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6 Area codes
Most of the San Gabriel Valley lies within the 626 telephone area code although some cities in the eastern portion are in the 909 area code.
7 Local media originating in the Valley
7.1 Newspapers
The local daily English-language newspapers are the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Pasadena Star-News, printed in West Covina and Pasadena, respectively.
Indeed, several large newspaper publishing companies serve the large Chinese-speaking readership in the Los Angeles area and the San Gabriel Valley is the media powerhouse for local Chinese Americans. The national daily Chinese-language newspapers Chinese Daily News (Los Angeles edition of the World Journal newspaper) and International Daily News are both printed in Monterey Park. The Los Angeles edition of the Hong Kong-based Sing Tao is printed in Alhambra and the newspaper is specifically tailored to the Cantonese-speaking readership. The youngest international Chinese-language newspaper company The Epoch Times (大纪元) is based in New York City and has its Los Angeles office in San Gabriel. These newspapers are circulated and distributed throughout Chinese American communities in the San Gabriel Valley, the Los Angeles Chinatown, San Diego, and in Las Vegas, Nevada (where the latter two cities generally receive the Los Angeles editions due to a relatively lower population density of Chinese-speaking Americans).
7.2 Radio stations
The local NPR member station is KPCC 89.3 FM, which originates from Pasadena City College. KSAK 90.1 FM is aired from Mt. San Antonio College and has limited reception since it can only be heard in the city of Walnut. Several ethnic radio stations in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages are broadcasted from Pasadena.
7.3 Filming locations
Several blockbuster Hollywood films have been filmed on location in the San Gabriel Valley. Pasadena served as the gloomy background of a fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield in John Carpenter's 1978 horror flick Halloween. In the Robert Zemeckis' time travel adventure Back to the Future (1985, 1989), Michael J. Fox's character traveled back in time on the huge parking lot of Puente Hills Mall in the City of Industry that served the location of the fictitious Twin Pines Mall, the Gamble House in Pasadena provided the exterior of the inventor's 1950s mansion, and El Monte served as a futuristic but dilapidated neighborhood. Forrest Gump (1994), starring Tom Hanks, was partially filmed at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park.
8 Companies
8.1 Wal-Martization of the San Gabriel Valley
In total, there are five Wal-Mart stores in Baldwin Park, Covina, Duarte, Glendora, and City of Industry. The location in Glendora was the first to open in the San Gabriel Valley. On January 22, 2004, the West Covina city council rejected (by a vote of 3-2) a proposal for the development of a Wal-Mart store in the city. In May 2004, a new Wal-Mart opened in Baldwin Park, not far from its border with West Covina.
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