"Neptune's Chariot" float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1934

Title: "Neptune's Chariot" float in the Tournament of Roses 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: View of the "Neptune's Chariot" float with a giant sea turtle pulling a shell chariot. The sea god and 2 attendants are absent due to the rain. The Pasadena Memorial Flagpole (Goodhue Flagpole) is visible behind the float in its original location in the middle of the intersection of Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevard. The float was entered by the Texaco company.
The theme of the 1934 Rose Parade was: Tales of the Seven Seas. It rained during the parade that year.
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
Goodhue Flagpole (Pasadena, Calif.)
Location: Pasadena (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.14560605522830
Latitude: -118.16066265106200
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Parades & processions--California--Pasadena
Events
Floats (Parades)--California--Pasadena
Arts
Culture

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002541tv
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