Philadelphia's 2008 Mummers Parade

by albert | January 2, 2008 at 05:33 pm | 2837 views | 7 comments

Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade was almost rained out for the second year in a row [last year's delayed parade], but instead, it had a 3 hour delay and got off to a Noon start. I was in NY for most of the day, but made it back after nightfall to catch some of the prize-winning action after 9p. The Mummers Parade is an interesting specatcle in the daytime, but an after dark Mummers Parade adds another dimension to the colorful event.

I got to see the top three placing String Band divisions. The top three bands:

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Third Place South Philadelhphia pictured above.

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Second Place Quaker City pictured above.

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At center is First Place Fralinger's captain William Bowen Jr., who won the captains' competition with 54.625, leaping into the air. He gave a quite lively display and he was all over the place. They wore these crazy masks which I'm hoping they kept them warm on this cold day.

The finale to their First Place show.

A flickr set of 30 images here.

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ryan

at 18:43 on January 2nd, 2008

good stuff:

albert, these photos are terrific. Seems like a good time, thanks for posting.

promohthree

at 20:15 on January 2nd, 2008

Wharton and Broad Street. These two fellas were enjoying beers as they sauntered down the street, arm in arm. It was less brotherly love, more "I need you to prop me up, bro."

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ChrissyJ

at 20:56 on January 2nd, 2008

Taken during the Comic Brigades portion of the 2008 Mummers Parade, on Broad between Sansom and Chestnut.

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curlired

at 21:56 on January 2nd, 2008

This was at the beginning of the parade (around 12:15) at the intersection of Broad and Washington.

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pompomflipflop

at 22:44 on January 2nd, 2008

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jordan

at 08:41 on January 3rd, 2008

good stuff:

Great coverage!

rpaulguerrero04

at 18:46 on January 4th, 2008

oh my that parade(mummers) sucked... i mean the people on there couldnt even dance....the only thing that was fascinating about the whole thing was the costumes and i thought they were all draq queens out there performing doing their numbers...i thought i was so windy some of their wigs were gonna fall off.