Image / Grecian-themed float created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Grecian-themed float created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: October 9, 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
A Grecian-themed float including columns and costumed participants created for the Hoover Dam Power Inaugural. The celebration was held to honor the first instances of power-production from the dam. Downtown Los Angeles was flooded with 7.2 million candle-power light, and engineers claimed that the display was visible from 100 miles away.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Power parade
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Electrical Parade Celebrating Transmission of Boulder Dam Power
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1387_13774-05
ark:/21198/zz00288c3v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles
Arts
Events
Entertainment
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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