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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 20 items: article copy, Among Ourselves, 11/1963, "Classified computer system gets under way"; tear sheet article, The Reader, 6/4/1982, :Lost--Million Lines from Times Class."; various memos dealing with classifieds; personnel policies; rate guidelines; more material on automation of classified dept., 12/1978; 4-pp. script for slide show--headed "FYI"--on the history of classified advertising in general, and specifically the history of ads in LAT; 12-sheet issue of Ad Notes, published "by and for" the (LAT) Classified Ad staff, 5/19/1983; invitations to - 1974 Classified Christmas & Awards Breakfast, 1977 Classified Christmas & Awards Program, Classified's Christmas and Awards Program
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3 items, each stapled. Material includes: 7-pp. essay headed "Frank Lester," with "Classified Advertising, ca. 1950s" penciled in; 7-pp. slide show script, headed "Keeping abreast of The Times.... for sales success"; 13-pp. essay, "Hiring and Training," by Mildred Renstrom, "rec'd from John Archer, Class. Adv. Telephone Sales" penciled in" - date penciled in looks like "3/23/'87," but the sheaf looks older.
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3 items: three complete issues of Classified Times - June, September and December, 1988.
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2 items: glossy black LAT logo folder containing example of LAT "Timely Bulletin," several sheets with copies of LAT classified ads of various kinds, sample of Sunday comics pages headed with ad for Times Classifieds, etc. (all 1980); single page flyer, headed "Announce your good news today!" - providing info for LAT employees who wish to use free LAT classified space to announce births, engagements, weddings, anniversaries, reunions, etc. (1987-1988)
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4 items. Material includes: 2 photocopies, Page 1 of 1/8/1956 LAT Classified Diamond Jubilee Edition; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/8/1956, "Largest classified section published in Times today"; photocopy of news brief, LAT 1/1957, "Big Jubilee classified pages today."
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2 items: memo, 11/30/1988, from Boswell to Linda Lloyd Da Silva on Dick Schlosberg asking staffers to "take another look at (the) 1989 budget to see if further reduction could be made" ; memo, 12/16/1988, on "further budget reductions."
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