Charles Harris Garrigues

Charles Harris Garrigues (1903–1974) was a California writer and journalist who wrote as C.H. Garrigues. He was a general-assignment reporter in Los Angeles, California, in the 1920s, a grand jury investigator and political activist in the 1930s, a newspaper copy editor in the 1940s and a jazz critic in the 1950s. His nickname was Brick, for his red hair.

The fourth child of Charles Louis and Emily Young Garrigues, Charles Harris was born on July 8, 1903, in Wakeeney, Kansas. The family later moved to Imperial, California, near the Mexican border.

While attending Imperial High School, the 15-year-old Garrigues wrote a letter to the local newspaper, the Imperial Enterprise, calling a previous letter-writer "ignorant" because of the views the latter had expressed in attacking a resigned Imperial High principal. As a result, the lad was expelled by the school board in May 1918. The expulsion resulted in what the Enterprise called a "Walkout of High School Students," who "paraded the streets to demonstrate their dissatisfaction at the refusal of the faculty to reinstate C. H. Garrigues of the senior class." Garrigues was befriended by the editor of the newspaper, who taught him the craft of journalism, and in 1919 he was allowed to graduate.

Garrigues attended the University of Southern California for a year but dropped out to become a reporter with the Hemet News in Riverside County, California. He then worked for the Venice Vanguard in Venice, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, and by mid-decade was with the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona. In 1926, he returned to Los Angeles, where he joined the Los Angeles Express as a copy editor. The next year he had become a reporter with the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, published by Manchester Boddy, where he specialized in reporting on civic affairs, particularly the county government.

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