Updated 04-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Portland Rose Festival is an annual civic festival held during the month of June in Portland, Oregon . it includes three separate parades, along with a number of other activities . by 1904, the rose society was hosting its annual in 1906, the first Rose Festival and Flower Parade was held in Portland . in 1907, Portland hosted its first official Portland Rose Festival . more than 500,000 spectators line the route . the first parade, in 1907, was called the Rose Carnival, but later came to be known as the Rose Festival Parade . the 1907 festival also included an “electric parade” with illuminated floats; this evolved into the the first African American driver was Sam Whitney from Benson High School in 1954 . a junior rose festival, focused on children, began unofficially in 1921 . it became an official part of the Rose Festival in 1936 . the festival’s annual Junior Parade takes place in the city’s Hollywood district . the Junior Parade has grown to an event involving nearly 10,000 children . ships from the u.s. navy, coast guard, army corps of an air show was added to the Rose Festival in 1988 and remained part of the festival through 2002 . in 2003, the show was reorganized as the Oregon International Air Show . from 2007 to 2016, the festival began with the