What happened to parades?

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When I was a kid, I went to the Memorial Day Parade, the 4th Parade, Veteran's Day Parade, Thanksgiving Parade, and Santa's coming parade. Gotta admit, we never had a Labor Day Parade. Meanderer's post about celebrating Labor Day got me thinking what happened to parades. My granddad was always marching in a parade. I've never marched in one. Huh? So, how are parades in your neck of the woods?
 

Here we usually have the ANZAC day parades but with Covid, all that has changed.
We no longer gather at war memorials for dawn services, this has all been replaced by lighting a candle or turning on a porch light and standing for a minutes silence at the end of your driveway.
 

Murrmurr said:
Covid happened to parades. That aside, seems that the larger a city grows, the fewer parades they have until, eventually, they have none. I suppose "city-people" don't like traffic and business interrupted for a parade.
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Huh? NYC has huge parades. Maybe not so much because of covid, but they are still marching around.
 
we had a parade on the 4th of july and agin opening day of the tri county fair, they run horses down main street...none for labor day to busy camping fishing
 
I think that there are fewer actual parades in small town America than there used to be. I can well remember marching in Memorial Day parades sweating in a woolen band uniform that was intended for football game usage in the fall. You’d stand there at parade attention at the end of the route praying that the local politicians would keep their remarks brief, but they never did.

Televised big city parades like the Macy’s Thanksgiving one seem increasingly to be performance opportunities for minor ascendant singing celebrities and Broadway shows than actual parades. The performance groups or celebs do their televised act at a reviewing stand while there is little video coverage of school or college marching bands, many of which engaged in fund-raising activities for months just to be there…
 
We used to have the greatest parade here in Orlando....The Queen Kumquat Sashay. Anybody could enter...just show up.

There was Tora Tora Tora - the lawnmower drill team. The Legal Brief Marchers - lawyers in their Fruit of the Looms twirling briefcases. The Trash-Day Troop performing feats of juggling with their loaded Hefty Bags.

Bushels of kumquats were handed out to onlookers, to pelt the marchers with.
 
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When we travelled in the US, we made sure to go to each parade that was happening. No matter how small the town, the parade was enjoyable. Americans know how to do a parade.
 
In my 30's, I was in a parade. I sat in an antique fire truck with a Dalmatian in my lap & honked the air horn.
 
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