Carrying tools and supplies, workers file off their boat onto the Angels Gate breakwater as the sun comes up. Ringed with scaffolding and plastic sheeting the 99-year-old lighthouse at the entrance to Los Angeles Harbor was refurbished and made watertight.
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Condensation frames a worker as he looks at the sea from the lighthouse's dome shortly after sunrise.
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Laboring inside the plastic protective sheeting, workers manhandle heavy cast-iron trim into place as they refurbish the Angels Gate lighthouse.
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A fishing boat passes the Angels Gate lighthouse while it was still surrounded by scaffolding.
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Allan Johnson of the Cabrillo Beach Boosters Club runs his hand over a rusted iron wall of the Angels Gate Lighthouse at the mouth of Los Angeles Harbor.
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A worker applies galvanizing zinc spray to the cast iron trim of the Angels Gate lighthouse.
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The Angels Gate lighthouse was showing its more than 90 years in May 2010, but Allan Johnson and the Cabrillo Beach Boosters Club helped in an effort to refurbish it.
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Newly refurbished, the southeast corner of the structure was the most weathered because it faces the open sea and gets the worst of the sun, ocean spray and rain.
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Miguel Nunez touches up spot on iron fence around the top of the Angels Gate lighthouse in Los Angeles Harbor.
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Crews carry away the final tools and materials used to refurbish the Angels Gate lighthouse. More than $1.8 million was spent repainting and shoring up its weathered exterior.
PHOTOGRAPH BY: Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times
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