Manuscripts

Buildings - Third

Description: Approx. 15 items. Photocopied material, most of it from the pages of LAT, related to the location, construction and opening of the third LAT building in 1912 - about two years after the bombing destroyed the former building. Also, two copies of a brochure - "Los Angeles Times: Announcing the Opening of the Rebuilt and Restored Times Building," produced in 1912.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911 - 1973
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Buildings - Third - Plaques

Manuscripts

1 item. Photocopied sheet, "from LAT Fact Book announcing the opening of the rebuilt and restored Times Bldg. (1911-12) 3rd 1938." The copied entry begins with the heading "The Tablets and Their Legends."

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Buildings - Parking Structures

Manuscripts

9 items: clipping, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times opens parking structure" (213 S. Spring); LAT clipping (photocopy), "Broadway building losing skylights and top floors" (9/?/1970); letter from Tom Johnson to Carolyn Strickler of LAT History Center, inviting her to ceremony marking completion of 213 S. Spring parking structure; memo announcing opening ceremony for "213" garage on 12/9/1988; LAT article (2 photocopies), 11/1972, "Times Mirror Square garage slated for January opening" (2nd & Broadway facility); 7 copied sheets with historic photos of downtown L.A.; photocopy of LAT article, 1/21/1988, "(Parking garage) builders dig up a piece of L.A.'s Jewish history"; Downtown News article (1/30/1989), on LAT "213" parking structure's sculpted murals.

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Corporate Building

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: LAT clip copy, 8/13/1958, on planting of trees at Times Mirror Square; 18-pp. "invitation list for opening of Times Mirror Corporate offices in New York," revised list, 5/11/1964; LAT clip copy, 5/29/1969, "Times Mirror to build 6-story addition to downtown square"; more clips on previous story; tear sheet, 6/1973, Progress, "Cornerstones of the West," on LAT buildings over the years; related brochures and other ephemera about TMS from 1970s; complete issue of Progress, 6/1973, reprint (2 cps.) from Interiors, 7/1974, "an atrium at the top," on TM's exec offices; tear sheet, 4/11/1978, Civic Center News, "The metamorphosis of First and Spring."

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Buildings - Fourth - Lobby

Manuscripts

Approx. 16 items. Materials include: Event sheet for Lobby Re-opening, January 25, 1999; 2 "Lobby Exhibit & Tours" booklets (1981); exchange of memos (9/4/1981) between Lois Markwith & Franklin D. Murphy, information related to Shakespeare quote (and other inscriptions ?) used in lobby decor; memo from Markwith to Robert Flannes (11/1981); other correspondence related to determining origin of the quotations; LAT story 10/17/1934 on carved inscriptions at LAT building; letter (4/1/1981) from Mary Sheridan, designer, about complete refurbishment of the Globe; 1962 LAT Women of the Year entry for Mary Sheridan; blueprint copy, "Details Main Lobby Plans & Elevations & Miscellaneous Scale Details," (9/22/1933); blueprint, "Main Lobby Remodeling, Times Mirror Company (4/25/1961); etc. Both blueprint copies moved to Reference File - Oversize. 2 photographs: "Magic Stylus" exhibit display in the lobby, undated?

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Buildings - Cannon

Manuscripts

2 items: copy of undated article in LAT with headline "Fine piece of ordnance presented to The Times; copy of article (5/15/1898) with headlines "Times War Whistle Code" and below that, "Sky Rocket Signal Service," the later related to "six rockets of red to indicate an American victory" being fired from the roof of the Times Building.

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Theatre Times

Manuscripts

2 items: LAT pull-out section, announcing the Theatre Times Directory, 6/29/1993; 3-pp. press release on "Theatre Times," 6/1993.

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