Long Beach's "Queen of the Beaches" float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Title: Long Beach's "Queen of the Beaches" float in the Rose Parade, Pasadena, 1934
Date Created: January 1, 1934
Date: 1934-01-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: 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. Queen Leona John sits beneath a canopy of jellyfish pulled by three giant seahorses. Attendants to the Queen hold chains of lillies that trail from the float's canopy. Long Beach's float and its Beach maidens took the grand sweepstakes prize for floats.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Tournament of Roses. Floats: Long Beach, Paramount, Metropolitan Water Dist., Texaco, Adohr-able Nymphs

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: Tournament of Roses
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.1456238138924
Latitude: -118.16085577011100
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Entertainment
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Lifestyle

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002541vc
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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