Huntington Hotel's "May Day" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930

Title: Huntington Hotel's "May Day" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930
Date Created: January 1, 1930
Date: 1930-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: The "May Day" float features 2 groups of large floral butterflies projecting from 2 arms out in front of the float, with a maypole group in the center (with Muriel cannon, Doris Hall, Eleanor Flech, Marie E. Cates, Rosalie Meub, Francis Chapman, Dorothy Justice and Eleanor Bothell) and the Queen of the May (Lydette Everard) enthroned beneath an arbor at the back. The float was entered by the Huntington Hotel and is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14558829656050
Latitude: -118.16072702407800
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/zz002cp2mw
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Rights Country: US
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