I’ve been at this for about 10 months now. Please tell me what you like and what the Daily Mirror could be doing better….
- 1908 pages: More/less/the same
- 1938 pages: More/less/the same
- 1958 pages: More/less/the same
- Historic sports: More/less/the same
- Mystery photos: More/less/the same
- Original stories on vintage crimes: More/less/the same
- Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: More/less/the same
- Everything/Anything else: More/less/the same
- If you could add one thing, what would it be?
- If you could remove one thing, what would it be?
Thanks!
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* 1908 pages: More/less/the same – less
* 1938 pages: More/less/the same – more
* 1958 pages: More/less/the same – more
* Historic sports: More/less/the same – the same
* Mystery photos: More/less/the same – MORE
* Original stories on vintage crimes: More/less/the same – MORE!
* Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: More/less/the same – the same
* Everything/Anything else: More/less/the same – More of your researched stories!!
* If you could add one thing, what would it be? – Maybe a “what was popular on this date – movie, tv, stage, criminal act…”
* If you could remove one thing, what would it be? – Not a thing. I love this site.
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* 1908 pages: More/less/the same – less
* 1938 pages: More/less/the same -the same
* 1958 pages: More/less/the same – much more
* Historic sports: More/less/the same – less
* Mystery photos: More/less/the same – the same
* Original stories on vintage crimes: More/less/the same – MORE!
* Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: More/less/the same – the same
* If you could add one thing, what would it be? – more vintage ads for cars, houses, clothing, food products, etc. I never get tired of the graphics.
* If you could remove one thing, what would it be? – Not a thing. I love this site.
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Crime, cops, Vegas, low culture, high culture, social history of L.A.–what’s not to love here? This is a great blog, gives readers a chance to see original source material we would never see otherwise.
Change nothing, keep up the good work.
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I enjoyed the posts under the “Countdown to Watts” category very much. More on the various ethnic enclaves (not just Black folks) that made up the old Los Angeles.
Some of your posts are like reading an Easy Rawlins mystery. Keep up the good work – people are reading your blog!
–Thanks…. Looking back at the ethnic communities in the old days is quite a challenge because The Times didn’t write much about them. I like getting into the smaller L.A. community papers when I get a chance (like the Sentinel) but it’s especially time-consuming. Thanks again!
–Larry
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1908 pages: Less
1938 pages: More
1958 pages: More
Historic sports: Much more, you are coming up on the Dodgers’ first season in LA and in the next 18 months the Lakers move to LA
Mystery photos: Less (probably because I am younger)
Original stories on vintage crimes: More
Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: Less
Everything/Anything else: Same
If you could add one thing, what would it be? More discussion of the history surrounding the development of all the freeways. What would LA be (for better or worse) without freeways!
If you could remove one thing, what would it be?
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1908 pages: less
1938 pages: more
1958 pages: the same
Historic sports: less
Mystery photos: the same
Original stories on vintage crimes: more
Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: the same
Everything/Anything else: the same
If you could add one thing, what would it be? More crime (I’d like to think I’m more sophisticated than that, but it’s so entertaining).
All in all, I like that you lead us readers on a journey. Keep posting stuff that intrigues you and I’m sure it’ll intrigue us, too!
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1908 pages: the same
1938 pages: the same
1958 pages: the same
Historic sports: less
Mystery photos: the same
Original stories on vintage crimes: More
Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: the same
If you could add one thing, what would it be? More follow-up on mysteries (a few months ago there was a disappearance about which you seemed to indicate you had more information, but nothing further was written)
If you could remove one thing, what would it be? Nothing: the blog is great.
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* 1908 pages: the same
* 1938 pages: the same
* 1958 pages: the same
* Historic sports: less
* Mystery photos: the same
* Original stories on vintage crimes: More
* Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: less
* Everything/Anything else: Are the deep archives no longer available?
* If you could add one thing, what would it be? More vintage Hollywood/glamour
* If you could remove one thing, what would it be? Well, vintage sports. But I suspect that this and the last are sadly stereotypical gender issues. 🙂
But if you don’t change a thing, I’m still a devoted reader.
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Are you kidding, Larry? Are you feeling insecure?
Your blog is fantastic! The only thing I wish is that I could continue reading articles I begin on the front pages you post. I love 1908. I love 1938. I love 1958. Why not put up 1918, 28, 48, 68, 78, 88, and 98 too?
Then post the whole newspaper from each date while you’re at it. I’d love to be able to click back through history that way…
But really don’t change a thing unless you want to surprise me!
–Thanks for reading, 69.231.47.24!
–Larry
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1908 pages: The same
1938 pages: The same
1958 pages: The same
Historic sports: Less
Mystery photos: More
Original stories on vintage crimes: More
Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: Less
Everything/Anything else: More
If you could add one thing, what would it be? Nothing
If you could remove one thing, what would it be? Nothing
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1908 pages: less
1938 pages: more
1958 pages: more
Historic sports: more
Mystery photos: the same
Original stories on vintage crimes: the same
Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock: the same
Everything/Anything else: the same
If you could add one thing, what would it be? how about more 1928 and ’48, especially since both, like 2008, were presidential election years?
If you could remove one thing, what would it be? not sure
All in all, a wonderful blog
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1908: less
1938: same
1958: same
Historic sports: same or a little more
Mystery photos : more
Vintage Crime: More!
Coates & Weinstock: same
More about Mickey Cohen, The Black Dahlia, L.A. cops, scandals, newspaper reporters and editors,Black L.A., East L.A.,Photos of old crime scenes today.
It’s a great blog!
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Oh yeah, more on Bunker Hill, Angel’s Flight, downtown L.A., all the different phases it’s gone through.
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One of the things that makes this blog so fascinating is that it reflects the interests of one person. So just keep posting what interests you.
I like the newspaper pages, especially those with ads and one paragraph “filler” stories.
I am struck by how the 1938 news and ads seem closer in style and subject to 2008 than to 1908.
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Morgan wrote “I am struck by how the 1938 news and ads seem closer in style and subject to 2008 than to 1908.”
I am too.
Don’t forget that in 1908, Los Angeles was just a small city of fewer than 300,000 people. Wasn’t the largest city on the West Coast, San Francisco was. As far as Cities in the rest of the country went, cities like Cincinnati, Saint Louis, Cleveland, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore were all larger cities at the time. The Los Angeles Times was one of a number of newspapers in a city of a couple of hundred thousand people. More like a small local than a metropolitan paper.
By 1938, Los Angeles had morphed into the fifth largest city in the United States with more than one million residents. The local media should have reflect that. The daily papers should be a little better with the larger revenue from circulation and advertising.
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