Primo Desidero performing freestyle skateboarding as crowd looks on in Venice Beach, Calif., 1984 Date: July 8, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Leonard Simon with Valerie Maynard's Monzini bronze "We Are Tied to the Very Beginning," 1986 Date: January 24, 1986 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
MTV's Mark Goodman interviewing comedian Eddie Murphy at premiere of motion picture "Purple Rain", 1984 Date: July 28, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Lionel Richie, Apollonia Kotero, and Eddie Murphy at premiere of motion picture "Purple Rain" in Los Angeles, Calif., 1984 Date: July 28, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Escape artist Tim Eric performing in chains and straitjacket as crowd looks on in Venice Beach, Calif., 1984 Date: July 8, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Policemen Robert Rodriguez and William Lustig in court, Los Angeles, Calif., 1986 Date: December 23, 1986 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Scene from Los Angeles Theatre Center production of "La Victima," 1987 Date: February 14, 1987 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Artist Carlos Almaraz in his studio, Los Angeles, Calif., 1989 Date: February 4, 1989 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Kimolin Smith and other contestants applying their make-up before the Miss Inglewood Pageant, Calif., 1984 Date: August 20, 1984 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Three African American children mingling with police officer at Nickerson Gardens Housing Project in Los Angeles, Calif., 1985 Date: January 7, 1985 Resource Type: still image Photographer: Jaskol, Ellen Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections