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 Long Beach float with Venus, Virginia Johnson, in a sunburst throne with her attendants, Joan Slaughter, Margaret Burley, Mary Lou Turner and Gladys McCleary, dressed in Grecian robes in pastel shades. A huge peacock heads the float, with a fountain in the center supporting 2 green cockatoos with orchid tails. The float is seen passing the Goodhue Flagpole at the intersection of Orange Grove. Blvd. and Colorado Blvd. The theme of the 1935 forty-sixth annual Rose Parade was "Golden Legends." Text from negative sleeve: Tournament of Roses, 1935
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_3719 ark:/21198/zz002cpcm7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Events Floats (Parades)--California--Los Angeles Arts Entertainment Culture Parades & processions--California--Pasadena McCleary, Gladys Burley, Margaret Tournament of Roses Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.) Johnson, Virginia Turner, Mary Lou Slaughter, Joan
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