Glendale's "Garden of Memory" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939

Title: Glendale's "Garden of Memory" float at the 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: The theme for Glendale's Rose Parade float was "Garden of Memory."
The float features a ship, penguin, dragon, runner, peacock, rainbows and flags, and trees made out of flowers. In the front are 7-year-old Dorothy Terry and 5-year-old Ronald Strange while young Joanne Muhleman sat on the side dressed as a pilgrim. Riding on the right side is an unidentified man.
Caption: Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Romance and Fantasy Feature Spectacle," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1939: 3, 12.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14697
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j8bb9
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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.
The 1939 Tournament of Roses theme was Golden Jubilee to mark the 50th anniversary of the parade. Shirley Temple served as Grand Marshal.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .