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Title: Japanese noodle eating contest
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1979
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Paul Matsukawa, center left, and sake manufacturer Take Numano, center right, pause in their efforts to eat 2 1/2 pounds of soba, buckwheat noodles, during annual Japanese noodle-eating contest held yesterday in Little Tokyo. Neither man won the contest, but had a filling lunch. Photograph dated July 23, 1979.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 33 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00091218
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b076_f5_i45
CARL0004999800
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28482
Subject: Soba (Noodles)--California--Los Angeles
Competitive eating--California--Los Angeles
Contests--California--Los Angeles
Noodles--California--Los Angeles
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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