REMEMBER: Zoning all mail speeds delivery. American Red Cross sponsors this colorful float, which was declared divisional winner. For the next 15 years we traveled around the country as he completed his Navy career. Complete with its own parade and junior royal court, the Junior Rose Festival became an official William Boyd was the real-life character. All rights reserved (About Us). To this day, I still get asked if I am saving places along the route for the Rose parade. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. I remember never seeing a "bad" Hopalong movie, but as a kid what did I know. % 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. Behind the Grand Floral Parade and other colorful events of the Festival lie months of planning on the part of these civic leaders. Shirley Benz, Tigard 3rd Row: Patrick Doherty and Caroline Folts; Jack OBrien and Judy OMalley; Nancy Titus and Billy McCallen. Many of my friends would come during the day and spend lunch and dinner with me as I sat and saved their families a space. Or, show up on parade day (give yourself plenty of time, arrive at least an hour before the 1pm parade start time) Ballots are. Related content. We were dismayed to see our faces on the 6 o'clock news that evening and had lots of explaining to do to our folks! The theme for the festival was "Doorways to Dreams." WebHome > Programs > Rose Festival Court > Past Rose Festival Queens. WebThe San Clemente Court Records links below open in a new window and take you to third party websites that provide access to San Clemente Court Records. 1939 letter from First Federal. I worked full time at a job, ran a farm with livestock, raised two boys myself, attended all their games, band events, football practices, parent conferences. counted swiftly and when the curtains part once more they reveal the Queen of Rosaria and her Royal Court. Drum cadences and marching-band tunes mingled with parade-goers' cheerful voices. I remember being in the parades atop beautiful flower-covered floats, waving to the people leaning out windows of the downtown buildings including Meier & Frank. <> The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. 1937 Inaugural Merrykana Parade letter. During the junior parade, she was there to cheer for our float, during the grand floral parade she was there, everywhere the court went, Grandma was there. It is for those who could not be with us in the City of Roses at Festival time that this Rose Festival Pictorial haslbeen published, in the hope that it will reflectav^reS^lT. Never in the history of Portlands Rose Festival have the -entries in the Grand Floral Pa-(^ide been more skillfully designed or lavishly executed than in the 1949 spectacle. Photos on this page show Queen Joyce I receiving her crown from Rosarian Prime Minister N. A. Broeren and her scepter from Rose Festival Association President Howard Holman. By Michael Walden Joyce Sommerlade Goodman, Salt Lake City, Utah It was the big night for Portland high I remember dance instruction and participating in the following events: the planting of ten rose buses in Grant Park (June 3), a Rose Sunday ceremony in Washington Park Test Garden (June 4), a luncheon at the East Side Commercial Club (June 7), the evening Coronation of the Queen of Rosaria, riding on the East Side Commercial Club float (June 9) and appearing in the Junior Rose Festival Parade (that ran west on Sandy Boulevard from 52nd Avenue to Broadway, north on NE 33rd Avenue and East on US Grant place to the Grant Bowl disband area). But not just in the parade, but to ride in one of the lead cars. WebProgram for the 58th Annual Portland Rose Festival June 312, 1966. Theyll be glad to help you. She was bitten by the Rose Festival bug. My grandmother was Francis Potter. It was an idea that took hold and has lasted until the present -- 77 years! As it approached our spot on Fourth Avenue, where we watched from every year, her car stopped, along with the rest of the parade, so our kids Sean and Addie could give her roses on that day. It was a brand new 1949 Mercury convertible. 1989 sponsorship package and position paper, 1933 program for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1975 Rose Cup Road Races official program, Photo-Art Commercial Studios (Portland, Or. Joyce Sommerlade Goodman, Salt Lake City, Utah Throughout the year and for many years to come, Portland and its surrounding paradise welcomes visitors from afar at its modern Tourists Information Center located, on the banks of the Willamette River at 1020 S.W. To commemorate our selection to the Rose Festival Junior Court, each of us had a formal portrait taken at the Rose Garden. 1937 Inaugural Merrykana Parade letter. In the early 70s, Mom would load my brother and I in the stroller and head downtown for the Rose Festival Parade. q%e*@D"IT,G$0L2xeq@|1#Kn}'K4C0HPG!$t^r^O The Princesses were dressed in pastel shaded costumes with matching polk bonnets. 1979 program. They both grew up in Portland, but we had just moved here from Chicago a few years before and had never gone to the parade. I required they bring a chair to save each person a space . It really made me feel special! WebPhotographs of the Portland Rose Festival, dating from 1910-1976. That fame has come to this western city chiefly because of^the annual Portland Rose Festival, which has been held each year since 1907, with the exception of 1918 and 1926. Not hearing it, he inconspicuously made his way to the stage hoping to be part of the celebration. In 1929, representatives from each of Portland's then seven high schools rode on a float in the Rose Festival Parade. It was a picture-perfect morning, a model day to impress my out-of-state friends. 1978 guide. The Rose Festival will always be a part of our family. First National Bank takes honors. ), Allowed HTML tags: