Image / Celebrity elephant promotes new film

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Title: Celebrity elephant promotes new film
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Brink, Sydney
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1981
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.
On a pair of $50,000 fiberglass and styrofoam skis, Bubbles, a 3-ton elephant cruises the Marina del Rey harbor at 10 knots with handler, Herbert Wells. Bubbles and Herbert are promoting the film, "Honky Tonk Freeway." Photograph dated August 19, 1981.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084417
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b026_f1_i15
CARL0002888757
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26074
Subject: Honky tonk freeway (Motion picture)
Elephants--California--Marina del Rey
Elephant trainers--United States
Harbors--California--Marina del Rey
Marina del Rey (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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