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Restaurants - Los Angeles Landmarks
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Hospitals - Los Angeles
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2 items: LAT article clip, 9/20/1985, "L.A.'s French Hospital, founded by pioneers, to mark 125th year"; article tear sheet, Downtown News, 9/23/1985, "After 125 years, vive l ' hospital."
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Los Angeles - People
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1 item: 4-pp. tear sheet from Los Angeles (mag), 4/1985, "The 50 Richest People in Los Angeles."
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Newspapers - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner - Strikes
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50+ items: selection of LAT news stories on strikes at the Herald-Examiner, the closing down of the Herald-Examiner, etc. ; tear sheet, Los Angeles (mag), 1/1968, "Where does the Herald-Examiner go from here?" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), ?/1977, "The Her-Ex...George Hearst's secret money-making machine? ; tear sheet, Downtown News, 11/18/1985, "Herald Examiner Building--Mr. Hearst's First Castle" ; multiple tear sheets, LAT, 11/2/1989, incl. pg. 1 story, "Herald Examiner will halt publishing today" and editorial headlined "End of the Herald-Examiner."
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Theaters - Los Angeles
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Approx. 12 items: a selection of clips on the history, operation or restoration of classic theaters in Los Angeles. Notable items: small theater "programme," 7/1910, "Olympic Theatre - Main St. between 4th & 6th" ; booklet, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - Symphony Magazine, 3/1962 ; tear sheet, Westways, 7/1961, "Theaters under the stars" ; reprint from Southern California Quarterly, 9/1965, "Requiem for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium" ; tear sheet, LAT?, 1967?, "Movie theaters seemed like palaces back in 1917" ; clip, Downtown News, 12/2/1985, "Some old Playbills, a few gags, the B&Ws" ; LAT reprint, from 5/14/1981 edition, "Theater in Los Angeles...the roots run deep" ; gold folder w/ sunburst on cover, contains promotional material and news clips on the refurbishment of the Mayan Theater and adjacent entertainment venues, 1991.
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Newspapers - Los Angeles
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Approx. 20 items: a selection of lists and chronologies providing bits of history on newspapers in Los Angeles back to Los Angeles Star (1851). Notable items: LAT clip, 12/4/1886, "Directory of Southern California newspapers" ; tear sheet, LAT Sunday Magazine, 9/4/1932, "The Newspapers of Los Angeles--their trials and tragedies" ; article copy, Time (mag), 1/12/1962, "Death in Los Angeles [of two newspapers]" ; copies, pp. 435 - 458, Journal of the West, 10/1963, "Newspapers of Los Angeles...the first 50 years" ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), "The city's changing newspaper world" ; 6-pp. of charts, headed "Los Angeles Metropolitan Newspapers Weekday Circulation History, 1914 - 1970," statistics for 7 Los Angeles newspapers - The Times, Examiner, Herald, Express, Daily News, Evening News, and Record ; tear sheet, (Santa Monica) Evening Outlook, 10/13/1975, "Evening Outlook is 100 today" ; complete issue, The Reader, 8/8/1980, "The story of Los Angeles's two daily newspapers--Inking Big" ; tear sheet, The Reader, 11/27/1981, "This Sentinel [Black-owned newspaper] does more than stand guard" ; LAT tear sheet, 7/1/1985, "It's the Law! Daily Journal checks the pulse of L.A.'s legal community," a story on a paper that began publishing in L.A. in 1888.
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Churches - Los Angeles
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Approx. 10 items: undated booklet with information on First Congregational Church of Los Angeles; undated brochure, "Reflections on Religious Architecture...five landmark churches & synagogues in the Mid-Wilshire Corridor"; copies of two 1920s LAT articles on churches; original of "The Salvation Army - Auxiliary Notes," 12/1927; booklet, Windows of Immanuel - Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 1975 ; brochure, "Welcome to the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles," ca. 1985; multi-page report from Myrna Saxe (art & architecture conservator) plus LAT clip, both related to decorated sandstone blocks, part of the first L.A. synagogue, unearthed after being buried near the intersection of Broadway and 2nd streets from 1895 until 1988.
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