CORRECTION Editor’s Note: In today’s print edition of the Arcadia Weekly, a misleading and incorrect headline was attributed to a Galen Patterson story on the Citizens’ Financial Advisory Committee report from Tuesday’s council meeting. The headline implies that council approved a sales tax increase. This is NOT correct. Only the voters in the City of…
Part 2: Anoakia’s lifespan By Galen Patterson After receiving $10 million in assets from her father’s estate, Anita M. Baldwin was well off for an early 20th century woman. With her inherited fortune came land, and on that land, Anita built the finest home Arcadia had ever seen. It was named Anoakia. The home consisted…
Part 1: An introduction to an iconic family By Galen Patterson Anita Baldwin was the daughter of Elias “Lucky” Baldwin and heiress of the Baldwin estate. Lucky had built and left behind a large estate worth millions at the time, and one that still echoes through the San Gabriel Valley. His empire started with a…
By Galen Patterson The 2019 Rose Parade began on a chilly, winter morning on the first day of the new year. The performers staged themselves and equipment along Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena, anticipating the moment when the show would begin. Bare-shouldered dancers moved rapidly in an effort to increase their body heat, and attendees…
By Galen Patterson Official council business began with commending the Arcadia High School Apaches football team for their performance this season. The Apaches went undefeated in the Pacific League Championship for the first time since 2003. “They went on to play the CIF (California Interscholastic Federation) Finals for the first time in 40 years,” said…
By Galen Patterson Riyo Sato was a developing artist by the time she was detained in 1942. She was sent to Santa Anita Park, where she waited out a portion of the war in captivity before being transferred to Wyoming, to a different detention facility called “Heart Mountain.” Cameras were confiscated within the detention camps….
By Galen Patterson The Arcadia City Council convened for its regular bi-monthly meeting in the City Council Chambers at City Hall in Arcadia. The city began the evening with a presentation of a new Arcadia tourism video. The presented video is part of a project to promote Arcadia. “The goal really is to bring new…
By Galen Patterson On a sunny Saturday afternoon in late November, Dr. Dana Hicks, curator of the Gilb Museum, invited Arcadia Weekly on a behind-the-scenes tour of museum grounds. Visitors enter the building and are immediately met by a lotus-shaped fountain. The old metal sculpture stands near the wall, stripped of its former glory as…
By Galen Patterson The evening of Nov. 10 was filled with mystery and celebration at Prince Erik Hall in Arcadia. For the second year, the Arcadia Historical Society has hosted a mystery dinner party with a crime based on actual Arcadian lives. The area outside the Hall is an open yard-like plot of land, known…
Seasonal celebration prepares to open on November 20. By Galen Patterson Arcadia City Council approved a temporary permit for the operation of Winterfest in Arcadia. The festival is approved for the days of Nov. 23, 2018 through Jan. 6, 2019, and will take place in Santa Anita Park. Santa Anita Park has teamed up with…
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