Mobile's Christmas Holiday Parade

Dec 1st, 2004

Dear Friends,


The City of Mobile's Christmas & Holiday Parade is scheduled for Saturday, December 18th at 1:30 p.m. through the streets of downtown. We are excited about the number of floats, marching bands, giant helium balloons and other participants we have this year and some of the changes we have made to ensure the 2004 parade is a huge success.

I hope you will make plans to bring your family to be part of this Mobile tradition. The parade will follow its annual route beginning at the Civic Center, traveling north on Claiborne Street to Government Street, turning right on Royal, left on Dauphin, and left on Claiborne to finish at the Civic Center.

We will have bleachers for parade sponsors set up in front of Government Plaza and a second viewing stand at Bienville Square for winners of a Clear Channel radio ticket giveaway. We will also have kids’ activities in Bienville Square before, during and after the parade. In case of bad weather, we will roll the parade on Sunday, December 19th at 2:00 p.m.

We expect up to 30,000 people to line the streets to watch this parade. We welcome them to our downtown and hope many will come early for breakfast and lunch and then stay late to shop.

Sincerely,

Gina Gregory
President