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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 35 items: memos, letters, tear sheets, motes and other material related to LAT Exec. VP of Marketing Vance Stickell and his career.
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1 item: 31-pp. transcript of "Taping with Vance Stickell, VP Sales, and associates," 8/25/1975. "Associates" are Glen Peters and Bert Tiffany. Subjects include: Management by Objectives process ; the This Week magazine supplement ; "x-rated" motion pictures ; N.Y. Times attempts to "invade" the West Coast (pp. 7) ; competition from other L.A. area papers ; demographics and the black and brown communities (pp. 13) ; distribution costs ; the challenge of competing with television (pp. 18) ; suburban sections (pp. 21 - 22) ; the challenges and pitfalls of selling advertising space ; more.
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Vance Stickell was appointed Assistant to the Advertising Manager in 1956 and held various managerial positions within the Advertising Department until the 1980s. Topics include advertising rates and policy, the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times, the various Times magazines, advertising agencies, and administrative issues. This collection was received from the History Center unprocessed and has not been ordered or organized. Includes Pfaffenberger, Stickell, and Clark files, also received from the History Center unprocessed. Date range is 1911-1994.
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2 items: 65-pp. transcript of interview with Vance Stickell, Vice President of Sales, and his associates Don Maldanado, Paul Mahoney and John Mount ; 10-pp. transcript of interview with Vance Stickell which includes his memories of his youth at Glendale High School, a Naval program at DePauw University, military service, back to DePauw to finish college, his memories and impressions on both Norman Chandler and Otis Chandler (pp. 4 - 6) ; Stickell comments that there is "an awful lot of pressure in this business...good people...have been killed (by) stress." (seven years later Stickell died at age 62) ; more.
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