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Main Street Parades, 1950’s–1970’s |
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CoxPilot & Parades: Another "animal" I came in close contact with was Zorro's black stallion, Diablo. I come from a horse background and we owned a horse ranch in Texas for quite awhile. Zorro’s stallion was a real monster and a true stallion (no gelding there) and very difficult to control. They had it in a parade (maybe around '61 or '62?) and four guys had to control the horse with lead lines from all four corners with a special bit, while Guy Williams road down Main street. I was sure he was going to end up on the cobble stones. He was a good rider. |
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America on Parade |
| (July 1975—Sept. 1976) BACKSTORY: This tribute to America’s 200th Birthday featured more than 150 performers and a number of favorite patriotic songs, such as “Yankee Doodle,” “Oh Susannah,” “In the Good Old Summertime,” and “Stars and Stripes Forever.” An original 1890 automatic band organ named “Sadie Mae” provided the base melodies for the parade. |
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Circus on Parade, January 1986 |
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Circus Fantasy, March 1987 |
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Circus Fantasy, April 1987 |
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Disney Pirates of the Caribbean Legends, March 18, 2007 |
| The following photos were submitted to Daveland by Ted Topping, who had the fortune of being at Disneyland on March 18, 2007 for the 40th Anniversary of POTC. He and his partner had a prime spot for the afternoon performance of Parade of Dreams. The Grand Marshalls were Alice Davis, X. Atencio (note the mis-spelling on the car sign), Harriet Burns, Blaine Gibson, and Bob Gurr. This particular photo is special to Ted; X. Atencio saw that he was attempting to photograph the group, and he started to wave. Ted rushed his first shot, so X. Atencio held the pose until Ted could properly get set up. Definitely a legendary man in more ways than one. Thanks Ted for sharing these fantastic images! |
November 2008 |
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Disney’s California Adventure High School Musical Parades |
Electrical Parade |
| (June 17, 1972—Present) BACKSTORY: This guest favorite depicts favorite Disney films with 26 floats using 700,000 light bulbs. Known originally as the Main Street Electrical Parade, it ran on Main Street until November 25, 1996 and caused its theme, “Baroque Hoedown” to be ingrained in the ears of over 75 million guests. The Parade has since been revived over at Disney’s California Adventure. Michael Phillips, aka “Boxcar Mike,” submitted this interesting info: “Up until the Main Street Electrical Parade debuted back in 1972, all of the parade guest control was done by security. In pictures of the early parades, you will notice that there are no ropes or stanchions to keep guests back on the sidewalk and sometimes guests would walk out right into the middle of the parade just to take a picture or to get a closer view. There were plenty of safety issues with the new Electrical Parade such as visibility issues (float Drivers had limited visibility) so security wasn’t enough. This was the first parade to use crowd control ropes and stanchions, as well as guest control hosts and hostesses.” |
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Disney’s Electrical Parade at Disney’s California Adventure, March 2008 |
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