The Seattle Fremont Fair and Solstice Parade are total zany, wacky goofiness. Lately I’ve been reading about a lot of great parties around the world, from the Ft. Lauderdale Great American Beach Party to the Night of Radishes in Oaxaca to three really unusual festivals in Mali, so I want to share one of my favorites.
The Seattle event takes place each June. The event is usually preceded by the local edition of the World Naked Bike Ride (although that appears to not be the case this year), followed by the Solstice Parade and then the fair.
The best way to communicate the craziness of this event is to show it, with a photo gallery of shots I took during the 2009 event. Click the pics to enlarge them.
Belly dancers... look at us!
The Pope reminds revelers not to get too crazy.
Nice slacks, gentlemen.
Touch the giant ball!
Giant walking pasta!
I want to be this girl's friend.
The Fremont Fair featured this floppy disk vehicle.
Who wouldn't want to drive the Toynota?
Imagine driving across the country in this baby.
Now this is a car for me! A smart, paisley floral ride.
Yikes, it's the Denture-mobile!
Have you attended the Seattle Solstice Parade & Fremont Fair? Or a similar event somewhere else in the world?
the picture with the caption “giantwalking pasta” is actually the flying speghetti monster. the prophet of the mock-religion. the people walking with it are its pirate deciples. just fyi 🙂
Aah, good to know the rest of the details, thanks!
This is an amazing festival with great cars and other characters. Thanks for the mention of my article on Fort Lauderdale. I need to do that within articles I post too. That is great.
Eileen
No problem!