"Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1933

Notes

Description

"Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade with a large floral peacock at the front, a fountain with white swans drinking in the middle, and the queen, Marjorie Wise with Betty Service and Gene Beerkle, maids in waiting seated in a pagoda-like structure at the back. Outwalkers carrying bouquets of roses, dressed as peacocks and attached to the float with pink ribbons. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of Long Beach.
The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Dimensions

4 x 5 inches

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Subjects

Arts
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Entertainment
Events

Names

Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Wise, Marjorie
Service, Betty
Tournament of Roses

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Longitude

34.1456238138924

Latitude

-118.16064119339000

Resource type

still image