Image / "Pink Shell" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936

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Title: "Pink Shell" float at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1936
Contributor: Snyder, Bill
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1, 1936
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.
View of the Manhattan Beach "Pink Shell" float with Elnora Record seated in a large, pink shell riding the crest of a wave, with Helene Epperson and Charlotte Havlu costumed as mermaids riding surfboards, and 2 little girls, Barbara Mae Pitzer and Rosemary Dubarry seated on either side. The float is at the intersection of Orange Grove Blvd. and Colorado Blvd.
The theme of the 1936 forty-seventh annual Rose Parade was "History in Flowers."
Text from negative sleeve: 4304, Feb 4-36. Snyder negs on Parade, Floats only.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_13431
ark:/21198/zz002hnmtx
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Havlu, Barbara B., b. 1918 or 19
Record, Elnora V., b. 1917
Dubarry, Rosemary
Tournament of Roses
Pitzer, Barbara Ann
Epperson, Helene
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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