City of Los Angeles float at Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939

Title: City of Los Angeles float at Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939
Date Created: January 2, 1939
Date: 1939-01-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Rose Parade Awes 1,250,000," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1939: 1.
The City of Los Angeles float theme was "Destiny," celebrating the city's growth.
The 1939 Tournament of Roses theme was Golden Jubilee to mark the 50th anniversary of the parade. Shirley Temple served as Grand Marshal.
Loretta Yeagle, dressed as a queen, sits at the head of the float. Gordon Olsen is in period costume in a scene depicting the discovery of the land. In the front, next to a replica of the Cabrillo ship, are Dick Vivie and Patricia Tenney dressed as Native Americans.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 15283 Rose Parade 1939

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Tournament of Roses
Tenney, Patricia
Yeagle, Loretta
Olsen, Gordon
Vivie, Dick
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Spectators--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14685
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j89xm
Manifest url

Rights statement: copyrighted
Rights contact: UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Rights Holder: The Regents of the University of California
Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .