No Roses Harmed at Colorful Doo Dah Parade!

The Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade celebrates 38 years of irreverent
frolicking on the streets of Pasadena. The 2015 Parade takes place on Sunday,
Nov. 22, stepping off at 11 a.m. in East Pasadena along Colorado
Boulevard.
On Doo Dah day, the street will swell with a memorable cast of local eccentrics, disruptors, pundits, mutant art cars, lone wolves, steam punks, makers and merrymakers who comprise Her Royal Majesty Queen Veronika MeowMeowzz, Car Pool DeVille, Radioactive Chickenheads, Code Blue DeFibs medical satire, Flying Baby Naptime Aerialists, The Partridge Family, Bernie Sanders for
President, Coyote Jeff’s Saucers, Crimebo the Clown & Dr. Morbius, Klingon Assault, The Army of Toy Soldiers, Drunk in the Garage, Tortilla Target, The Billionaires, Free Thought Society, Bearded Ladies, Aquatrope, Yiddish Count Dracula. OC Norml’s Mardi Grass, Cupcake Cars, 35th Dragoon Guards, Circuit Benders, Murrugun the Mystic, Carrotheads of Laguna Beach, The Butler, Man as Giraffe, Motorized Furniture, Recumbent Revolution, and legendary Doo Dah house band, Snotty Scotty & the Hankies. Secret Santa, Doo Dah’s take on the North Pole icon, will close the parade and ring in the holiday season. Oh, yes, and the world’s tallest girl scout!

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This year’s Grand Marshal, Juli Crockett, will perform live with the Evangenitals. The popular singer/songwriter is also a playwright and undefeated professional boxing champion. Writer Jerry Boyd (aka F.X. Toole) became convinced she was the real-life incarnation of Maggie Fitzgerald, the character he turned into a “Million Dollar Baby.” Last year, dozens of inventive, if zany, art cars and floats accompanied a legion of revelers past the mom-n-pop shops along East Pasadena’s shady tree-lined streets. Known as the twisted sister of the conventional Rose Parade, the Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade began as a grassroots event in 1978 to gain national attention for its eccentric and, often, irreverent satire. To recount the fascinating and confusing history of Pasadena Doo Dah Parade since 1978, please visit our website’s ARCHIVES page. COST: Always free-of-charge. Contact: (626) 590-7596 for (public info line). 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! Bring a lawn chair! Visit the local eateries, popular food trucks along the parade route, and buy a new Doo Dah t-shirt. Stick around for the after parties all within close walking distance.
Official Doo Dah After-Party: American Legion, 179 N. Vinedo St. (2 blocks north of Parade on Vinedo) immediately following the event. The 38th consecutive after-parade performance by Snotty Scotty and the Hankies, and New Horses on Astroturf band. Dancing, cheap(est) food and drinks!! $3 cover (supports a Legion charity).
Unofficial Doo Dah After-Parties: PooBah Records, one of Pasadena’s favorite independent music stores, will feature live in-store performance and DJ. PooBah is located at 2636 E. Colorado Blvd., right on the parade route.
The famous Colorado Bar, located right next door at 2640 E. Colorado Blvd. has no cover and will feature The Los Dos, Drunk in the Garage and plenty of salty chips and drinks!
For more information go to: http://www.pasadenadoodahparade.info.

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