"Venus" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1935

Description: The Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A huge peacock heads the float, with a fountain in the center supporting 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails. The float was photographerd at the intersection of Orange Grove. Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1935

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Arts
Entertainment
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Culture
Names: Burley, Margaret
Slaughter, Joan
Johnson, Virginia
Turner, Mary Lou
Tournament of Roses
McCleary, Gladys
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14584579687830
Latitude: -118.16090941429100
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_3717
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpcj6
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