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The 450-member Los Angeles Press Club has outlived most of the city's newspapers, having been launched shortly after 1900 when Wilshire Boulevard was still a dirt trail to the ocean and the most gracious mansions in the city were on knolls immediately surrounding downtown. Leading up to World War I, the club was located above Dick Ferris¹ office on 327 South Hill Street downtown, and served as a gathering spot for journalists in the rowdy days when a half-dozen daily newspapers, loudly promoting their sometimes extreme political views, served the small but fast-growing city. With the Great Depression of the 1930s, followed by World War II, the club ceased operations. But the need for journalists to get together did not fade.
 
 
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After World War II, on September 24, 1946, newsmen from the surviving four daily newspapers Los Angeles Concerts founded the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. In those early years, the club's board chose a Miss Press Club annually, and selected as its first recipient Marilyn Monroe. In the late 1940s, President Harry Truman spoke at a club luncheon and was so well received by club members they were said to have influenced Truman's decision to seek another term. From 1960 until the late 1980s, the Los Angeles Theater booming club owned a large building on Vermont Avenue where it operated a cafe, cocktail lounge and major press conference facility. But as the nature of journalism and journalists changed, Los Angeles Theater Tickets reporters lost interest in gathering there, and the facility grew empty.

Red ink began to mount, so the club sold the building and moved to leased offices. In the late 1990s, club president and then Adelphia Cable executive Bill Rosendahl Los Angeles Lakers Tickets realized that the club, which was suffering shrinking membership as were all press clubs, would benefit by drawing in younger, Los Angeles Dodgers Tickets working journalists. Rosendahl recruited dozens of them and persuaded several to run for the elected Board of Directors. Since then, longtime members like Jim Foy (NBC ret.) and newer recruits have worked together to reinvigorate the club, and their efforts have Los Angeles CLippers Tickets been a great success. Membership has rebounded dramatically. The club has sponsored dozens of seminars, Clippers Tickets Town Hall gatherings and social events open to the public and featuring top figures in politics, culture and the film industry. Notable were a Los Angeles Angels Tickets Town Hall with former Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard Parks following controversy over the 2000 Democratic Convention, the ongoing "Opening the Door" series on Dodgers Tickets how to access Hollywood sources, and the Third Thursday cocktail events feting author-speakers such as Elmore Leonard. Lakers Tickets The club has launched outreach efforts to international, minority, freelance and gay journalists, and its International Journalists Caucus is rapidly expanding. One of the club's most serious missions is to persuade local Los Angeles Tickets governments to obey existing Los Angeles Sports California laws by opening up public meetings and public documents to journalists and the public. The club is directing this effort via its Sunshine Coalition, which has already achieved moderate success in educating the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to stop violating the Brown Act, the state's open meeting law.

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