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Arcadia, California
City
Peafowl, a symbol of Arcadia, walking on a lawn in Arcadia
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Motto(south): Community of Homes
Location of Arcadia in Los Angeles County, California
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Coordinates: 34°seven′58″Due north 118°2′11″W  /  34.13278°N 118.03639°West  / 34.13278; -118.03639 Coordinates: 34°7′58″N 118°2′eleven″W  /  34.13278°N 118.03639°W  / 34.13278; -118.03639
Land	Usa
Land	California
County	Los Angeles
Incorporated	Baronial 5, 1903[1]
Named for	Arcadia
Government
• Type	Quango–manager[2]
• Mayor	Sho Tay
• Mayor Pro Tem	Paul P. Cheng
Area [3]
• Total	11.14 sq mi (28.84 km2)
• Land	10.93 sq mi (28.30 km2)
• Water	0.21 sq mi (0.54 km2)  1.87%
Top [iv]	482 ft (147 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	56,681
• Density	5,187.24/sq mi (2,002.81/kmii)
Time zone	UTC−8 (Pacific)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−seven (PDT)
ZIP Codes[5]	91006–91007, 91066, 91077
Surface area code	626
FIPS lawmaking	06-02462
GNIS feature IDs	1652664, 2409722
Website	www.arcadiaca.gov

Arcadia is a urban center in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located about 13 miles (21 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley and at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains. It contains a series of adjacent parks consisting of the Santa Anita Park racetrack, the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, and Arcadia County Park. The urban center had a population of 56,364 at the 2010 census, up from 53,248 at the 2000 demography. The city is named after Arcadia, Greece.^[6]

History [edit]

Native American [edit]

For over viii,000 years, the site of Arcadia was office of the homeland of the Tongva people ("Gabrieliño" tribe), a Californian Native American tribe whose territory spanned the greater Los Angeles Basin, and the San Gabriel and San Fernando Valleys. Their fluid borders stretched between the Santa Susana Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and San Gabriel Mountains in the north; the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills in the westward; the San Jacinto Mountains and Santa Ana Mountains in the east; and the declension and Catalina Island (Pimu) in the south. A Tongva settlement site within present-24-hour interval Arcadia was known as Alyeupkigna (or Aluupkenga).^{[7] [viii]}

Rancho catamenia [edit]

The boondocks'south site became role of the Spanish Mission San Gabriel Arcángel lands in 1771. After Indian Reductions to become Mission Indians, the Tongva were known as the Gabrieliños after the Mission'south name. and nether whose control these people worked during the mission flow in California. Currently there are ane,700 people self-identifying as members of the Tongva or Gabrieliño tribe.^[nine]

The Mexican state grant for Rancho Santa Anita was issued to Perfecto Hugo Reid and his Tongva wife, Victoria Bartolomea Comicrabit, in 1845. It was named afterwards a family unit relation, Anita Cota, on his wife'south side. Reid documented the Gabrieliño Native Americans in a series of letters written in 1852,^[10] and served every bit a delegate to the 1849 California Ramble Convention. In 1847, Reid sold Rancho Santa Anita to his Rancho Azusa neighbour, Henry Dalton.

Lucky Baldwin [edit]

The rancho inverse owners several times earlier being caused by Gold Rush immigrant, businessman, and major regional land owner Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin in 1875. Baldwin purchased eight,000 acres (32 km²) of Rancho Santa Anita for $200,000. Upon seeing the area, he gasped "By Gads! This is paradise!" Upon buying the country, Baldwin chose to brand the area his dwelling house and immediately started erecting buildings and cultivating the land for farming, orchards, and ranches.^[8] Baldwin congenital the Queen Anne Cottage for his 4th wife and himself in 1885–1886, at present preserved within the Arboretum. In 1885, the chief line of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, in which Baldwin was a stockholder, was opened through the ranch, making subdivision of part of the country into a boondocks site applied. Later, this rail line became a Santa Fe Railroad line. In 1889, on a site simply north of the corner of First Artery and St. Joseph Street, side by side to the Santa Iron tracks, Baldwin opened the 35-room Hotel Oakwood to be the centerpiece of his new town. In 1890, the extant Rancho Santa Anita Depot was built.

20th century until World War II [edit]

Past the plow of the 20th century, Arcadia had a population nearing 500 and an economy that was coming to be based on entertainment, sporting, hospitality, and gambling opportunities, the latter including an early version of the Santa Anita race rail.^[8] Baldwin oversaw the incorporation of Arcadia into a metropolis in 1903, and was its starting time mayor.

Anoakia [edit]

Anita Baldwin's "Anoakia" mansion and gardens in 1915

In 1913 Anita Baldwin, Lucky'due south daughter, built a fifty-room mansion on nineteen acres (77,000 m^two) of the Baldwin Ranch she inherited from him, and named it "Anoakia" (a portmanteau of Anita and oak).^[xi] The 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m²) residence was in the Italian Renaissance Revival mode, with murals by Maynard Dixon.^{[11] [12] [xiii]} The estate had a meaning Greek Revival-mode colonnaded "Parthenon" bathhouse/gymnasium beside a large pool, an apiary and aviaries, kennels and stables, lawn tennis courts and pergolas, and preserved the native oak woodlands.^[xi]

After her death in 1939 the manor became the Anoakia School for Girls, which became the coeducational Anoakia Schoolhouse in 1967, and so moved to Duarte in 1990 as the Anita Oaks School.^{[13] [fourteen]} The schoolhouse owner's efforts to develop the property into a hamlet of homes with the old mansion as its centerpiece were rejected past the urban center.^[12] Afterward an extended contend, with local citizens and regional preservationists efforts to preserve the historic principal house, the urban center quango voted to approve demolition for a real estate evolution by new owners in 1999.^[12] The "Anoakia" mansion, all other significant manor structures and outbuildings, garden features, and numerous California sycamore and Coast live oak trees were demolished for 31 luxury home sites in 2000.^[eleven] Some of the mansion'due south architectural elements were salvaged and removed. The gatehouse, on the manor'southward former southeast corner at Foothill and Baldwin, and the perimeter walls remain afterward the "Anoakia Estates" development was built.^[xi] The bas-relief fountain was moved to just inside the new gated entrance.

Inter-war decades [edit]

During Globe War I, Arcadia was home to the U.S. Army's Ross Field Airship Schoolhouse, at the present-mean solar day Santa Anita Park site. Ground forces observers were trained here in techniques to detect enemy activeness from hot air balloons.

Subsequently Earth War I, Arcadia's population grew and local businesses included many craven ranches and other agricultural activities. During the 1920s and 1930s, Arcadia began its transition to the residential city that it is today, as small farms and craven ranches gave way to homes and numerous borough improvements, including a city library and a urban center hall. Scenes of many of Arcadia's interesting older sites can be viewed in a series of historic watercolors painted by local artists Edna Lenz and Justine Wishek.^[15] The city was on historic U.S. Road 66, present-day Colorado Boulevard, with businesses serving travelers on it.

Thoroughbred equus caballus racing had flourished briefly nether Lucky Baldwin, who founded a racetrack adjacent to the present site, until information technology was outlawed by the state of California in 1909. It returned to Arcadia when racing was legalized over again, with the opening of Santa Anita Park in December 1934. Builder Gordon Kaufmann designed its various buildings in a combination of Colonial Revival and Streamline Moderne styles.

Japanese American citizens go far in Arcadia, relocated to the Santa Anita Assembly Center.

Santa Anita Assembly Middle tarpaper barracks, at the Santa Anita Park racetrack

Santa Anita Assembly Center [edit]

The Santa Anita Assembly Center site is California Historical Landmark #934. In 1942 during World State of war 2, the racetrack grounds were used as a processing and holding site for Japanese Americans who had been removed from their homes and communities for forced relocation and internment nether President Franklin Roosevelt'due south Executive Order 9066. The Noncombatant Assembly Middle at the racetrack became the largest and longest operating ane of the eighteen, holding citizens until the Relocation Middle camps were completed in interior areas of California and other states.^[16] More than 18,000 persons resided at the racetrack in primitive conditions.^{[sixteen] [17]} Four hundred temporary tarpaper billet were constructed on the racetrack grounds to business firm many of the detainees, where they lived three families per unit. eight,500 detainees lived in converted horse stalls.^[sixteen] Bachelors were housed in the grandstand building.^[16] They had group showers, non-individual bathrooms, and 24-hour armed surveillance. Each resident was given an "Army manufacture bed, one blanket and one harbinger tick."^[xviii] The Assembly Center held people from late March through the end of October 1942, when the internees were relocated inland to permanent internment camps at Manzanar and Tule Lake in California, and viii others in Western states and Arkansas.

At the time, Arcadia'due south civic leaders were very vocal in their support of the Japanese American relocation internment policies of the federal government.^{[ citation needed ]}

In November 1942 the center was turned over to the U.South. Army Ordnance Corps for training purposes and was officially renamed Campsite Santa Anita.^[16] Later on in the state of war it served as a pw—POW camp, holding several yard of Rommel'south German Afrika Korps soldiers.^[xvi]

Postwar period [edit]

Arcadia largely grew upwards as the well-to-do suburb of neighboring Pasadena, with many early residents being the sons and daughters of long-established Southern California families. A large tract of estate homes was adult by Harry Chandler, the scion of the Los Angeles Times, who lived in side by side Sierra Madre, California. The metropolis became the residence of option for many corporate main executives, including those in the aerospace, horse-racing, and finance industries.

The postwar blast saw Arcadia grow quickly into a suburban residential community, with many of the chicken ranches being subdivided into habitation lots. Between 1940 and 1950, the population grew by more than ii and a one-half times. The housing boom continued through the 1950s and 1960s and along with that growth came the necessary infrastructure of schools, commercial buildings, and expanded urban center services.

During the postwar boom, a modern commercial district developed along Baldwin Avenue south of Huntington Bulldoze in west Arcadia. In 1951 this strip, chosen the West Arcadia Hub, was anchored past a new, locally endemic Hinshaw'southward section store. This was the offset large department store to be congenital in Arcadia, and the largest in the western San Gabriel Valley outside the city of Pasadena. This development marked the get-go of Arcadia'due south gradual transformation into one of the leading shopping districts of the San Gabriel Valley.

In 1947, 111 acres (0.45 kmⁱⁱ) that comprised the heart of the Baldwin Ranch were deeded to the State of California and the County of Los Angeles, and developed into Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

Until a Supreme Courtroom ruling in 1965, every property sale contract within the borders of Arcadia had to include a provision that the new possessor could only sell the holding to a white Protestant. Even so, these clauses had been ruled unenforceable by the Supreme Court'southward ruling in 1948's Shelley five. Kraemer, and many non-Protestant families did, in fact, own homes and alive in Arcadia well earlier 1965.^{[ citation needed ]}

In October 1975, the Santa Anita Way Park was opened to the public on the corner of Baldwin Avenue and Huntington Drive, on role of the former Santa Anita Assembly Center site. The middle courtroom featured a very big "Blue head" past creative person Roy Lichtenstein, which was later removed. The mall expanded in 2004, and renamed Westfield Santa Anita. It was afflicted by the late 2000s Great Recession, but continues to concenter business.

James Dobson, a sometime Arcadia resident, founded the nonprofit Christian ministry Focus on the Family in the city in 1977. Its original office however stands on the south side of Foothill Boulevard. Focus grew to larger quarters in the city, and in intervening years expanded to Monrovia for warehouse infinite before moving out of Arcadia completely in 1990. Focus on the Family is now based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but still has thousands of members in Arcadia.

In the 1980s, the Asian population in Arcadia began to abound. The city had remained 99% white until the belatedly 1970s, but in 1985, the Los Angeles Times reported that the Asian population had grown from 4% in 1980 to an estimated 9%, overtaking Latinos, who accounted for roughly 7% of the population.^[19] Past the 2010 census, Asians consisted of 59.2% of the population.

In the late 1990s, Native American activists threatened to sue Arcadia High School over its use of the "Apache" mascot. The high school'south use of Native American symbols, including an "Apache Joe" mascot, the Pow Wow school newspaper, the Apache News television program, the "Smoke Signals" news bulletin boards, the school's auxiliary team'due south marching "Apache Princesses" and opposing football team fans' "Scalp the Apaches" signs were viewed by these Native American activists and many Arcadia customs members as offensive. Other residents, and some schoolhouse alumni with Native American ancestry, did not object to their utilize.^{[ commendation needed ]} The school consulted with some Native American groups and made some concessions, but did not change the mascot.^{[ citation needed ]} Arcadia High School has a yearly charity drive for the Apache customs.^{[ citation needed ]}

Geography [edit]

According to the U.s.a. Census Bureau, the city has a full area of 11.ane square miles (29 km^two). ten.9 square miles (28 kmⁱⁱ) of it is land and 0.two square miles (0.52 km²) of information technology (1.87%) is water.

Demographics [edit]

In 2016, Arcadia was ranked the 5th most expensive housing market place in the U.s. by Business Insider, with an average list toll of $one,748,680 for a four-chamber home.^[20]

In 2012, Arcadia was ranked 7th in the nation on CNN Coin mag's list of towns with highest median domicile costs.^[21]

Arcadia's Upper Rancho neighborhood was ranked the 23rd richest neighborhood in Southern California past Business organization Insider in 2014, with a hateful household income of $310,779.^[22]

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1910	696		—
1920	ii,239		221.7%
1930	five,216		133.0%
1940	9,122		74.9%
1950	23,066		152.9%
1960	41,005		77.8%
1970	45,138		10.1%
1980	45,993		1.ix%
1990	48,290		v.0%
2000	53,054		9.nine%
2010	56,364		6.2%
2020	56,681		0.6%
U.S. Decennial Census[23]

2010 [edit]

The 2010 United states of america Census^[24] reported that Arcadia had a population of 56,364. The population density was 5,062.5 people per square mile (1,954.6/kmⁱⁱ). The racial makeup of Arcadia was 33,353 (59.2%) Asian, 18,191 (32.three%) White, (25.7% Non-Hispanic White),^[25] 681 (1.2%) African American, 186 (0.iii%) Native American, 16 (0.03%) Pacific Islander, 2,352 (4.2%) from other races, and 1,585 (two.8%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were half-dozen,799 persons (12.1%).

The census reported that 55,502 people (98.5% of the population) lived in households, 639 (1.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 223 (0.iv%) were institutionalized. There were 19,592 households, out of which seven,336 (37.iv%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, xi,703 (59.7%) were opposite-sexual activity married couples living together, two,437 (12.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 865 (4.4%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 469 (ii.four%) single opposite-sex activity partnerships, and 92 (0.five%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 3,855 households (nineteen.vii%) were made up of individuals, and 1,926 (9.8%) had someone living solitary who was 65 years of age or older. The boilerplate household size was two.83. In that location were 15,005 families (76.vi% of all households); the average family size was 3.26.

The population was spread out, with 12,290 people (21.viii%) under the age of eighteen, 4,102 people (vii.3%) aged xviii to 24, 13,409 people (23.8%) aged 25 to 44, 17,349 people (thirty.8%) anile 45 to 64, and ix,214 people (sixteen.three%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43.i years. For every 100 females, there were 91.2 males. For every 100 females age eighteen and over, there were 87.7 males according to the demography.

There were 20,686 housing units at an average density of 1,858.0 per square mile (717.4/km²), of which 12,371 (63.1%) were owner-occupied, and 7,221 (36.9%) were occupied past renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.1%; the rental vacancy rate was half dozen.seven%. 37,000 people (65.6% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 18,502 people (32.8%) lived in rental housing units.

These were the ten neighborhoods in Los Angeles Canton with the largest per centum of Asian residents, co-ordinate to the 2000 census:^[26]

1. Chinatown, lxx.6%
2. Monterey Park, 61.i%
3. Cerritos, 58.3%
4. Walnut, 56.two%
5. Rowland Heights, 51.seven%
6. San Gabriel, 48.9%
7. Rosemead, 48.6%
8. Alhambra, 47.2%
9. San Marino, 46.viii%
10. Arcadia, 45.4%

Economy [edit]

Arcadia's economy is driven by wholesale trade, retail trade, manufacturing, health care and social assistance, arts, amusement, and recreation. Revenue from the Santa Anita Racetrack has long supported capital improvements for the Metropolis of Arcadia, resulting in the urban center having very fiddling bonded indebtedness.

The Westfield Santa Anita mall (formerly the Santa Anita Manner Park) is a major shopping eye in the metropolis. In 2005, the Westfield Santa Anita completed its offset phase of expansion, featuring a new food courtroom, Sport Chalet (at present closed), Dave & Busters, numerous smaller retailers, diverse full-service eateries in an area known equally Restaurant Foursquare, and a 16-screen AMC Theatres megaplex. In 2008, expansion of the mall continued as the Promenade outdoor structure was completed, with new high-end retailers such as Coach and Talbots.

In 2004, citing success from regional shopping malls such as The Grove and The Americana, Caruso Affiliated and Magna Entertainment (the owners of the Santa Anita Park racetrack) proposed to build a 2nd large shopping mall adjacent to Westfield Santa Anita on the grounds of the Santa Anita Park south parking lot, which would accept made Arcadia the largest retail shopping district in Los Angeles County. The controversial project, known every bit "The Shops at Santa Anita", originally included signature retail, restaurants, condominium projects, a decorative water display, and a horse-fatigued trolley.^[27] Arcadia City Council unanimously canonical the projection in 2007 later much heated contend between some residents in the community and corporate interests, which included ballot initiatives such as free parking for Arcadia residents, prevention of retail signage installations, and downsizing the project by the removal of condominiums from the projection.^{[28] [29]} Magna Entertainment filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy during the Great Recession in 2009 and dissolved the partnership with Caruso Affiliated, with Caruso Affiliated a filing a $21 million bankruptcy claim in 2010 to embrace damages Caruso Affiliated incurred as a consequence of the disability to complete the project. The programme to build "The Shops at Santa Anita" was ultimately terminated on May 20, 2011.^[30]

Acme employers [edit]

Co-ordinate to the city'south 2020 Comprehensive Annual Fiscal Report,^[31] the height private employers in the city are:

#	Employer	# of Employees
1	Macy's W	443
2	Nordstrom Inc.	417
3	FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.	389
4	Optum	205
5	J C Penney Corp, Inc.	204
6	The Cheesecake Factory Restaurants, Inc.	180
vii	Dave & Buster's	165
8	Din Tai Fung	135
9	Vons	128
9	99 Ranch Market	128

Tourism [edit]

The Los Angeles Canton Arboretum and Botanic Garden is located in Arcadia across from the Santa Anita mall and racetrack. The peafowl that roam free on the grounds and in the neighborhoods near the arboretum are a residual of the onetime Baldwin ranch. When the peafowl were brought from Republic of india, they helped command snakes and snails on his farm. They are considered an attraction to some residents and a nuisance to others due to their loud cries and the droppings they exit on residents' properties.^{[32] [33] [34]}

Government [edit]

Local government [edit]

Arcadia is a charter metropolis governed by a five-fellow member City Quango (which too serves as the city'due south Redevelopment Agency), with each member serving a four-year term. The Council elects from its membership a Mayor to serve as its presiding officeholder for a i-year term. ^[35]

Constructive with the 2018 elections, Arcadia voters elect a Urban center Quango fellow member by geographical district instead of at-big.

The electric current city council members are: ^[2]

• Mayor: Sho Tay ^[36]
• Mayor Pro Tem: Paul P. Cheng ^[37]
• City Quango: Tom Beck, Rodger Chandler, and Apr Verlato

List of mayors [edit]

This is a listing of Arcadia mayors by twelvemonth.^[38]

• 1927-1930 A. Due north. Multer ^[38]
• 1952-1954 John A. Schmocker ~ "politicalgraveyard_mayor"/
• 1969-1970 C. Robert Arth^[38]
• 1973-1974 C. Robert Arth^{[38] [39]}
• 1974-1975 Alton E. Scott ^[38]
• 1975-1976 Charles Eastward. Gilb ^[38]
• 1976-1977 Floretta K. Lauber - Get-go woman mayor of Arcadia.^{[38] [40] [41]}
• 1977-1978 Jack Saelid ^[38]
• 1978-1979 David E. Parry ^[38]
• 1979-1980 Robert G. Margett ^[38]
• 1980-1981 Donald D. Pellegrino ^[38]
• 1981-1982 Charles Eastward. Gilb ^[38]
• 1982-1983 Donald D. Pellegrino ^[38]
• 1983-1984 Dennis A. Lojeski ^[38]
• 1984-1985 David S. Hannah ^[38]
• 1985-1986 Donald D. Pellegrino ^[38]
• 1986-1987 Mary B. Young ^[38]
• 1987-1988 Charles E. Gilb ^[38]
• 1988-1989 Robert C. Harbricht ^[38]
• 1989-1990 Roger Chandler ^[38]
• 1990-1991 Mary B. Immature ^[38]
• 1991-1992 Charles Due east. Gilb ^[38]
• 1992-1993 George Faching ^[38]
• 1993-1994 Joseph Ciraulo ^[38]
• 1994-1995 Mary B. Young ^[38]
• 1995-1996 Dennis A. Lojeski ^[38]
• 1996-1997 Barbara D. Kuhn ^{[38] [42]}
• 1997-1998 Robert C. Harbricht ^[38]
• 1998-1999 Gary A. Kovacic ^[38]
• 1999-2000 Roger Chandler ^[38]
• 2000-2001 Gary A. Kovacic ^[38]
• 2001-2002 Mickey Segal ^[38]
• 2002-2003 Gail A. Marshall ^[38]
• 2003 Sheng Chang ^[38]
• 2003 Gary A. Kovacic ^[38]
• 2003-2004 John Wuo ^[38]
• 2004 Mickey Segal ^[38]
• 2004-2005 Gary A. Kovacic ^[38]
• 2005-2006 John Wuo ^[38]
• 2006-2007 Roger Chandler ^[38]
• 2007-2008 Mickey Segal ^[38]
• 2008-2009 Robert C. Harbricht ^[38]
• 2010 Peter Amundson ^[43]
• 2011-2012 Gary A. Kovacic ^[44]
• 2015-2016 Gary A. Kovacic ^[44]
• 2016-2017 Tom Beck
• 2017-2018 Peter Amudson
• 2018-2019 Sho Tay
• 2019-2020 April Verlato ^[45]
• 2020-2021 Rodger Chandler
• 2021 Sho Tay

County regime [edit]

In the Los Angeles County Lath of Supervisors, Arcadia is in the Fifth Commune, represented past Kathryn Barger.^[46]

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services operates the Monrovia Wellness Eye in Monrovia, serving Arcadia.^[47]

State and federal representation [edit]

In the California State Legislature, Arcadia is in the 22nd Senate District, represented past Democrat Susan Rubio, and in the 49th Assembly Commune, represented by Democrat Mike Fong.^[48]

In the The states Firm of Representatives, Arcadia is in California's 27th congressional commune, which has a Melt PVI of D +11^[49] and is represented by Democrat Judy Chu.^[fifty]

Instruction [edit]

For chief and secondary educational activity the city is served by the Arcadia Unified School Commune. Reading scores for the AUSD are 76.vi% higher than the state boilerplate and math scores are 67.9% higher than the state average.^[51] It is estimated that 88% of Arcadia students are at public schools and 12% in private and/or parochial institutions.

Arcadia Unified School District^[51] has one highly ranked and prestigious loftier school, Arcadia Loftier Schoolhouse. Information technology is among the few public high schools in California to receive a distinguished GreatSchools Rating of 10 out of x.^[52] There are iii heart schools, and vi elementary schools, 2 which are winners in the Usa Department of Teaching's Blue Ribbon Schools programme.^[53] Approximately five percent of California schools are awarded this honor each year following a rigorous selection process. Eligibility is based on federal and state criteria including the No Child Left Behind programme, Academic Performance Alphabetize (API), and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). The requirements are many and strict, and are based on such areas equally a strong curriculum, solid library media services, professional teachers, and counseling programs at all grade levels.^[54] In 2010, BusinessWeek ranked Arcadia as the best place to raise children in the state of California for the 2d year in a row, citing the city's fantabulous school arrangement as i of the factors in addition to the low criminal offense rate.^[32]

Elementary schools [edit]

• Baldwin Stocker Simple 422 West Lemon Ave., grades One thousand–v, 673 students
• Camino Grove Simple 700 Camino Grove Ave., K–5, 635 students
• Highland Oaks Uncomplicated 10 Virginia Dr., K–5, 698 students
• Holly Artery Elementary 360 West Duarte Rd., K–v, 692 students
• Longley Way Unproblematic 2601 Longley Mode, One thousand–v, 485 students
• Reid (Hugo) Uncomplicated chiliad Hugo Reid Dr., K–5, 634 students

Centre schools [edit]

• Dana (Richard Henry) Middle, 1401 Due south First Ave., grades 6–8, 731 students
• Offset Avenue Middle, 301 South First Ave., grades 6–8, 809 students
• Foothills Middle, 171 E Sycamore Ave., grades 6–viii, 734 students

High school [edit]

• Arcadia High School

The Bookish Performance Index measures the academic performance and growth of schools on a multifariousness of points. Arcadia High School scored 890,^[55] making it the highest-performing large loftier schoolhouse in California.^[56] In 2010, Arcadia High had 29 National Merit Award finalists.^[57] Arcadia is likewise home to the two-fourth dimension National Title boys cross-country team (2010 and 2012).

Infrastructure [edit]

Police and burn down [edit]

The Arcadia Police Department and Arcadia Burn down Department serves the city of Arcadia.

Transportation [edit]

Arcadia has several arterial roads that traverse the metropolis. The major eastward–west streets include Foothill Boulevard, Huntington Drive, Duarte Road, Las Tunas Drive, and Live Oak Avenue. The major north–due south streets include Baldwin Avenue and Santa Anita Avenue. Information technology is also served by the Foothill Expressway (I-210).

Arcadia Transit [edit]

The urban center of Arcadia operates three fixed route services, likewise every bit a Dial-A-Ride that provides adjourn-to-curb service throughout city limits.^[58]

Metro L Line [edit]

In 2016, Metro opened a new at-grade light runway station in Arcadia. Arcadia Station is located northwest of the intersection of 1st Avenue and Santa Clara Street, and is served past the Metro 50 Line.^[59]

Healthcare [edit]

Located at 300 W. Huntington Drive, Methodist Hospital^[threescore] sits on 22 acres (89,000 kⁱⁱ) of state. The 460-bed infirmary opened in Arcadia in 1957, after moving from downtown Los Angeles. Methodist was the state'south first community hospital to have a psychiatric unit. Its plant nursery school was one of the first corporate daycare facilities in the U.S. Information technology was an Official Hospital of the 1984 Olympic Games.

To continue up with the changing needs of the community, several upgrades have been made to the original facility. In 1998, the Berger Tower was completed, adding 169 beds. Methodist underwent a major renovation and expansion in 2006, and in the fall of 2011, a new 5-story patient belfry and new emergency section were opened.

The Methodist Hospital School of Nursing [edit]

A School of Nursing opened at the hospital in 1915, with a course of 30 students. X years subsequently, a residence was built to accommodate 150 graduate and educatee nurses. This four-story brick building, known as Philomena Hall, was connected to the hospital past an underground corridor and provided accommodations, classrooms and a gymnasium for the nurses. Kickoff in 1944 (later a nine-year school closure), additional housing for nurses was provided in a refurbished residential house adjacent to Philomena Hall. Afterwards more than xl years of operation and the graduation of hundreds of talented young nurses, the School of Nursing airtight. Times had changed, and the exercise of nursing education had moved into the domain of the formal instruction system. The school was phased out in 1958 with the graduation of the last nursing class.^[61]

H2o & Sewer [edit]

The Urban center of Arcadia provides services for water and sewer to its residents. The city operates its own water distribution system via the Public Works Services Section.^[62] Arcadia's h2o supply comes from groundwater from municipal owned water pumps from the Principal San Gabriel Basin and the Raymond Bowl, both which are replenished with local rainwater and imported water.^[63]

In popular culture [edit]

U.South. Route 66, immortalized in song and literature, passes through Arcadia, on Huntington Drive in Downtown Arcadia, earlier turning off onto Colorado Identify and then Colorado Street. Subsequently intersecting the 210 motorway, Route 66 runs parallel to and south of the freeway, cutting across the eye section of Arcadia.

The city is mentioned past Jack Kerouac in his novel On the Road: Sal, the protagonist, is put off by "preppy" teens when he stops for nutrient at a local drive-in eating house with a immature Mexican adult female. The vignette demonstrates the culture disharmonism between the "Crackpot" way of life and that of 1950s conservative America.

In a cabin located in Arcadia across the street northeast from Santa Anita Racetrack, author Hunter S. Thompson wrote much of his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the 1970s. In Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours, Laura Chocolate-brown mentions that she heard of a man who died in nearby Arcadia.

The McDonald brothers, who later began the McDonald's hamburger eatery chain, opened their kickoff restaurant, The Airdrome, near Monrovia Airport, on the Arcadia–Monrovia border in 1937.^{[64] [65]} The eatery was located on celebrated Route 66, at present Huntington Drive, simply later moved to San Bernardino, California, in 1940.

The main setting of the DreamWorks' franchise Tales of Arcadia took identify in Arcadia Oaks, a fictionalized version of Arcadia, California.

Filming locations [edit]

Many films on location (including Tarzan and the Bing Crosby On the Road movies), television series, most notably Fantasy Isle ^[66] were filmed in Arcadia. A popular visiting site is the house with the bell tower, where Tattoo rang the bong, is the Queen Anne Cottage, located in the Los Angeles Canton Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia.^[67] The plane, "arriving" with the guests, was filmed in the lagoon behind the Queen Anne Cottage.^[66] Occasionally, outdoor scenes and commercials are filmed at the Arboretum accept been filmed on the grounds^[68] of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

The Santa Anita Park Racetrack is another popular filming locations. The true story moving picture Seabiscuit (2003) was filmed and takes place at the Santa Anita race rail. A commercial for Claritin allergy medicine, a Lexus commercial, and three episodes of Grey's Beefcake have used it as a location ("Walk on Water", "Drowning on Dry out State" and "Some Kind of Miracle").^[69]

This metropolis was i of the filming locations for Columbia Pictures' comedy film North (1994).

The fantasy-comedy pic Matilda was shot here in 1996.^[69]

A scene from Stride Brothers (2008) was shot at the nearby Derby eatery.^[70]

Scenes from Mission: Impossible Iii (2006) were shot at Methodist Hospital.

In the movie Cloverfield, the scene in which the survivors walk inside Bloomingdale's was actually filmed inside a Robinsons-May store under reconstruction inside the Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia. The motion picture Hawkeye Eye (2008) was also filmed in this location.

Scenes from Kicking & Screaming (2005) were shot at Foothill Middle School and in Arcadia homes.

The flick The Lone Ranger (2013) filmed their train scenes here within the Santa Anita Race Rails parking lot by building an elevated 'roller coaster' like track.

The one-act film Deal of a Lifetime (1999) was filmed entirely at Arcadia High School.^[71]

The movie Moxie (2021) was filmed at Arcadia Loftier School'southward North Gym and Salter Stadium.^[72]

Notable people [edit]

• Michael Anthony, bassist of the band Van Halen, graduated from Arcadia High Schoolhouse in 1972^[73]
• Marty Barrett, baseball game player
• Ryan Bergara, cohost on Buzzfeed Unsolved and cofounder of Watcher Entertainment
• Tracy Caldwell Dyson, astronaut. Born in Arcadia.^[74]
• Jason Chen, singer
• Jimmy Conrad, former soccer defender. Born in Arcadia.^[75]
• Sven Davidson, tennis player who won the French Open up and Wimbledon
• John Grabow, major league baseball game pitcher^[76]
• Phil Hendrie, radio personality, grew up in Arcadia and graduated from Arcadia High Schoolhouse in 1970^[77]
• Colleen Kay Hutchins, Miss America 1952, was raised in Arcadia
• Maren Jensen, actress, was born in Arcadia
• Brittany Klein, soccer player
• Rudy Kurniawan, wine swindler
• Ted Leonard of band Enchant was built-in in Arcadia
• Jet Li, international film star and martial creative person, resided in Arcadia with his wife, a onetime Miss Mainland china^[78]
• Johnny Lindell, Major League Baseball player^{[79] [lxxx]}
• Bruce McNall, endemic NHL's Los Angeles Kings, was born in Arcadia
• Mirai Nagasu, Olympic figure skater, half-dozen-time medalist in U.South. championships
• Lindsay Price, extra and wife of Curtis Stone
• John Speraw, Head Charabanc The states Men's Olympic Volleyball Squad
• Mark Tuan, fellow member of South Korean male child-band GOT7
• Rena Wang, badminton player
• Steve Westly, pol and venture capitalist
• Wil Wheaton, actor, Star Expedition: The Next Generation ^[81]
• George Woolf, horse jockey, owner of The Derby restaurant in Arcadia and passenger of Seabiscuit^[82]
• Tim Worrell, professional baseball game pitcher
• Todd Worrell, professional baseball relief pitcher
• Erica Wu, table tennis Olympian
• Genie, a feral child
• Jeff Grosso, professional person skateboarder
• Jason Robertson, professional hockey thespian.
• Jimmy Lambert Baseball Histrion

Sister cities [edit]

Arcadia has ane sis city (Newcastle, Australia), equally designated by Sister Cities International. Consequently, Newcastle Park can be found on Colorado Boulevard. There is besides an Arcadia Park in Newcastle.

See also [edit]

• Arcadia Invitational
• Hugo Reid Adobe, 1839 California Historic Landmark
• Chinese enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley

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Farther reading [edit]

• McAdam, Pat; Snider, Sandy (1981). Arcadia: Where Ranch and Metropolis See. Friends of the Arcadia Public Library. ISBN978-0-9606390-0-7. Archived from the original on December 27, 2005. Retrieved Dec 23, 2005.
• Kovacic, Gary, ed. (2003). Visions of Arcadia: A Centennial Album. ISBN978-0-931995-01-9.
• "The California Town Where Chinese Millionaires House their Kids—and Mistresses ." Vocativ. Dec 5, 2014.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Arcadia Historical Guild

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia,_California

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