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Our Tales From The Road
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Locos Parade San Miguel Posted on Jun 23rd, 2007 The week long festival of San Antonio de Padua culminates with the 'Locos' parade of over 10,000 participants in costume. This first float of San Antonio, brings on the throng of costumed revelers.  The altar is filled with flowers, decorations and flowers.  Wizard princesses....  and the grand wizards start the festivities  Every neighborhood in San Miguel has its own group of locos or crazies, who attend local and neighborhood festivals, and for this one, they convene together to celebrate their loco-ness  From celebrities...  To death, devils and Fidel Castro  Beautiful women and Mexican luchadors  Payasos, payasos...  Carnaval and cartoon characters  Elaborate costumes  and old dancers..  Kewpie like dolls  Cowgirls and cowboys  Fantastical creatures  Hours and hours are spent creating masks, costumes, floats, and perfecting routines.  The range of masks is from paper mache, to cloth, to rubber and plastic.  Pirates with warts on their noses  The Mojigangas, without which a parade would not be complete. Standing about 12 to 15 feet tall, they weave in and out of the crowd, lowering their heads into your face.  The traditional man and woman  Woman of the night...  Groups of luchadors - Rey Misterio, La Parka, Santo and others  Clowns and pirates and big haired women  Baby diablo on his father's shoulders - his initiation into the big parade.  And, buzz lightyear -  Characters and more characters  Death and skeletons  Hooded figures  More clowns and theatre faces  Monsters and gremlins  The creativity in the hand made masks and costumes is as good as it gets, but unlike the Macy's parade, this is completely local and hecho a mano!  Saddam with donkey ears, devils, clowns and Santo luchador. No one is left out of the melee.  Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker and Goofy too.  Teletubbies  Luchadors fighting in the back of a pickup truck with the foxy babe.  Clowns throwing candy   Huevos in pigtails and hats following the conquistador  Mysterio, handing out candy with reaper behind him  Hands out for candy as the pirates go by   The campesino  Masks worn on the back of heads  What a set of lips!  Some of the best clowns you have ever seen  A young girl between death and George Bush  Vaca loco, death, muertos, skeletons  Gypsies  Shreck wearing Winnie the Pooh  More Death coming....  Mother earth brings up the end  While the early paraders rest on the sidewalk  And the crowds disperse to the south  to the west  North  and East  And the workers from the local shops stand in the bouganvilla lined entries, hoping for a last glimpse  |
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