My experience with the Pasadena Rose Parade goes back to 1967 when my father parked my brother and I at a busy corner of the parade, and went to work policing the parade. It was a long stay standing in one spot that day. We had a Kodak Brownie camera and maybe snapped 3 pictures.
In 1972 I took a 35mm camera to the parade, while in a college photography program, and began a annual study of the Tournament of Roses that has continued to the present. No longer stationed in one location, I roamed the parade route, new areas at each parade.
Documenting this annual event has provided me a chance to observe the habits of people who assemble for that brief time along the parade route. I have been intrigued about the means the public arranges themselves for optimum viewing prior to the advancing parade. It could be atop ladders, cars, motorhomes... or, arriving early and marking off a sector of the sidewalk with chalk or tape. The city of Pasadena paints a blue line on the street to give the public a boundary line not to cross during the festivities.
Below are a number of examples from several recent parades of what I have come to term, The People's Provisional Property. Hmm... that's a bit stuffy.
Thanks for looking. Jim Staub, May - 2018
In 1972 I took a 35mm camera to the parade, while in a college photography program, and began a annual study of the Tournament of Roses that has continued to the present. No longer stationed in one location, I roamed the parade route, new areas at each parade.
Documenting this annual event has provided me a chance to observe the habits of people who assemble for that brief time along the parade route. I have been intrigued about the means the public arranges themselves for optimum viewing prior to the advancing parade. It could be atop ladders, cars, motorhomes... or, arriving early and marking off a sector of the sidewalk with chalk or tape. The city of Pasadena paints a blue line on the street to give the public a boundary line not to cross during the festivities.
Below are a number of examples from several recent parades of what I have come to term, The People's Provisional Property. Hmm... that's a bit stuffy.
Thanks for looking. Jim Staub, May - 2018
