How A Los Angeles Printer Kept the Art of the Album Cover Alive

Collector's Weekly has a nice article about Stoughton Printing Company, in Los Angeles:

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“When we started out,” Jack Jr. says, “we appealed to independent labels and artists. That was our niche. We had one customer, way back when, who sold his car to help pay for his record pressing. We had printed his jackets, so he came out here on the bus from Hollywood to City of Industry, which was about 25 miles eastbound. He probably made five or six bus transfers to get here. All he wanted was one box of 100 jackets, which he was going to take to the record-pressing plant so they could stuff them with his records, which he wanted to sell at a show that night. The jackets were ready, so we drove him and the jackets to the record-pressing plant, waited for them to get stuffed, and then took him home. He called us the following Monday to say he had been able to sell around 240 records that night, which effectively paid for his entire project. I couldn’t tell you that young man’s name today, and I don’t even remember if he went on to have any hits. But that was the way my dad treated everybody. In part, it was because you never knew who was going to be the next million-seller, but it was also to honor the dreams independent artists brought to us.”

typo in the subject line. christ i really hope you're not paying the editors around here

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:13 PM, juiceciuj said:

typo in the subject line. christ i really hope you're not paying the editors around here

Eh? What'd I miss?

shouldn't it be "how a los angeles blah blah blah" not "how AN los angeles blah blah blah"

but i was just being a prick and mocking people who bitch about editors on blogs 

I think most people would say "an L.A." like the original headline though. 

edit - posting in a grammar thread

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:27 PM, doublename said:

I think most people would say "an L.A." like the original headline though. 

 

edit - posting in a grammar thread

Yeah, 'An L.A.' works, but 'an Los Angeles' is totally wrong.

Was triggered by 'an' as well. This thread has now been labelled 'politically incorrect'.

 Perhaps joyrex reads Los Angeles as LA. Maybe New York as NY as well. So next we'll be reading about "An New York painter keeping murder suspect alive, in his basement".

 Funnily enough i, and most other people i'd imagine, read NY as New York. Like that "I

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:18 PM, juiceciuj said:

shouldn't it be "how a los angeles blah blah blah" not "how AN los angeles blah blah blah"

 

but i was just being a prick and mocking people who bitch about editors on blogs 

D'oh! I always make that mistake... sorry! Fixed now

  On 10/7/2016 at 5:43 AM, delet... said:

 Perhaps joyrex reads Los Angeles as LA. Maybe New York as NY as well. So next we'll be reading about "An New York painter keeping murder suspect alive, in his basement".

 

 Funnily enough i, and most other people i'd imagine, read NY as New York. Like that "I

I think what happened was I typed it originally as "LA", but then changed it to "Los Angeles" because I didn't want people to think it was LA (Louisiana)...

it's okay. you probably won't get fired. i send out work emails all the time filled with punctuation and grammatical errors and i haven't gotten fried yet.

  On 10/7/2016 at 4:20 PM, Joyrex said:

 

  On 10/6/2016 at 9:18 PM, juiceciuj said:

shouldn't it be "how a los angeles blah blah blah" not "how AN los angeles blah blah blah"

 

but i was just being a prick and mocking people who bitch about editors on blogs 

D'oh! I always make that mistake... sorry! Fixed now

  On 10/7/2016 at 5:43 AM, delet... said:

 Perhaps joyrex reads Los Angeles as LA. Maybe New York as NY as well. So next we'll be reading about "An New York painter keeping murder suspect alive, in his basement".

 

 Funnily enough i, and most other people i'd imagine, read NY as New York. Like that "I

I think what happened was I typed it originally as "LA", but then changed it to "Los Angeles" because I didn't want people to think it was LA (Louisiana)...

 

 LOL .. but 'muh theories'.