Los Angeles's the Palms Neighborhood

George Garrigues has been a journalist since his brother, Charles Samuel Garrigues, put together a hand-printed newspaper, to send to their absent father in a distant city. Later, the said absent father wangled a job for George as a copyboy on the San Francisco Examiner, at the age of 15, and they worked together in the same newsroom, the father on the copy desk, and the son on the copy bench, which is where all the copyboys sat. George wrote a book about his father, He Usually Lived With a Female, which is now out of print, but you can still buy it very cheaply on Amazon.com. George was a reporter on the Inglewood Daily News, Ontario (California) Daily Report, and Los Angeles Times. He later was a journalism professor at several universities. He worked in public relations for the State of California (San Francisco and Sacramento) and the International Labor Office (Geneva, Switzerland). He is currently authoring the Read All About It! Series of ebooks telling the stories of actual people of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, using real newspaper articles from that era.