The different sections of the block have different cornerstones set by succeeding generations.
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Believe it or not. This thing rotates. When it's not broken.
It is now broken.
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There's a longer story about why that's a big theme, and why this building even exists. Maybe we'll get to it later.
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One, Ruben Salazar, has become a legend on LA's Eastside and a symbol of Chicano professionalism and success. He's even on a stamp.
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Here's my desk by the way.
Everybody makes fun of the monitors I've scrounged through the years. But I'll be honest. I've never seen too much Linux.
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It's the @LATdatadesk's museum, I suppose. When people leave @latimes, I make them leave me a memento.
There's also just a lot of my crap too.
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(Pronounced "Tweeg", of course)
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You know @LATdatadesk likes you if we made sure you scored a second monitor out here.
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The beans supplied by our @LATdatadesk coffee club (@maloym collects the bills, @anthonyjpesce secures the reup)
The sludge served in @hfuhrmann's custom designed copy desk mug.
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Here is the Business Section's "Museum of Defunct Technology."
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Before it closed up, I took some video. The Cipher 9's still ran!
Here's the tape:
It displays some of the most famous work from @latimes history.
My favorite are the handdrawn World War 2 maps of Charles Owens, shown working here.
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It has been removed and replaced with old photos. The grooves in the upper left here once held lettering spelling out INTERACTIVE.
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One, which once appeared on the paper's masthead, praises "the true cause of industrial freedom."
I'm told that was an anti-union slogan of their time.
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That event shaped the Chandlers' politics for generations and is embedded in much of the art and rhetoric we see here.
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My favorite is the position of respect of given to the game of Bridge.
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See which current and former staff you can spot here.
(Sorry for the low quality of these photos. I an obviously a bad photog and I'm now venturing into poorly lit parts of the building.)
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Its most recent occupants were Ross Levinsohn and the so-called "shadow newsroom" being developed by @tronc.
The space is now vacant.
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Watch it go.
Its message is something we'd probably all do well to heed before retweeting.
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This is one the places I can't get into with my badge. But that won't stop us from trying. Let's keep moving.
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That arm belongs to @socalbreeze. This is likely the most poorly composed series of photographs he's ever been involved in.
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Here's one for your dad: The set where @BillPlaschke tapes his Around the Horn segments on @espn.
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It starts with @LATdatadesk. Mostly Metro section reporters past that.
Because it extends like a tail from the core of offices behind me, this strip is know as "Baja Metro." The area beyond: "Cabo."
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The inner ring is known as "The Glass Offices."
The term is code for upper management and is often used as a collective noun. As in "The Glass Offices haven't weighed in yet."
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It is currently vacant, and has been since our previous editor was fired.
Most recently is has served as a war room for @WapoEngineering programmers during deployments to overhaul our CMS.
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Since I'll probably never have another chance, let's check it out.
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This is not a drill. Welcome to the @latimes training center.
Just keep following the arrows, the email said. What could go wrong?
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The basements of the @latimes building hold some of its most exquisite joys.
There was once a "music room" down here where staff were encouraged to hold band practice.
You found it, and I'm not kidding, by following emoji painted on the walls.
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(Who am I kidding, the answer is obviously @JamesQueallyLAT.)
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For my final trick of the day, we scale to the top of the old factory building to explore the Chandler Family's inner sanctum.
Ready? Let's hope I don't get locked in.
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Now a co-working space. Locked.
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I'm sorry to report the beautiful circular table appears to already be gone.
Underneath where it once sat, the Times-Mirror logo.
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That's the end of today's adventure. Thanks for joining me.
If there's anything yet you'd like to see, let me know. I've got a couple weeks left and I want to memorialize as much as I can.
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