Cadence of Holiday Along Three Routes
The Thanksgiving holiday weekend ended Sunday with parades featuring fantasy, farce and a long tradition.
About 30,000 spectators lined Whittier and Atlantic boulevards for the 14th annual Christmas Fantasy Parade in East Los Angeles. Actor Edward James Olmos and the man he portrayed in “Stand and Deliver,” Garfield High School math teacher Jaime Escalante, were grand marshals.
In Pasadena, attractions in the 12th annual Doo Dah Parade included a trash queen--adorned in plastic bags--who rode atop a dumpster, and a flasher drill team. A gleeful mob of about 3,500 participants strutted down Fair Oaks Avenue as about 100,000 people looked on.
Later, about 400,000 lined Sunset and Hollywood boulevards for the 57th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade.
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