Pianist Liberace, hoisted by crane above Sahara Hotel billboard on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, Calif., 1966

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Title: Pianist Liberace, hoisted by crane above Sahara Hotel billboard on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, Calif., 1966
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Subject: Billboards $z California $z Los Angeles County, Pianists $z California $z Los Angeles, Entertainers--United States, Showgirls--California--Los Angeles County, Entertainment, Arts, People
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds., LIGHT TOUCH-Pianist Liberace uses a Tiki torch to symbolically light a 4-foot-high replica of his trademark candelabra, held by the rotating female statue atop the Sahara Hotel billboard on the Sunset Strip. Liberace was hoisted 60 feet for the stunt, designed to publicize his new two-year, $500,000 contract with the Las Vegas hotel. [sic]
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Contributor: Liberace, 1919-1987 (subject)
Date
Type: news photographs, StillImage
Format: 1 photograph
Identifier: edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.latimes:3417, uclalat_1429_b576_233012
Source
Language: zxx
Relation: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Coverage: Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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