Comments on: Seattle’s Mystery Parade Pt. 1

By: Vicki Kerr

Vicki Kerr — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:32:58 +0000

Can you help? I was talking to my dad tonight. He’s a Korean War Veteran and was speaking about when he came home from Korea. He said that before he could actually go home they had to wait in Seattle because there was a ticker parade they had to be in. He said he really wished he could find some pictures or something. He gave a date of May 05, 1951. In the second set of pictures that were posted I saw soldiers. Do you have any info or can you steer me in the right direction. This may be the one and only thing that I will ever be able to do for my dad.

By: John Coombs

John Coombs — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 17:21:23 +0000

The 1st group of bike riders were the Cossacks a motorcycle drill team.

By: Alex Porter

Alex Porter — Mon, 26 May 2008 22:15:59 +0000

Sweet…what a coincidence about posting this right before Memorial day. Nice detective work everyone & happy Memorial Day!

By: Cliffe

Cliffe — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:55:15 +0000

Nice! You were all mentioned on Real Tegan’s blog:

http://realtegan.blogspot.com/2008/05/oh-friday-why-do-you-only-come-once.html

By: Bill J

Bill J — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:17:44 +0000

The only year during the 50′s when Memorial Day was on the 30th is 1955.

By: Cliffe

Cliffe — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:13:08 +0000

Just posted Photo Set #2.

http://www.vintageseattle.org/2008/05/23/seattles-mystery-parade-pt-2/

By: Bradford

Bradford — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:26:43 +0000

One more thing to add. The sign is in the window of “Chas. E Sullivan”, a flower store that apparently still has a location today in Bellevue.

By: Cliffe

Cliffe — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:20:19 +0000

Completely intentional. Ok, maybe not. Nice eagle eyes.

Cliffe

By: Bradford

Bradford — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:17:44 +0000

Me again- 2nd photo down there is a sign in the window, “Memorial Day May 30th”. So there you go- Memorial Weekend Parade most likely. Interesting that this is posted so close to Memorial Day now.

By: Alex Porter

Alex Porter — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:15:40 +0000

The parade is on 4th avenue near Virginia.

The main building in the first photo says “Claremont Hotel”. I searched for that and found the address:
http://www.lostinseattle.com/LIS/building/claremonthotelbldg.html

Then I looked near that address and you can see the build and its shorter neighbor to the north in this birds eye view (compare the windows in the shorter building to those in this birds eye view):
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=ry1y4k4t4g9m&style=b&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=3695585&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&ss=cat.1372~pg.1~sst.0&encType=1

The building is currently the Hotel Andra built in 1926 according to its website:
http://www.hotelandra.com/hotelandra.aspx

I’ll keep digging…this is fun detective work

Alex Porter