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The 132nd Tournament of Roses Parade...

MoodyBlues

MoodyBlues

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...has been canceled due to COVID-19. :(

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The Rose Parade has been an integral part of my life, since growing up three blocks south of Colorado Blvd. We'd get up early on New Year's Day, walk three blocks up, and watch the parade.

When I lived out-of-state, I'd watch it on TV...and wish I was home, enjoying the beautiful mountains, weather, and amazing floats.

You really can't grasp the magnitude of what goes into making the floats without seeing them in person. Millions and millions of flower petals, leaves, seeds, blossoms, etc., are used; every millimeter of each float must be covered with a part of a plant. The floats for the next year are started in February.

This is a first in my lifetime. A sad one.
 
me too. i use to swim for a swim club when i was a kid. one of our fundraisers was to sell Rose Parade programs. i used to love it and hate it. i hated that i had to walk up and down the parade route and yell "ROSE PARADE PROGRAMS, GET YOUR ROSE PARADE PROGRAMS!!!!!!". of course once the parade started i would stop selling and watch them go by in awe. they look way bigger in person then on tv.....that is for sure.

sad to see that we will not be having one next year.....which i can not wait to have a new year......because this one (2020) sucks balls!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
My most vivid memory of the Rose Parade: One of my neighbors was the first in the area to get a color TV. They invited everyone around to come and watch the parade in color. There must have been thirty people crammed into a small living area to take in the marvel. I was one of the kids sitting up front on the floor. It was impressive.
 
ocnbrze said:
they look way bigger in person then on tv.....that is for sure.
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Yes, they're much bigger than they look on TV, that's for sure. And awesome, like jaw-dropping amazing. Afterward, when they're parked in Sierra Madre, you can stroll among them and really grasp the intricate, painstaking work that went into creating each float.
sad to see that we will not be having one next year.....which i can not wait to have a new year......because this one (2020) sucks balls!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You're not kidding...and everyone had such high hopes for 2020. It started off with an unimaginable tragedy for some of us, Kobe's death...to say nothing of how those personally affected by the nine deaths felt. It was all downhill from there.

2021 has got to be better...
 
Since yesterday I've learned that this is actually the fourth time the parade has been canceled; the other three were all during WWII. The last one was in 1945--which predates even my husband. *I* am older than dirt. He's seven years older than me. So what does that make him? :thinking:
 
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