Daily
Mirror Mini Survey, January 2008
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More
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Less
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Same
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| 1908 pages
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******
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**
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| 1938 pages
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****
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***
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**
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1958 pages
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******
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Historic
sports
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****
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*
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**
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Mystery
photos
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****
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***
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Original
stories on vintage crime
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*****
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**
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Paul
Coates
Matt Weinstock
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**
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*
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****
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Everything/Anything
else
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If you
could add one thing …
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More 30s through 50s, more crime and sleaze, more about the beach
cities during the 30s, 40s and 50s.
I do wish that
I could read the small print on the newspapers better.
Is there a way for you to enlarge the print?
More stories about other parts of LA…like the Valley, the Westside and the
South Bay.
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If you
could remove one thing
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Nothing.
Spending too much time one the same story…like Main street.
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Other remarks
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Keep up the good work, your blog is cool.
I love the 50
years ago angle. I love the mystery photos.
If everything
stays the same it is fine with me.
You’re
doing a superb job of bringing the past to the present.
I think the site is doing exactly what it should be……
it’s fun,
refreshing and a great step ‘outside’ the regular Times stuff….
My favorite memory of the Daily Mirror is the day I discovered it and had to
spend three enormously entertaining hours catching up. It was great!
I would love to see more of Jim Murray.
I would like to see more vintage ads.
More vintage ads. I can’t think of a thing you should change.
I enjoy also the commentary of Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock. Paul Coates has a way to get
to the heart of story.
You’ve struck a near-perfect balance on your blog.
Please continue in exactly the same manner you have been doing.
This is a great blog and you are doing a great job.
Times *and* Mirror front pages every day. It’s a great blog. Keep it coming.
You might throw in a front page or a front sports page of 1948 once in a while.
I love it all, of course. It’s my home page.
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All told, the survey results are extremely gratifying (and I didn’t tabulate the e-mails that said "don’t change anything").
The blog is a labor of love, with an emphasis on both words: I love doing the Daily Mirror, but it can be laborious. Nothing would make me happier than to add everything requested here, but it’s a matter of time constraints (so many stories, only one Larry Harnisch). The Mirror front pages are especially tricky because I have to scan them into the computer myself and because the lighting isn’t balanced I have to paste two correctly exposed halves together to get a complete page.
I’ll admit that the 1908 pages are an acquired taste and that very few people are as enchanted as I am with Los Angeles 100 years ago. I run the 1908 pages because this is when the city took shape. This is when many of the "outlying" districts were laid out (for example, Sierra Madre, 1907). And turn-of-the-century Los Angeles was a wild and woolly place. The Times of this era offers a treasure of information on the city’s ethnic communities. But, yes, the pages can be extremely hard to read.
I hadn’t planned to do the 1938 pages, but the Harry Raymond bombing and the recall of Frank Shaw are too important to ignore. And I’m crazy about the ads from the 1930s.
More 1958? I’ll see what I can do.
I will do what I can with historic sports. I am by no means an expert in this area, but we have the Dodgers’ first season coming up and I hope to give it some good exposure.
I, too, love the mystery photos. It’s even more fun for me to watch people guess. I would have never imagined how much I’d be pestered over the "Dodger Santa Claus" picture
Original stories–I like them too!
I run Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock because they are voices of the era. Coates is the Steve Lopez of his day, while Weinstock is the Steve Harvey of the 1950s. Both columns are a fair amount of work because I have to get them from the microfilm and type them into a computer. But when I’m all done and reading them over one last time, I have to say I’m glad I spent the effort. What amazes me is how prolific these men were. Coates wrote a column every day AND had an evening TV show. It’s no wonder he died at an early age.
As for the rest of the compliments–thanks!
ps. I’m limited in writing about some areas of the city because The Times didn’t cover them very much.
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