Image of a parade scene on Hill Street between Fifth Street and Sixth Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, showing spectators and people on horseback watching a float showing a cable railway on a mountain. This may be a depiction of the Mount Lowe Railway included in the 1894 La Fiesta de Los Angeles parade. The large building with towers beyond the trees is Hazard's Pavilion (located at Fifth Street and Olive Street) and the Leonard J. Rose Mansion can be seen on the hillside of Bunker Hill. Title devised by cataloger. Date devised by cataloger based on description of a float in the first La Fiesta parade: "The Mt. Lowe float was cleverly made, showing, in miniature, the cars on the incline in actual operation" ("La Fiesta: Yesterday's Parade," Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1894, page 8). The Los Angeles Times article describes the parade route as "The route followed from Eighth street to the Plaza, around the Plaza, back on Main to Spring street, down Spring to Second, up Second to Broadway and thence by way of Fourth and Hill streets past the reviewing stand to Sixth street, where the parade was dismissed."
Rose, L. J. (Leonard John), 1827-1899--Homes and haunts Hazard's Pavilion (Los Angeles, Calif.) La Fiesta de Los Angeles Crowds Dwellings Horse-drawn vehicles Parades Photographs. (aat)
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