by…

Contents: 1. Thirty-second annual commencement - Monrovia High School, 1926. Copy of complete program, copied from original loaned by Adrian Winkler in January 1981. note: before M.A.D. was built, Arcadia students went to Monrovia H.S.; 2. Monrovia High School history, from book The Schools in Our Town by Monrovia Students Past and Present, edited by E. Louise Osbrink, including cover image and some history of M.A.D. High School (Monrovia Arcadia Duarte H.S.), 2004.

Subjects: Schools - High Schools - Monrovia High School

Item ID: 221AF

Collection: Subject Files

Santa Anita Courthouse, located in Monrovia, which serves Monrovia, Arcadia, and Duarte, is being considered for shutdown by the Los Angeles Superior Court Executive Committee.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 19, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 19, 2002

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Santa Anita Courthouse

Item ID: 30763AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Robert Zook, co-founder of Douglass and Zook Mortuary in Monrovia, has died at the age of 78. His is the second oldest business in Monrovia. The article includes a biography.

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Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: November 30, 2005

Pages: p. A4

Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: November 30, 2005

Pages: p. A4

Subjects: Zook, Robert ("Bob"); Business and Industry; Douglass and Zook Mortuary; Deaths

Item ID: 29979AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia Datsun now negotiating the terms of an agreement with Monrovia Redevelopment Agency to move down to 924 West Huntington in Monrovia from its current location in Arcadia.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 7, 1982

Pages: "p. 1, 2"

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: October 7, 1982

Pages: "p. 1, 2"

Subjects: Arcadia Datsun

Item ID: 736AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

The lockup at Santa Anita Superior Court in Monrovia will close at the end of the month. The closure, due to budget cuts, will have a direct effect on the Monrovia and Arcadia police departments.

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Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: October 19, 2002

Pages: p. A1

Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: October 19, 2002

Pages: p. A1

Subjects: Santa Anita Superior Court; Arcadia Police Department

Item ID: 24898AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Mentally ill man Gerardo Cortez, 26, of Monrovia, is arrested for allegedly making telephone threats to shoot adults and children at a hospital, a mall, and schools in Arcadia and Monrovia.

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Newspaper: Mountain Views News

Date: September 21, 2013

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Mountain Views News

Date: September 21, 2013

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Arcadia High School; Arcadia Police Department; Cortez, Gerardo; Crime and Criminals; Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department; Monrovia Police Department

Item ID: 33822AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Arcadia-Monrovia VFW Post 2070 celebrates 90 years of community service. On Saturday, October 2, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2070 Arcadia-Monrovia commemorates nine decades of offering support and services for all veterans especially those in Monrovia, Arcadia and Duarte.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 30, 2021

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: September 30, 2021

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)

Collection: Newspaper Index

Monrovia. Hotels, motels, etc.- La Vista Grande

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Artist: Justine Wishek

Description: La Vista Grande Hotel -- One of Monrovia's several early hotels, La Vista Grande "enjoyed much activity" and was used as a town meeting place for a number of years before it was destroyed by fire.

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Artist: Justine Wishek

Description: La Vista Grande Hotel -- One of Monrovia's several early hotels, La Vista Grande "enjoyed much activity" and was used as a town meeting place for a number of years before it was destroyed by fire.