Tag: history
From Slavery to Japanese Internment: A Family Embodies What it Means...
Barbara Jean and J-Flats neighbor circa 1940. - Photo courtesy of Barbara Williams
By Susie Ling
Monrovia’s History of Segregation
Art in Public Places to be considered at next Monrovia Council meeting
By Félix Guitiérrez
Detailed...
Remembering Monrovia’s Louis García on Veterans Day
By Félix Gutiérrez
Collage of Prvt. García’s tomb, photograph and a postcard. – Courtesy photo / Félix Gutiérrez
Summer in Town: Meeting at Monrovian Restaurant
By Susie Ling
It was in 1979 that Jimmy and Maria Kypreos opened Monrovian Restaurant – but not at the northeast corner of Myrtle...
Summer in Town: J.B. Burgers Since 1974
By Susie Ling
Once upon a time, a young man named Demetrios “Jim” Bakolas dreamed of opportunity in America. In 1938, Demetrios was the youngest...
The Founding of Monrovia
By Susan Motander
In 1883 five men purchased land from Lucky Baldwin’s Rancho Santa Anita. William Newton Monroe, one of those five, purchased 240 acres for...