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- ↑ "Shopping Center Gives Arcadia First Elevator". Los Angeles Times. May 20, 1950.
- ↑ "May Co. El Rancho Opens". Monrovia Daily News-Post. August 8, 1966.
- ↑ "Colorful Rites Open New May Co". Los Angeles Times. October 9, 1966.
- ↑ "Business: Leason Pomeroy…". Los Angeles Times. February 10, 1989.
- ↑ "Vons Set to Move Its Headquarters". Los Angeles Times. September 17, 1988.
- ↑ "Vanishing Institutions". Arcadia's Best. February 2015.