Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. The camera looks east and down at Hollywood Boulevard during the American Legion's parade and convention. Color bearers carry American flags as they march in lines towards the camera. Along the right edge, from front to back, the Hollywood Masonic Temple and the El Capitain Theatre line the south side of Hollywood Boulevard. The parade along Hollywood Boulevard stretches into the distance at center. In the background at left, the Hollywood First National Bank Building rises. This photograph appears with the article, "Color War Veterans on March Once More: Hollywood Pays California's War Heroes Tribute Throngs Block Streets to Acclaim as Legionnaires March Again to Colorful Pageantry," Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 1936: 1 Text from negative sleeve: 6356 -- Legion Convention Parade, Color Bearers). Handwritten on negative: 51 Text from newspaper caption: Ten-shun! The colors! These color bearers, slightly out of uniform but none the less aware of the patriotic significance of the flags waving in the breeze above their heads, led thousands of their comrades yesterday in a spectacular parade down Hollywood Boulevard. It was one of the most impressive events of the California State American Legion convention. Times photo [Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 1936: 1]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_14435 ark:/21198/zz002j819f
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Meetings--California--Los Angeles Historic buildings--California--Los Angeles Parades & processions--California--Los Angeles Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Flags--American Flag bearers--California--Los Angeles American Legion
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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