Image / "Christmas Day" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1930

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Title: "Christmas 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.
The float entered by the Pasadena Elks shows Santa Claus (Joe Palmar) at the top of a chimney with a mother (Mrs. B. J. Kirst) and five children seated next to the fireplace and a reindeer standing at the front of the float. The float is on Orange Grove Boulevard, probably just south of the intersection with Colorado Boulevard.
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_3458
ark:/21198/zz002cp2f9
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Culture
Entertainment
Arts
Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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