Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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
9 items: clipping, Downtown News, 12/12/1988, "Times opens parking structure" (213 S. Spring); LAT clipping (photocopy), "Broadway building losing skylights and top floors" (9/?/1970); letter from Tom Johnson to Carolyn Strickler of LAT History Center, inviting her to ceremony marking completion of 213 S. Spring parking structure; memo announcing opening ceremony for "213" garage on 12/9/1988; LAT article (2 photocopies), 11/1972, "Times Mirror Square garage slated for January opening" (2nd & Broadway facility); 7 copied sheets with historic photos of downtown L.A.; photocopy of LAT article, 1/21/1988, "(Parking garage) builders dig up a piece of L.A.'s Jewish history"; Downtown News article (1/30/1989), on LAT "213" parking structure's sculpted murals.
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30+ items: construction agreements (various contractors) ; "Specifications for Wrecking" ; accounting lists ; blueprints for 130 S. Broadway (TM property) ; correspondence.
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7 items. LAT articles and other materials about the time frame 1900 to 1920: LAT feature, 11/13/1952, "Downtown life in 1912 and after"; two 1952 letters to LAT on life in L.A. in 1912 ; LAT editorial piece, 1/3/1955, "Great dreams backed by action"; title page and 4-pp. of text from A Backward Glance...Los Angeles 1901 - 1915 by Robert Cowan, Torrey Press, 1969 ; LAT feature, 5/14/1973, "L.A. in 1913...a million miles away from it all" ; LAT article, 7/17/1977, "The Los Angeles pseudo-seduction of Henry James," on James' 1905 visit to L.A.
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3 items: letter, 10/11/1962, to Norman Chandler from Suzanne Street ; memo, 10/25/1962, to Norman Chandler from Marvin Reimer of Los Angeles Times (Personnel? Legal?) ; letter, 11/2/1962, from Norman Chandler to Suzanne Street. All correspondence deals with a request for Times' financial help for Street, whose sister, Opal Street wrote a column for Los Angeles Times for a decade, circa 1920. Pfaffinger Foundation had already provided some aid but Norman Chandler and Reimer determined that nothing more would be forthcoming from Los Angeles Times.
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4 items: 4-pp. memo, 6/23/1966, Otis Chandler to Williams on "major (issues) we must consider as we look ahead" ; LAT column, 8/11/1972, by retired Editor Williams, "Getting the news is better than merely following it" ; 30-pp. transcript of "...Fourth taping with Nick Williams," 6/8/1973 - subjects include ending policy of allowing staffers to accept "junkets" paid for by outside entities (an airline, Israel, anyone who wanted a puff piece done), fact-finding trips to foreign regions by Bassett, Otis Chandler, and Williams that began in 1963 (pp. 2), furor following LAT's dropping of several comic strips (including "Dick Tracy") that had become popular with Conservatives, comics page in general, (pp. 4 - 5+), behind the scenes operation of editorial board, responsibility of the Press (pp. 18 - 19), Watergate (pp. 20 - 21+), "the role of the press" (pp. 20), "the most significant changes in the paper" (pp. 24 - 25), selecting Williams' replacement as Editor (pp. 28 - 30) ; 18-pp. transcript of "Third taping with Bill Thomas," 7/7/1975 - Watergate coverage (pp. 1 - 5), smaller community newspapers (pp. 7), defining "good taste" (pp. 11), editorial policy (pp. 15).
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Approx. 30 items: a series of reports in the 1949 - 1950 time frame relating to capital expenditures and the TM "expansion program" ; correspondence in the 1948 - 1949 time frame relating to TM budget and cash requirements.
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