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Title
Chicken Boy statue atop restaurant in Los Angeles
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Mullen, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued
1981
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
The Chicken Boy fried chicken restaurant, partially shown here, was located at 450 So. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles and was open from the late-1960s until the mid-1980s. The statue, captured holding a bucket of the "best chicken" in town, was placed on the rooftop of Future Studio Design & Gallery on Figueroa Street in Highland Park on October 17, 2007.
Photograph caption dated February 29, 1981 reads, "Chicken Boy: 'Buck-buck-buh-dAAAAAAAAAA!'"
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00084264
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b065_f3_i7
CARL0002881686
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27974
Subject
Chicken Boy (Restaurant : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Statues--California--Los Angeles
Restaurants--California--Los Angeles
Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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