The Record
The Archive
A hundred years of the Times, most of it still on paper. We are working on it.
The Times has published since 1925, and for most of that century the record was kept the way newspapers kept everything: bound volumes, clipping files, and a basement morgue with a filing logic understood completely by two people, one of whom retired in 1994.
Digitization is underway, and it moves backward. The web edition is complete from 2002 to today. Selected earlier material appears below as the project reaches it — scanned, retyped where the microfilm was unkind, and republished with original dates and bylines. Corrections that ran after first publication are noted where we know of them.
Looking for something specific — an obituary, a wedding, a box score, the week your building made the paper? Write to archives@hytimes.com with a name and an approximate date, and the librarian will pull the clipping. Please allow a week; the morgue's filing logic has outlived both of its interpreters.
From the archive
November 8, 1994
The Internet Is a Fad, and No, You Will Never Read This Newspaper on a Telephone
Our technology columnist has spent a fortnight on the so-called information superhighway and returns to report that it is a fad, a traffic jam of nonsense, and no earthly threat to the paper in your hands.
August 12, 1986
Vernon Alcott, 79, Whose Organ Filled the Alto Vista for Half a Century
He came to Hollywood to play for the silent pictures, outlasted the talkies that put most of his trade out of work, and kept the console warm at the Alto Vista every Friday night until the week he died.
November 30, 1974
A Yard Short: Hollywood's Sheiks Fall in the City Final
The Sheiks drove the length of the field in the last two minutes and reached the shadow of the goal line, where the clock and a Crestmont goal-line stand ended the finest season in a decade.
December 20, 1962
On Santa Claus Lane, the Boulevard Puts On Its Christmas Face
The lights are strung and the trees are up along Santa Claus Lane, and the merchants of Hollywood Boulevard are pinning a season's worth of hope on the six weeks between the parade and the new year.
June 22, 1954
Picture Men Damn Television at Boulevard Luncheon, and Dread It in the Same Breath
At a trade gathering in Hollywood, studio executives dismissed the little screen as a passing fad and, a sentence later, confessed they were frightened of what it was doing to the box office.
October 16, 1947
Riders Crowd Hearing to Oppose Rise in the Fare on the Red Cars
Neighborhood groups and daily riders filled a hearing room to protest the traction company's bid to raise the fare, telling the examiner the service had grown poorer as the price had grown dearer.
March 4, 1938
Flood Waters Cut Off Hollywood as the River Breaks Its Banks
Five days of rain sent the Los Angeles River over its banks below the Cahuenga Pass, carried off the canyon crossings and drove families from their homes in the small hours.
The digitization project is supported by the Times' subscribers. If a story you remember is not yet here, it is not gone; it is in the basement, in order, waiting.