Category: Photo

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 these wheels aren’t as well-known to the general public as those at the Petersen Automotive Museum, they offer a fascinating look at how Los Angeles’ love affair with the automobile has evolved. Public tours of the collection—stored in a climate-controlled facility in Gardena—are coming this fall, but for now, take a spin through our photo gallery. Photos by Scott Harms/Los Angeles County

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.

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 and pilot projects managed by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. The collection also includes artworks created since the 2004 launch of a new Civic Art Program, requiring that 1% of the design and construction costs on new county capital projects be set aside in a Civic Art fund. Here’s a sample from across the county.

A lens on their young lives

Local flavor blossoms at farmers’ markets

What’s fresh and green and fun all over? Farmers’ markets, of course—and the 3^rd 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 people-watching.

Photos of Hollywood Farmers’ Market by Tali Stolzenberg-Myers

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 the inspectors come across, from illicit hot dog carts and unlicensed taquerias to raw meat and seemingly innocent fruit being stored at unhealthily warm temperatures. As the county moves forward with a proposal to issue letter grades to law-abiding mobile food vendors, its war on the outlaws continues unabated.