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 at the corner of East Chapman Avenue and South Pine Street. Visible behind the float is the Immanual Lutheran Church. The front of the float is facing north. The May Festival, which began in 1933 and also included the May Day Parade, continued to be held until 1991. [See also P1211, P1212 & 1215]
Photographic print
B&w
7 x 11.5 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6h4nc08v
P1213
10511381
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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