We asked our photographers to pick their favorite images from July 2023, and here are some they selected.
Summer finally arrived as July heated up and people hit the beaches – the theme of the month was traditions.
Fourth of July lit up the sky, but not before Huntington Beach held it’s 119th Independence Day Parade, the self-proclaimed, “biggest Fourth of July Parade west of the Mississippi River.”
Another long-standing tradition reappeared in Huntington Beach: Adventure Playground, where children paddle on rafts, climb wooden forts and slip down mudslides. It reopened for the summer after being closed since 2019.
The traditions continued down the coast in Newport Beach where hundreds of participants in the city’s Junior Lifeguard program. They ran into the water at the start of a buoy swim near the Balboa Pier on Ben Carlson Day. Carlson, which honors a Newport Beach lifeguard who died saving a swimmer during a big swell in 2014.
In Costa Mesa, the OC Fair opened its doors for the 133rd time, and has already seen several sold-out days.
Tradition circled the race track in Cypress as dachshunds competed in the 26th running of the Wienerschnitzel Wiener Nationals at the Los Alamitos Race Course.
Both Los Angels football teams, The Rams and The Chargers, opened their traditional training camps, welcome fans to see their favorite players.
And, down in Laguna Beach, an almost century-old tradition continued as enthusiasts turned out in droves to celebrate the Pageant of the Masters’ 90th season by taking part in a lively and colorful parade through the downtown. The parade, which welcomed festival revelers to dress up as their favorite artists or works of art, was a nod to the pageant’s very first living pictures parade in 1933, which took place during the Festival of Arts’ second year.
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