 "It's funny this building should wait 97 years for me to move into it before burning.It really hasn't hit me yet.I think tomorrow is going to be a very grim day" More than 5,000 cartoons and sketches burned in the April 1987 fire, but a few weeks later Guindon learned that Irv Letofsky, Sunday editor of the "Los Angeles Times" "Calendar" section, had saved a copy of every Guindon cartoon syndicated over a decade.