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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the Twin City Pigeon Eliminating Co. of St. Paul wrote: "Our representative will be in Los Angeles for the purpose of contracting with building owners to eliminate and control common scrub pigeons. We would like to have you provide us with a list of the names and addresses of buildings affected by these birds...
...Chamber promptly sent one of its men scurrying to compile a list. Such attention to the smallest business, plus a special brand of California civic spirit, has made the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce one of the most successful forces of its kind in the world. Last week, it totted up its achievements for the past year. It had 1) helped get freight-rate reductions on steel from Geneva, Utah; 2) promoted a $1 billion state highway program with special benefits for Los Angeles; and 3) persuaded 200 new enterprises, with about 7,800 new jobs, to settle...
Walnut Elephants. Most of the growth was promoted without the gaudy hoopla that outsiders associate with Los Angeles. Southern California has its ace barkers, but the businessmen of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce favor blue serge suits more than checked vests...
...checked vest legend in Los Angeles is traceable to a promoter named Frank Wiggins, who started the promotion of the city in 1893 with a life-sized elephant made of California walnuts. The elephant made such a hit at the World's Fair in Chicago that Wiggins, as superintendent of exhibits for the budding Chamber, made another one to send around the country...
...Heart's Desire," barnstorming trains full of oversized California vegetables, claims that "mad dogs and sunstroke are never known here." Under Wiggins, the Chamber spearheaded the development of the city's $220,000,000 aqueduct and its $59,000,000 artificial harbor. His uninhibited supersalesmanship put the Los Angeles Chamber...