Fri, Jan 1
Rose Parade 2027
People start sleeping on the sidewalk along Colorado Boulevard two days early, in folding chairs, under blankets, beside families who have held the same patch of curb for decades. That part never makes the broadcast, and it is the better half of the whole thing.
Then the floats come. Every visible surface is organic — flowers, seeds, bark, leaves, vegetation pressed on by volunteers working through the night — which is why they look impossible up close and merely pretty on television. Marching bands from high schools and universities across the country. Equestrian units. Dozens of floats moving five and a half miles east through Old Town Pasadena on the first morning of the year.
Grandstand seats go through the Tournament of Roses and sell out months ahead. Curbside is free, and the Metro runs on New Year's Day.
Go stand on a cold curb with strangers before sunrise. It is the only way this city starts a year all at once.
People start sleeping on the sidewalk along Colorado Boulevard two days early, in folding chairs, under blankets, beside families who have held the same patch of curb for decades. That part never makes the broadcast, and it is the better half of the whole thing.
Then the floats come. Every visible surface is organic — flowers, seeds, bark, leaves, vegetation pressed on by volunteers working through the night — which is why they look impossible up close and merely pretty on television. Marching bands from high schools and universities across the country. Equestrian units. Dozens of floats moving five and a half miles east through Old Town Pasadena on the first morning of the year.
Grandstand seats go through the Tournament of Roses and sell out months ahead. Curbside is free, and the Metro runs on New Year's Day.
Go stand on a cold curb with strangers before sunrise. It is the only way this city starts a year all at once.
Then the floats come. Every visible surface is organic — flowers, seeds, bark, leaves, vegetation pressed on by volunteers working through the night — which is why they look impossible up close and merely pretty on television. Marching bands from high schools and universities across the country. Equestrian units. Dozens of floats moving five and a half miles east through Old Town Pasadena on the first morning of the year.
Grandstand seats go through the Tournament of Roses and sell out months ahead. Curbside is free, and the Metro runs on New Year's Day.
Go stand on a cold curb with strangers before sunrise. It is the only way this city starts a year all at once.
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People start sleeping on the sidewalk along Colorado Boulevard two days early, in folding chairs, under blankets, beside families who have held the same patch of curb for decades. That part never makes the broadcast, and it is the better half of the whole thing.
Then the floats come. Every visible surface is organic — flowers, seeds, bark, leaves, vegetation pressed on by volunteers working through the night — which is why they look impossible up close and merely pretty on television. Marching bands from high schools and universities across the country. Equestrian units. Dozens of floats moving five and a half miles east through Old Town Pasadena on the first morning of the year.
Grandstand seats go through the Tournament of Roses and sell out months ahead. Curbside is free, and the Metro runs on New Year's Day.
Go stand on a cold curb with strangers before sunrise. It is the only way this city starts a year all at once.
Then the floats come. Every visible surface is organic — flowers, seeds, bark, leaves, vegetation pressed on by volunteers working through the night — which is why they look impossible up close and merely pretty on television. Marching bands from high schools and universities across the country. Equestrian units. Dozens of floats moving five and a half miles east through Old Town Pasadena on the first morning of the year.
Grandstand seats go through the Tournament of Roses and sell out months ahead. Curbside is free, and the Metro runs on New Year's Day.
Go stand on a cold curb with strangers before sunrise. It is the only way this city starts a year all at once.
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