Orange Parade, Sunkist/California Fruit Growers Exchange float, Riverside, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Orange Parade, Sunkist/California Fruit Growers Exchange float, Riverside, 1933

Date Created

May, 1933

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Float decorated with 6-tiered cake made of oranges, with 3 or 4 young women in gowns carrying baskets, seated on sides, reading Sunkist 40th Anniversary, 1893-1933; horses and color guard in parade visible in distance; crowd and buildings in left foreground and right background; business signs reading George Hotel, Pioneer Market, Day & Night Beauty Parlor, McMahon Exclusive Flower Shop, Oaks Shoe Store Featuring Peters Shoes, Bayz's Candy, Soda, Lunch, F.A. Tetley, Reynolds, Dickson, with Riverside mission bell symbol decorating lampposts, sign at left reading Eighth St., No U Turn, banners overhead
This photograph appears with the article “Riverside Pays Homage to First Orange Trees, Two-Mile Street Pageant Cheered by Thousands and Banquet Feature Sixieth Birthday.” Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1933

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Huge Parade at Riverside Kaleidoscope of Color. “Ohs and Ahs” Greet Marchers. California Fruit Growers fortieth birthday float in lavender and gold.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Riverside, Orange Parade, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Parades & processions--California--Riverside
Floats (Parades)--California--Riverside

Names

California Fruit Growers Exchange
Orange Parade (Riverside, Calif.)

Location

Riverside (Calif.)

Resource type

still image