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Photo Id# AAD-2246
Title [Balloon-men clowning in opening day celebration parade for San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge] [graphic].
Date [between 1936 Nov. 12 and 1936 Nov. 14].
Description 1 photographic print: b&w.
Location Folder: S.F. Bridges-Bay-Opening Day-Parade.
Reproduction Rights Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Notes Newscopy: "BRIDGE CELEBRATION CULMINATES IN MONSTER PARADE--Hundreds of thousands of spectators throned San Francisco's famed Market street to witness a monster parade which culminated in a blaze of glory a three-day celebration following the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge, longest bridge in the world. This photo shows: a swell-headed clown doin' his stuff for the kiddies while enacting the role of fairy book character at the monster parade winding up the three day Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge Celebration.".
"Acme Photos."
Subject San Francisco (Calif.) -- Photographs.
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)
Parades & processions -- California.
Celebrations -- California.
Series San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Source Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
Collection Name Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)