The Recycler is a Los Angeles based, classifieds only newspaper, started by Gunter and Nancy Schaldach in 1973. The Recycler was based in Silverlake (a district of Los Angeles) and was subsequently sold to the Times Mirror Company in 1998. The company was initially composed of Jon from England, Barbie, from Canada and Dennis from Michigan. The Gunther and Nancy had, along with Jon and Barbie, operated a similar operation in Canada. They came to Los Angeles and started the Los Angeles version in 1973. Dennis came on as the typesetter around that time. The typesetting was done on a Compugraphic 2000 'cold type' typesetting machine. The original idea was that the ads were free and The Recycler was sold for .25 cents at the time. Jon would distribute the papers to the stores. Barbie was involved in Sales also. The 'company vehicle' was one of the original Honda Civics and an old Oldsmobile (or Chevrolet) station wagon.