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Newport’s boat parade firework show to go on
December 19th, 2008, 11:50 am · 7 Comments · posted by Laylan Connelly, staff writer
A planned fireworks show for the 100th anniversary of the Newport Boat Parade - which was nixed last Wednesday because of heavy rains - has been rescheduled for Sunday night.
The display will shoot off at 9 p.m. from the Balboa Pier on the last night of the boat parade. The fireworks show was a special this year to kick off the centennial celebration of the parade. The parade will continue through Sunday beginning at 6:30 p.m. each evening from Bay Island.
The harbor light parade started 100 years ago with a gondolier and a few canoes with a few lanterns that lit up the waters.
Today, there’s more than 100 boats and 1 million spectators.
To read about the history and to see maps with parking tips, click here.
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How, and who came up with the number of 1 million spectators??
Seriously, come on. 1 million??? This year that would mean an average of 250,000 people on Balboa Island, Balboa Pen., Lido, etc…each night. 1 million????
Fire In The Hole!
No 909′ers, stay away.
That’s over the entire 5 days. So 200,000 per night….
Hey “1 million???” just stay home - with Christmas cheer like yours, perhaps you’d be better off staying home and being visited by the three spirits.
It’s all the people who enjoyed the beautiful lights that the people come to see every year. It was nice to see the number of people out there celebrating Christmas.
I am also extremely skeptical of the “1 Million” figure. That would mean that 30% of the county goes to see this parade each year. I’ve been here for decades, my aunt lived on Balboa and hosted family gatherings from the 1950’s to the 1990’s, and I have never once seen this Christmas parade. I know no one in my family or circle of friends who has ever seen this parade, or has ever mentioned it.
I’m sure it’s lovely and it sounds like fun, but it is not the major draw of 1 Million people that the organizers and/or OC Register seems to think.
Just the logistical headache of getting hundreds of thousands of people on and off the Balboa Peninsula and Island each night tells me that’s not happening. I could believe a few tens of thousands watch it on a good night, and the traffic from that must be horrific. But there’s definitely not hundreds of thousands each night.