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Title: Malt liquor billboards
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Stern, Louise
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
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: Oversized photograph.
Photograph caption reads: ''Critics complain that malt liquor ads use celebrities and tout the product's high alcoholic content". "Actor Billy Dee Williams face adorns the add for a malt liquor on billboards that are placed in great number throughout the Black community". The billboard, advertising Colt 45 malt liquor, is on the parking lot of Fred's Liquor on the 300 block of 63rd Place. Photograph dated: Aug. 31, 1989.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083465
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b058_f1_i58
CARL0002874756
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25531
Subject: Williams, Billy Dee,--1937-
Pabst Brewing Company
Liquor stores--California--Los Angeles
Billboards--California--Los Angeles
Parking lots--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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