Some people braved the heat on Monday to get one last look at the bones, fossils, and the bubbling crude oil at the La Brea Tar Pits before it closes for two years.
The park and the George C. Page Museum will undergo their first makeover in nearly five decades and will cost $240 million.
KNX News’ Jon Baird spoke with people who went to check it out one last time.
“I haven't been here since I was little,” she said. “We were going to either come today or tomorrow and then I texted everybody, you can't come tomorrow. We have to go today.”
One man said he was lucky to catch another look one last time.
“We came here on a field trip with my elementary school way back in the day,” he told Baird. “I grew up out here, and then I live on the East Coast now, and then bringing the family back to see some family, and this was one of our things to do, and then just so happened that it was like on the last day. So we got lucky.”
The La Brea Tar Pits are set to reopen in time for the 2028 Olympics.
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