Revelers gather on a rooftop on Sunset Blvd. to get a view of the Sunset Junction Festival, August 24, 2008 in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
People enjoy the Sunset Junction Festival on Sunset Blvd, August 24, 2008 in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
People, street vendors, carnival rides and stages packed the area for the two days of the festival. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
Susie Majarreza and her daughter Cathrine Guzman, 3, enjoy a slide during the Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
Jay Sugi and his wife Golda Parong, right, peruse some rock-inspired clothes for their 5-month-old baby, Jake Sugi, helped by “Punk Baby’s” owner Maile Malin, center, during the Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
“Monty” the python did not need a wristband to get inside the Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
The rides spun on into the night for the two days of the Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
Gil Cerezo, lead singer of the band Kinky, entertains the Sunset Junction Festival’s crowd in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
People enjoy the Kinky concert during the Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, front, and Patrick Carney, back on drums, share their scruffy guitar rock with the crowd at the Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
Dan Auerbach, singer and guitarist for the rock-blues duo Black Keys, sports a neo-lumberjack look as he plays for the crowd at Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles. (Stefano Paltera / For The Times)
