Manuscripts

Buildings - Olympic Plant

Description: Approx. 20 items. Materials include: clippings and photocopies of articles from LAT and Among Ourselves; announcements of groundbreakings, building openings and tours of the facility; entire LAT Front Page section (in plastic sleeve), 3/6/1990, bearing headline, "Olympic Plant Dedicated"; 3 copies of 1990 booklet about the plant.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1986 - 1990
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Buildings - Orange County Facility

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items. Materials include: 2 copies of a tabloid-sized newsprint section (undated) titled "The New Orange County Home of The Los Angeles Times; management bulletins; reports and memos about the (Orange County) Satellite Plant; two photocopied Editor & Publisher articles on LAT Orange County plant (3/1/1969 & 6/6/1970) - headlines "New concept in expansion..." and "How Los Angeles Times produces satellite paper"; article from Printing Production magazine, 8/1968, "Satellite plant pioneers"; other magazine clippings, including LAT and Among Ourselves; Management Conference Bulletin about a tour and barbecue dinner at the Orange County Satellite Facility; etc.

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Departments - Production

Manuscripts

Approx. 10 items. Materials include: 1-pp. (photos) illustrated instructions, "How to make a pressman's hat': several Among Ourselves articles(1927, 1928, 1967) on various aspects of Production; 12-pp. report, "(LAT) Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972)8-pp. report, "(LAT) Orange County Facility Production Department Information," (rev. 2/1972); two Bulletins, 1985, 1990, on promotions and organizational changes; tear sheet, Editor & Publisher, 3/15/1980, "2nd Satellite Plant-Expansion at L.A. Times set at $215 million"; etc.

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Subjects - Olympic Plant

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos and other information related to the placing of a "time capsule" at the Olympic Plant ; 8/1990 booklet commemorating the opening of the plant in June, 1990 ; misc. related items.

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Promotional portfolios; Olympic and Valley plant openings; rack cards

Manuscripts

Scrapbooks of promotional campaigns, 1981 and 1983. Ventura County and Orange County rack cards (1980s to 1990s); promotional sections on openings of San Fernando Valley plant and Olympic plant.

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Buildings - Off-site

Manuscripts

4 items: "Extra" - a mock-up of an LAT front page for 4/21/1989 with two articles about LAT Public Information staff; Management Bulletin, 4/13/1989, on departments relocated to the Powell Building; Employee Bulletin, 11/8/1990; on Powell Building structure having "asbestos-containing construction materials" in it; Photocopy of clipping from LAT dated 2/2/1958. Headline is "Service garage project construction furthered."

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Suburban Sections - Orange County Edition

Manuscripts

Approx. 50 items. Materials include: chronology, 1954-1990, of "LAT in Orange County," compiled by Craig St. Clair (2/27/1991); photocopy of Pg. 1 of OC Edition (3/19/1968); hardcopies of Editorial Pages of Home and OC editions, 3/19/1968); various promo. materials for OC Edition; news brief mentioning LAT OC Edition, Editor & Publisher (5/18/1968); "management bulletins," 1984-85, related to OC assignments; marketing research materials; hardcopy of 3/1983 issue of Among Ourselves on OC plant's 15th anniversary; Among Ourselves article, 2/1968, on Costa Mesa plant opening; 2-pp. report by Craig St. Clair, "L.A. Times in Orange County, 1881-1900; article from feed/back, Spring 1984, "Clash of the Titans-competition...in Orange County; LAT marketing research spiral-bound booklet, "Orange County--a market in transition," ca. 1980; Time article, 3/29/1968, mentioning LAT and OC.

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Buildings - Olympic Plant

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