Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D8652-88
Date(s)
- 1939-07-22 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Golden Jubilee parade on July 22, 1939. View down Pacific Avenue, opposite the old Sears Roebuck building, looking north. Parade of approaching army trucks and artillery. Between 4,500-4,600 sailors, soldiers and marines participated in the Golden Jubilee parade. There were more than 60 floats, 20 of them entered by Washington counties, and numerous horses, antique automobiles, horse-drawn fire apparatus, bands and drum and bugle corps. Spectators, estimated at more than 100,000, lined the entire parade route. The parade was 14 miles long and took three hours to pass. It formed at 17th & Broadway, marched north on Broadway to Division, down Division to Stadium Way to Pacific and south on Pacific to 24th.
Washington State Golden Jubilee, 1939--Tacoma; Parades & processions--Tacoma--1930-1940;