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11-03-2010, 02:57 PM

wendyquat

11-03-2010, 03:25 PM

Can you please tell me when the Christmas Parade is? thanks

Talk Host

11-03-2010, 03:49 PM

Can you please tell me when the Christmas Parade is? thanks

It's December 11th at 1 p.m.

JLK

iandwk

11-03-2010, 04:19 PM

I vote for Gracie.

It just seems right.

tkret

11-03-2010, 05:32 PM

I vote for Gracie.

It just seems right.
An EXCELLENT suggestion. Yes, Gracie would "grace" any TOTV float as "Reigning Queen".

skip0358

11-03-2010, 07:28 PM

Could we please check the date got an email from Parrot Heads on Parade showing Sunday 12/12/2010 at 1 pm.?

bike42

11-03-2010, 07:35 PM

Larryandlinda

11-03-2010, 11:05 PM

Places in the Xmas parade are competitive -- you don't just sign up. You have to have something clever/beautiful/unusual/fun or whatever to stand out and get selected to participate. Start coming up with ideas!

We would like to bring some of the unusual Bikes down again for 2010
We are looking for others to be in a unit with us, or to join a unit'

We've toured in over a dozen parades this year and usually bring home top honors because of the unusual nature of some of the entrants.

We have the four seater bike, the colorful trikes, and the penny farthing'

Here's a shot of our old timer in front of a small group of a quarter million in the back yard of 1600 PA Avenue July 4

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/07/04/PH2008070402461.html

This year, we have an even more unique unit, the only known one on the planet, that awed the crowd in DC as it made its debut at the Bot Scout 100 year parade this summer in DC

If we can get the invite, we'll head down - and will gladly invite any and all people on bicycles to join us

L and L

Hawkwind

11-04-2010, 07:37 AM

L&L
I have a picture of a gentleman on a high wheeler riding the path over the bridge at Lake Sumter at Sunset Point from Dec of 2008. Could that be Larry?

Larryandlinda

11-04-2010, 08:25 AM

L&L
I have a picture of a gentleman on a high wheeler riding the path over the bridge at Lake Sumter at Sunset Point from Dec of 2008. Could that be Larry?

Thanks for the inquiry.
The only times the 'wheel' has been out was for the Christmas Parade '09 and and for an attempt to crash a previous parade .
Linda would make a simpler answer:
"gentleman"'and "Larry" in the same sentence?

Hope to see everyone at the parade
L and L

tkret

11-04-2010, 08:34 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/07/04/PH2008070402461.html

L and L

GREAT photo Larry! :coolsmiley:

Larryandlinda

11-22-2010, 01:37 PM

How about our members get together and have a float in The Villages Christmas parade. Who would like to be the chair...ah person for the event?

We'll take pictures and post them here in all their glory.

I understand applications are available at the recreation centers. If course we'll pay the entry fee for you.

:BigApplause::BigApplause::BigApplause:

JLK

BUMP

Well, it's just a couple weeks away and we have not heard from anyone in response to our posting about the parade We need to make flights or arrangements to bring the van.
We have a new and quite unique entry (the only known example in the world) that while it does not take up huge real estate, will need the van to get it there. The 1880's high wheel bike and some 1950's bicycles are coming too.
We do have a 60 year old restored motorcycle but it gets kinds hot when it has to stop for longer periods of time.

hopefully we can join in the TOTV entry so we will not have to go through the application process like we did in 2009
or we'll have some crunching to get in.

L and L

2BNTV

11-22-2010, 01:59 PM

I vote for Gracie as the Queen, Tal as the King.

Pturner

11-22-2010, 07:38 PM

I vote for Gracie as the Queen, Tal as the King.

I second. What could be more perfect!

Tweety Bird

11-22-2010, 07:57 PM

An EXCELLENT suggestion. Yes, Gracie would "grace" any TOTV float as "Reigning Queen".

Don't forget the "Mayor" Kathi I! Can you just see those two???? LOL

barb1191

11-22-2010, 08:10 PM

Places in the Xmas parade are competitive -- you don't just sign up. You have to have something clever/beautiful/unusual/fun or whatever to stand out and get selected to participate. Start coming up with ideas!

Unfortunately, The Villages' powers-that-be choose to totally ignore TOTV and we have not been given any reason why. Notice, you never see any TOTV pictures and/or events that are so popular with TOTV posted in The Villages Daily Sun. Never!!

This first came about when our TOTV Owners (Jan et al) wanted to put a TOTV ad in the Sun and were refused and when questioned why, no response or reason was offered them. That rationale seems so unfathomable considering all of the "positives" abounded by TOTV in this development that have obviously increased sales tremendously. Would be interesting to know just how many peeps have purchased in TV because of the great publicity via TOTV members having expressed their happiness moving here and to encourage "wannabe's" to come share the "paradise."

I do hope that your plans survive for TOTV to be a part of the Christmas Parade and good luck! This commentary is shared with you without malice toward anyone....merely to inform you of what I had experienced some years ago here and it continues, obviously unnoticed by most. In this case, I do hope that I am mistaken.

bkcunningham1

11-22-2010, 08:25 PM

We would like to bring some of the unusual Bikes down again for 2010
We are looking for others to be in a unit with us, or to join a unit'

We've toured in over a dozen parades this year and usually bring home top honors because of the unusual nature of some of the entrants.

We have the four seater bike, the colorful trikes, and the penny farthing'

Here's a shot of our old timer in front of a small group of a quarter million in the back yard of 1600 PA Avenue July 4

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/07/04/PH2008070402461.html

This year, we have an even more unique unit, the only known one on the planet, that awed the crowd in DC as it made its debut at the Bot Scout 100 year parade this summer in DC

If we can get the invite, we'll head down - and will gladly invite any and all people on bicycles to join us

L and L

Just curious how you get those bikes to events? How do you get them to Florida from Northern Virginia or Maryland?

The photo on the Post photo page is awesome BTW!!

K9-Lovers

11-22-2010, 10:11 PM

Larryandlinda

11-23-2010, 12:00 AM

I can't get the Post link to open; perhaps it was removed due to copyright? And, I've never heard Graciegirl agree to chair the entry.

It sounds to me like Larry and Linda should go through the application process as it seems an entry from TOTV is not likely.

Just like TOTV gets the squelch from VDS, the Parade is not exactly well publicized

If you do a google search the postings on totv and video by the are the ones that appear.

We leave bikes 'down home' except for the new one that made its international debut at the Boy Scouts' centennial parade this summer.
We will truck it down if we get in.

The directors of the DC Cherry Blossom and Independence Day events, as well as the Baltimore Mayors' and Thanksgiving parades (totalling a million point five spectators agree... their events are not the same without us - and they make sure they get us early so they don't lose us.

Anyone have a way to get us an app asap?

We did get in last year and if we make it in 2010 we'll invite any totv comrades to 'ride along' - we even have some extra bikes and trikes.

L and L

Hawkwind

11-23-2010, 04:07 AM

Anyone have a way to get us an app asap?

We did get in last year and if we make it in 2010 we'll invite any totv comrades to 'ride along' - we even have some extra bikes and trikes.

L and L

There was an app in last weeks recreation news (also in the online version) but it stated the deadline for registering was Nov 19.