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: The May Festival, which began in 1933 and also included the May Day Parade, continued to be held until 1991. Image shows float decorated as a wedding cake with Darlene Harms and Erich Vollmer dressed as a bride and groom standing under archway. A man on motorcyle follows the float. "PERKIN'S BAKERY" is written across end of float, which is on the 100 block of South Glassell Street. Visible at the right is the Plaza Theater. Behind the float is the Jewel Shop and Lois's Beauty Salon, with Perkins Bakery and a small shoe shop at far left. The May Festival, which began in 1933 and also included the May Day Parade, continued to be held until 1991. [See also P1212, 1213, & 1215]
Photographic print
B&w
7 x 11.5 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt458012w7
P1211
10511382
Language: English
Subject: Orange (Calif.)
Parades & processions
Floats (Parades)
Business districts
May Day Parade--Orange (Calif.)
Perkins Bakery--Orange (Calif.)
Lois's Bakery--Orange (Calif.)
Dommer, Darlene Harms
Vollmer, Erich

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