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Title
Downtown Dollar Day
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1953
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
Thousands of bargain-seeking shoppers flocked to downtown Los Angeles on September 12, 1953, for the second Downtown Dollar Day. Here throngs wait outside for the Broadway Department Store to open. The crowds were breaking buying records.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00044589
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 935.
CARL0000048185
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14244
Subject
Broadway (Department store)
Department stores--California--Los Angeles
Shopping--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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