CALENDAR SECTION only of the Los Angeles Times, Feb. 14, 1985 

* Early "Metallica" heavy metal band 
* Hollywood Palladium advertisement 
* Bassist Cliff Burton era - "Ride the Lightning"

This Calendar section of the Times is loaded with entertainment related material throughout. Page 61 has a 4 x 3 3/4 inch advertisement with a few upcoming performances at The Hollywood Palladium including one by Metallica with Armored Saint. (see images)
A very early item for this Los Angeles based Heavy Metal band before they became iconic.
I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete Calendar section only with all 92 pages, tabloid size, great condition.

Background: The March 10, 1985, performance at the Hollywood Palladium—boldly heralded in the Los Angeles Times just weeks prior—stands as a watershed moment in heavy metal history, capturing the exact flashpoint where underground thrash metal definitively broke into the mainstream consciousness. Shared with local power-metal titans Armored Saint, the concert served as a victorious homecoming and a changing of the guard in a Southern California landscape otherwise dominated by the polished, radio-friendly glam metal of the Sunset Strip. By filling a prestigious, large-capacity venue like the Palladium on the strength of Ride the Lightning, Metallica proved that raw speed, complex compositions, and aggressive street-level authenticity possessed massive commercial viability without the need for mainstream radio airplay. Furthermore, because high-quality soundboard audio survived to immortalize the unmatched, ferocious chemistry of the definitive early lineup—particularly the virtuosic bass work of the late Cliff Burton—this event acts as a pristine historical time capsule documenting the precise weekend Metallica transitioned from underground tape-trading icons into an unstoppable, arena-bound cultural phenomenon.