Right here they arrive: Images present crowds returning to Southern California vacationer scorching spots

After a yr of enterprise closures and journey restrictions which have devastated the vacationer economic system, retailers and guests say exercise is beginning to decide up.

“I do really feel just like the pandemic is over,” mentioned Kemuel Kendrick, 19, who was buying on the Santa Monica Promenade with three associates from Charleston, S.C. “Clearly, all of us have masks on, however in any other case, I don’t actually have that concern anymore.”

Public officers, nevertheless, say the pandemic will not be over and are sounding the alarm that the following week or so — spring break mixed with Passover and Easter Sunday — might unwind California’s hard-won good points towards the coronavirus. The confluence of occasions might spark elevated journey, social gatherings and celebrations — all of which might, with out precautions, heighten the danger of coronavirus transmission.

L.A. Occasions photographers visited some standard native locations and located locals in addition to out-of-state guests congregating — various them with out masks and social distancing typically nonexistent — to benefit from the heat climate.