Our First Millennium Issue Strikes Some Nostalgic Notes

The first special millennium issue was a Los Angeles Times Magazine that everyone can be proud of (“Photo Finish--Images From a Century in Southern California,” Jan. 10). Thanks for the memories.

Phyllis Kaplan

North Hollywood

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You really outdid yourselves with the millennium issue. As a native Angeleno and a voluntary expatriate, I did get homesick--but only for the Los Angeles that was.

Your running time line evoked powerful memories. But it made me realize that visiting an edited past in print is safer and less disappointing than it would be to actually visit the city of my birth today. Congratulations! That issue is a keeper.

Carol Nahin

Palm Desert

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From Catherine Mulholland’s poetic prose to the timeless pictorial, I sat transfixed at the glorious history of the Los Angeles metropolitan area unfolding before me. Undoubtedly one of your best issues.

Niki Tennant

Long Beach

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I enjoyed the millennium issue immensely but noted an omission in the time line on Page 26. In 1986, Richard G. Ruttan and Jeana Yeager completed the first nonstop, non-refueled around-the-world flight. Yeager’s name was not mentioned.

Rebecka Yeager Dickson

Calabasas

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Thanks for showing the good, the bad and the ugly and for not focusing on the obvious--the entertainment industry. While that has been an important element in our city’s history, it is only one component of a complex and interesting place.

One thing is for sure: Los Angeles is never dull, and neither is its history.

Frances Terrell Lippman

Los Angeles

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I’ve lived in the Los Angeles area for most of this century, and experiencing your first millennium issue was like studying a long-lost family album. What a pleasure.

I’m certainly looking forward to the next one.

Robert Goyette

Rolling Hills Estates

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I’m a seventh-generation Angeleno who absolutely loves your idea for this series. The pictures brought back memories of my experiences as well as other recollections I only know from stories told by my grandmother. After reading the magazine, I rushed out to buy additional copies to send to family members who have moved out of town.

Donna M. Armstrong

Malibu

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One item that might have been included in the time line was L.A.’s annexation in 1909 of San Pedro in order to obtain control of what would become the Port of Los Angeles. The action occurred at the end of a bitter and divisive fight between two powerful groups over the selection of Santa Monica or San Pedro as “the real port” of Los Angeles.

John F. Gilhuly

San Pedro

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L.A.’s chronology was most enjoyable. However, it was noted that the 20-mile Hueneme railway opened in 1904, connecting Malibu to the Port of Los Angeles. The Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway Co. was incorporated in 1903, but construction did not begin until 1906. The railroad was reorganized and reincorporated in 1916 and abandoned in 1918.

Robert A. Ramsay

Arcadia

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Although I enjoyed your time-line chronology, allow me to note the following: Radio station KTLA became a commercial station Jan. 22, 1947, not 1946. Also, the Hollywoodland sign was shortened to the Hollywood sign in 1949, not 1945.

Joel Tator

North Hollywood

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Editor’s note: 1945? 1949? Isn’t our town all about living in the moment? Actually, we stand corrected, as is the encyclopedia we consulted on both points, “Los Angeles A to Z,” and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which had confirmed the 1945 date for the Hollywood sign.