Saturday, June 12, 2010

LAT Orange County Facility R.I.P.

The Los Angeles Times Orange County Production Facility, opened in 1968 to much fanfare, died on a quiet note early this morning with the printing of the LAT Extra edition.

The remaining two crews at the facility will now move to the downtown Los Angeles production facility this weekend.

It had been suggested to throw a memorial party on the heliport tonight at the facility, but with so many memories, no one felt like marking this sad day with a few ice-cold beers.

If this trend continues, and it appears it will, we may see the Olympic Facility shuttered in December 2014 as the newspaper seeks other methods of delivering the news.

Comments from the displaced pressmen and women from the Orange County Facility are welcome.

3 comments:

Rich said...

Wow. My dad worked there from 1971 until he retired in 1987...

Old OC said...

It's the people that made the OC Plant..... They were the "Best of the Best"

Anonymous said...

I started there as a loader in '86 and they laid me off in 2008. We went from feast to famine in the 22 yrs I was there.