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"Dream in a Bed of Roses" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

Description:
View of the "Dream in a Bed of Roses" float with float rider Marjorie Douville seated on large, curtained floral bed flanked by tall vases with long-stemmed roses. The float was entered by the city and county of San Francisco. The Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. is visible behind the float on the left.
Date:
January 1, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
"Dream in a Bed of Roses" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

"Dreams of Pasadena" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

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
"Dreams of Pasadena" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

F. W. Arlin on a flooded dirt road in the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena (vicinity), 1930-1939

Description:
"F. W. Arlin" on the negative sleeve annotation is probably Frank William Arlin (who ais also recorded as Frank William Arlin Fischer), a water engineer who worked at a pump plant and who lived in Pasadena in the 1930s. Numerous storms and floods affected the Arroyo Seco basin and surrounding communities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Date:
[between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
F. W. Arlin on a flooded dirt road in the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena (vicinity), 1930-1939

F. W. Arlin on a flooded dirt road in the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena (vicinity), 1930-1939

Description:
"F. W. Arlin" on the negative sleeve annotation is probably Frank William Arlin (who is also recorded as Frank William Arlin Fischer), a water engineer who worked at a pump plant and who lived in Pasadena in the 1930s. Numerous storms and floods affected the Arroyo Seco basin and surrounding communities in the 1920s and 1930s.
Date:
[between 1930-1939]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
F. W. Arlin on a flooded dirt road in the Arroyo Seco, Pasadena (vicinity), 1930-1939

Golfer Walter Hagen, Max Turner and Helen Robinson cutting cake at the 4th annual Pasadena Open tournament, Pasadena, 1931-1932

Description:
Professional golfer Walter Hagen has the third highest count of major victories of all time (behind Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods). Max Turner was co-owner of the Turner and Stevens undertakers, a director of the Pasadena Department of Recreation and a director of the Community Playhouse. Helen Robinson had recently won the Sweetest Girl Contest in Chicago and was acting with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Date:
[December 1931-January 1932]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Golfer Walter Hagen, Max Turner and Helen Robinson cutting cake at the 4th annual Pasadena Open tournament, Pasadena, 1931-1932

Mariposa County Judge W.A. Scott with section of tree grown around revolver, Los Angeles or Pasadena, 1931

Description:
A similar photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article "Ghost Gang Relic Found: Forgotten Revolver Grows in Tree," November 16, 1931, describing how bandit Charley Jack simulated a gang of attackers along the Mammoth Trail by hiding guns and coats in tree branches; the son of an attack victim later discovered an abandoned gun grown into a tree
Date:
1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Mariposa County Judge W.A. Scott with section of tree grown around revolver, Los Angeles or Pasadena, 1931

Pasadena Clearinghouse float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

Description:
Pasadena Clearinghouse float with cornupocias spilling flowers and the word "Banks" written in flowers on the side. Two girls can be seen ringing New Years bells with the hat of a third girl just visible. The float is probably near the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:
January 1, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Pasadena Clearinghouse float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

Young women carrying the "Huntington Park High School Band" banner in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931

Description:
Young women carrying the "Huntington Park High School Band" banner, followed by a drum majorette and the band. The Orth Storage building on the left was located at 238 West Colorado Blvd. (the block later became a freeway overpass). On the right, signs painted on the side of a commercial building read: "Chevrolet, Gwynn Johnson, 245," and "H. R. Slayden."
Date:
January 1, 1931
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Young women carrying the "Huntington Park High School Band" banner in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1931