Twenty six stories up in City Hall, you’ll find the mayors of Los Angeles. Not a surprise to find mayors in City Hall, but you’ll find not one of them, but almost all of them -- more than 150 years of Hizzoners, all painted in oils and hanging in the mayors’ portrait gallery.

Soon, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s portrait will join the rest – minus three mayors whose faces no one evidently bothered to record. 

Patt Morrison visits City Hall to find out how the paintings came to be here and why.