Good-bye 5215 Torrance Blvd.

As some of you may know, the newspaper I work for, the Daily Breeze, has undergone a lot of changes the last two years. The paper was sold to Media News Group and the property where we worked from since 1965 was sold to a hospital. We were supposed to be out long ago. Finally, this past Friday, we put out our last paper from this historic Torrance Boulevard plant.

Once, about 400 workers swarmed the building as every bit of the product was done on site. Now, there are probably about 60 or so of us left, with outsourcing, lay-offs and such. Despite moving to some shiny new digs a couple miles up the road, times remain uncertain. In the last few weeks, we've undergone another round of lay-offs, learned that the newspaper will be designed and edited 35 miles away, lost our 401k matches and were told to take five unpaid days off in the next two months.

Here's a few shots from the last days at our old location:Me in "Lake Singleton" with fellow reporters Andrea Woodhouse, Larry Altman and Gene Maddaus.