Hillcrest Neighborhood Parade 2008

Each 4th of July the Hillcrest neighborhood of Clayton holds a parade for everyone and anyone in the area who wants to participate.  Even dogs.  Hillcrest is an area roughly bounded by Wydown on the north, Dartford on the west, the Concordia Seminary campus on the south and almost Skinker to the east.  The parade begins on DeMun and Arundel heads north to Aberdeen where everyone turns west and heads to Dartford and then back down Arundel to Demun.

Each year everyone dresses in red, white and blue, kids decorate their bikes and adults decorate their dogs.  Kids are given big chunks of chalk in order to make a giant American flag on the surface of DeMun.

Alderman Judy Goodman on the right in the photo below, represents Ward 1 in which Hillcrest is located, always attends the parade and helps hand out small goodies to the kids.

Here they all come, parading back to the start point on DeMun.

Let's see some of the dogs who took part.

Ben's in the passenger seat of the golf cart and Georgia has to stand beside it.

Here come a couple of good sports. It's pretty cool out today so they're lucky they're not hotter.

Little dogs walk too.

Lola!

After the parade the kids could have horseback rides

Donkey cart rides

And a tour of Clayton's fire department vehicles

All the bikes and wagons got parked neatly

All took place under the watchful eye of one of Clayton's finest.

Happy Birthday USA.  From one neighborhood in America's heartland, Clayton Missouri.

Comments

[katie]

LOLA!! I just saw this picture. Hi Lola, so cute. I'm coming home in September Lola, don't be scared. :-)