Names: Tournament of Roses - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Glendale's float, "Little America", depicts a series of exploration bases located in Antartica on the Ross Ice Shelf. The float is shown at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The "Queen of the Seven Seas", also the Queen of the Rose Parade, 19-year-old Pasadena Junior College student Treva Scott, would ride this float through the parade along with her attendants. The float featured a sea of poppies, over which the Queen drove a chariot pulled by three giant goldfish, composed of Talisman roses and maidenhair ferns. 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.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The "Bride of the Sea" float representing a beautiful young maiden riding beneath a floral canopy. 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 Santa Monica.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The "Golden Gate Bridge" float with a replica of the bridge with the Marin and San Francisco shores on either side and 7 ships. The bridge was under constructin at this time. 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 San Francisco.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Float representing the sinking of the Titanic. 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 South Gate.
Date Created:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Firestone Tire and Rubber's entry in the 1934 Rose Parade is a float depicting the lost city of Atlantis. This float won the theme prize for 1934.
Date Created:: 1934
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.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Volunteers from the 442nd Combat Infantry decorate floats for the Tournament of Roses parade.
Date Created:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Walt Disney Productions float in the 1938 Tournament of Roses Parade. Float featured characters from the film Snow White and the seven dwarfs surrounded by giant toadstools, the largest of which was made of bronze crysanthemums
Date Created:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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