Manuscripts

Real Estate Section

Description: Approx. 12 items: notes, memos, letters and reports related to the LAT Real Estate section, 1967 - 1988. Includes: 6-pp. report, John Lindsay to Shelby Coffey III on "Sunday Real Estate Project" w/ attached sheet on figures on 10 years of "Real Estate Linage ; info packet on banquet (12/3/1987) honoring LAT's Dick Turpin put on by Society for Marketing Professional Services ; memos from 1978 on expansion of Real Estate section ; material from 1967 on "zoning" the Real Estate section ; more.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1967 - 1988
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.

Departments - Editorial - Real Estate Section

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items. Materials include: LAT clip, 9/10/1989, to give example of "Home Price Guide" feature; LAT clip, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor (Dick Barnes) to debut"; packet (clipped) of several items related to the "doodles" President Franklin Roosevelt did during his presidency that decades later were used as a "guide" to the design of a Naval Medical Center in Maryland (includes 4 glossy photos of Roosevelt), received from Dick Turpin of Real Estate Section in 1975; several LAT articles on re-vamp of Real Estate section, 1989-1990; 10-pp. booklet, (LAT 23rd) Annual Survey of Residential Builders in Southern California (1994). copy of 1st Real Estate Section (Pt. 2, Pg. 1), 6/23/1901, "House and Lot - The Times Weekly Review of Real Estate and Building."

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Special Sections

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: memos, reports, tear sheets, etc. related to LAT Special Sections. Includes: 8-pp. report from Bob Rawitch to Shelby Coffey and Bill Thomas, subject "Special Sections Study" (7/10/1988) ; 6-pp. memo, "Book Review Special Section," 11/12/1970, from Digby Diehl ; complete 1964 advertising supplement, "Desert World" ; complete 1963 section, "South Coast World ; more.

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Employees - Turpin, Dick

Manuscripts

4 items: LAT article copy, 7/30/1967, "Turpin named to editorship in real estate"; 2-pp. Biography from the Los Angeles Times - Dick Turpin" (ca. 1980); LAT article copy, 2/26/1989, "Expanded section, new editor to debut," at time of Turpin retirement; LAT tear sheet, 2/26/1989, "Dick Turpin - A fond look back at when L.A. grew up."

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Coffey, Shelby

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos, transcripts, tear sheets and article copies related to Editor Shelby Coffey, 1987 - 1988. Includes: approx. 25-pp. transcript of Q&A with Coffey, headed "Bureau Breakfast with Shelby Coffey," (6/10/1988) ; numerous news clips and copies on the selection of Coffey as Executive Editor of LAT ; etc.

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Los Angeles Times Real Estate Section

Manuscripts

Memo from Harry Chandler to L. D. Hotchkiss regarding the Real Estate section. File of L. D. Hotchkiss.

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Fashion Section

Manuscripts

Approx. 25 items: letters, memos and related clips, etc. - the material deals with LAT's Fashion Section.

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