L.A. Auto Show: Still Crazy After All These Years

LOS ANGELES — With all the hoopla the Los Angeles Auto Show has received during the past two years, due simply to a calendar adjustment, you’d think it was in its infancy.

Nope, the show is all grown up. The first was held in 1907, and as that year’s January 23rd edition of The Los Angeles Times noted, “Los Angeles has entered the automobilist’s galaxy by having an automobile show of her own, the first ever held on the Pacific Coast.” Familiar automakers — Ford and Cadillac among them — strutted their stuff, as did automakers no longer with us, like Overland and Peerless.