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Title: Paying off an election bet
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
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: Because he bet on Landon and lost, George "Peanuts" Healy is pictured tied to a telephone pole in a lumber yard at 4701 Santa Fe Ave. while Jimmy Furmendo, fellow worker to whom he lost the bet, bombards him with eggs past the prime of life on November 3, 1936. This was one of the first payoffs in the many freak election bets.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph : b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044100
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2028.
CARL0000048423
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14463
Subject: Healy, George "Peanuts
Furmendo, Jimmy
Elections--California--Los Angeles
Wagers--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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