LFIA’s Photo Day is now LFIA Photo Season, newly stretched out from one weekend afternoon to six weeks.  Plenty of time to look through your old (and not so old ) photos and pick the best ones to donate to LFIA. 

Each year, we settle on a theme, and this year we’re looking images (and any accompanying stories) of the Merry-Go Round in Griffith Park.  The merry-go-round has a special place in Los Feliz history. Tom LaBonge fell in love with it when he was three, and for the rest of his life it was where he went to celebrate. When he was first sworn in as City Councilmember in 2003, he threw the party there. 

All photos of life in Los Feliz through the years are happily welcomed, too. Check your closets, drawers and scrapbooks, because those shoeboxes deserve an audience! Donated photos will be posted to LFIA’s online Photo Gallery at LFIA Historic Photo Archive.

Send your photos to photoday@lfia.org. Questions can go to the same address.

Your photos could help with the restoration, too. Rec and Parks bought the merry-go-round this summer and is raising money to restore it, and the restorers are especially interested in old photos that show the horses’ original colors.