Happy New Year! 2010 Rose Parade photos from Pasadena
Happy New Year, from Pasadena, California!
The herald trumpets announce the beginning of Pasadena's 2010 Rose Parade:
Here's your Grand Marshall for the 121st Tournament of Roses parade, US Airways Flight 1549 hero, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger:
That is one big musician, kicking off this parade:
Jack in the Box brought a Samba band, in tribute to Rio's Carnival:
Rain Bird brings spectacular floats to the Rose Parade every year. This year's entry won the Sweepstakes Award as the most beautiful entry in the parade. And yes, Busch Gardens fans, that's Jack Hanna on the front of the float.
Here comes the marching band from the Big Ten champs, The Ohio State University:
And here are the Oregon Ducks:
The City of Burbank won the animation award for this biplane in flight.
The City of West Covina honored the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II:
Several of these surviving American heroes rode on the float:
That's one big fish up there, flying above the Trader Joe's Rose Parade float.
That's Dick Van Patten riding at the front of his Natural Balance Pet Foods float.
Tillman the bulldog goes for a snowboard run:
The City of Anaheim hosts the Major League Baseball All-Star Game this summer, so the Angels are riding on this year's Rose Parade float.
Pepe Le Pew makes his move, again, on New Mexico's 2010 Rose Parade float.
The former owners of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Anheuser-Busch, paid tribute to America's Winter Olympic athletes on its Rose Parade float.
There's Olympic gold medalists Dan Jansen, with this year's short-track speedskater Katherine Reutter.
Happy new year, everyone! Here's looking forward to another great year of theme park news, trip planning advice and trip reports on ThemeParkInsider.com.
Update: By request, here are a couple photos of Tournament of Roses equestrian units from today's parade:
Replies (14)
I gotta believe man....this is the year Ohio State removes their head from their arse and wins a big game. Go Bucks!
I actually followed the whole thing on your Twitter feed. First time I ever used Twitter. Was kind of fun. Thanks for taking the time to keep me entertained.
Hi..I wish that you had more photos for those of us that did not see Parade for the first time in my life. I missed all the horses....do you have any photos of them?
Thank you...and Have a Healthy Happy New Year !
Karen R. Walsh
ladyhawkye@yahoo.com
Great job!!!
Just added a couple of equestrian photos.
Hey...what's this? Ohio State beats the Ducks????
Nice pictures….
Dan Jansen looks Ummmm, Uncomfortable……Maybe a little gassy…
Looks like you had great seats…
Caught him in mid-wave, I'm afraid, but he was on my side and going by so quickly that it was the only shot I got of him. I have a shot of Michelle Kwan, but she's in such half-shadow that I didn't run it.
I'm proud of the Sully shot, though.
I was on the press photo stand a couple hundred yards east (down the route) from the main grandstands at Colorado and Orange Grove (where the TV cameras are).
Robert, what was the temp during the parade, it looks like people are wearing heavy coats?
Sorry about your Wildcats, Robert. That was about as crazy a game as I've seen in a while! (Mizzou fan here--sorry about last year too...I was cheering for Northwestern against the "other" Tigers!)
I suppose we should have expected an ending like that, given that our quarterback's last name is ... Kafka. (I'm not kidding.)
As for the temp, the folks across the street there had camped all night for those seats, and it had gotten down to the low 40s. The parade starts one hour after sunrise, and the temp was up to the low 60s by then. It was in the mid-70s by parade's end.
I loved the snowboarding bulldogs float for natural balance. Dick Van Patten is a genius to come up with these ideas! How fun. Also liked the rainbird one with Jack Hanna
Yeah Buckeyes!!
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Thanks Bobby…. My favorite Parade… It is awesome…!
Happy New Year..