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Title: "May Day" 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"
Birdseye view of the Rose Parade with the Arcadia's "May Day" float in front. The float featured the kindergarten orchestra (Evangeline Beach, Buddy Fremhere, Jean Ross, Betty Corwin, Eleanor Lee Jack Vertolina and Millie May Pranchan, conducted by George Peckham and with Doris Joslin as organist) and teacher Dorothy Marks (as queen) and dancers (Frances Summers, June Canady, Winota Berry and Durston Williams). This is followed by the Anaheim float. The buiding on the right is located at 42 W. Colorado Blvd.
Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1930. nitrates.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3467
ark:/21198/zz002cp2rz
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Culture
Arts
Entertainment
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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