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Description:: Automobile (?) blanketed in flowers at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the float rendering the myth of Bellerophon slaying the Chimera, at the front, with Pegasus looking on from a hill, with 2 visible maidens in gowns seated against a sunrise and the back of the float (Lydette Everard, Georgette Blanc and Carol Glass were on the float). The float was entered by the General Petroleum Corporation and was photographed at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. with the Goodhue Flagpole on the far right.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rose Parade spectators in 2-tiered grandstand with pine tree in background on the north side of W. Colorado Blvd., just east of St. John Ave.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Close-up of Rose Parade Queen, Muriel Cowan, and 4 attendants on the back of the "Firebird" float, against the domed Russian mosques (the 6 attendants were Dorothy Bruce, Emily Bettainer, Lynn Smith, Shirley Chamberlain, Catherine Butler and Lucille Spelts).
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Three men on horseback in the Rose Parade, with the center rider lifting his hat to two spectators standing in the street. Behind him area spectators in grandstand seating. View down Colorado Blvd. facing west with the Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection with Orange Grove Blvd. in the distance on the left.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Birdeseye view of the Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A huge peacock heads the float, with a fountain in the center supporting 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The Ford Dealers float displays a globe with the continents delineated, flanked by stylized wings and four visible float riders. The float was photographed at the corner of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the "Legend of the Chrysanthemum" with Fugi Fugikawa in a flower petal kimono and carrying a parasol made of blossoms standing on a bridge of red pompoms over a pool of blue delphiniums. The scene is completed with a white narcissus heron, a tree and stepping stones of bronze pompoms. The float was entered by the Burbank City Schools and is shown passing the Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Spectators next to the float of the Rose Parade Queen, Muriel Cowan, featuring a large Russian Firebird composed of yellow chrysanthemums and lavender sweet peas at the front and three Russian mosques with domes covered in yellow pompoms at the back, behind the queen's throne. The float was photographed on Orange Grove Blvd., probably before the start of the parade.
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Rose Parade spectators in a grandstand on the north side of Colorado Blvd. with the San Gabriel Mountains visible behind them
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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