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General Category => Hackensack Discussion => Topic started by: BLeafe on October 03, 2010, 06:14:09 PM
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I didn't want to walk to the courthouse and back (I'd miss the Jets game at 1pm). The "pre-parade prep" is very nearby (Sears parking lot) and early, and this staging area in and around the lot is much more interesting.
It's kind of a madhouse as large groups of kids, bands, dancers, and vehicles are all mixed up while primping and practicing. Instead of trying to get shots of them from a spot along the parade route from the same angle and with the same background, I can get poses, candids, and basically anything I want.
I can also find unusual things that aren't seen in the parade, such as a truck that was packed with big speakers pumping out LOUD music while parked next to a Port-a-John that had people on line waiting to use it. It's like music was being provided as entertainment for the people who were waiting to use the facilities.
It was a Port-a-Party!
I have 15 pictures and 2 videos to show, so I'll have to make 2 posts.
This post starts out with a sign regarding the parking on Main St over the 2 days of the Festival and Parade:
(http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8944/noparking.jpg) (http://img299.imageshack.us/i/noparking.jpg/)
This shows empty Main St from Anderson to Passaic Streets before the parade:
(http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/2440/andersontopassaic.jpg) (http://img543.imageshack.us/i/andersontopassaic.jpg/)
OK - it wasn't COMPLETELY empty. Gotta have SOME police presence, right?
(http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5123/segwayo.jpg) (http://img839.imageshack.us/i/segwayo.jpg/)
This is Main St looking south from Passaic St:
(http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/6563/passaictothesouth.jpg) (http://img830.imageshack.us/i/passaictothesouth.jpg/)
On the way back from Passaic St, I saw these two carts that appeared to be racing, so I held out my cellcam to get a picture. The driver of the near cart must have thought I was flagging him down because he pulled right over and asked if I wanted one of the handful of little US flags he had. I guess the carts were distributing them to the people along the parade route:
(http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7923/cartsq.jpg) (http://img651.imageshack.us/i/cartsq.jpg/)
By the staging area, the first thing I saw were the 3 mounted cops on horses, who appeared to be protecting Holy Trinity School from something:
(http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2560/horsesj.jpg) (http://img521.imageshack.us/i/horsesj.jpg/)
Continuing north, I saw the trolley and the HHS football team:
(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2730/trolley.jpg) (http://img155.imageshack.us/i/trolley.jpg/)
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7916/hhsfootball.jpg) (http://img824.imageshack.us/i/hhsfootball.jpg/)
A little further north was this DPW truck, which should look like this all the time (and I'm not even Italian):
(http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/6663/dpwl.jpg) (http://img837.imageshack.us/i/dpwl.jpg/)
I headed back toward the Sears lot and got a picture of these bikes and then did some non-alcoholic lot shots and videos, which you can see in the next post:
(http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6605/bikesk.jpg) (http://img820.imageshack.us/i/bikesk.jpg/)
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IN THE SEARS LOT
The Vehicles:
(http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/8172/59vette.jpg) (http://img535.imageshack.us/i/59vette.jpg/)
(http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9131/ecuadorr.jpg) (http://img33.imageshack.us/i/ecuadorr.jpg/)
The Babes
(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5415/therockettes.jpg) (http://img227.imageshack.us/i/therockettes.jpg/)
(http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/5776/senoritas.jpg) (http://img826.imageshack.us/i/senoritas.jpg/)
(I'm afraid to ask about the beak on the masked individual on the left.)
The Music
(http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3387/bagpipes.jpg) (http://img217.imageshack.us/i/bagpipes.jpg/)
Wanna hear these guys? Remember - they're just practicing and a cellcam is not exactly studio-quality sound:
http://img163.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Mbagpipes
On a final note, we end with a little "peebop" music for the Port-a-Patrons, as described in the Part 1 post ("a truck that was packed with big speakers pumping out LOUD music while parked next to a Port-a-John that had people on line waiting to use it. It's like music was being provided as entertainment for the waiters/users."). Appropriately, it was located right by River St:
http://img716.imageshack.us/flvplayer.swf?f=Mpeebopalula
It's a glorious cacaphony of salsa, bagpipes, hip-hop, marching bands, and organizers' announcements - all at once in one spot.
Compressing a mile-long parade into one block is pure concentrated fun.
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