The 64th Annual Raleigh Christmas Parade
The Holiday Season Begins
Gusts of arctic wind swept down Fayetteville St. Saturday morning. Despite the bitter cold, a good-sized crowd lined the street with blankets and camp chairs and watched over two and a half hours of parade performers pass beneath our growing downtown skyline.
A few highlights:
Twenty-five-year Scrooge Ira David Wood and daughter Evan Rachel Wood.
International Harvester Collectors, Chapter 37.
Raleigh Rickshaws.
The CVS at Fayetteville and Hargett: a prime parade-watching location in the freezing weather.
The trashcan outside of Port City Java on Fayetteville St. What’s up with all the McCafe cups when there isn’t even a McCafe downtown?
The Helping Hand Mission Marching Band.
The hundreds of people that followed The Helping Hand Mission Marching Band to the end of the parade.
Definitely enough dancing librarians, child beauty queens and glitter-painted horse hooves to make it worth getting up early on a Saturday morning. If you missed it, WRAL has their coverage online, and they will rebroadcast it at 4pm on Christmas Day.
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Devin McKim
11/25 09:28 AM
more like what’s up with all the freakin bottles in the trash. they really need recycling places at events like that. anyways, cool pics!
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Barden
11/25 10:36 AM
The Helping Hands Mission band was by far the heat of the parade!
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ADAILG GILLISPIE
01/19 11:28 PM
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOUR BAND FOR COMING TO OUR TOWN (LA GRANGE) FOR THE MLK PARADE.THE BAND DID A WONDERFUL JOB .KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
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