Image / "Saint Valentine's Day" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930

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Title: "Saint Valentine's Day" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1930
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: 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) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
"Saint Valentine's Day" float with white swans swimming beside a gondola on a heart-shaped base. A little boy dressed as cupid (Weber Callicot or Russell Rich) and 2 girls are in the gondola and a little Cupid girl is sitting next to the gondola (Betty Jo Tunnell, Juanita Pettit and Maryline Burke). Eight or 9 of the 10 outwalkers are visible (Marjorie Warner, June Towne, Clarabelle Daniels, Fern and Jean Syme, Louise Hawley, Virginia Eggleton, Elizabeth Hall, Violet Smith and Geraldine Wood). The float was entered by the city of Whittier and is shown at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Blvd.
The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3438
ark:/21198/zz002cp1qz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Entertainment
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Transportation
Events
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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