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INFORMATIONPasadena Doo Dah Parade Spins, Spits and Sambas Down Colorado Boulevard on Saturday, April 30thSATURDAY, APRIL 30TH: Daring to go where no parade has gone before, this year’s Pasadena Doo Dah Parade will again bring its own brand of eccentricity and nonconformity east, after its successful relocation last year. While the alternative event enjoyed much popular acclaim in the Old Pasadena retail and entertainment district, organizers like the low profile, town-like setting of LaManda Park, reminiscent of the feeling of the early years of Doo Dah. Inventive, if zany, art cars and floats accompany a legion of frolickers past the mom-n-pop shops along their shady tree-lined streets. Known as the twisted sister of its counterpart Rose Parade, the Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade begun as a grassroots event in 1978 to gain national attention for its eccentric and, often, irreverent satire. The parade which has spawned numerous off-beat replicants across the country was named by Readers Digest as “America’s Best Parade,” and was recently featured in the book 50 Places You Must Visit Before You Die! Comprising this year’s visual fare will be such wildly diverse entries as a fleet of motorized “Kinetic Pastry Science Mobile Muffins,” “Songbird & His Ocarinas,” a humungous robotic spitting cat named “Boo-Boo Kitty,” oddly-attired sound inventors known as “The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen’s Society Circuit Bending Marching Band & Ladies’ Auxiliary,” and the crowd favorite “Disco Drill Team,” real American Bandstanders. Yes, another Doo Dah is here to help you forget your humdrum existence. Also featured among the 1,000 marchers at this year’s Doo Dah will be Dr. Steel’s Army of Toy Soldiers, A REAL Doo Dah Wedding, Her Royal Highness Queen Erica Valentine, Captain McHogwash’s Amazing Chundra, Cheap Sax Addicted to Love, The Martini Kings & Swing-o-matic, Linoleum Bonaparte, the World Champion Whistling Diva, Goddess of Democracy, The Pink-Slipped Pissed off Teachers, Friends and their Pissed-off Kids, Million Marijuana March, FireBrain, Evotrope, Motorized Couch, The Bra-Ettes Dancing Bras, ArtStorm, Thwop!, What Happened in Vegas Should Have Stayed, Gallery at the End of the World, Girls Who Draw Girls on Roller Skates, Classic and scary clowns, and such perennial favorites as the Men of Leisure, BBQ & Hibachi Marching Grill Team, the Bastard Sons of Lee Marvin, the immortal Doo Dah house band Snotty Scotty & the Hankies, and many more! WHAT: The 34TH OCCASIONAL PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE WHERE: Colorado Boulevard (between Altadena and San Gabriel Boulevards) in East Pasadena. Start: Nina St./Vinedo St., and S. on Vinedo. W. on Colorado, circles again, back up Vinedo. WHEN: SATURDAY, APRIL 30TH , 11:00AM! COST: Always free-of-charge! Plenty of street parking is available ~ Parade route is also just west of the Sierra Madre Villa Gold Line Station (at Colorado Blvd. and Sierra Madre Villa). City busses go directly to the area. Come early! Come early! Bring a lawn chair! Visit the local eateries and shops, and attend the after parties all within walking distance. Official Doo Dah After-Party: held at the American Legion, couple blocks from parade, also on Vinedo (Xst. Walnut), immediately following the parade. Bands. Cheap food and drink. $5 cover to a Legion charity. Cash only please. For more information go to: www.pasadenadoodahparade.info Photos Available Upon Request
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