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Description:: A floral-themed float including a throne, costumed participants and glowing flowers created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Date:: October 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: A Grecian-themed float including columns and costumed participants created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Date:: October 9, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Women looking through a pile of rayon print dresses, priced at $1.69, during the semiannual Dollar Day sale in downtown Los Angeles. Stores hired extra salespersons and the city arranged for extra streetcars and policemen to accommodate the more than 200,000 bargain-hunters who came out for the sale
Date:: February 17, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Turkeys to be exhibited in a competition for $5,100 at the seventh Turkey Show and Congress. The turkeys were raised for Thanksgiving in the Western states and exhibited during the four-day event. The event included nationally known authorities on turkey diseases, breeding, and marketing.
Date:: November 5, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Track athlete participates in the high jump event during the All-City High School track and field meet.
Date:: June 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron celebrates Cinco de Mayo with Consuela de Bonzo and Mexican American dancers on Olvera street. Photographed left to right are Velia Valle, Salvadas Dukhart, Mayor Bowron, and Consuelo de Bonzo.
Date:: ca. 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chinese American children carry lanterns in a Moon Festival lantern parade in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: In a historical costume reenactment of a Gaspar de Portolá expedition, mounted Spaniards encounter North American Indian peoples outside of Los Angeles City Hall.
Date:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Chinese Americans prepare the dragon costume for a parade through the streets of Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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