Society May 30 program honors past Presidents

The Arcadia Historical Society will honor past presidents of the Society at a gala dinner in their honor at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 30, at the Lutheran Church of the Cross’ Friendship Hall at 66 West Duarte Road. The Society’s annual General Membership Meeting will begin with a social hour at 6:30 p.m. The social [...]

Historical Society at L.A. Heritage Day

The Arcadia Historical Society made yet another high-profile appearance to showcase Arcadia history throughout the region on Sunday, this time at the annual Los Angeles Heritage Day near Olvera Street in downtown L.A. Society President Gene Glasco drove the classic Arcadia police car to the event, which was positioned in front of the historic Pico [...]

Mayor and 30 others at Historical Society open house

Arcadia Mayor Gary Kovacic presented a special certificate and more than 30 others attended the Arcadia Historical Society’s open house Wednesday afternoon at the Society’s new office space on Santa Anita Avenue. Just a fraction of the Society’s numerous collections of books and artifacts were on display, and archive photos hung on the walls alongside [...]

Historical Society takes Arcadia to L.A. History Day at APU

Board members of the Arcadia Historical Society were on hand to share interesting facts about Arcadia’s history with a few hundred Southern California students and their teachers who flocked to Azusa Pacific University’s annual “L.A. History Day,” last Saturday, March 10. Inside the Richard and Vivian Felix Event Center Society board members Carol Libby and [...]

Baldwin descendants unveil portraits

The first public viewing of two new painted portraits of Lucky Baldwin and his daughter Anita Baldwin were unveiled Wednesday, March 7, at the first community-wide Meet the Candidates Forum at the Arcadia Public Library, presented by the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce and the Arcadia Association of Realtors. The paintings by San Marino artists Belita [...]

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