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Originally Posted by flipper35
Short day today. Have to go watch the homecoming parade. Woo, hoo. I hate parades.
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I hate parades as well. I had to shoot picture of a lot of them and it is almost impossible to get a good parade photo unless you step into the street or get up in the air.
One of the protest parades I was photographing for the newspaper was the KKK had a march up to the capitol. The police protection outnumbered the kooks in the parade. The marched from the post office to the state capitol in Montgomery, AL on a HOT HOT HOT Sunday afternoon. There were only about two people watching and the media fools like I was. They got to the state capitol and stood in the back of a pickup and said what you would expect from idiots. They jumped in pickups and left. The cops all drove off and the press corps was standing there on foot with no cars since we walked along. In Alabama on a Sunday booze was not for sale legally. We all went with one of the senior members of the press corps to a small door with no identification on it. It was very close to the state capitol, and the door opened and it was a full open bar owned by the brother of Governor Wallace. We all had some drinks and cooled off. Then we walked back to our cars.