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Title: City of Los Angeles float at Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: January 2, 1939
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 Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Loretta Yeagle, dressed as a queen, sits at the head of the float. Gordon Olsen is in period costume in a scene depicting the discovery of the land. In the front, next to a replica of the Cabrillo ship, are Dick Vivie and Patricia Tenney dressed as Native Americans.
Different photographs taken on the same occasion appear with the article, "Rose Parade Awes 1,250,000," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1939: 1.
The City of Los Angeles float theme was "Destiny," celebrating the city's growth.
The 1939 Tournament of Roses theme was Golden Jubilee to mark the 50th anniversary of the parade. Shirley Temple served as Grand Marshal.
Text from negative sleeve: 15283 Rose Parade 1939
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14685
ark:/21198/zz002j89xm
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Spectators--California--Pasadena
Olsen, Gordon
Vivie, Dick
Yeagle, Loretta
Tenney, Patricia
Tournament of Roses
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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