Rose Parade spectators on the parkway and curb of a residential section of Orange Grove Blvd. Some boys sit on the branch of a large tree for a better view.
National Orange show float featuring a sphere made from oranges, entered by the city of San Bernardino. The float is shown at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
A motor cycle squad leads the Loyalty Day Parade followed by mounted traffic officers with a few spectators watching on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. Signs on commercial buildings read "Printing" and "Law Printing."
This photograph was part of the coverage taken for the Los Angeles Times article "Santa Barbara Fiesta Revives Days of Spanish Rule in California," 8/8/1930.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, June 6, 1925, “California the Golden” Notable Achievement, Spectacle of Schools Depicting History of State Acclaimed by Visiting Shriners. The public schools’ contribution to the Shrine entertainment, “California the Golden” … "Spanish Treasure Galleon," San Pedro High School ...
Woman in culottes and blouse with buttons, patterned scarf, and dark straw hat, carrying wrap or overskirt of same fabric as outfit, descending stairs from stage, with seated audience left and right. The show took place in the Los Angeles Times building on 202 West 1st Street, most likely inside what is now the Harry Chandler Auditorium.
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.
Article by Marylouise Gates entitled “A Festive Crowd at the Bowl’s 60th Opening” appeared in the July 19, 1981 issue of the Los Angeles Times. This photo dates from the coverage of that event but does not appear in print.
Article by Marylouise Gates entitled “A Festive Crowd at the Bowl’s 60th Opening” appeared in the July 19, 1981 issue of the Los Angeles Times. This photo dates from the coverage of that event but does not appear in print.
Rider in embroidered Spanish horseman's costume and ornate sombrero-type hat on horse with ornate tooled saddle at the Old Spanish Days Fiesta in Santa Barbara. The rider probably participated in the fiesta parade.
Description accompanying negative: Scene of the memorial services for Will Rogers held at the departed star's own studio, 20th Century-Fox, at whose Movietone City plant in Westwood Hills 2,500 of the star's co-workers gathered in the open air to pay their final tribute. Stars, directors, executives and laborers joined in common grief as George Jessel, famed star of sage and screen, Jason Joy, studio executive, and the Reverend Josiah Hopkins eulogized the nation's idol [ark no. 21198/zz002d96wf ].
The Griffith Observatory was created using a design developed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley based on preliminary sketches by Russell W. Porter.
"King of Flowers" float entered by the Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona. "LA County Fair" is written in flowers on the side of the float. The float is drawn by 6 Norman horses from the Kellogg School of Animal Husbandry. The float was photographed on a side street on or near Orange Grove Blvd. before the start of the parade.
Mayor Frank Shaw, in suit and tie, walking in front of crowd of mostly children and women, most in summer clothing, some in military hats, policeman in back of crowd, outdoors with lawn in foreground, trees and hills in background
Men and boys watching the Rose Parade from the tile roof of the Hupmobile dealer building on W. Colorado Blvd., probably between St. John Ave. and Pasadena Ave. (later the area of a freeway underpass). The Hupp Automobile logo is on the front of the building.