Amelia "Lindy" Posada, makes preperations inside Lindy & Grundy butcher shop on Fairfax Ave. in Wes

Amelia "Lindy" Posada, makes preperations inside Lindy & Grundy butcher shop on Fairfax Ave. in West Hollywood on March 10, 2011. In background is a photograph of Posada, left, and her wife Erika "Grundy" Nakamura. Posada and Nakamura apprenticed at Fleisher's meats in Kingston, N.Y., for eight months before moving west in August of 2010. They sell locally sourced, pasture–raised organic meat. Posada grew up in Pasadena, and Nakamura is from Tokyo. Their butcher shop opened up for business on April 5, 2011. For an audio photo gallery go to latimes.com/population an ongoing photo story feature series on the people of Los Anglees. The mountains? Stunning. The coastline? Divine. The climate? Unbeatable. But L.A.'s richest resource and greatest glory is its people, a clamoring carnival of both native–born and transplants, of dreamers and believers. Pop.u.LA.tion is your ticket to the show, a spectacle seen all too fleetingly through a windshield or not at all. There's history on every corner, a story on every street. On the west side and the east, in the hills and the basin, Pop.u.La.tion takes you to the streets, makes the introductions, and celebrates the daily parade of character,commerce and culture. (Photo by Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)