The week before Christmas in 1938, my dad, John M. Lind, ordered a brand new “Squadron Green” Dodge Club Coupe from the factory through the Glenn E. Thomas Company in Long Beach, California. Total price, FOB factory= $917 Delivery date was “on or about Feb. 1, 1939.” According to the order form, he traded in [...]
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Check out Atlanta Unfiltered, an somewhat eclectic investigative site put together by former Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter and editor Jim Walls. He writes: When the newspaper trimmed its staff in 2008, I took a buyout and prepared to change careers. But plans changed as I watched the newspaper business implode along with the public service journalism [...]
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Ten years ago today, on the morning of September 16, then-Star-Bulletin owner Rupert Phillips stood in the newsroom and announced that the newspaper would be closed in 60 days as part of a deal with Gannett to end the Joint Operating Agreement between the Advertiser and S-B. Phillips and his partners would get a cash [...]
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