The special 1913 Rose Parade edition of the Pasadena Daily News featured a rose-covered glamour girl on the cover, and portraits of the parade's queen - and king, as decreed by President Edward T. Off to reign over the event. (HAND-IN)
A hundred years ago there was a Tournament of Roses parade just as there will be this week.
The Pasadena Daily News published a special edition about the parade and it also printed articles on the many wonders of Pasadena.
Edward T. Off was president of the Tournament of Roses Association and wrote of its history.
He said, "Commercialism has never been permitted to enter our floral parade. No painted signs or sordid suggestion of any kind encroaches to mar the beautiful effect."
President Off decreed in 1913 that both a king and queen should reign over the event.
Harrison I. Drummond and Miss Jean P. French were named.
The judges awarded a special prize to Adolphus Busch for the best horse-drawn vehicle in the parade. The Komical Knights of the Karnival won first prize for a two-horse vehicle.
The prize for gasoline powered automobiles carrying four or more went to the Hotel Green. The Keystone Film Company, known for Keystone Comedies, came in second.
Emma H. Diers got first prize for electric vehicles.
The Association had made enough money to buy the 21-acre area that became known as Tournament Park.
After the parade, chariot races were held at Tournament Park before 50,000 people. Jo Hendrickson, in his history of the Tournament, says that memorable in 1913 were ostrich races and an elephant-camel race.
He says one ostrich threw the rider off and the elephant had to be
prodded to finish.Articles in the special Pasadena Daily News edition included "Dreams and Visions" by Rev. Robert J. Burdette, "Game and Fish in Southern California" by Joe Welsh, "Pasadena Thirty Years Ago" by J. W. Wood, "Church Life in Pasadena" by Rev. Robert Freeman, D.D., "Pasadena a Floral Bower" by P.D. Barnhart, "Mid-Winter Outdoor Life in Pasadena" by Dr. Garrett Newkirk, "Beautiful Homes of Pasadena," by Isabel Bates Winslow and "How Pasadena in Governed" by Mayor William H. Thum.
There was an article on the Pasadena Polo Club that played at Tournament Park. Another on "Arroyo Seco Natural Park - An Inspiration to the Artists."
Tournament Park at Wilson Avenue and California Boulevard now mostly belongs to Caltech.
Sid Gally is a Pasadena Museum of History volunteer
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