When Clifton Moore ran the Los Angeles airport system from 1968 to 1993, there wasn’t much emphasis on dining and shopping for people waiting for their planes at LAX. About all they could get were the basics: a newspaper, a cup of coffee, cafeteria fare and a preflight libation.

The mantra was “We are an airport, not a shopping mall,” and people on the staff were proud that Los Angeles International Airport had the least concession space of any major airport in the United States.

Not anymore. Los Angeles World Airports has launched an ambitious effort o renovate the bars, fast-food outlets, restaurants, newsstands and shops inside eight terminals, which handled about 50.7 million passengers last year.

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