Alan Greth: What a Difference Twenty Years Make

I was thinking about LA yesterday after that job announcement, and came across some of Alan Greth’s images in the collection. SO LA, SO ’80s, S...

I was thinking about LA yesterday after that job announcement, and came across some of Alan Greth’s images in the collection. SO LA, SO ’80s, SO crazy. I’d love to give a novelist (or an alien from another planet) these three images and see what they come up with.

A little about Mr. Greth:

Alan Greth has been a working photojournalist since 1986 when he
started his first staff photographer job at the Whittier Daily News in
the Los Angeles area. Greth Worked for the Associated Press as a Staff
Photographer and a stringer. He has been Director of Photography at the
Oakland Tribune and and most recently Executive Photo Editor at the
Contra Costa Times in California for the past eight years.

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan reaches into hit coat pocket as he
walks out of a Sees Candy store in Century City, Calif December 8,
1989. Reagan was Christmas Shopping.

A helicopter flys near the First Interstate Bank building in Los
Angeles as the building burns Thursday May 4, 1988. One person died and
30 were injured in the worst high-rise fire in Los Angeles history.
This picture ran on the front page of the New York Times on May 6,
1988.

Jose Canseco of the Oakland Athletics, right, and his wife Esther walk
on the tarmac after arriving at Los Angeles International Airport in
Los Angeles for a World Series game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in
October of 1988. Canseco became the first player in Major League
history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases. Canseco was unanimously
named the American League’s MVP in 1988.

Anyhoo.