Remember When the Times Printed in Chatsworth?

It was 1984. The Olympic Games were in Los Angeles. The city was flush with promise. The newspaper was fat with advertising.

The Los Angeles Times took advantage of boom times and launched a daily edition covering local news in the San Fernando Valley. Hundreds of editors and writers were assigned to a new newsroom and printing plant at 20000 Prairie St. in Chatsworth.

And today is the anniversary of when that edition was launched: Oct. 4, 1984.

But eventually advertising declined and that promise faded. And on Jan. 6, 2006, the presses which printed both the Valley and Ventura editions of the Times were shut down for good.

Click here to see a slideshow of what happened inside the Times as that Final Edition rolled off the presses.

Since then the Times shut a printing plant in Orange County. The last remaining printing facility is the Olympic plant in an industrial section of downtown Los Angeles.

Today, the Times building in Chatsworth is occupied by MGA Entertainment, the folks who produce the pouty Bratz doll.