Los Angeles Evening Record Explained

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The Los Angeles Record was a daily newspaper of the Greater Los Angeles area of California, United States in the first half of the 20th century. Associated with the Scripps chain of newspapers, it was founded on March 4, 1895.^{[1] [2]} The Record was an evening newspaper, perceived to be politically independent, and its offices were on Wall Street for much of its 20th-century history. In the 1920s, the Record was one of six dailies competing for readership in the city.^[3] The newspaper ultimately developed a fairly populistic, working-class editorial approach that stood out amongst the city's dailies, especially compared to the arch-capitalist Los Angeles Times.^[4]

History

Circa 1904 it was credited with the removal of LAPD Chief of Police Charles Elton after the paper charged him with protecting illegal gambling rings.^[5] Among its editorial practices of the early 1900s was baiting Pacific Electric magnate Henry E. Huntington because, argued Record editorials, "company owners forced employees to operate the trolleys at excessive speed and were interested primarily in profits instead of human lives."^[6] The paper also opposed William Mulholland's planned Los Angeles Aqueduct as exploitative of Owens Valley.^[7] It was the Record that published the so-called "haybag letters" that mayor Charles E. Sebastian wrote to his longtime mistress, in which he referred to his wife as "the Old Haybag".^[8]

The paper survived until December 12, 1933, when it became the Los Angeles Post-Record.^[9] The Post-Record, or Los Angeles Evening Post-Record, survived another couple years into the mid-1930s, maybe 1936.

Notable personnel

• E. E. McDowell, called Mac, was the editorial cartoonist from 1903 to ~1934^[10]
• Dana Sleeth, editor 1916–?^[11]
• Burton Knisely, editor, early 1920s
• Henry B. R. Briggs was editor and publisher from 1925 to 1933.^[12]
• Notable reporters included Mamie Louise Leung, considered the first Chinese-American female newspaper reporter,^[13] and Agness Underwood, a crackerjack crime reporter, who started her career at the Record.

References

Sources

• Book: Wagner, Rob Leicester . Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920–1962 . 2000 . Dragonflyer Press . 978-0-944933-80-0 . 0944933807 . 44654778 . Upland, California . en-us.

Notes and References

1. McCORKLE . Julia Norton . 1915 . A History of Los Angeles Journalism . Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California . 10 . 1/2 . 24–43 . 10.2307/41168909. 41168909 .
2. Book: Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs . 1941 . Best Books on . 978-1-62376-053-3 . en.
3. Web site: Rasmussen . Cecilia . 1997-11-02 . The Grande Dame of L.A. Newspapers . 2024-05-27 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
4. Book: Tygiel, Jules . The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties . 1996-01-01 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-20773-8 . en.
5. Web site: Fourth estate : a weekly newspaper for publishers, advertisers, advertising agents and allied interests 1904. . 2024-05-27 . HathiTrust . 2027/uiug.30112044128038?urlappend=%3Bseq=293 . en.
6. Web site: Ride the big red cars; how trolleys helped build southern California . 2024-05-27 . HathiTrust . 2027/mdp.39015006398757?urlappend=%3Bseq=142 . en.
7. Web site: Water & politics; a study of water policies and administration in the development of Los Angeles . 2024-05-27 . HathiTrust . 2027/uc1.b3127052?urlappend=%3Bseq=91 . en.
8. Book: Rasmussen, Cecilia . L.A. Unconventional: The Men and Women Who Did L.A. Their Way . 1998 . Los Angeles Times . 978-1-883792-23-7 . Los Angeles . ocm40701771.
9. Web site: homesteadmuseum . 2020-11-08 . Read All About It: The Pending End of the First World War and the Raging Flu Pandemic in the "Los Angeles Record," 7 November 1918 . 2024-05-27 . The Homestead Blog . en-US.
10. News: 1935-03-05 . Chapter XLIX - Chapter 49 . 2024-05-28 . Los Angeles Evening Post-Record . 11.
11. Web site: Sleeth family collection - Archives West . 2024-05-28 . archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
12. News: 1934-01-27 . Briggs Given Postmaster's Chair in Los Angeles . 2024-05-27 . Los Angeles Evening Citizen News . 1.
13. Chang Zacher . Yu-Li . 2023-10-02 . First Chinese American Newspaperwoman: Mamie Louise Leung at the Los Angeles Record, 1926-1929 . Journalism History . en . 49 . 4 . 280–299 . 10.1080/00947679.2023.2263729 . 0094-7679.