![]() ![]() Celebrities among its participants include Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid Duncan Renaldo, Ty Hardin, Clint Eastwood and the Rawhide cast (westerns were all the rage on TV and in movies in 1960), Soupy Sales, Ray Corrigan with the Corriganville truck and trailer and many more celebrities like Don DeFore, Bozo, and Pinky the Rollerskating Donkey. Here's a clip from a much simpler time, the 1960 Hollywood Christmas Parade. Renamed The Hollywood Christmas Parade, the festivities have been televised on The CW in the USA (via KTLA in Los Angeles), airing in the Philippines on Lifestyle since 2015. ![]() That same year the City of Los Angeles created a new parade entitled the Hollywood Santa Parade, produced on the weekend after Thanksgiving. In 2007, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce canceled the parade due to lack of celebrity interest and a loss of $100,000 for their 2006 production, which cost about $1 million to mount. The Parade was suspended from 1942 to 1944 out of respect for our troops fghting World War II but returned the first Christmas after war's end in 1945 to record attendance. It worked and what was originally called the Santa Claus Lane Parade was born. That was the year Hollywood merchants transformed a one-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard into "Santa Claus Lane" as a marketing ploy. Tinseltown's famous parade of stars down Hollywood Boulevard, circling back along Sunset Boulevard, takes place yearly on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a tradition since 1928. TV Shows on DVD / / / / / TV Blog / / / / / Punk Book / / / Holiday ![]()
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