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Mardi Gras Festival Parade, Venice, California

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Description: Image of a Mardi Gras Festival parade along the Windward Avenue colonnades at Venice in Los Angeles, California. Signs along the parade route read "Undercover Doctor" and "They all come out" on a movie marquee, "Plaza," "The Horseshoe," "Chop Suey Cafe," "California Theatre," and "Mardi Gras Festival." A float in the parade reads "the cornerstone of Elkdom is patriotism, fidelity, [charity?]," with a girl, young women, and an Elks member wearing a fez.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1939
Call number: photCL_555_01_1806
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Dragon parade, Moon Festival, Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Image of a dragon parade at night. Banner hanging on the street reads: Moon Festival / auspices Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Ass'n / benefit United China Relief / Aug. 7-8-9.

mssSooHoo

Santa Barbara California Floral Festival Parade for President Benjamin Harrison

Visual Materials

Image of a crowd in front of a grandstand decorated with flowers in Santa Barbara, California. The event, presumably, is the 1891 Santa Barbara California Floral Festival Parade organized for the visit of United States President Benjamin Harrison, who appears to be visible on the grandstand, the second man standing to the right of the center column of flowers.

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Property bordered by Sunset, Vine, Selma, and Argyle, Hollywood, Los Angeles. 1937

Visual Materials

A slightly elevated view of property in Hollywood bordered by Sunset, Vine, Selma, and Argyle. The foreground is occupied by the Luger used car lot. Other businesses visible along the street are auto loan companies, a paint company, a drug store, and a chop suey company.

photCL Whitt 0727 ; Whitt neg. 0969

Venice Miniature Railway on Windward Avenue, Venice, California

Visual Materials

People standing near a train at a stop for the Venice Miniature Railway on Windward Avenue in Venice, California. Signs seen on buildings say "Mint cafe - Booths" and "Pacific Southwest Bank." A banner that says "Venice" is strewn across the street.

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Oxnard Blvd. on the new Roosevelt Highway, Oxnard, Calif

Visual Materials

Image of automobiles lined along the business district at the 700 block of Oxnard Boulevard, on the Roosevelt Highway (later Pacific Coast Highway), with visible signs for New China chop suey, groceries and a pool hall labeled "Pool Hall, put Eastside inside, the perfect brew." A billboard for all-steel refrigerators from General Electric sold by Fred C. Snodgrass is visible at right.

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An area view of Windward Avenue in Venice, California, [showing a Turkish Bath House, theaters, an apartment house and automobiles common to 1914 parked along the street. There is a large sign at the intersection that reads: VENICE. People are socializing along the street and there is a horse

Visual Materials

An area view of Windward Avenue in Venice, California, [showing a Turkish Bath House, theaters, an apartment house and automobiles common to 1914 parked along the street. There is a large sign at the intersection that reads: VENICE. People are socializing along the street and there is a horse-drawn wagon approaching the camera.]

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Mardi Gras Festival Parade, Venice, California

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