Image / May Day Parade with Perkins Bakery float, Orange, California, 1949

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Title: May Day Parade with Perkins Bakery float, Orange, California, 1949
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949-05
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: May Day Parade with Perkins Bakery float, Orange, California, May, 1949. Image shows float decorated as a wedding cake with Darlene Harms and Erich Vollmer dressed as bride and groom standing under archway. "PERKIN'S BAKERY" is written across end of float, which is going west on East Chapman Avenue towards the Plaza, passing in front of the Elks Building (221 East Chapman). Banners hang across the street. The Union Service Station is in the rear, at the right. The May Festival, which began in 1933 and also included the May Day Parade, continued to be held until 1991. [See also P1211, P1212 & 1213]
Photographic print
B&w
9 x 13 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt2x0nb86m
P1215
10511378
Language: English
Subject: Orange (Calif.)
Parades & processions
Floats (Parades)
Business districts
May Day Parade--Orange (Calif.)
Perkins Bakery--Orange (Calif.)
Dommer, Darlene Harms
Vollmer, Erich

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