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Title: What color is your dinosaur?
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator: McCulloh, Douglas
Contributor: Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 200-
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.
Photographer's caption reads, "When Paul Manchester got the job of repainting the dinosaur atop the Ripley's Believe It or Not building, he planned to do the job as his drag queen alter-ego "Auntie Prudence." She has big hair, a bigger chest, and attitude to spare. But the two-week contract got pushed off into the heat of summer, so he reconsidered. Hefting around massive false breasts under the beating sun sounded too damned hot. Paul was disappointed but realistic. He opted for the handsome explorer look: cute khaki shorts and a pith helmet."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00081664
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b4_f2_i41
CARL0004974165
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3790
Subject: Ripley's Believe It or Not (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Museums--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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