"Queen of the Beaches" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934
Item Overview
- Title
- "Queen of the Beaches" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934
- Date Created
- January 1, 1934
- Date
- 1934-01-01
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year
Long Beach's "Queen of the Beaches" float, at the intersection of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove with the Goodhue Flagpole on the right. Queen Leona John sits beneath a canopy of jellyfish pulled by three giant seahorses. Floatwalkers hold chains of lilies that trail from the float's canopy. Long Beach's float and its Beach maidens took the grand sweepstakes prize for floats.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_3630
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002cp8jr
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights contact
- 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
- Rights Holder
- The Regents of the University of California
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .