The famous U.S. Route 66, immortalized in song and literature, passes through Arcadia, on Huntington Drive in Downtown Arcadia, before turning off onto Colorado Place and then Colorado Street. After intersecting the 210 freeway, Route 66 runs parallel to and south of the freeway, cutting across the middle section of Arcadia.
The city is mentioned by Jack Kerouac in his novel On the Road: Sal, the protagonist, is run out of town by a group of hostile teens when he stops for food at a local drive-in restaurant with a young Mexican woman. The vignette demonstrates the intolerance and racism prevalent in many places during 1950s America.
In a motel located in Arcadia across the street north-east 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 Brown mentions that she heard of a man who died in nearby Arcadia.
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.
Embassy Suites
211 East Huntington Drive
Arcadia, California 91006
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401 East Santa Clara Street
Arcadia, California 91006
(626) 446-6422Hampton Inn
311 East Huntington Drive
Arcadia, California 91006
(626) 574-5600Hilton Garden Inn
199 North Second Avenue
Arcadia, California 91006
(626) 574-6900Marriott Residence Inn
321 East Huntington Drive
Arcadia, California 91006
(626) 446-6500Motel 6
225 Colorado Place
Arcadia, California 91007
(626) 446-2660Santa Anita Inn
130 West Huntington Drive
Arcadia, California 91007
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99 North Second Avenue
Arcadia, California 91006
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