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Fiesta Parade 1955 …
These are two from the Fiesta Parade of 1955. I just found them the other day and they show downtown Pensacola very well. I have scanned them all, but have only worked up these two, but they are in good shape, so I will post the rest in a few weeks. This looks like a float with the Kid’s Court, but that is just my guess, since I do not see a name on the float.
Here are a couple of clowns … notice that they are on Palafox Street next to Christ Church and that Palafox at this time was still paved with bricks. I have no idea who these clowns are, but everyone around them are smiling, so they must be doing their jobs. My all-time favorite clowns were the guys from the jail that were always the last ones in the parade scooping up after the horses … I wish my dad would have taken some photos of them. They always made me laugh and I told my mother that I wanted to be just like those guys, since they always looked like they were having so much fun! My mother always told me that I should have some higher aspirations, but at five, I did not know what she was talking about. Only later … Thanks for looking and commenting … Frank
Fiesta Parade 1956 …
These are from the Fiesta Parade of 1956. I do not have any comments about any of these … they are pretty much self – explanatory. The first photo below is of the car carrying the Governor of Florida at the time – LeRoy Collins. There is a photo of him in an earlier post and it might have been taken before the parade started …
I think that there are 16 photos in this post and I believe that I broke it up on the other blog that I had, but since I did not have any comments or information about any of these images … I just decided to post them all. If anyone recognizes any of these groups or people, please let us hear from you. Thanks for looking … Frank
Florida Float in Fiesta Parade …
This is the state of Florida’s float in the 1959 Fiesta of Five Flags Parade. I wonder whose bright idea it was to dress up a bunch of ten year olds as oranges and have them march 3 or 4 miles up and down Palafox Street in 100 degree heat. The state must have been broke back in 1959, also. Tallahassee could not even spring for a car to tow the float, so they just got a couple of Boy Scouts to pull the float! If anyone remembers any of this, please let us hear from you … especially if you might have been one of the oranges walking up and Palafox Street or one of the Boy Scouts. If those Scouts did not get a towing merit badge out of this, they were robbed! Thanks for looking … Frank
Fiesta Parade …
Here is another Fiesta Parade photo … I would just guess this to be 1959. It is a decent shot of downtown Pensacola looking south on Palafox. Thanks for looking …
Sheriff Bill Davis in Fiesta Parade …
This is a photo of Escambia County Sheriff Bill Davis in a Fiesta Parade from the 1950′s. Back in the 50′s and 60′s, my favorite part of the parade was usually near the end when the sheriff’s mounted posse would ride. There always seemed to be at least 30 or 40 horses and riders. Then they would have inmates from the jail that would be dressed-up in black and stripes cleaning the horse manure droppings from the street. I always thought that they were clowns until I got older and found out differently. Thanks for looking …
Fiesta Parade …
This photo of the Fiesta Parade interests me because it is a good view of Palafox Street looking south. You see Muldon Motor Company and next to it was Son Motors and you have the San Carlos off in the distance. I am not sure of the year, but I would imagine it to be in the 50′s sometime. The float pictured must have been sponsored by ” Coca-Cola ” since you it on the back of the plane on the after-burner. One thing you can say about Pensacola is that everyone always turned out for the parades … then and now! Thanks for looking …
Jimmy Cagney In Pensacola …
Back in the ” good old days ” the Fiesta used to bring in celebrities to be in their parades and that is what I think ( not positive ) Jimmy Cagney was here for. I do not think he was here for the making of a movie, but I could be wrong. This is the corner of Palafox and Gregory Streets … you can see the drug store that was on corner and I cannot remember the name for the life of me. If anyone was at the parade and remembers Jimmy, please let us hear from you. Thanks for looking …
