Illuminated trees in Pasadena, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Illuminated trees in Pasadena, 1935

Date Created

December 25, 1935

Date

1935-12-25

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph appears with the article, "Twenty Thousand See Yuletide Tree Spectacle," Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec 1935: A1.
There were more than 5000 bulbs that illuminated Santa Rosa Avenue trees that were planted in the summer of 1885; the trees have been decorated with the holiday lights since 1920.
Hundreds of thousands of lights of various sizes shine while the branches of the decorated trees loom over the road.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 4220 - 12/26/35 Christmas Tree Lane -1935- 12/25/35
Text from newspaper caption: Twenty thousand persons passed down Christmas Tree Lane at Pasadena last night on formal opening of the great annual light spectacle on Santa Rosa avenue. This great Yuletide feature, the first of its kind in the world, has been held annually since 1920. Over the mile of the giant trees, 5000 vari-colored lights will glow each night until after New Year's.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

Pasadena (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Holidays--California--Pasadena
Christmas decorations--California--Pasadena
Christmas trees--California--Pasadena