"Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933
Item Overview
- Title
- "Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933
- Date Created
- January 2, 1933
- Date
- 1933-01-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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"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.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Dimensions
- 4 x 5 inches
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
-
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Names
-
Tournament of Roses
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Service, Betty
Wise, Marjorie - Location
- Pasadena (Calif.)
- Longitude
- 34.1456238138924
- Latitude
- -118.16064119339000
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Events
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3276
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cnnjm
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2047
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .