We Begin a Very Pleasant Day of Downtown Field Trips

September 15, 2005
We Tour the Los Angeles Times

We are about to begin our Los Angeles Times tour. We had a nice turnout for our day of Downtown field trips.

As grand as the Times is, there is only one way to start a day of Downtown field trips: with breakfast at Phillippe's.

Phillippe's has been Downtown for more than 90 years.

A pair of MC101s strike a pose.

	I rode Downtown on the Metro Red Line, the city's subway. It is an excellent way to travel. And, according to this ad, it's a great place to meet celebrities.
	Meantime, back at the Times, we arrive at an ornate marble lobby where there is an exhibit on the history of newspapers, the Times and Los Angeles. Among other things, students are able to immerse themselves into this scene on L.A.'s Spring Street, circa 1915.
	We learned that the printing presses (which are many decades newer than this model) are no longer at the Downtown location.

We meandered through the Times newsroom. Some of the stuff we saw there is quite whimsical.