"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

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Close-up view of the "Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade with 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 photograph was taken on Orange Grove Blvd. before the start of the Rose Parade.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Transportation
Entertainment
Sabotage--California
Events
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena

Names

Beerkle, Gene
Service, Betty
Wise, Marjorie
Tournament of Roses

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Resource type

still image