Orange Parade, Mutual Orange Distributors float, Riverside, 1933

Item Overview

Title

Orange Parade, Mutual Orange Distributors float, Riverside, 1933

Date Created

May, 1933

Date

1933-05

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Float decorated by cross reading Pure Gold in circle reading Mutual Orange Distributors, California, with young woman in pirate hat with basket riding in front, sign on side reading Pure Gold, California Oranges, “The Gift of God’s Sun and Soil to You, the Choice of Princes and Pirates Too”; 2 other floats 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, Franzen Crockery, Furniture, Hardware, Sherwin-Williams Paints, Bayz's Candy, Soda, Lunch, 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 nitrate negative sleeve: California, Riverside, Orange Parade, 1933
Text from newspaper caption: Huge Parade at Riverside Kaleidoscope of Color. “Ohs and Ahs” Greet Marchers. Mutual Orange Distributors' offering.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Orange Parade (Riverside, Calif.)
Mutual Orange Distributors (Redlands, Calif.)

Location

Riverside (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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