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
1 item. 57-pp. transcript of Marshall Berges' taped interview with Otis Chandler. Subjects include: Otis Chandler's car museum (Vintage Car Museum) ; his car collection ; restoring his first Duesenberg ; further car collecting ; racing cars.
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1 item. 78-pp. transcript of Marshall Berges' taped interview with Otis Chandler, 1/18/1980. Subjects include: Otis' thoughts on his father's and his mother's contributions to Los Angeles Times and Times Mirror ; Otis' relationships to first wife ("Missy"), his children, his friends and business associates ; Otis' objectivity in evaluation and criticism of others and of himself ; Missy's embarking on a career in urban planning ; "the demise of the marriage" ; origins of Otis' "attitude of independence" and his desire to excel in shot put ; participation in somewhat dangerous sports - surfing, hunting, race car driving, riding motorcycles ; how many Chandler clan members were unhappy with Otis' moving the paper editorial policy from conservative to moderate ; as publisher - "off and running with ten balls in the air...that's just sort of my style" ; changing Los Angeles Times from a paper that was just "dull and gray" ; specifics of what Otis wanted to improve ; the downside of being prominent, of being highly visible ; his philosophy of management.
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1 item: 81-pp. transcript of Marshall Berges' taped interview of Otis Chandler. Subjects include: sport hunting ; philosophical musings on the meaning of hunting for 20th century humans ; auto racing ; mental discipline ; athletics ; tells interviewer "the last few years I have been somewhat bored...maybe that's too strong (a word)...not stimulated, not challenged." (Chandler was 52 at the time) ; thoughts on how long someone should remain in the position of publisher or other top media job ; future plans (1980s) ; his personal life, pending divorce, material things, peace of mind ; physical fitness, weightlifting ; "dirt bikes" ; relationships with his sons ; fishing ; hunting polar bears ; other hunting in Alaska ; hunting in Africa.
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1 item. 73-pp. transcript of Marshall Berges' interview with Otis Chandler. Subjects include: earliest memories ; kidnapping attempt when Otis was six or seven ; early surfing memories ; summer camp ; his competitiveness ; injuries at camp ; after riding accident at age nine, Otis was declared dead - his mother refused to believe it and took him to a second hospital ; on not getting involved in smoking and drinking with high school buddies ; trip to Hawaii in 1941 (just before Pearl Harbor attack) ; his first girlfriends ; his parents objections to Otis being surrounded exclusively by "spoiled rich kids" ; attending Andover ; track & field - shot put ; Stanford - girlfriends - pranks ; "raising hell" as a Stanford senior.
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1 item: 73-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Otis Chandler, 3/12/1980. Chandler spoke about a hunting trip to Afghanistan in 1977 and traveling in the region of the Himalayas. Later in the tape Chandler discusses the Watts Riots and the aftermath, plus 1964 political endorsements, more.
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1 item. 60-pp. transcript of Marshall Berges' taped interview with Otis Chandler, 12/6/1979. Subjects include: avoiding the draft in 1945 ; starting at Los Angeles Times after World War II ; working in the composing room ; Olympic trials for shot put and discus ; U.S. Air Force ; Los Angeles Times apprenticeships - pressroom, composing room, carpenter shop, etc. ; Otis' family budget was limited by his low wages 1953 - 1958 ; working as a reporter for Los Angeles Times and The Mirror ; closing down of The Mirror (1962) ; working with Nick Williams ; (on working with his uncle, Philip Chandler) "a nice person...(but) he wasn't very bright" ; Norman Chandler's decision to tap Otis as publisher over Philip Chandler.
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