But she also, you know, was a street photographer and loved the city she lived in and captured it, you know, from downtown to the ocean.

All of the photos she donated are digitized, so you can go to Tessa.lapl.org to view the archive.

And her photos kind of like run the gamut in terms of subject matter and style.

So sometimes, you know, she would take very kind of gorgeous um scenic photos of Los Angeles, be it the um the skyline or the ocean.

She would sometimes go to the airport and shoot the planes taking off and landing.

Um, but she'd also, you know, just get into her car and just shoot the city from her car.

And so here's one example of that.

So it's Main Street, it's the Skid Row area, um, where you can actually see her car, and you can also see the side mirror, so that's how you can kind of identify and get a sense of where she was.

So there are a lot of interesting photos like that.

Um, you know, she would also sometimes go into buildings, and this is I think a really fascinating photo.

It's the Taft building in Hollywood where she had the vantage point to look into the building, and so we can kind of see um people working.

So it's it's very rear window, this photo.

You know, and then there are their iconic photos of the Hollywood sign.

Here's just a really interesting rear view of the Broadway Hollywood sign.

And I mentioned she shot on a number of different mediums.

So we also have color photos, and so we have some slides, and sometimes she'll just do just kind of whimsical things.

So we have the Smith Brothers Fish Shanty Restaurant on La Siena, the entrance of which is just a giant whale mouth.

So this is something that no longer exists.

Sadly, I never got to visit, but it's wonderful that we have this color, you know, visual documentation of it.

Um, she shot on Melrose a lot.

One of the images that really resonates with me is this image of Ardvark's odd arc um secondhand clothing store, vintage clothing store on Melrose.

And this was a shop I would go to quite a bit in the late 80s and early 90s.

My mom, when I was in high school, she would take me there to do back to school shopping.

And so this is an image that you know just brings back a lot of memories.

So I think Carol's is a collection that, you know, if you want to see the city kind of as it was in the 80s and 90s, it's there.

Um if you lived through it, I think you can go and it can generate a great deal of nostalgia.

And I think it's just also interesting to kind of see a photographer's perspective.

So, you know, we have all of these photos in our collection, and I think a lot of times people will search for specific things, which is great, but sometimes it's also I think nice to look like at a photographer's body of work to kind of get a sense of what resonated with them and how they were viewing the city.

And I think it also um points out how important it is when you know photos are posted online that the photographers need to be credited.

Um, because you know, it was their vision, they produced this, and in Carol's case, you know, she very consciously wanted to make sure that the world had access to her photos.

So, you know, the least we can do is honor her by crediting her.

So again, if you want to visit um Carol's archive, you can go to Tessa.lapl.org where there's also over 135,000 photos in counting from our entire photo collection.

Hello everyone, I'm Natalia Belvao, and here's what's happening in LA this week.

Influenza or the flu can affect people very seriously.

However, there are some preventive measures anyone can take to reduce the likelihood of catching the virus.

We got the latest information from Keck Medicine of USC.

Influenza is a viral illness.

It typically causes what many of us refer to as common cold symptoms, sore throat, runny nose, fevers, muscle aches, chills.

It can lead to serious illness, including pneumonia and hospitalization in some cases.

You catch the flu from other people.

If you know that somebody's sick, you can wear a mask and you can get vaccinated with the seasonal influenza virus vaccine.

If you get the flu vaccine now, you can protect yourself for the remainder of the flu season.

The flu virus went into a bit of a dormancy during COVID because everybody was wearing a mask, everybody's taking precautions.

So we had some seasons where the flu virus really wasn't very prominent.

Now we're no longer taking those precautions, and because a lot of us didn't catch the flu in the last few years, some of our immunity to the flu virus has waned.

In addition, in recent years, more and more people have decided not to get vaccinated.

The flu vaccine is safe and effective.

One of the main reasons to get it is it reduces the likelihood that your influenza will be a severe disease.

Some people with the flu do get very sick, do end up in the hospital, and do die, unfortunately.

It's a more serious virus than maybe some of the other viruses that cause a common cold.

If you don't get the flu, you're not going to pass it along to somebody else.

You may have somebody in your life, an elderly parent or a young child who may be more at risk for severe disease, and also you want to be contributing to keeping our society healthy and safe.

It's not just for yourself, although it will benefit you to get the flu vaccine, but but it's also you know to help protect those around you.

The Palisades Library was totally destroyed in the wildfire, but that is not going to be the end of their story.

With a relief fund to help staff and another to help the recovery of services, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and LA Public Library are writing the Palisades branch a new chapter.

Well, with all Angelinas, I was watching the news like everyone else, and I was certainly very concerned and watching the progress of the fires, and it wasn't until that morning after that uh I had learned that the library was a complete loss, and it was just devastating, and it was a loss for everyone who works here.

Because libraries are centers of community, they're essential, they serve absolutely everybody.

Building that center of community back and building it back is to do that.

Within days of the wildfires breaking out, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles created two funds.

The first was the Palisades Branch Recovery Fund, and the second was the LAPL staffed emergency fund.