Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
4 items: LAT tear sheet, 6/20/1974, "Eyeball to eyeball with Rex Reed," by Jacobs; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 1/1975, on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; clip from Los Angeles (mag), 2/1975, brief in "What's Up" column providing more on Frank Sinatra feud with LAT; LAT tear sheet of Jody Jacobs last column for the paper (date not included).
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2 items: tear sheet, Time (mag) 6/3/1974, A guide to syndicated survivors (incl. Haber); article copy, Los Angeles (mag) 12/1993, "The rise and fall of the last gossip queen."
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3 items: article tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 9/1980, "The Times Token Crank"; single-sheet (LAT) Biography, 5/1991, "Howard Rosenberg - Television Critic"; article copy, 12/1992, Emmy (mag), "The Rosenberg Rap - Times critic... swears he lauds TV as much as he lashes it. So why do readers belabor the barbs?"
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Approx. 45 items: a collection of text and photo material, most of it from American Automobile Association and LAT, related to the early decades of automobile travel in Southern California. Notable items: LAT article copy, 4/25/1899, "A horseless carriage...the first automobile arrives in Los Angeles..." ; 18-pp. manuscript, headed "Ocean to ocean highway trip" ("1912" added later) ; complete issue of Westways - 12/1950, "in observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Automobile Club of Southern California" ; article tear sheet, Terra (mag), Summer 1973, "The Memorial Day run in Los Angeles," on the appearance of the first automobile in this City and its inventor, James P. Erie ; article tear sheet, Westways, 6/1975, "The first 75 years...a photographic essay...featuring the auto" ; LAT article tear sheet, ?/?/1986, "Autos...100 year-old love affair rolls on," by Steve Harvey.
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Approx. 45 items: selection of newspaper stories, from LAT and other area newspapers, as diverse as California Publisher and Temple City Times, on the history and final closing of the Daily News (L.A.) in 1954. Notable items: original letter, 7/18/1924, from Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. to Cordelia St. Clair of Hollywood, on subject of common stock in the newspaper ; article copy, Frontier (mag), 2/1955, "The Daily News and why it died" ; article copy, Journalism Quarterly, Winter 1970, "No news today...how Los Angeles lost a daily" ; original tear sheet and one copy, Westways, 12/1974, "Daily News folds! ; LAT tear sheet, 12/26/1984, featuring article on Daily News by Patt Morrison, "After 30 years, an EXTRA!" ; LAT tear sheet, 12/11/1985, "Jack Kent Cooke buys Daily News for $176 million" ; ?/1986 tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), "The Return of Jack Kent Cooke" ; LAT clip, 8/21/1990, "Editorial employees picket Daily News."
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2 items: tear sheet of two articles in Downtown News, 9/1/1986, "The bad boys arrive" (Pershing Square designers), "Democracy in Pershing Square" (editorial) ; LAT clip, Sam Hall Kaplan (architecture critic) column for 9/2/1986, "New hope for historic Pershing Square."
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