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Title
Man threatens to jump from roof, Biltmore Hotel
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1963
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
View is looking up towards the roof of the Biltmore Hotel. Circle marks the figure of Harold Hicks, who threatened to jump from the roof of the 11-story Biltmore Hotel. Hicks was finally talked out of leaping from his high perch. Hotel was built in 1923 by Architects Schultze & Weaver. Photo dated: April 1, 1963.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00038075
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1707.
CARL0000041741
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12110
Subject
Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hotels--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Schultze & Weaver

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