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From this weekend’s CityBeats column in the Star-News:
“Upscale stores often pride themselves on giving customers the royal treatment.
Maybe the Nordstrom store at Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia comes closest — the 1960 Rose Queen, Margarethe Bertelson (Knoblock) is a personal shopper there.”
Above and below, former Rose Queens with 2010 Rose Queen Natalie Innocenzi at the Tournament House earlier this month.
The oldest-living Rose Queen is 88-year-old Margaret Main, who took the title in 1940. She’s the one in pink in the photos.
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