28th Holiday Parade Today in La Jolla
Theodor Geisel, better known as children’s author Dr. Seuss, will be grand marshal of the 28th La Jolla Holiday Parade today.
Organizers are expecting 20,000 people to watch the parade, which will start at 3 p.m. at the top of Girard Avenue. About 115 entries--including Marine and Navy bands, floats and Rolls-Royces bearing other marshals--will parade to the recreation center on Prospect Street.
Draper Avenue will be blocked off for a party from 5 to 8 p.m., and a 15-foot Christmas tree will be lighted at 6 p.m.
Retired Army Brig. Gen. Alan R. Toffler will be military marshal. Bob Barrymore, president of the La Jolla Historical Society, and his wife, June, will be civic marshals. Mary Rose Alexander, president of the Associated Students at the University of California, San Diego, will be education marshal.
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