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Title: Shoe store gorilla on Sunset Boulevard, Echo Park
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection;
Creator: Leonard, Gary
Contributor: Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1998
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: A few people have gathered for the opening of a shoe store located on Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park. A giant inflatable gorilla with a sign on his chest announcing "Name brand footwear best for less" greets pedestrians and drivers alike. Although difficult to see in the photo, toward the rear a band has set up their instruments and is ready to entertain those in attendance. Photograph dated October 4, 1998.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00067975
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection;
GPC_b1_f2_i24; A-009-254 4x5
CARL0000070790
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3611
Subject: Shopping centers--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles)
Novelty balloons--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles)
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs

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