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
Approx. 10 items. Materials include: LAT-produced information and PR brochures related to SFV Edition; marketing booklet, 12/1990, titled "Los Angeles Times Valley Edition"; clips from LAT and "Among Ourselves" on SFV Edition; news release, 4/19/1993, on "EXPANDED, REDESIGNED VALLEY EDITION...; a "Valley Edition History" by Craig St. Clair (4/20/1993), etc.
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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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Approx. 30 items. Material related to the LAT San Diego County Edition startup. Includes: marketing research packages; articles from LAT, "Among Ourselves," San Diego Magazine and Time; LAT-produced "San Diego County has everything!" labels/bumper stickers, a guide to the S.D. Edition titled "Taking a closer look at The Times," ; clips from various San Diego County newspapers reporting and commenting on the startup of an LAT San Diego Edition in early 1978. Photocopied example of the San Diego County page(s), 4/6/1978. article from California magazine (7/1978) titled "Invasion of the Copy Snatchers"; handwritten note from Robert L. Flannes to Otis Chandler (2/15/1978).
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1 item: booklet, "The Story of Ventura County," 1955.
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Approx. 30 items. Letters, memos, one handwritten list of O.C. Revenue, Expense & Profit [estimates]. Subjects include: memo with list of "new reporters"--Feb. 1957--and their salaries (of special note is the name George Cotliar); "women's news" in the Zones; extension of OC and SFV and SGV coverage, i.e. more days per week (1961); many memos related to pros and cons, costs and profits of expanding coverage and publication for OC, the Valleys, greater Long Beach, Ventura, etc.; memos and other material related specifically to OC Section going daily in October 1963; glowing letters from Pasadena City Librarian (Marjorie Donaldson) and Huntington Library's Dorothy Bowen related to coverage in Fall 1963; rental figures for various Zone offices; etc.
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Approx. 25 items: memos, reports, lists, charts and other material related to LAT Suburban Sections. Includes: 14-pp. booklet w/ added inserts, "Market Profile - Los Angeles...17 economic areas" ; numerous items on producing, marketing and improving the LAT Suburban Sections.
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