Last of the 1st
The best place to see Rose Parade floats up close is on Columbia Street, the border between Pasadena and South Pasadena, just before midnight on New Year's Eve.
A bunch of us walked up from the party and gathered the fallen roses knocked off from hitting the barricades as the assembling floats rumbled over from Fair Oaks to Orange Grove. Ace builder Tim Estes was smoking a cigar on one of his beauties.
Here Princess Jeanne of Eagle Rock and Princess Martha of Madison, Wisc. practice their royal waves.