JenKPre-local parade commercials include one from the Muckleshoot tribe complete with canoeing shots.
Local festival is Seafair, aka greater Seattle's annual festival.
Seafair is big enough to have the parade locally televised (KIRO). Next weekend's hydroplane races and air show is usually televised.
Alaska Airlines has an employee dance team performing to "I Want To Dance With Somebody".
Seattle Kraken has a marching band, and it's in the parade.
Officially it's still the Seafair Torchlight Parade even though it's now starting at 3:30pm instead of 8pm.
Drill team with sparkly outfits and sparkly *fascinators*. Cool.
OL Reign has a marching band now!
An Alaska Airlines "Seven Floaty Seven" balloon being turned in circles.
Penticton Peach Festival float, with sign detailing when/where that festival happens. Very common for smaller festivals in the area.
Seafair clowns handing out noses.
SPD and SFD have delegations. Mayor and city attorney too.
Ezell's van in the parade!
Next the Sounders' marching band, Sound Wave.
North Side Drill Team. Looks like they're doing double Dutch jump rope. As well as other moves. You may have seen them in a Lizzo video.
The Pierce County Daffodil Festival float is kind of hydroplane shaped but also with daffodils.
The a Portland Rose Festival Rosarian float.
Another local touch: King County honor guard, which attends military funerals for veterans when requested.
And the County sheriff.
Chinatown drill team in amazing red dresses with gold headdresses. They follow a drum setup with dragon details. Ruby Chow helped start them in 1952.
Another Chinatown troupe does part of a traditional dance.
Boeing has its own plane-shaped balloon, this one based on the Blue Angels. It's to advertise the Boeing-sponsored air show next weekend.
Biofuel powered hydroplane sponsored by Boeing.
I'm not sure you get more Seattle than a "sustainable biofuel hydroplane".
Diamond Drill Team in bright Seahawks-and-Sounders green-and-blue outfits and feathered headdresses.
Buffalo Soldiers Of Seattle doing a drill routine on horseback! And they starred in a Buffalo Soldiers documentary. More info https://buffalosoldiersofseattle.com/buffalo-soldier-history
Another festival - Autumn Leaf Festival in Leavenworth in September.
Commander of Joint Base Lewis-McChord is riding before an army band, also from JBLM.
More festivals from Olympia/Tumwater and New Westminster BC.
A Mexican heritage group with horses, costumes and some dancing.
(I'm not trying to get everyone.)
I assume US Navy bands learn songs other than Anchors Aweigh but this Navy marching band is playing Anchors Aweigh.
Also it's Fleet Week, so boat parade with Coast Guard, US Navy, and Canadian Navy. Some tours too. https://www.seafair.org/fleetweek
Seafair Classic Car Show? OK.
Followed by Dick's van with people passing out burgers.
Miss Homestreet hydroplane!
Followed by the UW football helmet car and a UW Alumni marching band playing "Tequila"
Apple Blossom Festival from Wenatchee.
Then Seahawks Blue Thunder drum line. https://www.seahawks.com/drumline/blue-thunder/
Washington State Fair float pulled by a tractor, very appropriate. You know ... Do the Puyallup....
US Coast Guard is using a boat as a float.
Then a lovely Sikhs of Washington float.
The Dolls Organization drill team and drumline looking very purple.
Washington State Korean Association has a festival king & queen, Korean and US flags, percussion team, and a Tae Kwon Do group doing kicks while marching. Plus a demo at the grandstand.
Jefferson County Rhody Festival float won a tech award. Also fan dancers.
More stuff about hydro races, the Oberto hydroplane is towing a toy hydroplane, and did you know Spokane has a lilac festival?
The pink Lincoln Towing Toe Truck still lives and breathes, or at least can be driven in a parade. :)
Sumner High School marching band playing YMCA. :)
Then Seattle All-City band followed by the Seafair Pirates running their sirens. KIRO reporter riding on Moby Duck with a trident and pirate hat....
Now buses...no, really, a Metro bus and a school bus. Probably picking up stragglers...and that's it.
KIRO re-running the pirates cannon (no ball) with bus behind.
Thank you everyone who wallowed in nostalgia or Seattle-ness with me.