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    Departments - Employee Relations - Quarter Century Club

    Manuscripts

    Approx. 20 items. Materials include: examples of letters of invitation / solicitation of donation for annual dinners of "Quarter Century Club," 1963 - 1977 (most held at "Hill's Code 7" downtown, or Old Virginia Restaurant in South Pasadena); several photographs of celebrants (active and retired staffers who worked the composing room); tear sheet of Op-Ed pages of LAT, 11/10/1969 (the marked article does not appear to have any connection to Quarter Century Club).

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    The Women's Athletic Club of Los Angeles

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    An early prospectus for potential new members of the newly built Women's Athletic Club. The club had just been completed, at a cost of more than $1 million (raised from members and a loan from the Bank of Italy, later Bank of America). The club, a female response to Los Angeles' oldest private club, the all-male Los Angeles Athletic Club, offered upper-middle class women and a growing female professional class opportunities for recreation and socializing. The building, thoroughly illustrated in this pamphlet, provided sports facilities and hotel rooms.

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    Regency Club

    Manuscripts

    Memos and letters pertaining to the Regency Club. Also included is the 1983 Regency Club by-laws and membership book.

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    Quest Club Dinner

    Manuscripts

    Copy of a speech outline given by Otis Chandler at the Quest Club Dinner in Bakersfield on March 10, 1965.

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    Departments - Promotion and Public Relations - Junior Club

    Manuscripts

    3 items: page copied from Among Ourselves, ca. 1929, featuring article, "Times Junior Club"; examples of LAT Junior Club membership cards, filled out in 1929 and 1930; 2-pp. handwritten letter, 11/1983, to Lois Markwith, LAT Archivist, from Jonathan Raymond Bishop (the 1929 cardholder), related to being a member of Junior club, saving the membership card, a brief sketch of his life and experiences, etc.

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