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Title: "Singing Jimmie Smith" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1930
1930-01-01
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.
The theme of the 1930 forty-first annual Rose Parade was "Festival Days in Flowers"
"Singing Jimmie Smith" float portraying a floral home with Jimmie Smith seated as a radio broadcaster beneath a pergola with float riders Jeanne Zachau, Bobbie Kimnle, Dorothy Collisson, Lois Stolzenburg, Doris Purcell and Marguerite V. Essen. The float was entered by the city of Tujunga and is shown next to the Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard.
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3452
ark:/21198/zz002cp26p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Events
Arts
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Culture
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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