"Saint Valentine's Day" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930

Title: "Saint Valentine's Day" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930
Date Created: January 1, 1930
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description: The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
"Saint Valentine's Day" float with white swans swimming beside a gondola on a heart-shaped base. A little boy dressed as cupid (Weber Callicot or Russell Rich) and 2 girls are in the gondola and a little Cupid girl is sitting next to the gondola (Betty Jo Tunnell, Juanita Pettit and Maryline Burke). Eight or 9 of the 10 outwalkers are visible (Marjorie Warner, June Towne, Clarabelle Daniels, Fern and Jean Syme, Louise Hawley, Virginia Eggleton, Elizabeth Hall, Violet Smith and Geraldine Wood). The float was entered by the city of Whittier and is shown at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Events
Transportation
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14558829656050
Latitude: -118.16072702407800
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_3438
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cp1qz
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights Holder: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.