It was a perfect day for a Strut
Were you at Sunday's King Mango Strut? Seems like the whole village was out. I haven't seen this many spectators at the Strut in a long time. In some areas on Main Highway, they were six people deep! It was beautiful out and part of a holiday weekend, so apparently people came out to party. This is Dave Charles as Charlie Crist in the 1960 Cadillac. He was the co-Grand Marshal with Richard Ives, as Gov. Rick Scott. Richard looks so much like the governor that he's mistaken for him in real life all the time. You can see him with all the rest of the photos here.
It was a great day, lots of fun. Many more photos here.
posted by Tom Falco at 5:00 AM
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2 Comments:
Yeah, it was a nice strut alright. The usual silly street characterizations to keep you somewhat entertained for a couple hours.
Plenty of people, old people. It really dawned on me yesterday. The Grove is just old. Young folks in their 20's and 30's, and 40's, simply left town.
It was painfully clear to see yesterday. I made it a point to look at the people, the average age must have been 55 y/o, and that's counting the few kids they dragged along! Even at the post-parade "parties", walking around, the bands were playing 60's music, even old-time greats Pink Floyd, and Jethro Tull! That or your ancient rock&roll bluesy tunes. Not one single hot, young girl. None. No groups of young people getting wasted in front of Barracuda or Moe's as say, 10 years ago. It was impressive. Some young couples with babies on strollers, that's it.
Clearly, that's what's left in the Grove, The younger generation in their 20's-30's-40's is just gone. Bricklell, downtown, S. Beach, wherever. Just an observation of blatantly obvious fact.
Ask those who live in Brickell whether they'd live there or the Grove...............yes, they start out there, but in the end, it's the Grove that's REAL. The Strut was great for us oldies, but come on, the millenials could have joined in if they'd had the time and the desire to do it. We older fun-lovers rule now (we invented "fun"), but down the road............let's see "them" step up to the plate and see if they can equal what "we" have. Maybe we can show them a thing or two! Or vice versa!
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