Genre: news photographs and cellulose nitrate film / Location: Pasadena (Calif.) / Date: 1933 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: "King of Flowers" float entered by the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona. "LA County Fair" is written in flowers on the side of the float. The float is drawn by 6 Norman horses from the Kellogg School of Animal Husbandry. The float was photographed on a side street on or near Orange Grove Blvd. before the start of the parade.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Long Beach earthquake of 1933 took place on March 10, with a magnitude of 6.4, causing widespread damage to buildings throughout Southern California. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach on the Newport-Inglewood Fault. An estimated fifty million dollars' worth of property damage resulted, and 120 lives were lost.
Date:: March 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The "Camp Baldy" float, representing winter sports, with 4 riders and a floral bear.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears with the article “Caltech Grid Squad Working Twice Daily for Opening Game With Loyola Next Week, Five Veterans Out For Team, ‘Fox’ Stanton Not Optimistic Over Prospects, Usual Tricky Formations on Parade at Pasadena, Engineer Open Season With Lions at Ball Park,” Los Angeles Times, 13 Sept. 1933. Caption reads: “Ready to Engineer a Graumanesque Gridiron Opener. Here are the pigskinning lads of California Institute of Technology as they are likely to line up against Loyola at Wrigley Field a week from Friday night. The linemen from left to right are Miller, Gregory, Davis, Nollan, Jones, Mathewson and Moore. The backs presented are Donahue, Capt. Sharp, Parker and Rooke. The Engineers and Lions play the first local game of the 1933 season and everything points to a large gathering of hungry pigskin followers. (Times photo by Duke Ledford)”
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Ledford, Duke Emmett, 1894-1961
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: "A Castle in Spain" float with a miniature castle perched on a mountain with a princess and ladies in waiting seated around it. The float was entered by the city of Santa Barbara.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers."
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Rose Parade spectators in grandstand seating. View facing NE towards a commercial building with a sign reading "James H. Kindel, De Soto, Plymouth" (located at 294 W. Colorado Blvd.).
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the "Rainbow Palace" float with a fairy and another rider seated beneath a floral sunshade. The float was entered by the city of Inglewood and was photographed at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. with the radio broadcasting platform visible on the right.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: "Dream of Youth" float depicting a fairyland theme in the early morning with a silver moon setting. A figure of a young man with his arms open is at the front of the float and a queen is seated in the center. The float is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove. Entered by the Pasadena Water Department.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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