Sometimes odd just happens. The day after Thanksgiving in 1935 it seems perfectly normal to merge a Christmas parade with a toyland theme-especially for a parade sponsored by the downtown merchants just before the big shopping season. Kids were encouraged to make their own costumes and join Santa in the parade. Someone thought it would be a great idea to make head masks based on Disney characters and cartoon clowns printed in newspaper ads. What could go wrong. A dense fog for one thing followed by the somewhat frightening emergence of really bad, mirthless, oversized head masks and weirdly scary clowns. The floats were just plain creepy and the musician union band was missing most of its members. After 1935 the Christmas parade stayed with just Santa and a traditional theme. Tacomas toyland nightmare was mostly forgotten except for the photographs. After or during a viewing of these photos I recommend rewatching this clip. Perfect sound track youtube/watch?v=VBmCJEehYtU
Posted on: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:36:42 +0000
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