It was still 12 hours before the vanguard would start marching down Main Avenue, but San...
Jena Regalado, 31, and her family were planning to spend the night at the corner of Avenue E and Fourth Street. The family traditionally watches the Battle of Flowers parade at the corner of Broadway and McCullough. They settled on this spot along the new route this year.For many of the families who spent Thursday evening staking out their parade viewing spots for this year’s Battle of Flowers parade, it was about keeping up with old traditions, albeit in new locations.
It was still 12 hours before the vanguard would start marching down Main Avenue, but San Antonians were setting up their folding chairs along this year’s parade route. “We’re going to spread them out here,” said Esther Ramon, 55, who was directing about six or seven family members setting up chairs along a half block along the parade route.Express-News interviews Michael Quintanilla aka Mr. Fiesta for things Fiesta this year!Ramon’s family has this down to a science — they’ve been setting up their parade headquarters for decades. But this year was different.
The family already had a schedule lined up for babysitting their chairs overnight — and protecting their new parade headquarters — with two or three people camped out at the site at any given time.Another change was good news for the family. This year’s earlier start time — 8:55 a.m. for the vanguard, 9:30 a.m. for the main parade — meant fewer hours protecting the site.
A cluster of chairs are used to call dibs on a spot along Avenue E near McCullough for the Battle of Flowers parade on Friday.
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