Names: Arias, Jose, 1889-1972 / Subject: Events - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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 Photographic Collection

Description:: Los Angeles Mayor John C. Porter bids farewell to group in 19th century costumes departing Los Angeles in a stagecoach for the 2-day journey to the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara, where they were to participate in the parade and deliver an invitation to the Los Angeles World Congress of Rough Riders and Rodeo. The group includes: (front, L to R) Hilton McCabe, Francis Josef Hickson (stage actor), Marion Parks (California history advocate), John C. Porter, Thomas Workman Temple (early California family member), (in coach, L to R) Miss Irene Tillinghast (of the Los Angeles Museum of History and Science), Orpha Klinker (California artist), (on top) Jose Arias, left, and his celebrated Mexican orchestra (Jose Arias Troubadours) holding guitars and possibly a mandolin, with driver Buster Trow (silent Westerns actor). "U.S. Mail" and "Louisville and..." are painted on the stagecoach.
Date:: August 16, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A similar photograph appears in the Los Angeles Times, "Stage Coach Party Off On 'Long Trip,' Santa Barbara's Gay Fiesta Goal of Old-Time Travelers," 8/17/1932
Date:: August 16, 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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