I'm not crazy about it, but I think it's much more entertaining than the boring and unimaginative Rose Parade. I think everyone should go to Philadelphia at least once to see the parade...especially since they shortened it to 9 hours now.
Ed Rendell had a Mummer string band at his Gubernatorial Inaugural Ball and his victory parties, and they were great. A Mummer band and a strong Democratic victory...it couldn't have gotten much better.
This year they moved the parade back to Broad Street from Market and cut it by about 4 or 5 hours to try to get the attendance back up, since they lost some big corporate sponsors in the past few years.
visited Philadelphia a couple of times back in the early-mid '80s ... always freezing outside ... too cold for me to stand out there without going into a bar to get warm ... so, only caught glimpses ... if I recall, it's a very long parade ...
nothing like seeing a union local in feathers ... tres gay ... :)
and ended at 6 pm today. And with temperatures about 50 degrees, it was a real nice day...I wish I was there instead of watching it on my TV 80 miles away.
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