Rocker, Writer, and Artist Comes Home to Arcadia

Pat Robinson, whose local Arcadia band Fenwyck launched a successful career in recording and performing all over the United States and abroad, will be my guest speaker at the Arcadia Historical Society's Brown Bag lunch talk beginning at 12:00 noon, Thursday, October 15 at the Ruth and Charles Gilb museum in Arcadia.I will have more information and background in another post, please stay tuned.

Gene Glasco-Realtor, Century 21 Ludecke, Inc.Arcadia CA 91006

Gene Moves To Arcadia

My Mom and Dad moved to Arcadia in 1954! Before they selected our house in the Highlands, we temporarily stayed with some friends of theirs in the "Rancho" area of Arcadia. I remember thinking that their house on Volante was so large and beautiful. They even had a little house in the back yard where we stayed. I now know that this was their guest house. I loved the Rancho area, with its quiet tranquility and silence punctuated with ocassional exotic peacock calls. I loved watching "Ramar of the Jungle" an adventure television series, all the more exciting knowing that portions of it were filmed in the famous Arcadia Arboretum with For a short while, I attended highly acclaimedHugo Reid elementary school. I remember waiting on the corner of our host's property waiting for the yellow school bus to pick me up and transport me a few blocks away to the school. The neighborhood and surrounding environ was safe for kids back then, and it was commonplace to see kids walking to school unaccompanied by parent or guardian; something unheard of these days. The Rancho district of Arcadia has changed a little since the mid Fifties; the demographics are different, but homes there are still very well kept, and those folks who put up their homes for sale usually have no trouble in attracting good buyers.

Please re-visit my blog, as I will be adding more tidbits of interesting information about the San Gabriel Valley and our local real estate happenings !