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Inside the LA Times Valley edition in 1993 (video)


jeff-klein-latvideo-grab.jpgThis is going around Facebook: an 11-minute promotional film inside the operation when the Los Angeles Times had an entire separate news and printing operation in Chatsworth, covering the San Fernando Valley and the outer suburbs. It's an revealing time capsule of an era when the Times still had a large reporting presence in the LA suburbs, and the corporate style of the time six years before the Tribune Company bought the place — and of the hairstyles and dress of the journalists. Some of the people are still with the Times, though not most. The Valley edition closed down in the 2000, the presses some time after, and now I believe all evidence of the Times' old Chatsworth plant on Prairie Street has been scraped away.

The video is posted on MySpace. Took awhile for it to play on my screen, but it eventually started.


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