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COMPLIMENTARY COPY VOLUME 20, NO. 22
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Raising a Failing Preservation Grade
Anoakia estate on the corner of Baldwin and Foothill was once the home of Anita Baldwin daughter of Lucky Baldwin, founder of Arcadia. The city council in the late 1990s razed the historic structure without consideration for the enormous historic value. – Photo by Terry Miller
BY KATTA HULES The Los Angeles Conservancy has given Arcadia an “F” in historical preservation. The Conservancy, a non-profit working on preserving and revitalizing LA County’s cul-
tural and architectural resources, gave Arcadia five out of 245 points on its most recent report card. “In an absence of a historic preservation ordinance, there’s nothing that the city can really do to protect any of the … [possibly historic] re-
sources,” explains Arcadia’s Planning Services Manager Lisa Flores. The city is working to remedy this. “We initiated a historic preservation effort over a year ago,” says Flores, “We conducted a citywide … intensive level survey.” The
survey will “enable the city to gain a better understanding of where significant historic resources are located and to plan for their preservation,” according to the city’s fall 2015 newsletter. The Conservancy sees the
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Suspect Sought
On May 31, at about 8:43 p.m., officers from the Arcadia Police Department responded to a disturbance at a hotel located in the 100 block of West Huntington Drive. The female victim reported that she had been physically and sexually as-
saulted by a known male suspect while inside one of the hotel rooms. Officers from the Arcadia Police Department attempted to make contact with the male suspect inSEE PAGE 16
survey as “the first step in that process,” says director of advocacy, Adrian Scott Fine. “[U]sing it as a platform to ultimately pass a historic preservation ordinance is SEE PAGE 17
Arcadia Vietnam War Monument Dedication BY TERRY MILLER
Scout Daniel Black.
- Photo by Terry Miller
From 1966 to 1972, 14 US servicemen from Arcadia became casualties of the War in Vietnam; their names have been reverently etched onto the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in our nation’s capital.
Almost 50 years later, a local monument in their honor was dedicated Saturday, May 28, in Arcadia. Gene Glasco, Arcadia City Clerk, Arcadia High School graduate, and Vietnam veteran said building a SEE PAGE 17