Lizzie float finishes second
Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 4:46 pm
From the Mobile Register in Mobile, Alabama comes this news article:
"Lizzie Borden takes ax for whacks
Friday, January 28, 2005
By EDDIE CURRAN
Staff Reporter
The brass members in the eight-piece Olympia Brass Band were cooling it on the turn at Bienville Park Thursday night, but the band's two drummers, laughing at and playing off one another, showed the crowd that Mardi Gras, season of fun, is here.
A crowd estimated by Mobile police at more than 40,000 enjoyed pleasant weather, fine music and the 56th time that the Order of Polka Dots have paraded through downtown's streets.
The parade was marred by an accident, when a member of the organization fell off float four as it passed the Civic Center. The woman, whose name and condition were not available, was transported to Springhill Medical Center.
Best float: A sharp-featured, wild-eyed Cruella de Ville. Here's a toast to the float-builder who created this rendition of the famed meanie from Disney's "101 Dalmatians."
A close second during the parade with the theme, "Wicked Woman": Lizzie Borden, pretty wild-eyed herself, staring down paradegoers with her blood-stained ax and dress. "
Second, indeed!!! Unfortunately no photo accompanied the article.
"Lizzie Borden takes ax for whacks
Friday, January 28, 2005
By EDDIE CURRAN
Staff Reporter
The brass members in the eight-piece Olympia Brass Band were cooling it on the turn at Bienville Park Thursday night, but the band's two drummers, laughing at and playing off one another, showed the crowd that Mardi Gras, season of fun, is here.
A crowd estimated by Mobile police at more than 40,000 enjoyed pleasant weather, fine music and the 56th time that the Order of Polka Dots have paraded through downtown's streets.
The parade was marred by an accident, when a member of the organization fell off float four as it passed the Civic Center. The woman, whose name and condition were not available, was transported to Springhill Medical Center.
Best float: A sharp-featured, wild-eyed Cruella de Ville. Here's a toast to the float-builder who created this rendition of the famed meanie from Disney's "101 Dalmatians."
A close second during the parade with the theme, "Wicked Woman": Lizzie Borden, pretty wild-eyed herself, staring down paradegoers with her blood-stained ax and dress. "
Second, indeed!!! Unfortunately no photo accompanied the article.
