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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:: View of the "Sea Serpent" driven by a mermaid with 3 women. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of Venice.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The float was entered by the city of Glendale and won the Tournament of Roses theme prize.
Date:: January 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends."
Date:: January 1, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The "May Day" float features 2 groups of large floral butterflies projecting from 2 arms out in front of the float, with a maypole group in the center (with Muriel cannon, Doris Hall, Eleanor Flech, Marie E. Cates, Rosalie Meub, Francis Chapman, Dorothy Justice and Eleanor Bothell) and the Queen of the May (Lydette Everard) enthroned beneath an arbor at the back. The float was entered by the Huntington Hotel and is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of a float bearing a floral replica of the Winged Victory of Samothrace riding past the Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. The float was entered by the Pasadena Academy of Fine Arts.
Date:: January 1, 1932
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

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:: Dr. Freeman has been pastor of the Pasadena Presbyterian Church for 25 years, after being called from the Lafayette Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, N. Y., and was presented with $29,000 in his honor, which he used to pay off the Pasadena Church's debts.
Date:: January 31, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: View of the "California Raisin Day" float with an enthroned queen, Helen MacKenzie, in a lush garden of Easter lilies, daisies, gladioli and other flowers. The float, entered by the city of Fresno, is seen at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
Date:: January 1, 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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