Bugle player on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
Bugle player on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
John Denholm will be using the small artillery trumpet to herald the Pasadena Tournament of Roses parade, just as this trumpet has been used every year in the parade since 1910. For 25 years Denholm was the herald of the parade until 1931, when he moved East to Pennsylvania.
Possibly related to the article “M’Quigg Speaks at Dedication, Legion Head Lauds Work for Disabled Heroes, New Hospital for Veterans at San Fernando Viewed, Many Notables There to Take Part in Ceremonies,” Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 1926
Drummers of the Los Angeles American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps in front of the Union Pacific Central Station, at 440 S. Central Avenue, during an American Legion Parade. Two men adjust a sign on top of a Union Pacific street car behind the drummers. Possibly related to the article "Ex-Soldiers Will Parade: Legionnaires Back from East Tomorrow to Celebrate Victory," Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 1937: A5.
Men with flags and bugle, in hats and possibly in uniform, photographed in silhouette on hillside, flagman standing, waving 2 small flags, bugler on one knee, possibly at Palisades Park, Santa Monica