Volunteer Petal Pushers Put End to Rose Parade Crisis : Spectacle: Rescuers finish decorating six floats that were behind schedule. All entries will be on display at route’s end.

A last-minute crisis was averted late Thursday when a wave of volunteers showed up in Azusa to attach the last mums and carnations to six floats, removing a hitch from the 104th Rose Parade.

The float-building company, Festival Artists, facing the prospect of sending unfinished floats into the parade, sent out a call Thursday. “A lot of people just showed up,” said a spokeswoman for the company.

Even the weather appeared to be cooperating. Today’s parade promises to be the 38th in row to come off without precipitation, meteorologists say, though a slow-moving rain front is heading this way and could be here as early as this evening.

Pasadena authorities say city streets should be cleaner than usual for the parade.

About 1,000 police officers and sheriff’s deputies are to patrol the parade route, enforcing, among other laws, the city’s new “Silly String” ordinance, making it a misdemeanor to “drop, roll, throw, toss, squirt or propel any gaseous liquid, semi-solid or solid substance or object” toward a participant at a parade.

That means marshmallows, tortillas, that aerosol spray foam known as Silly String and any other substance that has turned Pasadena streets and cars into a mucky mess in recent years, said Pasadena Police Lt. Rick Law.

“We will be enforcing it,” Law said. The punishment is up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Because of muddy conditions around the Rose Bowl, Pasadena police have suspended turf parking for the Rose Bowl football game today. Parking will be confined to the paved parking lot and adjacent streets, where cars will be stacked, a police spokesman said. Police advised those attending the game either to car-pool or to take a shuttle bus from the center of the city. The shuttle leaves regularly from the Parsons Engineering parking lot, at Walnut Street and Fair Oaks Avenue, and it costs $2.20 round trip. The bus trip takes about 15 minutes.

For a close-up look after the parade, floats will be on display this afternoon and on Saturday and Sunday, on Sierra Madre Boulevard, between Washington Boulevard and Sierra Madre Villa Avenue, and on Washington Boulevard, between Sierra Madre Boulevard and Woodlyn Road.

Hours are 1:30 to 4 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. A viewing for disabled and elderly people will be Saturday and Sunday between 7 and 9 a.m.

Tournament of Roses Route

Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses Parade, held on Friday, draws hundreds of thousands of spectators. The two-hour parade begins at 8:05 a.m., followed by the Rose Bowl game at 1:45 p.m. The 5.5-mile parade route begins on South Orange Grove Boulevard, turning east on Colorado Boulevard and north on Sierra Madre Boulevard. It ends near Victory Park, where post-parade viewing opens at 1:30 p.m. Grandstand seats can be reserved for the parade, but most viewers choose to claim a spot on the sidewalk. Police say those wishing to park within easy walking distance should arrive about 6:30 a.m.

Parade Order of March 1. Long Beach Mounted Police 2. Los Angeles Unified All-District High School Marching Band 3. American Honda Motor Co. 4. Martinez Family 5. The Vons Companies Inc. 6. Farmers Insurance Group 7. Shady Ladies of the Mother Lode 8. Unocal Corp. 9. The Grand Marshal 10. City of Los Angeles 11. U.S. Marine Corps Mounted Color Guard 12. West Coast Composite Marine Band 13. Rand McNally & Co. 14. Western Group 15. China Airlines 16. Pasadena City College Herald Trumpets 17. Rose Queen and Royal Court 18. Pasadena City College Honor Band 19. Wells Fargo Bank 20. George Putnam Group 21. Kmart Corp. 22. Salvation Army Tournament of Roses Band 23. Arco 24. Pacific 10 Conference 25. Pacific 10 Band 26. La Canada Flintridge Tournament of Roses Assn. 27. Hawaii Pa’u Riders 28. City of Duarte/City of Hope 29. Arcadia High School Apache Marching Band 30. Arcadia Tournament of Roses Assn. 31. Tournament of Roses President 32. General Motors Corp. 33. City of Glendale 34. Australia’s Marching Koalas 35. American Bashkir Curly Registry 36. Burbank Tournament of Roses Assn. 37. Big 10 Conference 38. Big 10 Band 39. Mayor of Pasadena 40. Mahogany Cowgirls 41. Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers Union 42. The Pride of the Dutchmen Marching Band 43. Kiwanis California, Nevada and Hawaii District 44. Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum’s Spirit of the West Riders 45. Portland Rose Festival 46. Richard Saukko White Horse Group 47. Nestle USA 48. Robert E. Lee High School Band 49. City of Inglewood 50. Santa Maria Elks Rodeo Color Guard 51. Elks 52. American Morgan Horse Equestrian Group 53. Dr Pepper Co. 54. Westbrook High School Marching Band 55. IBM Corp. 56. John Suttill Parading Arabians 57. Lions Clubs International 58. Pasobilities Peruvian Paso Horse Club 59. Florists’ Transworld Delivery Assn. 60. Sprayberry High School Band of Gold 61. Malaysia Tourist Promotion Board/Malaysia Airlines System 62. B-Troop, 4th U.S. Cavalry (Memorial) 63. City of Long Beach 64. Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament 65. Cal Poly Universities of Pomona and San Luis Obispo 66. City of Torrance 67. Pickerington Marching Tiger Band 68. City of St. Louis 69. Norco Desperados 70. IHOP 71. Nu Skin International Inc. 72. Tanner Appaloosa Group 73. Southern California Edison 74. Blue Springs High School Golden Regiment Band 75. Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream 76. Montie Montana 77. Eastman Kodak Co. 78. California Paso Fino Horses 79. Bank of America 80. Osaka Band Federation High School Honor Band 81. 20th Century Insurance Co. 82. Medinah Black Horse Troop 83. Delta Air Lines Inc. 84. Republic of Indonesia 85. Hermitage High School Marching Panthers 86. Countrywide Funding Corporation 87. Swirling Sands Mounted Drill Team 88. City of Mobile, Ala. 89. The Gilbert Tiger Marching Pride 90. Family of Freemasonry 91. Eastern High Sierra Packers Assn. & National Forest Recreation Assn. 92. People of Guatemala 93. Valley Hunt Club 94. Seventh-day Adventist Church 95. Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Service 96. Castle Park High School Trojan Brigade & Marching Units 97. Rotary International 98. Sundowners 99. Lutheran Laymen’s League 100. Mercer Island High School Marching Band 101. City of South Pasadena 102. From the Heart of Asia: Tuva 103. Oddfellows & Rebekahs 104. Lincoln High School Marching Band 105. Downey Rose Float Assn. 106. Wee Wheelers Miniature Driving Group 107. City of Alhambra 108. Diamond Bar High School Marching Band 109. Sierra Madre Rose Float Assn. 110. Iron Eyes Cody Indian Delegation 111. Occidental College Alumni Assn.