| Arcadia Contributor(s): The Arcadia Historical Society (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738558060 ISBN-13: 9780738558066 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2008 Annotation: Santa Anita Rancho's famously ambitious and colorful owner, Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin, had established a popular tourist attraction on his productive working ranch by the late 1800s. Baldwin planned to incorporate the section of his ranch known as Arcadia, but opponents feared that he would turn such a city into a "gambling hell and booze pleasure park." However, the vote for city-hood was virtually unanimous, and Baldwin took over as mayor on July 27, 1903. Arcadia flourished as alcohol sales were approved, saloons and gambling halls remained open 24 hours a day, and Baldwin's ranch, racetrack, and Oakwood Hotel became popular with society's elite. After Baldwin's death in 1909, Arcadia's new leaders prohibited the sale of alcohol and steered the city in a less controversial direction. Agriculture, poultry farms, dairies, and land development became staples of the economy, and Arcadia gradually lost its rural simplicity, growing into a sophisticated, bustling city. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| Dewey: 979.493 |
| LCCN: 2007939180 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.54" W x 9.19" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California |
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Contributor Bio(s): The Arcadia Historical Society: - The Arcadia Historical Society, which has been preserving the city's history since 1952, collected these evocative images as a window onto the city's storied past. They were selected from the society's files as well as the collections of the Arcadia Public Library, Huntington Library, and the Archives of the Pasadena Museum of History. |