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Remembering Carter Barber

By Kevin Roderick | March 10, 2004 1:06 PM | 1 Comment

Rip Rense's column today at the Rip Post recalls several of the characters he got to know and like working at L.A. newspapers in decades past. It centers on Carter Barber, a longtime staffer at the Valley News and Pasadena Star-News who passed away last month at 81. His son Davis Barber teaches photojournalism at Cal State Fullerton.

(couple of fact fixes March 11)


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