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Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:
The Conference of Studio Unions strike was against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:
October 1945
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:
The Conference of Studio Unions strike was against all Hollywood studios. The CSU strike began in March 1945 and was around the six month mark when it turned violent on October 5, 1945, known as Hollywood Black Friday. National exposure of this violence forced negotiations between studios and the CSU. Negotiation ended the strike about a month later, but CSU didn't last much longer and was eventually disbanded and absorbed by rival union IATSE.
Date:
October 1945
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Warner Bros. Studio during the Conference of Studio Unions strike, Los Angeles, 1945

Czechoslovakia float at the starting point of the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Description:
A Tournament of the Roses parade float with a European theme (probably the entry from Czechoslovakia). The participant furthest to the left is wearing a traditional Eastern-European dress, while the three participants to the right of the float are wearing gowns. The float is decorated with palms and other various foliage, and a two-dimensional sun is suspended within an arch flanked by monumental vases of flowers. 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.
Date:
January 1, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Czechoslovakia float at the starting point of the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Equestrians at the Palm Springs Field Club during the Desert Circus Rodeo, Palm Springs, 1938

Description:
A long row of men on horseback face the Desert Circus Rodeo audience in the grandstands (not visible, on the left) with two riders placed in front of them. The riders wear hats and are dressed in formal riding attire, with the exception of the rider in the front who wears a shiny silk shirt and a cowboy hat.
Date:
1938
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Equestrians at the Palm Springs Field Club during the Desert Circus Rodeo, Palm Springs, 1938

Wedding cake float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Description:
Three-layer wedding cake float on a gondola-like boat with boy gondolier and girl riding in the boat and topped with boy and girl, Harold Van Horn and Ardath Aline Elsasser, dressed as a bride and groom beneath an archway. Inscribed in flowers on the side of the boat: Davis.... The float was entered by the Davis Perfection Bakery.
Date:
January 1, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
Wedding cake float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1927

"La Paloma" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1927

Description:
"La Paloma" float with white doves suspended over a garden inhabited by 6 persons in Spanish attire, including a man in a hat playing lute near center, and singers Jose Arias, Thea La Forte, Sybil Tyler and Ella Archer. 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.
Date:
January 1, 1927
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Collection:
Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950
"La Paloma" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1927