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1947-Seattle Star ceases publication – radio listings August 13
October 19, 2024 at QZVX
T.K. says:
The Scripps League (held by Ed and Jim Scripps, grandsons of E.W. Scripps) owned not only the Star, but the Tacoma Times and the Bremerton Sun. They helped fund the establishment of a paper in San Luis Obispo by their cousin John P. Scripps with a promissory note backed by about a quarter of the Bremerton Sun stock. It was in John Scripps’ interest to keep the Sun a going concern, so he ended up buying out the remaining shares in 1940 when the Scripps League began to decline. That’s why the Sun survived when it’s sister papers folded.
October 19, 2024 at QZVX
Lou Robbins says:
That Sunday-on-Saturday paper is the one I would buy from the newsstand at Brown’s Star Grill in Tacoma, getting a hot serving of Stredicke radio info.
October 17, 2024 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
At our house, the Times was called the White and the Star was called the Pink.
October 18, 2024 at QZVX
Lou Robbins says:
Was the Star printed on pink newsprint?
October 18, 2024 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
Yes, the first section’s outer sheet was, so say there were twelve pages in that section, then pages 1, 2, 11 and 12 were on pink newsprint.
My dad was a news junkie and we had The Times, Star and Post-Intelligencer in the house seven days a week. He never subscribed because the latest editions weren’t delivered.
The first P-I on the newsstands was the Sunrise Final and it was followed by the 6 AM Final. P-I subscribers received the Sunrise Edition, off the presses around 2:00 A. M., with one exception – residents of the ritzy Grosvenor House Apartments, across Wall Street from the P-I building, had the 6 AM Final delivered by a trusted employee who had a key to the building.
For The Times, we paper boys delivered the Sunset Final, followed on the newsstands by the Night Final and then the Night Sports Final, which hit the stands at about 6:00 P. M.
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