Line the cars up on Dorsey Street (one street east of Willis) --Willis is where the RBHS parade participants will be lining up. We should have the cars/trucks there at 2:15 p.m.--the latest would be 2:30.
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Small history note: apparently parade didn't happen for a couple years, but resumed in 2006
So, any memories of our parades? If so, add them to the comments. Here are a couple pictures I have from our senior year parade and Stan Day's memories.
I'm pretty sure it was Brainwash the Bulldogs (I've always been overly fond of alliteration). I naturally remember all this because the float theme (such as it was) was my idea. This was of course in 1968, a presidential election year. George Romney, running for the Republican nomination, had reversed his stance (from pro to anti) on the Vietnam War, claiming he had been "brainwashed" by U.S. officials during an earlier visit to South Vietnam. Public reaction to this was negative; voters didn't want a president who could be so easily brainwashed, and he ended up dropping out of the race. A figure with the face of George Romney was part of our homeroom's float. I'm reasonably sure this float didn't win any prizes in the parade, but we had fun building it -- in the driveway of Bill Barnett's house.
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