US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-2047
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. "Peacock" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade with a large floral peacock at the front, a fountain with white swans drinking in the middle, and the queen, Marjorie Wise with Betty Service and Gene Beerkle, maids in waiting seated in a pagoda-like structure at the back. Outwalkers carrying bouquets of roses, dressed as peacocks and attached to the float with pink ribbons. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the city of Long Beach. The theme of the 1933 forty-fourth annual Rose Parade was "Fairy Tales in Flowers." Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1933
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3276 ark:/21198/zz002cnnjm
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Events Arts Entertainment Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena Culture Parades & processions--California--Pasadena Tournament of Roses Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.) Service, Betty Wise, Marjorie
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