Manuscripts

Buildings - Fourth - Barber Shop

Description: 1 item. Clip from "Among Ourselves" (8/1953), "Fifth Chandler gets shorn in 'clip joint'" - on Otis Chandler's 2 year-old son, Norman, becoming the 5th generation of the Chandlers to have haircut from barber Sam David, who had a shop in the Times building.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1953
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Buildings - Fourth - Globe

Manuscripts

6 items. Materials include: 1-pp. report, "The Globe," with detailed description of the construction and design of the globe, including the metals, paints, and lacquers used in the project; 1-pp. report (dated 5/29/1980) based on information provided by Mary Sheridan of Los Angeles, who had been in charge of a "rejuvenation" done on the glove in the early 1960s; 1-pp. report titled "Facts about the Los Angeles Times Globe (no date); "Among Ourselves" clip, 5/1981, on LAT "Superwalk" fundraiser for March of Dimes; 1-pp. photocopy from Editor & Publisher, 8/10/1935, describing new LAT building (poorly cropped - no title or author seen); booklet, "The Murals of The Times," with illustrations of the Globe in the lobby, the south and north sections of mural, eight paragraphs of text.

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Employees - Drake, Waldo

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: LAT clips from 1940s and 1950s on Drake's exploits both in the Navy and as a correspondent for LAT (in plastic sleeve); multi-page packet, red paper clip, article, "The War Correspondent," being pitched to LAT in 1991 by "writer-photographer" Jack Birns; two versions of a Waldo Drake LAT bio (1962); article copy, Among Ourselves, 8/1962, "Waldo Drake, man of many parts, gets ready for leisure viewing."

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Chandler, Harrison

Manuscripts

Two pieces of correspondence between Otis Chandler and Harrison Chandler. Items include a response letter from Otis Chandler to Harrison Chandler's note. Harrison Chandler's note had five photocopies of Sam Yorty articles from other newspapers and Sam Yorty's calling card attached.

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Employees - Bellows, James

Manuscripts

7 items: article, Among Ourselves, 10/1966, "James Bellows joins Times (as Associate Editor)"; 10/28/1966, Otis Chandler's memo on appointment of Bellows as LAT Associate Editor; article copy, New West, 1/16/1978, "What's black and blue...", on Jim Bellow's becoming editor of L.A. Herald-Examiner ; tear sheet, 8/1/1978, Esquire, "Can Jim Bellows Save...(Herald-Exam.)"; tear sheet, LAT, 11/20/1981, "Editor of Herald Examiner resigns..."; tear sheet, LAT, 7/13/1983, "Bellows will develop a TV magazine for ABC"; tear sheet, LAT, 10/13/1988, "USA Today TV sets different direction";

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Employees - Westcott, Russell K

Manuscripts

1 item: article (clip?), Among Ourselves, 4/1929, "Old-timers on The Times," about Russell Westcott.

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Employees - Hayden, Charles F

Manuscripts

1 item: Among Ourselves clip, 9/1948, "Men who made The Times" column on Charles F. Hayden.

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