Photos: Angels Gate Lighthouse

Allan Johnson looks out at the L.A. Harbor breakwater from the light room atop the Angels Gate Lighthouse.
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Allan Johnson, vice president of the Cabrillo Beach Boosters Club, finishes a walk through the Angels Gate Lighthouse. “In my opinion, it’s as important to us at this end of Los Angeles as Griffith Observatory is at that end of Los Angeles,” he said of the historic lighthouse.
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Allan Johnson runs his hand over the rusted wall on the southeast section of the Angels Gate Lighthouse, just one of the things needing attention at the site.
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Allan Johnson prepares to open a rusty but still working outer door as he walks through the old Angels Gate Lighthouse.
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Sea lions congregate around the rocks and kelp at the Angels Gate Lighthouse.
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A U.S. Water Taxi transport boat leaves the Angels Gate Lighthouse in its wake. When work gets underway at the lighthouse, expected next spring, the taxi service will ferry the workers to the site each day.
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