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Going To The Rose Parade? Here's How These Folks Built A Float The Old School Way
Volunteer Larry Geisz decorates part of the float with black and grey seeds
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Going To The Rose Parade? Here's How These Folks Built A Float The Old School Way
The Rose Parade is just a few days away - and despite more corporate entries in recent years, there’s still a handful of floats built by community groups. Six, in fact.
We stopped by one of them by one in La Cañada Flintridge.
In a parking lot underneath the 210 highway overpass, 65 volunteers were at work - some on scaffolding - painting and glueing decorations onto a giant float.
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