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Description:: Related to the article “Throng Joins in Formal Launching of Annual Festival of Arts at Laguna Beach, Life Given Paintings, Subjects Pose in Frame, Celebrities of Stage and Screen Introduced to Visiting Crowd, Theater, Salon and Large Group of Booths Form Attraction Center,” Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 1934.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Decorated automobile at the start of the Tournament of Roses Parade driven by a chauffeur and with 2 women in the back seat. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the car in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Described as a red sea monster in the Los Angeles Times parade review, the creature appears to be a lobster standing guard over "Captain Kid's Treasure Chest." 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, entered by the city of Ventura, was designed and constructed by nonprofessionals.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Dancing Chinese lion during festival in Chinatown on unpaved street with spectators on the sidewalk. The man supporting the front holds the lion's head high above his own head and is smiling. There is allot of dust or smoke in the foreground. A sign on a commercial building reads: "Eastern Grocery Co."
Date:: [circa 1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: The "Old Ironsides" float was a floral replica of the historic frigate of the American navy. 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 Diego.
Date:: January 1, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Probably connected to Los Angeles Times article, June 9, 1934, Sproul Raps Communism, Rotarians Hear U.C. Head, Says Reds Will Never Be Tolerated in California or United States, Painting of Universities as Hot Beds of Radicalism Decried by Speaker. Communism was attacked yesterday by Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California, in an address at a Los Angeles Rotary Club luncheon in the Biltmore … George E. Montgomery, president of the local Rotary Club, presided.
Date:: June 8, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 10, 1934, Fifteen Thousand Nobles Rally for Shrine Durbar, Thousands at Durbar, Shriners Have Gala Rally, Colorfully Clad Delegations Assemble From Many Parts of the West, Spectacular Parade Marks First Event of Its Kind in United States
Date:: June 9, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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