"Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

Description: The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
"Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade with a large floral peacock at the front, a fountain with white swans drinking in the middle, and the queen, Marjorie Wise with Betty Service and Gene Beerkle, maids in waiting seated in a pagoda-like structure at the back. Outwalkers carrying bouquets of roses, dressed as peacocks and attached to the float with pink ribbons. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of Long Beach.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Wise, Marjorie
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Service, Betty
Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.1456238138924
Latitude: -118.16064119339000
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Culture
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cnnjm
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