Tourism Cares for Los Angeles volunteers get their marching orders at White Point Nature Preserve, a 102-acre natural habitat on Paseo Del Mar in San Pedro. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Linda and Bill Androlia clean seeds from a native toyon shrub that will be used for future plantings. Linda Androlia is president of Sunstone Tours & Cruises in Malibu. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Volunteer James Galloway of the Los Angeles office of Cox & Kings mulches recent plantings at ocean-side green space. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
A team of helpers were tasked with cleaning and waxing the Korean Bell of Friendship. It was cast in South Korea and given to the U.S. in 1976 for the bicentennial. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Richard Flores from Hicksville, N.Y., removes grime from the base of the Korean Friendship Bell. Flores works for MaCher, which brands products for the travel industry. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Patrick Marsden, a Venice, Calif., resident who also works for MaCher, works on the bell. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Patrick Marsden uses elbow grease on the 17-ton Korean Bell of Friendship, which sits on a bluff with sweeping ocean views. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
A Tourism Cares team spent the day painting and cleaning the Lane Victory, a 1945 merchant marine ship at the harbor. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Patty Janes displays her team leader T-shirt deep inside the Lane Victory. She teaches hospitality at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Dirt-encrusted historic Jeeps after they were washed and rewashed by volunteers. Among the vehicles: a red fire truck that was used in 1953 during the Korean war. The team also helped create a better visitor experience by removing a fence that had obscured the vehicles. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Tasks on the merchant marine ship included painting tight corridors inside the ship. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Other waterfront landmarks getting the Tourism Cares treatment was the battleship Iowa, above, one of the L.A.’s most recent attractions, and the Banning Museum in Wilmington. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Volunteers from more than 20 states participated in Friday’s event. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
Stephanie Rennie of Melbourne, Australia, is believed to have come the farthest for the marathon work day. Rennie, who works for MaCher, helped out on the Iowa. (Tom Politeo / For The Times)
