Operations Employees Forgotten at The Los Angeles Times

Back in the day when I attended Alhambra High School, 1967 to 1969, I ran on the cross-country team, and we were the San Gabriel Valley’s top dogs during that time era. Last night when I went to Long Beach my memories of cross-country were revived, because our team would travel to the golf course on Pacific Coast Highway to run against Long Beach Poly as a training run before our season began.

During the football season our varsity football players wore blue sports jackets signifying they were stars at our high school, never mind the team could not win a game for losing. Matter of fact, the football team may have had the worst record for any team at Alhambra High School.

I’m not certain if the high school still publishes a school newspaper, but when I attended high school our football team was always on the front page of our school newspaper, with headlines such as “Another Great Ball Game, But we lost”, and the cross-country team would always get the last page of the publication, no matter how many wins we scored.

Forty years later I’m left feeling disregarded again, when the Los Angeles Times purged itself of writers and editors, a page of the online edition of the newspaper posted photographs and farewell letters from many in editorial. Not a word could be found online regarding the departure of Operations employees, some with over thirty-five years of service. If the employees of Operations at the Times pondered where they stand with the company, the lack of acknowledgement clearly shows we are not even thought of.

The majority of the photographs posted here are of the men and women that produce the hardcopy of the Los Angeles Times. And before I close I would like to give a hat tip to the following colleagues that have promoted their co-workers in Operations at the Times.

Jesse Espinoza, Ronnie Pineda, Al Albanes, and David Rascon. Click on each person’s name to be redirected to their online work, and none of the men had to be sent to Internet 101 like the writers and editors at the Times, they are all self-taught.