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Dragons, a baby boom, and a packed Alhambra Lunar New Year Festival

Daniela GersonJesse Chang
Alhambra Source asked if you had questions about Chinese New Year. In response, people told us they want to know about dragons and babies. Some...
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Signs created to protest Midwick Tract development

Midwick Tract development to continue, but be scaled down

Daniela GersonEditor
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Developers are moving forward on a controversial new development for Midwick Tract, but reduced the number of units from 92 to 70 and eliminate...
The Sunset Limited at Alhambra Station, circa 1970. | By Clark Bauman.

Los Angeles Railroad Heritage - in Alhambra?

Joe SoongCommunity Contributor
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Unknown to most, Alhambra is home to one of Southern California’s most comprehensive collections of books, photographs and materials detailing the...
1967-8 AHS Homecoming / Photo submitted by Adele Cook to I Grew Up in Alhambra Facebook page.

We grew up in Alhambra!

Stephanie LeeYouth Feed
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From the Archives: In less than a month the “I Grew Up in Alhambra” Facebook group attracted more than 1,000 members. Now it's got more than 2,...
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Memory Lane, a.k.a Main Street. | By Stephanie Ho

An Alhambra beauty

Nathan SolisCommunity Contributor
Stephanie Ho took a stroll down Main Street, Alhambra on New Year's Day and caught this shot of Alhambra's Beauty College.
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Pummelos at the Alhambra farmer's market. Photo by Kevin Chan

Professor and Alhambra citrus seller has died

Daniela GersonEditor
A retired plant pathology professor well known for selling Asian citrus fruit at the Alhambra farmer's market has died, reports the Los Angeles...
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Alhambra 1979. Sears in the rain. | By Thomas Hart

Alhambra, 1979: A rare smog-free day with Sears and rain on the horizon

Nathan SolisCommunity Contributor
Thomas Hart took to his backyard in 1979 and took this shot of the Alhambra skyline.
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An Alhambra amnesiac: "Jimmy Moor"

Daniela GersonEditor
The Los Angeles Times blog Framework dug up an article from 1949 about an Alhambra man who went to the Hall of Justice in downtown LA seeking his...
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Hillary Clinton and her mother, Dorothy Rodham | photo from Politico

Dorothy Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s mother and an Alhambra High graduate, dies at 92

Deanna OngCommunity Contributor
Dorothy Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s mother and a graduate of Alhambra High School class of 1937, died early Tuesday in Washington.
Residents of Midwick Tract at a Community Meeting | Photo provided by Cathay Liu

Our fight to protect Alhambra’s Midwick Tract

Elizabeth Salinas
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ALHAMBRA VOICES: Elizabeth Salinas has lived in Alhambra for more than 37 years, and is raising her children in the Midwick Tract. But she's...