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Title: Twinkie offensive
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mullen, Mike
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
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: Oversized photograph.
Photograph caption dated February 28, 1984 reads, "The Hostess company no doubt would like to put paroled political assassin Dan White and his infamous 'Twinkies defense' behind it, but whoever repainted this billboard on Robertson Boulevard at Pico obviously hasn't forgotten." The graffiti on the billboard reads, "Dan White's demise."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00083462
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b058_f1_i17
CARL0002874158
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25529
Subject: Twinkies (Trademark)
Billboards--California--Los Angeles
Graffiti--California--Los Angeles
Pico Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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