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
5 items. Articles from: Interior Design, 3/1984, "The Los Angeles Times"; (periodical unknown) "Times vs. Times: Report from L.A."; Advertising Age, 11/30, "How three suburban newspapers have grown..." (headline & article incomplete); tear sheet of Time (mag), 4/30, "The Ten Best U.S. Dailies," which has segment on LAT, plus photocopy of same article. 1 item. Tear sheet of long article from Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "The Los Angeles Times: Heartbeat of the City for 104 years." 6 items. Four articles from L.A. Weekly: 10/3, "Drug Mania: an open letter to L.A. Times staffers"; 10/17, "The L.A. Times Urine Fund," on drug testing at LAT; 11/14, brief on firing of staffer Ron Harris for interview with Essence in which he discussed sexual technique; 10/3, brief on new LAT editor Shelby Coffey. Article from New Republic, 8/11, "And the L.A. Intellectual?", on lack of intellectual life in L.A. Finally, clipping of long letter to LAT with headline, "Likes and Dislikes from a Reader of The Times." 7 items. Two copies (1 tear sheet, 1 photocopy) of Los Angeles (mag) article, 9/1987, "'Gray Lady' at Crossroads" - about LAT. Article from Editor & Publisher, 8/15, "Promotion priorities questioned," on women and a "glass ceiling" at LAT. Brief from Los Angeles, 7/1987, "Half a Rim Shot for the Times?" Another "glass ceiling" brief from L.A. Weekly, 8/7. Finally, Jack Smith essay, "What's News?" from 12/13 Los Angeles Times Magazine. 6 items: Comments by LAT Publisher Tom Johnson on "The Next 25 Years," Los Angeles (mag), 1/1988; Los Angeles, 4/1988, "Real Power [in L.A.]; Avenue Magazine, 10/1988, "Stop the Presses"; Downtown News, 12/12, "N.Y. Times should stay with strengths"; brief from Los Angeles (mag), 12/1988, "Changing Times"; multiple reprints of USA Today article, 12/9, "L.A. Times wraps itself in late news."
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Approx. 10 items: photocopy of 1889 event -- opening of cable car line to Boyle Heights ; photocopy of 1902 scene -- a horse-drawn trolley in Echo Park, 1902 ; LAT article copy, 6/9/1889, opening of Los Angele Cable Railway ; LAT article copy, 12/16/1911, "Links of Steel to a new city," on Pacific Electric line to Van Nuys ; LAT clips from 1930, 1933 on various aspects of street railway operations ; four 1988 flyers related to the history of rail / streetcar service in Los Angeles, 1880s to 1960s ; article copy, Southern California Quarterly, Fall 1987, "America's electric railway beginnings ... trolleys and daft dummies in Los Angeles."
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1 item: LAT clip, Jack Smith's column for 8/23/1988, "The Father of Los Angeles' parking lots."
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Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).
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Approx. 12 items: LAT tear sheet, 1/9/1977, "Bidding sends prices higher in newspaper acquisition binge"; article copy, New York Times, 2/15/1977, "More newspapers change hands, with the role of chains increasing"; four reprints from Business Week, 2/21/1977, "The big money hunts for independent newspapers" (incl. Otis Chandler of Times Mirror); photocopy of previous article; article copy, Columbia Journalism Review, 3/1988, "Newspaper mergers -- the final phase"; clip, (Hollywood) Variety, 9/30/1977, "Rupert Murdoch plays 'would you believe?' "; clip, (New York) Variety, 10/12/1977, "Literati," on the war of words between Murdoch and Otis Chandler; clip, Advertising Age, 12/5/1977, "Times Mirror tells 'Penthouse' role."
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6 items: original brochure, "Corner Stone Laying - Griffith Observatory, Griffith Park (7/12/1934) ; memo from "Meredith" (staff writer) to "Mr. Hawke" (editor) defending an element that had been included in a story about the ceremony related to laying observatory cornerstone ; booklet, Griffith Observatory and Planetarium, Los Angeles, 5/1939 ; bio sheet (on onionskin paper), dated 10/20/1938, headed "Van M. Griffith" ; LAT article copy, 12/26/1967, "Donated in 1896, Griffith Park--the City's biggest Christmas gift."
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