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Title: Russians told to wash dirty laundry, U. S. style
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Dean, Gordon
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
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: Photograph caption dated July 23, 1963 reads "North Hollywood businessman Romaine Fielding had this sign made up the other day and he's going to tote it to Russia. The 90-foot-long neon-tubed masterpiece will be strung up atop one of Fielding's laundromats being installed in Moscow. Fielding is the first U.S. businessman to sell and install do-it-yourself laundromats in Russia. The sign was built at GM Neon Co., 267 W. Spazier Ave., Burbank."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00123139
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d027_f14_i11
CARL0005414998
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/55556
Subject: GM Neon Company (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Signs and signboards--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Electric signs--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Neon signs--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Automobiles--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Russian language
Commercial buildings--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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