Photos: The day the presses stopped running | A farewell to the Los Angeles Times Olympic plant
Press operator Marc Strong walks past a conveyor belt that transports Los Angeles Times newspapers from the press room to where the newspapers are packaged and distributed at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
The March 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times print edition will be its last at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
The presses have gone silent.
Starting with the March 12 print edition, the paper will be printed in Riverside by the Southern California Newspaper Group, with its circulation numbers remaining the same.
Staff photographer Genaro Molina documented the closure of the storied plant Sunday and the pressmen who made it all happen.
Genaro Molina is an award-winning staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times. He has worked in journalism for more than 35 years starting at the San Francisco Chronicle. Molina has photographed the life and death of Pope John Paul II, the tragedy of AIDS in Africa, the impact of Hurricane Katrina, and Cuba after Castro. His work has appeared in nine books and his photographs have been exhibited extensively including at the Smithsonian Institute and the Annenberg Space for Photography.