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1982-11-29 Tribune Article: "Pasadena does a Doo Dah zany parade like no other"

THE TRIBUNE Monday. November 29, 1982

Keep it Clean drill team marches with portable showers. 

Pasadena does a Doo Dah, zany parade like no other.

PASADENA (AP) - Cone headed bathing beauties, dancing packages of cigarettes and walking MX missiles were just part of the bizarre Doo-Dah parade which snaked its way through old Pasadena on Sunday..
  The parade was billed as an event with no theme, no judging, no prizes and no order. It met all those distinctions. 
   Its lead-off banner read, " The Doo Dah Parade, World Rights Reserved, Any resemblance to other parades living or dead is purely coincidental!"
    But the spoof on Pasadena's annual Tournament of Roses parade could hardly be duplicated as evidenced by some 100 entries that were cheered by an estimated 40,000 spectators. 
    Zeke the Sheik from Mozambique marched with a cactus plant on his head and a white toga wrapped around his body. He said he was running for governor, senator, president or whatever. 
    The Cancerettes dressed as different brands of cigarettes - Fool, False, tar-a-ton, Less, Old Mold and Yucky Strokes. 
   Prancing down the street with shower curtains hanging around their bodies was the drill team called "Keep It Clean." Atop their heads they wore shower caps and in their hands they clutched shower brushes and spray bottles to squirt onlookers. 
    "Ladies Against Women," attired in early 20th-century garb that covered their bodies from head to toe, hoisted banners that read" Cruise Missiles Not Bars," "Any Girl Who Calls Herself a Woman is no Lady" and "You're Nobody until you're Mrs. Somebody." 

Reporters all seem to like to make up new dress codes for us! 

With a nod to the nation's 10.4 percent jobless rate, a host of "unemployed" workers tailed behind a float carrying an unemployment office that bore a "Closed" sign.
    Presiding over the assemblage was Doo Dah Parade Queen Hazel Guinn, a 65 year-old grandmother who once ran Hazel's Bar and the Star Hotel, both now defunct.

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THE TRIBUNE Monday. November 29, 1982 Keep it Clean drill team marches with portable showers. Pasadena does a Doo Dah, zany parade like no other. PASADENA (AP) - Cone headed bathing beauties, dancing packages of cigarettes and walking MX missiles were just part of the bizarre Doo-Dah parade which snaked its way through old Pasadena on Sunday.. The parade was billed as an event with no theme, no judging, no prizes and no order. It met all those distinctions. Its lead-off banner read, " The Doo Dah Parade, World Rights Reserved, Any resemblance to other parades living or dead is purely coincidental!" But the spoof on Pasadena's annual Tournament of Roses parade could hardly be duplicated as evidenced by some 100 entries that were cheered by an estimated 40,000 spectators. Zeke the Sheik from Mozambique marched with a cactus plant on his head and a white toga wrapped around his body. He said he was running for governor, senator, president or whatever. The Cancerettes dressed as different brands of cigarettes - Fool, False, tar-a-ton, Less, Old Mold and Yucky Strokes. Prancing down the street with shower curtains hanging around their bodies was the drill team called "Keep It Clean." Atop their heads they wore shower caps and in their hands they clutched shower brushes and spray bottles to squirt onlookers. "Ladies Against Women," attired in early 20th-century garb that covered their bodies from head to toe, hoisted banners that read" Cruise Missiles Not Bars," "Any Girl Who Calls Herself a Woman is no Lady" and "You're Nobody until you're Mrs. Somebody." Reporters all seem to like to make up new dress codes for us! With a nod to the nation's 10.4 percent jobless rate, a host of "unemployed" workers tailed behind a float carrying an unemployment office that bore a "Closed" sign. Presiding over the assemblage was Doo Dah Parade Queen Hazel Guinn, a 65 year-old grandmother who once ran Hazel's Bar and the Star Hotel, both now defunct.