Genre: news photographs / Resource Type: still image / Names: Tournament of Roses / Subject: Entertainment - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: 1927 was the first year the the Rose Parade had a theme, "Songs in Flowers," with each float typifying a song
Date:: January 1, 1927
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Woman on horseback wearing a hat, short jacket and matching trousers and waving to the spectators. Her white horse is decorated with a garland. Another rider follows her in the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The "Princess and 6 white swans" float, the San Francisco entry, with swans pulling a boat with a princess, Lydette Everard, and attendants, Vera Nicholson and Peggy Shrader.
Date:: January 2, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1932 forty-third annual Rose Parade was "Nations & Games in Flowers," looking forward to the 1932 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Date:: January 1, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A column of uniformed men with flags marching in Tournament of Roses parade with spectators watching. The main Pasadena Post Office is visible on the far right (281 E. Colorado Blvd.) and a sign for "Vroman's Book Store Holiday Branch" is visible just beyond it.
Date:: January 2, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A float representing a gondola holding 6 year old Revac Rush an open sea shell pulled by a swan. entered by the city of Long Beach. Two men are seated behind the swan. "Long Beach," with an anchor between the words, is written in flowers on the side of the float.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View facing north on Orange Grove Blvd. towards an unidentified Rose Parade float and the Goodhue Flagpole at Colorado Blvd. beyond. A float rider waves to the spectators.
Date:: January 1, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: "Dreams of Pasadena" float with a butterfly on top of stacked circular floral stages in front of the Tournament of Roses queen, Mary Lou Waddell, seated on a throne and with smaller butterflies on the sides of the float. Ropes of pink sweetpeas extend to 4 outwalkers. The float was entered by the Tournament of Roses and is seen at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. with the Goodhue Flagpole in the background.
Date:: January 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The float inspired by the opera "Martha," adapted from the Flotow ballet, features the characters Lionel and Martha in garden in front of a farmhouse. The float was entered by Los Angeles County.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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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