Parade 8
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One of my favorite universities had a float that was completely student designed and constructed. University of California Polytechnic sounds like a total party school. A very significant percentage of the scientist and engineers in America come from Polytechnic. The University of Nebraska band was there. It seemed like there were a thousand people in the band. I think the entire state followed them to California. The grandkids got real excited when the buffalo soldiers came by. One of the had just read a school story about them.
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The fisherman float were not physically connected. Supposedly the drivers were connected by walkie talkies. The fish weaved across the street like a real hooked fish. This was one of my favorite because it had so many purple iris. I could not see any males in the Frank Scott Bunnell band. Was that ironic or just a fluke?
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I didn‘t know in Optimist International had a women‘s auxiliary. That seems kind of archaic. They had a great float and the old woman setting beside me told me that there were no plans to combine the male and female groups. And as is now traditional I have included a picture of a really pretty young lady. Unfortunately I captioned it with the punch line from an ancient dirty joke. Still she is very pretty and gives hope for the future.
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The pink Cadillac is just slightly larger than life size. One of Carolyn‘s friend mother had a Cadillac. The thing had a trunk you could store a Hummer in. The Taiwan China Airline float made we once again wonder when our politicians were going to betray that island as we have so many of our smaller allies.
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The picture above is of, IMHO, the busiest float in the whole parade. It was playing loud synth music and everything was moving as if jitterbugging. |
