Tuesday, March 06, 2018

San Francisco - Part V



Chinese Lunar New Year



As chance would have it, the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations landed in the middle of our stay with a two-day street fair and the famous parade that snaked around Union Square:



In case you weren’t aware of it, we are now in the Year of the Dog:



Various organizations were represented with colorful pageantry:



And what would a San Francisco parade be without princesses on cable cars?



Or fantastic floats?



And feats of derring-do?



See all the FITK San Francisco posts here.

By Professor Batty


4 Comments:

Blogger Jono said...

You sure got to take in a lot of interesting stuff! Bowie's Diamond Dogs slipped into my mind while looking at the parade. The parade didn't have a post-apocalyptic theme, thank goodness.


Blogger Professor Batty said...

The parade was totally unexpected, the whole trip was a great trip for surprises. I've barely begun to cover it in the blog, I'll be writing about it from time to time in the future, I'm sure.


Anonymous Shoshanah said...

How fun!

When I was a kid, the 49ers won the Super Bowl, and I remember seeing Joe Montana on TV, standing on the streetcar in the victory parade, waving just like that lady. I thought it was SO COOL that they let the 49ers use the streetcar!


Blogger Professor Batty said...

The cable car the women were on was converted-it had tires and a motor so it could drive on the parade route. Tres chic!

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