{{Short description|Evening daily newspaper (1895–1933)}} {{use mdy dates|date=March 2025|cs1-dates=ly}} {{use American English|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Los Angeles Record | logo = | logo_upright = | logo_border = | logo_alt = | logo_size = | logo_caption = | image = File:Los Angeles Record office circa 1900 at 622 South Broadway.jpg | image_upright = | image_border = | image_alt = | image_size = | caption = ''Los Angeles Record'' office in 1902 at 622 South Broadway; on the left is Arthur L. Mackaye, the courts reporter, and on the right is likely Walter Syverston, the circulation manager<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-post-record-old-time/148203396/ |title=Old Timers Phone to Identify 1902 Picture |newspaper=Los Angeles Evening Post-Record |date=14 January 1935 |page=5 }}</ref> | motto = | type = | format = | school = | owner = <!-- or |owners= --> | founder = <!-- or |founders= --> | publisher = | president = | general_manager = | chief_editor = | editor = | deputy_editor = | associate_editor = | managing_editor = <!-- or |managing_editor= --> | news_editor = | campus_editor = | campus_chief = | metro_editor = | metro_chief = | opinion_editor = | photo_editor = | staff_writers = | custom_label = | custom_data = | founded = {{start date and age|1895|03|04}} | political_position = | language = | ceased_publication = {{end date|1933|12|12}} (or 1936ish?) | relaunched = | headquarters = | publishing_city = | publishing_country = | circulation = | circulation_date = | circulation_ref = | readership = | sister_newspapers = | ISSN = | eISSN = | oclc = | RNI = | website = | free = }} 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=McCORKLE |first=Julia Norton |date=1915 |title=A History of Los Angeles Journalism |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/scq/article/10/1-2/24/83598/A-HISTORY-OF-LOS-ANGELES-JOURNALISM |journal=Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California |volume=10 |issue=1/2 |pages=24–43 |doi=10.2307/41168909|jstor=41168909 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>{{Rp|page=29}}<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IM40LJ1ofIAC&dq=%22Los+Angeles+Record%22&pg=PA411 |title=Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs |date=1941 |publisher=Best Books on |isbn=978-1-62376-053-3 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=408}} 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.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|page=37}} In the 1920s, the ''Record'' was one of six dailies competing for readership in the city.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rasmussen |first=Cecilia |date=1997-11-02 |title=The Grande Dame of L.A. Newspapers |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-nov-02-me-49560-story.html |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tygiel |first=Jules |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuGtNi3f-B8C&dq=%22Los+Angeles+Record%22&pg=PA85 |title=The Great Los Angeles Swindle: Oil, Stocks, and Scandal During the Roaring Twenties |date=1996-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20773-8 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=85}}
== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fourth estate : a weekly newspaper for publishers, advertisers, advertising agents and allied interests 1904. |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112044128038?urlappend=%3Bseq=293 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=HathiTrust | hdl=2027/uiug.30112044128038?urlappend=%3Bseq=293 |language=en}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ride the big red cars; how trolleys helped build southern California |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015006398757?urlappend=%3Bseq=142 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=HathiTrust | hdl=2027/mdp.39015006398757?urlappend=%3Bseq=142 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=138}} The paper also opposed William Mulholland's planned Los Angeles Aqueduct as exploitative of Owens Valley.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Water & politics; a study of water policies and administration in the development of Los Angeles |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3127052?urlappend=%3Bseq=91 |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=HathiTrust | hdl=2027/uc1.b3127052?urlappend=%3Bseq=91 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=63}} 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".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rasmussen |first=Cecilia |title=L.A. Unconventional: The Men and Women Who Did L.A. Their Way |date=1998 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |isbn=978-1-883792-23-7 |location=Los Angeles |oclc=ocm40701771}}</ref>{{Rp|page=58}}
thumb|Late 1930s photograph of "Old Post-Record Building," almost certainly the office at 612 Wall Street The paper survived until December 12, 1933, when it became the '''''Los Angeles Post-Record'''''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=homesteadmuseum |date=2020-11-08 |title=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 |url=https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2020/11/07/read-all-about-it-the-pending-end-of-the-first-world-war-and-the-flu-pandemic-in-the-los-angeles-record-7-november-1918/ |access-date=2024-05-27 |website=The Homestead Blog |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":1" />{{Rp|page=411}} The ''Post-Record'', or '''''Los Angeles Evening Post-Record''''', survived another couple years into the mid-1930s, maybe 1936.
== Notable personnel == [[File:Inside Story of C C Julian.jpg|thumb|''Los Angeles Record'' exposés of the 1920s, like this one on the Julian Pete scandal, were often marked with an ink splot labeled "The Truth!"]] * E. E. McDowell, called Mac, was the editorial cartoonist from 1903 to ~1934<ref>{{Cite news |date=1935-03-05 |title=Chapter XLIX - Chapter 49 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-post-record-chapter/148211269/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |work=Los Angeles Evening Post-Record |pages=11}}</ref> * Dana Sleeth, editor 1916–?<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sleeth family collection - Archives West |url=https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv41986 |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=archiveswest.orbiscascade.org}}</ref> * Burton Knisely, editor, early 1920s * Henry B. R. Briggs was editor and publisher from 1925 to 1933.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1934-01-27 |title=Briggs Given Postmaster's Chair in Los Angeles |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news-briggs/148201190/ |access-date=2024-05-27 |work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |pages=1}}</ref> * Notable reporters included Mamie Louise Leung, considered the first Chinese-American female newspaper reporter,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chang Zacher |first=Yu-Li |date=2023-10-02 |title=First Chinese American Newspaperwoman: Mamie Louise Leung at the Los Angeles Record, 1926-1929 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00947679.2023.2263729 |journal=Journalism History |language=en |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=280–299 |doi=10.1080/00947679.2023.2263729 |issn=0094-7679|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and Agness Underwood, a crackerjack crime reporter, who started her career at the ''Record''.
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=== Sources === * {{Cite book |last=Wagner |first=Rob Leicester |title=Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920–1962 |date=2000 |publisher=Dragonflyer Press |isbn=978-0-944933-80-0 |lccn=0944933807 |oclc=44654778 |location=Upland, California |language=en-us}}
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