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6 thoughts on ““I Take Up My Pen”: San Fernando Stake, 1945”

  2. I’m not entirely sure, David, but it might have been in the ’70s — I have a vague personal memory of the announcement. Will try to find out.

  3. I presume that the stake president’s “office” was actually his business office. Or did the church actually rent office space in commercial buildings for stake presidents?

    It would have been convenient enough for the people who commuted into downtown Los Angeles, but not for people who worked up in Burbank or other parts of the San Fernando Valley.

  4. I suspect you’re right, Mark — just as the design (even the existence) of local Church letterheads rested with local leaders, designation of an office other than in a local chapel must have been at the discretion of local leaders. I can’t imagine the Church authorizing rental of an office outside the local meeting house. (But in that case it seems a little odd that the stake president’s name doesn’t appear on the letterhead. It must have been a small enough professional office that calls and mail could be directed without knowing the name.)

  5. The address for the “Office” is not a street address. It seems likely it would have been the main downtown bank location located at 649 South Olive Street. This building was formerly Bank of Italy before the Merger, and after remodeling (and the creation of the Bank of America tower in 70s) was Gianni Place. The current proposal is to turn it into a hotel.

    The only other bank location I can turn up is the Bank of America building in WestWood Village (1099 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024, Currently a Japanese Restaurant).

  6. Thanks, Anon. That address does seem to match the name “Bank of America Building.” And it’s tall enough–11 or 12 stories, depending on how many floors there are behind those columns at the bottom and the top–to have a ninth floor, where I would guess number 921 would have been.

    That location is of interest to me, because my mother worked at the main branch of Bank of America from the time she graduated from high school until just a few months before my oldest sister was born, from 1943 until spring of 1950, with just 20 months off to serve a mission. I’m guessing that she would not have known that a stake president had his office upstairs.

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