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The master plan, City of Los Angeles, September 1965
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Compliation of plans and information that comprised the "master plan" of the City of Los Angeles as of September 1965. The materials fall into three categories: master plan elements that had been officially adopted; master plan elements that had been developed but never adopted, and other information pertinent to the preparation of additional master plan elements. Several sets of the master plan were created. The materials are assembled in a three-ring binder with city-wide elements followed by area-specific information and plans. Numbered text pages introduce each section followed by folded unnnumbered maps. City-wide elements include a topographical model of the City of Los Angeles, population projections, general land use plan, transportation, public facilities, utilities, renewal and fringe area studies. Specific area plans include Central City, Little Tokyo and El Pueblo de Los Angeles State Historical Monument, Exposition Park, San Fernando Valley, Sherman Way, Santa Monica Mountains, Mulholland Drive, Pacific Palisades and the San Pedro community. This set appears to be incomplete.
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Small spaces : stylish ideas for making more of less in the home
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Small Spaces is about living comfortably and using space wisely, and where better to find ideas on that subject than Japan, one of the world's most urban and densely populated countries? Tokyo resident Azby Brown, a distinguished architect and designer, has assembled dozens of creative solutions to space and storage problems, illustrating them with photographs and plans of actual living environments in contemporary homes.
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Trilateral Commission (1 of 2)
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Approx. 60 items - letters, memos, clippings and a booklet. Notable names and items include: maps of Tokyo and Kyoto ; other tourist info. ; "thank you" letters to various Japanese journalists and business people who hosted him during his visit to Japan ; "Program for the Fourth Japan-EC-U.S. Editors Symposium," 10/1982 ; communications with Mike Mansfield, Ambassador to Japan ; 2-pp. letter from Day to Sam Jameson, LAT Tokyo Bureau, asking for advice on what to see in do in a short visit to "get a better understanding of Japan" (7/28/1982) ; George Chaplin (Editor-in-Chief, Honolulu Advertiser) ; correspondence with various editors in Japan ; Lee Stinnett (ASNE) ; correspondence with US editors related to the Symposium ; 24-pp. booklet, The United States and Japan - a Wingspread Conference of editors ...convened by...the International Press Institute (1976) ; more. Split into two folders.
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Trilateral Commission (2 of 2)
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Approx. 60 items - letters, memos, clippings and a booklet. Notable names and items include: maps of Tokyo and Kyoto ; other tourist info. ; "thank you" letters to various Japanese journalists and business people who hosted him during his visit to Japan ; "Program for the Fourth Japan-EC-U.S. Editors Symposium," 10/1982 ; communications with Mike Mansfield, Ambassador to Japan ; 2-pp. letter from Day to Sam Jameson, LAT Tokyo Bureau, asking for advice on what to see in do in a short visit to "get a better understanding of Japan" (7/28/1982) ; George Chaplin (Editor-in-Chief, Honolulu Advertiser) ; correspondence with various editors in Japan ; Lee Stinnett (ASNE) ; correspondence with US editors related to the Symposium ; 24-pp. booklet, The United States and Japan - a Wingspread Conference of editors ...convened by...the International Press Institute (1976) ; more. Split into two folders.
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Machu Picchu
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Ninetta Eames letter to George Wharton James
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