The building right at the corner of Railroad and 6th Street was owned by the Truebloods; it was managed by Gus Trueblood. When I first arrived here in July 1966, that building housed our Composing Room (cold-type pasteup by then). The old press had been pulled out in 1963. Also in that Trueblood building was our cold-type typesetting equipment, plus the darkroom (for editorial shots and halftones) and the circulation department (mailing machine and circulation manager's office). In the room to west of these was our display ad sales staff and the bookkeeping department.

The next building, separate, to the west, and almost butting up against this — was owned by A.B. Perkins. That building [Perkins Court] housed our front office, including an Old-Western bar where we sold subscriptions and classified ads. If you walked through a hallway to the south, you'd enter our City Room, where the editor supervised 3-4 reporters.

If you went out the door to the outside walkway, you could enter the Publisher/General Manager's office (which in 1963 was Carmen Sylva's Dance Studio). Directly west, across the walkway, was A.B. Perkins' office.

By the way, the Truebloods' building at the corner was destroyed by fire on January 3, 1969 [sic: just after midnight on the 4th], which forced us to buy out our competition, the Record Press (from Opie Tucker). Its offices were located across town, on Spruce between Lyons and 11th, next to the American Theater. In that building we sold ads, developed photos, and composed the paper from January 1969 to about June 1973, at which time we moved those departments into the just-vacated Sheriffs [Office] at the corner of 6th and San Fernando Road [today's Main Street].