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I spent as much time growing up on the corner of Third and Market in downtown San Francisco as I did anywhere else; my parents' office was our second home. My siblings and I worked hard (after all, the only reason to have kids is for the free labor, right?) but it was also a great place to watch parades -- Chinese New Year, Columbus Day, and, so on. We'd run up and down the stairs, alternating between watching from the street and from my dad's seventh floor office. One of my favorite things was tossing the holes my mother had saved all year from the hole punches out the window for New Year's.I don't think my kids, on the other hand, have ever seen a parade. My niece is watching the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York on television, but when I turned it on here, Jared wanted Noggin back. I'm not even sure if they have parades here anymore, other than the Pride parade. So, are parades going the way of film cameras and slide rules? Or are they still exciting for kids today? Are your kids watching the parade today?
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
11-23-2006 @ 2:59PM
Cheryl said...The thing is, the Macy's thanksgiving day parade is just an assortment of musical numbers and toy commercials. It really isn't a parade. Actually, that would make it pretty similar to children's television.
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11-23-2006 @ 2:54PM
ann adams said...I turned Macy's on for the girls (and me). Very little parade but lots of hype for musicals and t.v. shows. We got bored quickly. We wanted the floats and balloons.
We'll have a Santa parade here in a couple of weeks that is small, corny, and much more fun.
I don't think parades are outdated, just that particular parade on t.v. Live it would probably be great.
And I still watch Chinese New Years from SF every year. We get KTVU here (and KQED).
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11-23-2006 @ 3:29PM
LB said...What? My kids love parades! They go bananas at our town's 4th parade and people lose thier minds at the WDW parades! I do not think they will lose thier appeal entirely. And my hat is off(bad pun?)to people who literally march down the street. That takes some courage. When you're there, it's cool.
I do agree the televised versions are not as good. We watched a little off and on. We TIVOed it and skimmed ahead to the cooler looking floats.That lip-synching is painful.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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11-23-2006 @ 10:46PM
Nadine said...Rog, the Santa Claus Parade in Toronto gets a million people lining up along the streets of Toronto -- that's as many as for the Pride Parade we have here each June!
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11-24-2006 @ 8:05AM
Ginny said...Yeah, what everyone else said about the Macy's parade. A parade should do just that...parade. I can't stand when they stop the parade for a dance number. We haven't watched the Macy's parade for YEARS. To see a REAL parade, we go local.
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11-25-2006 @ 2:22AM
Uly said...I think it depends on where you are.
When I was just born, until I was three, we lived in New Orleans. So we did Mardi Gras every year in a nice area, and had a lot of fun, and all about the parades. Gathering thrown stuff and this and that, it was great.
Then we moved to Brooklyn, and we lived on a quiet block in a quiet neighborhood. There weren't any parades there, or even, to my knowledge, on the nearby big street. Only event we ever went to was our yearly block party.
Then we moved to 18th avenue in Bensonhurst - main thoroughfare in a very heavily Italian neighborhood in Brooklyn. We watched parades several times a year straight from our windows. We didn't just have a block party, we had Santa Lucia every year. It was all pretty exciting, to have parades and such being a commonplace occurance like that, though I doubt people with cars liked it as much as my sister and I did :)
Then we moved again, to a tiny little quiet street on Staten Island. Staten Island *does* have parades, but not in our area, so we haven't been to any. And while my sister and brother-in-law have toyed with the idea of taking my nieces to see some of the big parades in the city (Macy's, for example), fact is that these parades are really just for the tourists, and not much fun to kids anyway.
So my nieces haven't, to my knowledge, seen any parades yet, but only because the parade life where we happen to all be now isn't much fun. Luck of the draw.
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