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Description
5 images. TV broadcast on San Simeon ("you asked for it"), 2 February 1958. San Simeon's outer terrace General views of the estate Statues, etc. Views of the interior of the castle. Supplementary material reads: " ABC Television Network. Photo Division Press Information. San Simeon's outer terrace, with mortars from Morro Castle, the fortress in the Havana (Cuba) Harbor, will be one of the many views of the vast Pacific Coast estate of the late William Randolph Hearst to be shown on ABC-TV's 'You Asked For It' Sunday, January 26, 9:30 EST (ABC-TV Pacific Coast outlets will carry the telecast on Sunday, February 2, 9:30 pm, PST). The full half-hour of 'You Asked For It' will be devoted to bringing the scenic, art and architectural wonders of this estate to viewers. Randolph Hearst and Jack Smith, Host-Emcee of ABC-TV's 'You Ask For It' program. Randolph appears on the half-hour program Sunday, Feb. 2, 9:30-10 pm PST-Pacific Coast ABC TV outlets only to give some of his remembrances of his late father, William Randolp Hearst's estate at San Simeon". Supplementary material continues: "Carrara snow-white marble statues, by Frenchman Jean Leon Gerome, surround the 105-foot Neptune pool at San Simeon, 'location' for the Sunday, January 26 presentation of ABC-TV's 'You Asked For It', telecast at 9:30 pm, EST (ABC-TV Pacific Coast stations carry the program on Sunday, February 2, 9:30 pm, PST). The program will devote the entire half-hour to the fabulous palace and 80,000 acre ground of the estate of the late William Randolph Hearst".
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image
Format
5 photographs : negatives, b&w 10 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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