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The Hollywood Christmas Parade (formerly the Hollywood Santa Parade and Santa Claus Lane Parade) is an annual parade held on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It follows a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) route along Hollywood Boulevard, then back along Sunset Boulevard, featuring various celebrities.
The grand opening was May 30, 1957, with Danish native Carl Hansen in the role of Santa Claus and Alma Ragon as Mrs. Claus. [2] Carl Hansen went on to star in KNTV television's Hocus Pocus The Clown and Magician. [2] [3] The main rides were a bobsled, a spinning Christmas tree and Santa's Express train. There was also a petting zoo, a huge Jack ...
Santa Claus doll A man dressed as Santa Claus waves to children from an annual holiday train in Chicago, 2012. Santa is generally depicted as a portly, jolly, white- bearded man, often with spectacles , wearing a red outfit consisting of jacket, trousers and hat all trimmed with white fur, accessorized with black leather belt and boots, and ...
Dec. 2—LODI — The Lodi Fire Department will begin escorting Santa Claus around the city for two weeks beginning Monday, Dec. 4. Santa's journey will begin every night at 6:20 p.m. at a local ...
A rocket ship float with Santa Claus during a Christmas parade in Los Angeles, 1940. The Christmas parade is a direct descendant of late Medieval and Renaissance revivals of Roman Triumphs, which had music and banners, wagons filled with the spoils of war, and climaxed with the dux riding in a chariot, preferably drawn by two horses, and thus called the biga.
While characters resembling Santa Claus have circulated throughout the world for centuries, the notion of a sleigh pulled by reindeer wouldn’t become prominent until the 19th century.
In 2003, with so many guests attending the event, FORBS founder Tom Hartsfield reached out to perhaps the country's most famous Claus, Santa Tim Connaghan (the "Hollywood Parade Santa"). In response to guest inquiries regarding where to purchase quality suits and other accoutrements, Connaghan invited Adele's of Hollywood to display some of ...
Rather than Santa Claus, children in Iceland await the arrival of the 13 Yule Lads, who, beginning on December 12, each bring them a small present, Nordic Visitor reported. In return, families ...