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Aptos World’s Shortest Parade2012 Official Program

Schedule of Events

Grand Marshals

Letter from the Aptos Chamber President

Parade Route & Map

Parade Participation

The World’s Shortest Parade Has Come a Long Way!

Lucille’s Dream is Now World’s Shortest Parade

Award Categories

2011 Aptos 4th of July Parade Winners

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Deluxe Foods for selling 4th of July Parade T-Shirts, Pacific Coffee Roasting for donating coffee to the Pancake Breakfast, Britannia Arms for hosting the

Pancake Breakfast, Cabrillo Host Lions for co-hosting the Pancake Breakfast, Capitola/Aptos Rotary Club for all they do for the fun at Aptos Park after the parade, Bob Norton for chairing the parade, & Rita Law for being a great organizer of the parade.

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Schedule of Events 7:30am - 10:00amPancake Breakfast at Britannia Arms in theAptos Village. Hosted bythe Cabrillo Host Lionsand the Aptos Chamberof Commerce.

10:00am - 12:00pmWorld’s Shortest Parade!From Wells Fargo to the Bayview Hotel. Hosted by the Capitola/Aptos Rotary and the Aptos Chamber.

11:00am - 4:00pmParty in the Park!Music, Fine Arts & Crafts,Face Painting, Munchies, Games for Kids, RockClimbing Wall and Plentyof fun including fabulousmusic by Extra Large from11:00 to 4:00 p.m.!

PublisherPatrice Edwards

Art & DesignMike Lyon, Michael OppenheimerProduction Coordinator

Sandra Gonzalez, Cathe RaceSales RepresentativesSadie Wittkins, Don Beaumont

Meredith Pozzi FeldstedContributing Writers

Noel Smith, John HibbleLaura Noel

Photo CreditsTimes Publishing Group, Inc.

Aptos History Museum, Michael OppenheimerThe Aptos World’s Shortest Parade Official Program 2012

is a publication of the Times Publishing Group, Inc. Entire contents ©2012 by Patrice Edwards. All rights reserved.

Reproduction in any form is prohibited without publisher’s written permission.

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Welcome to the 2012 Aptos 4th of July celebration. The Aptos Chamber is happy to

once again sponsor the Shortest Parade in the World! This is a day when we all have the chance to slow down and focus on friends and family and to reflect on the year and its many successes.

The Aptos Chamber had unbelievable attendance at all of our events throughout the year, thank you so much John and Karen Hibble and your dedicated staff.

This year Aptos had the unique opportunity to host the finish line for the second stage of the AMGEN Tour of California bike race. Not only did our little town get international recognition, but it also galvanized our little community to rally and help pull off a very successful event.

Not many people know that the local organizing committee, led by Maura Noel and hosted by Adele Talmadge were the real champions who brought us the race and doggedly made sure that every detail

was taken care of for race day. A special thank you goes to this year’s Grand Marshals: Maura Noel and Adele Talmadge

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Please comply with the following rules for the safety of all

Do not return along parade route until parade is overThere are designated areas for floats and cars at the end of the parade route. Once your vehicles are parked, you are welcome to watch the parade or go down into the Aptos Village Park for the parade winners announcement and the afternoon activities. Please disperse from the end of the parade route promptly to help keep congestion to a minimum. No fireworks of any kind. No motorcycles of any kind.

No alcoholic beverages in parade or in the formation area

Do not throw or hand out anything along parade routeThis includes candy, fliers, balloons, etc., and is for the safety of all children who run out into the street. The child you save from injury may be your own.

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The World’sShortest ParadeHas Come a Long Way!

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In 1961, much to the horror of local citizens, a zoning change was proposed that would have allowed a cement batching plant to be built in the center of

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change. Their efforts were successful, and after their victory,

The event was so popular that a parade and potluck were planned to follow on the fourth of July. Everyone turned out in old-fashioned clothes and the Monterey Bay Antique Car Club brought 18 vintage cars. The “Sun Tan Special,” the train that once passed through Aptos Village while transport-ing visitors from the San Francisco peninsula to Santa Cruz, stopped for the parade. “It was a happy coincidence that the parade coincided with the train passing through,” recalled Lucille Aldrich.

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Later that year, when the Southern Pacific Railroad tried to close the crossing in front of the Bayview Hotel, the Aptos

Ladies’ Tuesday Evening Society again took action. Inviting the press, they dressed in Victorian clothes and laid themselves down upon the railroad tracks.

Eventually, the court decided the Southern Pacific could not close off the right-of-way, and the Ladies were again victorious. This second victory provided the impetus for continuing the parade.

Originally, the parade route was from the Driftwood Gas Station at Trout Gulch Road to the Pop Inn restaurant (Bri-tannia Arms) and back to the Bayview Hotel. It lasted less than ten minutes. Soon, food booths were set up to help

raise money for Mar Vista School and ears of corn were sold. Childrens’ games and contests were added including a cow milking contest. The pancake breakfast was added in 1987 and is a cooperative venture between the Aptos Chamber of Commerce and the Aptos Lions Club.

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As Lucille explained it, the Aptos Fourth of July Parade ac-tually began to celebrate the community’s victory over big business. It was 1961, the year the Berlin Wall went up, and there was a proposal to build a cement plant in Aptos.

Aldrich and her group of friends in the Tuesday Evening Society successfully lobbied against the project.

The membership of the Tuesday Evening Society celebrated the defeat of the cement plant by inviting everyone in Aptos to a

Memorial Day barbecue in the fields near the in the center of the village close to the railroad tracks. Lucille enlisted the help of her friend Hank Shaw, a member of the Monterey Bay Antique Car Club. Hank showed up with 18 antique cars & drivers. The ladies of the Tuesday Evening Society dressed up in old-fashioned clothes and paraded along-side the antique cars with their children in tow.

As they were parading through the village, a train headed for the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz pulled into the

Aptos Station. Many of the passengers decided to hop off and join in the fun. Before they knew it, an impromptu pro-cession of happy folks was marching down Soquel Drive from the Driftwood gas station to the Pop Inn Restaurant (now the Britannia Arms). Little did they know that was the

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In order for this momentous occasion to happen every year, several organizations and people put their hands and minds together to create an event that everyone enjoys. The Pan-cake Breakfast is held every year at Britannia Arms. The restaurant and bar is open to the whole town to come and

enjoy a feast to fill up on before the parade. The coffee from Pacific Roasting Company is a yearly treat. The Cabrillo Host Lions host the Pancake Breakfast as they have for years. For the parade, Rita Law of Kendall Potter is busy organizing the judge’s booth, buying balloons, and generally creating a fes-tive atmosphere. The Aptos Chamber of Commerce’ presence is felt all around the parade, from directing traffic to orga-nizing volunteers and participants. After the parade, the fun down at Aptos Park never ends thanks to the Capitola/Aptos Rotary Club. Oh, and if you want a Fourth of July T-Shirt…don’t forget to stop in at Deluxe Foods!Yes, organizing the Aptos 4th of JulyParade takes a village….Aptos Village!

Aptos Parade Celebrates 51 Years continued from page 13...

beginning of the World’s Shortest Parade.

Lucille and her friends decided to repeat the celebra-tion by making it an annual Fourth of July parade. The enthusiasm for the event grew by leaps and

bounds. The crowd of parade watchers increased from a few families and visitors in 1961 to a few hundred in 1968 to an estimated 25,000 today including partici-pants and spectators.

Early each Fourth of July, lawn chairs and blankets mysteri-ously appear out of the fog along the parade route and by

parade time are filled by enthusiastic spectators. Times have changed since that first parade & Lucille Aldrich would be pleased of what that first victory parade has become.

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2011 Aptos 4th of JulyParade Winners

The funky floats, the cars and trucks and trail-ers loaded with kids, musicians, flags and cel-ebrants of all ages and all those who paraded

and danced and entertained (some in rather weird and unique ways), the spectators who waved and ap-plauded made this tradition a unique expression of the

delight that the freedoms we enjoy can create for us.

The parade participants and the crowds that cheered, laughed, and felt a lump in their throat as they stood for the

honor guards made the World’s Smallest Parade - the 2011 Aptos’ Fourth of July parade - once more a community celebra-tion… and a celebration of community!

While just some of those who took the time and had the chutz-pah to be in the parade are being honored as winners in the various categories - We all were winners! This year it could be you! Start planning now to surprise and entertain us in the 2013 edition of the World’s Smallest Parade.

Last year’s 2011 Parade Judges: Ellen Pirie (County Supervisor 2nd District) • Terry Hancock (Attorney) • Patrice Edwards (Publisher Times Publishing Group) • Rita Law (Owner/Broker, Kendall & Potter Realty)

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Grand Prize / Best of Parade: Grey MaresGrand Prize: Barn Shop WoodworksCrowd Pleaser: Steps Dance StudioOle’ Time Favorite: Aptos High Cheer

Adult Groups:First Prize: KPIG Radio • Judges’ Choice: IGS Aquariums, Inc. • Most Patriotic: Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW Post 10110) • Most Unique: E Clampus Vitus

BandsFirst Prize: The Dew Wopps • Judges’ Choice: Seacliff Environmental Services & Construction • Most Colorful: Watsonville Community Band

CarsFirst Prize: Tom & JoAnn Martindale • Most Patriotic: Gary Evans • Most Unique: Ralph Moceo

Children GroupsFirst Prize: Aptos Little League 8-9, 10-11, 11-12 • Judges’ Choice: Cabrillo Crushers • Most Patriotic: Cub Scouts Pack 676 • Most Unique: Orchard School

FloatsJudges Choice: Kendall and Potter • Most Original: Masonic Youth of Santa Cruz County • Best of Theme: Paul & Carol Benuin

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