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Description:: Float entry from the city of Los Angeles in the staging area on S. Orange Grove Blvd. beore the Tournament of Roses Parade. The float was titled "Fairyland Symphony" and featured Fairies playing instruments beneath an arch of music bars
Date:: 1938-01-01
January 1, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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 Photographs Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1929 fortieth annual Rose Parade was "Poems in Flowers"
Date:: January 1, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Float showing a wedding day in an early California mission with participants costumed as a bride and groom, a priest, Indians, Spanish caballeros and damas, placed around an adobe-style chapel. The float was entered by the city of Laguna Beach. The float is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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 Photographs Collection

Description:: Close-up of a portion of oscillograph, with vacuum tube at center and cylindrical device at right
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Float with a Miss Frank Alexander in an open jewelry box with a red satin lining and a strand of pearls half out of the box in the Tournament of Roses Parade. Floral signs on the float include "Safe Keeping" on the lid of the jewelry box and "Banks" on the front. Signs on the corner commercial building behind the float read: "Latest Model Cars for Hire Without Drivers...," "Pasadena Vulcan...g Works," and "Hotel Franklin." Spectators are standing along the parade route and on top of the corner building.
Date:: January 1, 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Dr. Leonard Siever, a prominent Pasadena dentist and socialite, was murdered on December 14, 1933 as he preparing to enter his parked car. The case was never solved.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: View of the San Diego Exposition float with 3 women seated next to a floral replica of the Spreckles organ.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Description:: Uncle Sam (Jack Lacy) stands on a huge bunch of floral raisins on the "Uncle Sam Helping the Raisin Growers" entered bythe city of Fresno.
Date:: January 1, 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

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