Neat mask...people work all year getting up costumes like this; sometimes they are re-used, buy yhe theme for th parqade is different every year.
Streetcar
Wagon with a jazz band in the back. A lot of them just use a big boom-box.
Country-music Theme...
Hawaii -
Alaska? Long way from here...
Something to do with Atlantic City, NJ:
Las Vegas:
Also, drill teams...
Bands...
They even send in the Marines.
...And the bagpipers
The Krewe of Zulu was started around 1900, when the Blacks asked if they could join in. Wellll, yesss, but it still had to be segregated. Only blacks allowed (at first. Then, whites could be in the Krewe, but they had to wear blackface). Later, the occasional black was allowed to be in a white Krewe if he wore Whiteface, unless of course he represented a black character. Then, the black had to wear blackface (hope I got all that down right). Now, by law, anybody can be in any Krewe, but sometimes old customs die hard.
Also, drill teams...
Bands...
They even send in the Marines.
...And the bagpipers
The Krewe of Zulu was started around 1900, when the Blacks asked if they could join in. Wellll, yesss, but it still had to be segregated. Only blacks allowed (at first. Then, whites could be in the Krewe, but they had to wear blackface). Later, the occasional black was allowed to be in a white Krewe if he wore Whiteface, unless of course he represented a black character. Then, the black had to wear blackface (hope I got all that down right). Now, by law, anybody can be in any Krewe, but sometimes old customs die hard.
Anyway, Zulu does things a bit differently. Themes are African:
There are a lot of Queens of various organizations:
A Pirate:
Tiger:
A King:
Krewe of Rex, the biggest single parade:
Don't really know what the Buzzards have to do with it:
"Persephone, Goddess of Spring" (Well, sort of):
"Rex Transit Gloria Mundi"
From many of the floats, they throw Stuff (Reaslly, really cheap plastic necklaces, and maybe other stuff; the Zulus somethimes throw carved coconuts...
Which the spectators await...
You can get thigns thrown to you if you wave:
It's supposed to help if you're beautiful, or wearing an exotic costume.
People collect a lot of this stuff:
But sometimes they're too lazy, or fastidious, to pick it up off the ground:
The town of Metairie, north of NO, has its parades at night:
Krewe of Zeus:
There are a lot of Queens of various organizations:
A Pirate:
Tiger:
A King:
Krewe of Rex, the biggest single parade:
Don't really know what the Buzzards have to do with it:
"Persephone, Goddess of Spring" (Well, sort of):
"Rex Transit Gloria Mundi"
From many of the floats, they throw Stuff (Reaslly, really cheap plastic necklaces, and maybe other stuff; the Zulus somethimes throw carved coconuts...
Which the spectators await...
You can get thigns thrown to you if you wave:
It's supposed to help if you're beautiful, or wearing an exotic costume.
People collect a lot of this stuff:
But sometimes they're too lazy, or fastidious, to pick it up off the ground:
The town of Metairie, north of NO, has its parades at night:
Krewe of Zeus:
Well, after a year off,
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