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

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

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Subjects: Entertainment
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Sabotage--California
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Transportation
Events
Names: Wise, Marjorie
Service, Betty
Tournament of Roses
Beerkle, Gene
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_3632
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cp8ms
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