Photo Galleries

Baby, you can’t drive these cars

This 1953 Cadillac Eldorado reflects the design dominance of GM's legendary Harley Earl, who was born and raised in Hollywood. It just might be the best vintage car collection you’ve never heard of. L.A. County’s Natural History Museum has accumulated some pretty sweet rides over the years. While... [Read more]

A public life

Zev Yaroslavsky, now in his final term as a Los Angeles County Supervisor, has spent nearly four decades in elective office, starting in 1975 on the City Council at the age of 26. Here’s a photo gallery of some memorable moments along the way. ... [Read more]

Riding to the rescue for 100 years

Bathing beauties were still posing on county lifeguard trucks in 1959. Photo/LA County Lifeguard Assn. Summer isn’t summer in Los Angeles County without the bright yellow vehicles of the beach patrol. “Iconic” is how Chief Lifeguard Mike Frazer described them last week as the Board of Supervisors... [Read more]

Artwork in the public eye

From swimming pools to court houses, art is thriving on the walls and in the buildings of Los Angeles County-owned facilities. Our growing Civic Art collection includes works that have been donated to the county, commissioned under the auspices of the Board of Supervisors and various county departments... [Read more]

A lens on their young lives

For months, Venice Arts teamed with ten youths between the ages of 13 and 18 to document their lives through photography in the downtown Garment District. The photographers–recruited at St. Francis Center, a service agency for the homeless and near homeless–are primarily the children of... [Read more]

Local flavor blossoms at farmers’ markets

What’s fresh and green and fun all over? Farmers’ markets, of course—and the 3rd District is bursting with them. No longer just a place to find the makings for a locally-grown dinner, a thriving market is now a scene unto itself, complete with music, chatting, sampling, strolling and world-class... [Read more]

A virtual ridealong with the food cops

Inspectors with Los Angeles County’s street vending compliance program encounter a stomach-churning array of unsafe food preparation practices as they work with law enforcement to conduct regular raids across the region. These photos provided by the Department of Public Health offer a glimpse of what... [Read more]

Leaf peeping, Beverly Hills-style

If you think of fall color as a strictly New England phenomenon, you haven’t visited the county’s Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly Hills. These photos, with radiant persimmon trees providing much of the autumnal mood, showcase some of what can be found in the Italian Terrace section of the garden... [Read more]

An autumn story, in living color

Southern California may specialize in the colorful and unexpected, but here’s something that even locals can appreciate as a novelty: From Topanga to Pomona, the hills and streets have turned scarlet and gold with fall foliage. And if the 2010 colors seem unusually vivid, botanists say, it’s... [Read more]