SOUTHLAND : Herald Examiner Sales Boom
The last edition of the once powerful Los Angeles Herald Examiner hit the streets of Los Angeles and Orange counties today, but only briefly, as souvenir seekers cleaned out most news racks shortly after dawn.
Entrepreneurs were reported to be getting as much as $20 a copy for the papers with the bold “SO LONG, L.A.!” headline.
“Some kid on fraternity row flagged down the Herald truck when it got here this morning and bought six bundles (of 50 papers each),” said Gary Pine at the sports information office at USC.
“The last we heard, he’d sold three bundles--at $20 a copy.”
Bob Martin, circulation manager for the paper, said nearly 380,000 papers had been sold by noon. Martin, who said the boom marked the fourth-best sales day in the paper’s history, said the paper would print an extra 10,000 newspapers.
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