Photo Gallery: Black Friday shoppers at Glendale Galleria, Burbank’s Empire Center
From left, Maria Quintero, of Glendale, Lisette Uribe of Glendale and Elsy Quintero of L.A., carry loads of bags from a shopping spree at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Jonathan Smith, 18, of Burbank, right, along with Mariah Bankhead, 18, left, and Jasmine Smith, 18, right, figure out how to best put their 32” television into their car outside the Empire Center’s Best Buy in Burbank on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Shoppers carry large items like toys and bedding while shopping at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Customers steadily came out with large items like television sets from the Empire Center’s Best Buy in Burbank on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Some shoppers were noticeably tired after a grabbing items at different stores at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Customers flocked to stores early for the best deals, like at the Empire Center’s Best Buy in Burbank on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Shoppers got out early to area stores like at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
KTLA’s reporter Wendy Burch gets into the spirit of things as she belts out a tune with Santa, Gary Sula-Goff, early in the morning at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Sula-Goff is the mall’s resident Santa. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Lisette Uribe of Glendale took advantage of price reductions at the Disney Store at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Even Santa, aka Gary Sula-Goff, got out for some early morning shopping at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Sula-Goff is the resident Santa during the holidays at the Glendale mall. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
The Empire Center’s Best Buy had customers steadily coming out with large items, like computer monitors and television sets in Burbank on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)
Gary Sula-Goff as Santa belts out Christmas songs at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale on Black Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Sula-Goff is the resident Santa at the Glendale mall. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)