Manuscripts

Urban Growth

Description: Approx. 15 items: LAT column copy, 3/26/1950, "A suburb is nothing if its City withers" ; copies of a multi-part LAT series, "Exploding Metropolis,"which ran in 11/1958, with daily headlines such as "Life changes in America's cities," "Slum problems worse...all big cities affected" and "Subdivision's march blights green areas." Also included is a memo dated 10/20/1958, from Nick B. Williams to Taylor Trumbo of the City Desk related to the series being prepared (see entry above).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1950, 1958
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
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Los Angeles County - Growth

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: orig. 84-pp. booklet, Zoning Atlas - Los Angeles, 1932 ; several population reports, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Los Angeles...area, 1944 ; 5-pp. copied from The Researcher (L.A. Chamber of Commerce) on "Growth of the Western Metropolis (L.A.), 1/1959 ; 6-pp. report by James Bassett to Nick Williams, "Urban problems of the Los Angeles area," 1/17/1969 ; related LAT clips, memos, and "Dwelling Units and Population" reports from the Regional Planning Commission.

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Employees - Trumbo, Taylor

Manuscripts

5 items: LAT article copy, 3/31/1959, "Taylor Trumbo new managing Editor of Times"; 8-pp. letter from Trueblood to Robert Gottlieb (who was writing Thinking Big, the Story of the Los Angeles Times...) containing memories of his years with LAT; article copy, (Honolulu) Star-Bulletin & Advertiser, 6/20/1982, "Road to Siberia led to Paradise, warm memories" on Trueblood's life experiences; LAT obit clip, "Georgia Fifield, ex-radio actress" (T's wife); LAT obit copy, "Z.T. Trumbo, ex-managing Editor of The Times, dies at 85."

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Southern California - Growth

Manuscripts

Approx. 35 items: subjects include, real estate booms, increase in automobile ownership, the change from a generally rural area to a sprawling urban "megalopolis,forecasts for the future," etc. Notable items: several lengthy journal articles on the land "boom" of the late 1880s ; booklet, Dollars and census, from Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1932 ; booklet, From Rural to Urban, The Haynes Foundation, 1947 ; booklet, The Cost of Metropolitan Growth, 1959 ; booklet, The Southern California Metropolis - 1980, predictions about 1980 from Southern California Research Council, appears to be from ca.1960.

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Urban Crises

Manuscripts

3 items: LAT clips, op-ed articles, 8/31/1975, "Arbitration could cap those walkouts," and "Police use powerful weapon" ; LAT clip, editorial, 9/4/1975, "The New York lesson" ; article clip, Wall St. Journal, "When cops and teachers strike."

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Trumbo, Dalton

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: includes correspondence between entertainer and social critic Steve Allen and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. The letters begin with a controversy over an American Civil Liberties Union fundraising party to be held at the home of Trumbo. Steve Allen, an influential liberal in Hollywood, felt it was an inappropriate choice of location based on issues that are explained in his letters. As the correspondence stretches across May, June, July and into August,many sarcastic and humorous exchanges take place. It is not clear how copies of these letters came into the possession of James Bellows of LAT.

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Flanagan, Charles

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items. LAT briefs and news stories on Flanagan. Representative headlines: "Yorty names four (incl. Flanagan) to Planning Commission (1961) ; "City planner tells Jury of $1,000 bribe offer" (1962) ; "Planning Commissioner's (Flanagan) votes aid friends" (1967) ; "Flanagan praised by Yorty, called zoning scapegoat" (1967) ; "Times seeks to crush commissions--Yorty" (1967) ; more.

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