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Community newspapers in Hollywood, California

December 12, 2023

Community newspapers in Hollywood, California, have included the Hollywood Sentinel (1903 or before-1911), Hollywood Inquirer (unknown-1914), Hollywood Citizen (1905–1931), Hollywood News, (unknown-1931), and Hollywood Citizen-News (1931–1970).

Sentinel edit

In 1903, veteran publisher A.A. Bynon sold his interest in a newspaper called the Hollywood Sentinel to G.P. Sullivan, who became the paper's editor.[1] The Sentinel received the Hollywood city contract for printing legal advertising in December 1903.[2] In 1904 C.N. Whitaker, former editor of the Monrovia Messenger, bought the business,[3] but on November 1 Morris & Ponay of Portland, Oregon, took it over.[4]

In 1905 Charles Mosteller of Los Angeles was the new owner of the Hollywood Sentinel. It was still being published in 1907[5][6] and 1909.[7]

In 1909 Mosteller, identified as the Sentinel's managing editor, said the newspaper would begin a daily edition in June, which would compete with the Hollywood Citizen. It was explained that the legal advertising for the City of Hollywood (which was then independent from Los Angeles) had to be published in a daily newspaper, so both journals were switching from weekly to daily publication in order to bid on the contract.[8]

The Los Angeles Herald commented that each paper would try to underbid the other for the city's advertising[8] and that "The fight, which promises to be a hot one, will result in the city's printing being done at a greatly reduced figure, probably below cost, and in forcing the losing paper to the wall."[8] In 1909, the Sentinel office was the scene of a fist fight occasioned by the refusal of editor Herbert F. Clark to print the poetry of W.D. Cowley unless it were paid for as advertising. Cowley, who was the caretaker at the home of Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis, refused to do so, and Clark thereupon wrote a column "casting reflections upon the character of Cowley's poetry," according to a report in the Tacoma (Washington) Times.[9] "Cowley called at the Sentinel office to whip the editor and lost the battle," the Tacoma newspaper said.[9]

In 1911 E.E. Brown purchased both the Hollywood Sentinel and the Hollywood Citizen and was to combine the two newspapers. "By so doing," wrote the Alma (Michigan) Record, "he will have control of the newspaper business in a town of 7,000 people only 10 miles from Los Angeles."[10]

Inquirer edit

The Hollywood Inquirer was owned and published by Herschel Spencer Lander until 1914,[11] when he sold out and moved to Paradise Valley, California.[12]

Homer Fort, who had been editor of the Monrovia (California) Messenger, purchased the business from Jay E. Randall in 1915.[13]

D.B. Peck was also an editor and publisher of the newspaper.[14][15]

Mrs. Mary Clough Watson was its first editor.[16] Harry Elliot was the newspaper's editor in June 1916[17] and Martin Luther Helpman in 1917.[18]

O.M. Donaldson bought the Inquirer in 1918 from Douglas Edwards and changed the style, format and name "to conform with the ideals that had proven highly successful under his direction at Oak Park, Illinois." He sold the Inquirer around 1926 to Holly Leaves, Inc. (F.H. Hartwell, president).[19]

Citizen and News edit

Titles and Dates edit

  • 1905-1921 (SN 92061588) Hollywood Citizen[20][21]
  • 1921-1931 (SN 95061523) Hollywood Daily Citizen[22]
  • 1931-1944 (SN 90051954) Hollywood Citizen-News[23]
  • 1944-1945 (SN 99060913) Citizen-News[24]
  • 1945-1948 (SN 99060914) Hollywood Citizen-News[25]
  • 1948-1968 (SN 87062115) Citizen-News[26]
  • 1968-1970 (SN 95061031) Hollywood Citizen News[27]

Citizen (1905—1931) edit

The Hollywood Weekly Sentinel preceded the Hollywood Citizen.[28]

The first edition of the Hollywood Citizen appeared as a four-page, six-column weekly on Sunday, April 23, 1905, measuring 16 by 22 inches.[29] The Los Angeles Times said that "its neat appearance caused much favorable comment."[30] It was established by Ezekial Dunton Taylor (1842–1917), a veteran newspaperman originally from Ohio, who came to Los Angeles in 1902, and his son-in-law, W.C. Parcher. Taylor was editor until 1910, when he moved to the Owens Valley Herald.[31]

In 1911, Harlan G. Palmer, Sr., began publishing the Hollywood Citizen[28] and was editor in 1917.[32]

News edit

Ira C. Copley of Aurora, Illinois, purchased the Hollywood News and the Glendale Daily Press from Frederick William Kellogg[33] of Kellogg Newspapers, Inc. (Pasadena Evening Post) and his son, William Scripps Kellogg,[34] effective February 15, 1928.[35]

He also bought the Alhambra Post-Advocate, Pasadena Evening Post, Monrovia Evening Post, Eagle Rock Daily Press, Burbank Daily Press, San Fernando Valley News, Sawtelle Evening Tribune, Santa Monica Evening Outlook, Venice Evening Vanguard, Culver City Star-News, Redondo Daily Breeze, Hermosa Daily Breeze and the San Pedro Daily News, effective September 1, 1928.[35]

These latter papers were to be taken over and operated by the Southern California Newspapers Associated, of which Samuel G. McClure would become president and general manager. To make the transaction, Copley said, he assumed shares of ownership in the new group. McClure said that the Hollywood News would be immediately expanded, but that no changes would be made in the other papers.[35]

Copley said that a holding company to be known as the Copley Press would be created by the succeeding September and that F.W. Kellogg would have an interest in it.[35]

Citizen-News (1931—1970) edit

The Hollywood Citizen-News was a "flourishing medium-sized daily, concentrating its coverage on Hollywood," according to the Van Nuys News. "In the late 1930s, the paper led many a reform fight in local government."[36]

Palmer Merger edit

Judge Harlan G. Palmer, the owner of the Hollywood Citizen since 1911,[37] purchased the Hollywood News from Ira Copley in 1931 and combined the two papers under the name Citizen-News. The first issue appeared on Monday, November 2, 1931, published from the News building. The combined circulation was expected to reach "more than 30,000," it was said. The Citizen circulation was given as 20,000 and the News as "over 20,000."[38]

Harlan G. Palmer, Sr.[39] owned and published its successor, the Hollywood Citizen News from the 1931 until 1956.[28]

In 1956, Harlan G. Palmer, Jr.,[40] took over as publisher of the Hollywood Citizen News, until it was sold in the 1960s, remaining an active publication until 1971.[28]

The Hollywood Citizen News and the Valley Citizen News were published together.[28]

Union activity edit

The editorial staff struck and picketed the plant on May 17, 1938, in the first walkout called by the American Newspaper Guild in California.[41] Managing editor Harold Swisher said other workers were being hired and that production employees were on the job as usual.[42] Publisher Harlan G. Palmer discharged three of the Guild members while negotiations were going on.[43]

Sontag Company filed suit against the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild and others, contending it was damaged by union pickets at its Hollywood drug store.[44]

A Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order against the union prohibiting it from picketing 166 companies that continued their advertising in the struck newspaper.[45] The order against this secondary picketing was later made permanent.[43]

The union took the matter to the National Labor Relations Board[43] The strike ended on July 30, 1938, with an agreement between the two sides.[46]

Superior Judge Emmet Wilson, however, ruled that six guild members he had cited for contempt of court must stand trial.[47]

The union lost an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals which had been asked to rule on its claim, among others, that the company had violated labor law when it denied bylines to some employees who had been involved in the strike. The court held that it was within the right of the employer to make such a decision for business reasons.[48][49]

Heyler ownership edit

Palmer died on July 25, 1956,[50] and the publishership of the company was taken over by his son, Harlan G. Palmer Jr., who in 1961 sold it to David B. Heyler, owner of the Beverly Hills Citizen.[51]

In January 1962, Heyler announced that the Citizen-News would have separate editions for three districts of the Los Angeles area: (1) Hollywood and the metropolitan area, (2) Beverly Hills west to Santa Monica, and (3) the San Fernando Valley.[52]

Copeland ownership edit

In July 1964 Lammot du Pont Copeland Jr.,[53] owner of the Valley Times in the San Fernando Valley, purchased the stock of the Citizen-News, including twenty-seven weeklies operated in the Los Angeles area. A spokesman said it was the largest community-newspaper group in the United States.[54][55]

Copeland appointed Richard M. Horton[56] as publisher. The Los Angeles Times identified him as "a federal parolee with a long felony record and no previous newspaper experience." He had served time for a "real estate swindle in San Francisco and, later, parole violation."[55][57]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said that Copeland acquired the Los Angeles newspapers "apparently as a forum for his ultra-conservative views." It said that revenues of the 27 weeklies in the Los Angeles group had fallen from $9 million a year to $5 million. Revenues were going to another group of weeklies that Copeland owned in Northern California, and he was paying himself a "consulting fee" of $13,000 a month.[58]

The Citizen-News was merged with the Valley Times, which ceased publishing under its own name in spring 1969. [36]

The Hollywood newspaper changed its name to Los Angeles Evening Citizen News in March 1970[59] and attempted to gain readers by switching its editorial policy from conservative to liberal.[36][58]

At one point in August 1970 a finance firm that was owed about half a million dollars sent in a team of security guards to take possession of the Citizen-News building.[58] The next morning, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Richard Horton, the publisher,

assembled a small army of 300 employes, lawyers and hangers-on and at 6 a.m. the following day launched a counterattack. Horton and some confederates slipped through an open window . . . The finance company still wouldn't agree to open the place up, so Horton told his employes to break in. They smashed several large plate glass windows and hustled — with the help of local police — the finance company guards out the door. The newspaper continued to publish for two weeks . . .[58]

The company was seized by the Internal Revenue Service in August 1970 for nonpayment of taxes. On the same day its publishing company, Graphic Production Corp., filed a petition in bankruptcy court for an arrangement to pay its debts.[60][61] The company went into receivership that month[62] and was adjudged bankrupt on October 29, 1970.[63]

Copeland filed a petition for personal bankruptcy[64] in October 1970.[62][65] It was the largest such action[66] ever filed in the United States.[67]

The final edition of the newspaper, with a black-bordered front page, was published on Friday, August 28, 1970. It had 321 employees, including 40 on the editorial staff. They had been working without pay in order to save the newspaper. The end meant there were only two daily newspapers published within the Los Angeles city limits, other than trade papers for the motion picture industry.[36][59]

The assets of the newspaper company, including its real estate, the building, and everything in it, were sold at auction on May 11, 1971.[68]

Office locations edit

The Citizen office was at 108 West Prospect Avenue in 1906[69][70] and at 1640 Cahuenga Avenue in 1912.[71] The print shop was at 6426 Hollywood Boulevard in 1919.[72] The Palmer Building Corporation in 1921 was erecting a three-story structure at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cosmo Street for a new plant, at an investment of $250,000. It was to be completed on December 1 of that year.[73]

In 1930 a three-story art deco building designed by architect Francis D. Rutherford was built for Copley's Hollywood News at 1545 Wilcox Avenue,[74] between Hollywood and Sunset boulevards.[75][76]

It was opened on Wednesday, July 1, 1931, with a tour and reception featuring "public officials and film players." The offices were said to be "equipped with automatic Associated Press electric typewriters, financial tape machines, [and] teletypes for the City News Service."[77] Other amenities were

Goss multiple-unit press with a capacity of 72,000 sixteen-page papers an hour, the latest in stereotyping, composing, engraving and photographic appurtenances, north-facing skylights, shower baths, lounges and sound-absorbing desks. Walls and ceilings have been made soundproof and floors insulated with a rubber-and-cork composition.[77]

In 2006 the 75-year-old building "underwent a million-dollar renovation to cater to the tastes of tenants in the media and entertainment industries," according to the Los Angeles Times.[75][78]

In 2014, S.E. Edinger, a real estate investor, bought the Citizen News Building.[79][78][80][81][82]

Notable employees edit

References edit

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External links edit

  • Furmanovsky, Michael. (1984) "'Cocktail Picket Party': The Hollywood Citizen-News Strike, the Newspaper Guild, and the Popularization of the 'Democratic Front' in Los Angeles". UCLA Historical Journal. PDF

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Community newspapers in Hollywood California have included the Hollywood Sentinel 1903 or before 1911 Hollywood Inquirer unknown 1914 Hollywood Citizen 1905 1931 Hollywood News unknown 1931 and Hollywood Citizen News 1931 1970 Contents 1 Sentinel 2 Inquirer 3 Citizen and News 3 1 Titles and Dates 3 2 Citizen 1905 1931 3 3 News 3 4 Citizen News 1931 1970 3 5 Palmer Merger 3 6 Union activity 3 7 Heyler ownership 3 8 Copeland ownership 3 9 Office locations 3 10 Notable employees 4 References 5 External linksSentinel editIn 1903 veteran publisher A A Bynon sold his interest in a newspaper called the Hollywood Sentinel to G P Sullivan who became the paper s editor 1 The Sentinel received the Hollywood city contract for printing legal advertising in December 1903 2 In 1904 C N Whitaker former editor of the Monrovia Messenger bought the business 3 but on November 1 Morris amp Ponay of Portland Oregon took it over 4 In 1905 Charles Mosteller of Los Angeles was the new owner of the Hollywood Sentinel It was still being published in 1907 5 6 and 1909 7 In 1909 Mosteller identified as the Sentinel s managing editor said the newspaper would begin a daily edition in June which would compete with the Hollywood Citizen It was explained that the legal advertising for the City of Hollywood which was then independent from Los Angeles had to be published in a daily newspaper so both journals were switching from weekly to daily publication in order to bid on the contract 8 The Los Angeles Herald commented that each paper would try to underbid the other for the city s advertising 8 and that The fight which promises to be a hot one will result in the city s printing being done at a greatly reduced figure probably below cost and in forcing the losing paper to the wall 8 In 1909 the Sentinel office was the scene of a fist fight occasioned by the refusal of editor Herbert F Clark to print the poetry of W D Cowley unless it were paid for as advertising Cowley who was the caretaker at the home of Los Angeles Times publisher Harrison Gray Otis refused to do so and Clark thereupon wrote a column casting reflections upon the character of Cowley s poetry according to a report in the Tacoma Washington Times 9 Cowley called at the Sentinel office to whip the editor and lost the battle the Tacoma newspaper said 9 In 1911 E E Brown purchased both the Hollywood Sentinel and the Hollywood Citizen and was to combine the two newspapers By so doing wrote the Alma Michigan Record he will have control of the newspaper business in a town of 7 000 people only 10 miles from Los Angeles 10 Inquirer editThe Hollywood Inquirer was owned and published by Herschel Spencer Lander until 1914 11 when he sold out and moved to Paradise Valley California 12 Homer Fort who had been editor of the Monrovia California Messenger purchased the business from Jay E Randall in 1915 13 D B Peck was also an editor and publisher of the newspaper 14 15 Mrs Mary Clough Watson was its first editor 16 Harry Elliot was the newspaper s editor in June 1916 17 and Martin Luther Helpman in 1917 18 O M Donaldson bought the Inquirer in 1918 from Douglas Edwards and changed the style format and name to conform with the ideals that had proven highly successful under his direction at Oak Park Illinois He sold the Inquirer around 1926 to Holly Leaves Inc F H Hartwell president 19 Citizen and News editTitles and Dates edit 1905 1921 SN 92061588 Hollywood Citizen 20 21 1921 1931 SN 95061523 Hollywood Daily Citizen 22 1931 1944 SN 90051954 Hollywood Citizen News 23 1944 1945 SN 99060913 Citizen News 24 1945 1948 SN 99060914 Hollywood Citizen News 25 1948 1968 SN 87062115 Citizen News 26 1968 1970 SN 95061031 Hollywood Citizen News 27 Citizen 1905 1931 edit The Hollywood Weekly Sentinel preceded the Hollywood Citizen 28 The first edition of the Hollywood Citizen appeared as a four page six column weekly on Sunday April 23 1905 measuring 16 by 22 inches 29 The Los Angeles Times said that its neat appearance caused much favorable comment 30 It was established by Ezekial Dunton Taylor 1842 1917 a veteran newspaperman originally from Ohio who came to Los Angeles in 1902 and his son in law W C Parcher Taylor was editor until 1910 when he moved to the Owens Valley Herald 31 In 1911 Harlan G Palmer Sr began publishing the Hollywood Citizen 28 and was editor in 1917 32 News edit Ira C Copley of Aurora Illinois purchased the Hollywood News and the Glendale Daily Press from Frederick William Kellogg 33 of Kellogg Newspapers Inc Pasadena Evening Post and his son William Scripps Kellogg 34 effective February 15 1928 35 He also bought the Alhambra Post Advocate Pasadena Evening Post Monrovia Evening Post Eagle Rock Daily Press Burbank Daily Press San Fernando Valley News Sawtelle Evening Tribune Santa Monica Evening Outlook Venice Evening Vanguard Culver City Star News Redondo Daily Breeze Hermosa Daily Breeze and the San Pedro Daily News effective September 1 1928 35 These latter papers were to be taken over and operated by the Southern California Newspapers Associated of which Samuel G McClure would become president and general manager To make the transaction Copley said he assumed shares of ownership in the new group McClure said that the Hollywood News would be immediately expanded but that no changes would be made in the other papers 35 Copley said that a holding company to be known as the Copley Press would be created by the succeeding September and that F W Kellogg would have an interest in it 35 Citizen News 1931 1970 edit The Hollywood Citizen News was a flourishing medium sized daily concentrating its coverage on Hollywood according to the Van Nuys News In the late 1930s the paper led many a reform fight in local government 36 Palmer Merger edit Judge Harlan G Palmer the owner of the Hollywood Citizen since 1911 37 purchased the Hollywood News from Ira Copley in 1931 and combined the two papers under the name Citizen News The first issue appeared on Monday November 2 1931 published from the News building The combined circulation was expected to reach more than 30 000 it was said The Citizen circulation was given as 20 000 and the News as over 20 000 38 Harlan G Palmer Sr 39 owned and published its successor the Hollywood Citizen News from the 1931 until 1956 28 In 1956 Harlan G Palmer Jr 40 took over as publisher of the Hollywood Citizen News until it was sold in the 1960s remaining an active publication until 1971 28 The Hollywood Citizen News and the Valley Citizen News were published together 28 Union activity edit The editorial staff struck and picketed the plant on May 17 1938 in the first walkout called by the American Newspaper Guild in California 41 Managing editor Harold Swisher said other workers were being hired and that production employees were on the job as usual 42 Publisher Harlan G Palmer discharged three of the Guild members while negotiations were going on 43 Sontag Company filed suit against the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild and others contending it was damaged by union pickets at its Hollywood drug store 44 A Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order against the union prohibiting it from picketing 166 companies that continued their advertising in the struck newspaper 45 The order against this secondary picketing was later made permanent 43 The union took the matter to the National Labor Relations Board 43 The strike ended on July 30 1938 with an agreement between the two sides 46 Superior Judge Emmet Wilson however ruled that six guild members he had cited for contempt of court must stand trial 47 The union lost an appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals which had been asked to rule on its claim among others that the company had violated labor law when it denied bylines to some employees who had been involved in the strike The court held that it was within the right of the employer to make such a decision for business reasons 48 49 Heyler ownership edit Palmer died on July 25 1956 50 and the publishership of the company was taken over by his son Harlan G Palmer Jr who in 1961 sold it to David B Heyler owner of the Beverly Hills Citizen 51 In January 1962 Heyler announced that the Citizen News would have separate editions for three districts of the Los Angeles area 1 Hollywood and the metropolitan area 2 Beverly Hills west to Santa Monica and 3 the San Fernando Valley 52 Copeland ownership edit In July 1964 Lammot du Pont Copeland Jr 53 owner of the Valley Times in the San Fernando Valley purchased the stock of the Citizen News including twenty seven weeklies operated in the Los Angeles area A spokesman said it was the largest community newspaper group in the United States 54 55 Copeland appointed Richard M Horton 56 as publisher The Los Angeles Times identified him as a federal parolee with a long felony record and no previous newspaper experience He had served time for a real estate swindle in San Francisco and later parole violation 55 57 The St Louis Post Dispatch said that Copeland acquired the Los Angeles newspapers apparently as a forum for his ultra conservative views It said that revenues of the 27 weeklies in the Los Angeles group had fallen from 9 million a year to 5 million Revenues were going to another group of weeklies that Copeland owned in Northern California and he was paying himself a consulting fee of 13 000 a month 58 The Citizen News was merged with the Valley Times which ceased publishing under its own name in spring 1969 36 The Hollywood newspaper changed its name to Los Angeles Evening Citizen News in March 1970 59 and attempted to gain readers by switching its editorial policy from conservative to liberal 36 58 At one point in August 1970 a finance firm that was owed about half a million dollars sent in a team of security guards to take possession of the Citizen News building 58 The next morning according to the St Louis Post Dispatch Richard Horton the publisher assembled a small army of 300 employes lawyers and hangers on and at 6 a m the following day launched a counterattack Horton and some confederates slipped through an open window The finance company still wouldn t agree to open the place up so Horton told his employes to break in They smashed several large plate glass windows and hustled with the help of local police the finance company guards out the door The newspaper continued to publish for two weeks 58 The company was seized by the Internal Revenue Service in August 1970 for nonpayment of taxes On the same day its publishing company Graphic Production Corp filed a petition in bankruptcy court for an arrangement to pay its debts 60 61 The company went into receivership that month 62 and was adjudged bankrupt on October 29 1970 63 Copeland filed a petition for personal bankruptcy 64 in October 1970 62 65 It was the largest such action 66 ever filed in the United States 67 The final edition of the newspaper with a black bordered front page was published on Friday August 28 1970 It had 321 employees including 40 on the editorial staff They had been working without pay in order to save the newspaper The end meant there were only two daily newspapers published within the Los Angeles city limits other than trade papers for the motion picture industry 36 59 The assets of the newspaper company including its real estate the building and everything in it were sold at auction on May 11 1971 68 Office locations edit The Citizen office was at 108 West Prospect Avenue in 1906 69 70 and at 1640 Cahuenga Avenue in 1912 71 The print shop was at 6426 Hollywood Boulevard in 1919 72 The Palmer Building Corporation in 1921 was erecting a three story structure at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Cosmo Street for a new plant at an investment of 250 000 It was to be completed on December 1 of that year 73 In 1930 a three story art deco building designed by architect Francis D Rutherford was built for Copley s Hollywood News at 1545 Wilcox Avenue 74 between Hollywood and Sunset boulevards 75 76 It was opened on Wednesday July 1 1931 with a tour and reception featuring public officials and film players The offices were said to be equipped with automatic Associated Press electric typewriters financial tape machines and teletypes for the City News Service 77 Other amenities were Goss multiple unit press with a capacity of 72 000 sixteen page papers an hour the latest in stereotyping composing engraving and photographic appurtenances north facing skylights shower baths lounges and sound absorbing desks Walls and ceilings have been made soundproof and floors insulated with a rubber and cork composition 77 In 2006 the 75 year old building underwent a million dollar renovation to cater to the tastes of tenants in the media and entertainment industries according to the Los Angeles Times 75 78 In 2014 S E Edinger a real estate investor bought the Citizen News Building 79 78 80 81 82 Notable employees edit Homer D King managing editor 83 84 Morton Thompson writer 85 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Strike on Hollywood Paper Called Capital Journal Salem Oregon May 17 1938 image 3 a b c Labor Board Opens Hearing in Citizen News Guild Strike Los Angeles Times July 6 1938 image 5 Guild Picketing Causes Suit Los Angeles Times June 8 1938 image 13 Store Picket Ban Issued Los Angeles Times June 28 1938 image 4 Citizen News Strike Settled Los Angeles Times July 31 1938 image 2 Associated Press Strike Settled But Guild Members Must Stand Trial St Louis Post Dispatch August 2 1938 image 3 Citizen News Wins Fight in N L R B Case Los Angeles Times April 3 1943 page 6 National Labor Relations Board v Citizen News Co 134 F 2d 970 9th Cir 1943 Justia Law Retrieved 7 March 2022 Hollywood Publisher Judge Palmer Dies Los Angeles Times July 26 q956 image 24 Beverly Hills Publisher Purchases Citizen News The News San Fernando Valley November 21 1961 image 2 Citizen News to Take New Format on Monday Los Angeles Times January 18 1962 image 53 Dean Gordon 1963 Lammot Copeland Jr Valley Times Photo 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1970 images 3 and 19 Citizen News Again Prints 20 Page Issue Los Angeles Times August 19 1970 image 56 a b Dow Jones Transogram Unruffled by Copeland Petition Los Angeles Times October 27 1970 image 43 Citizen News Fails to Raise Deposit Is Adjudged Bankrupt Los Angeles Times October 30 1970 image 17 Lammot du Pont Copeland bankruptcy 1971 The Morning News Wilmington Delaware 7 December 1971 p 6 Retrieved 28 April 2022 Tue Page 6 via newspapers com The Nation Los Angeles Times October 22 1970 image 2 In the Matter of Lammot Dupont Copeland Jr Debtor two Cases appeal of Lammot Dupont Copeland Jr debtor debtor in possession in the Above described Proceedings Foran Arrangement the Proceedings and the Statutorycreditors Committee in the Proceedings the creditors committee appeal of Pension Benefit Fund Inc 531 F 2d 1195 3d Cir 1976 Justia Law Retrieved 28 April 2022 Robert D McFadden Lammot Copeland Sr Dead Led Du Pont in Major Growth The New York Times July 3 1983 page 18 400 000 Offered for Citizen News Land and Building Los Angeles Times May 12 1971 image 33 Classified advertisement Los Angeles Times November 18 1906 image 49 Classified advertisement Los Angeles Times July 29 1909 image 8 Classified advertisement Los Angeles Times September 13 1912 image 8 Classified advertisement Los Angeles Times November 25 1919 image 10 Hollywood Citizen to Publish Daily Los Angeles Times August 27 1921 image 1 Photo of the former Citizen News building at 1545 North Wilcox Avenue a b Roger Vincent Art Deco Hollywood Citizen News Building Is Sold Los Angeles Times April 2 2014 with image Hollywood Citizen News Building Hollywood Los Angeles CA Pacific Coast Architecture Database Retrieved 7 March 2022 a b New Paper Plant to Be Opened Los Angeles Times June 30 1931 image 30 a b Staff Report 2018 09 20 HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN NEWS BUILDING 1545 1551 North Wilcox PDF planning lacity org Retrieved 28 April 2022 Art deco Hollywood Citizen News building is sold Los Angeles Times 2 April 2014 Retrieved 27 April 2022 Hollywood Citizen News building calisphere 1934 Retrieved 28 April 2022 Pets Publishing and the Palmer Building A Piece of Hollywood History Only In Hollywood Archived from the original on 19 January 2019 Retrieved 28 April 2022 Art deco Hollywood Citizen News building is sold Los Angeles Times 2014 04 02 Archived from the original on 13 May 2014 Retrieved 28 April 2022 Homer King Publisher in Hemet Dies Los Angeles Times February 22 1981 page 24 Career Ends Long Beach Independent February 22 1961 page 2 Hedda Hopper Not as a Stranger Memorial to Author Los Angeles Times March 16 1954 image 34External links editFurmanovsky Michael 1984 Cocktail Picket Party The Hollywood Citizen News Strike the Newspaper Guild and the Popularization of the Democratic Front in Los Angeles UCLA Historical Journal PDF Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Community newspapers in Hollywood California amp oldid 1174812969 Citizen News 1931 1970, wikipedia, wiki, 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