Next year’s Greenwood Seafair Parade is set for Wednesday, July 27, with retired Washington state astronaut Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar as grand marshal. The parade’s theme is “Greenwood Takes Flight!”

Dr. Dunbar was president and CEO of the Museum of Flight for five years before recently becoming executive director of Wings Over Washington, a museum-affiliated organization. Dr. Dunbar’s new role is to develop the museum’s west-side campus, including fundraising for the Museum’s new Space Gallery, future Air Transport Gallery, and supporting the museum’s application for one of the retiring Space Shuttles.

The Greenwood Seafair Parade is the oldest neighborhood Seafair parade with about 100 entrants, including floats, bands, drill teams, the Seafair Pirates, and school groups.

We just realized we forgot to post the winners of the Greenwood Seafair Parade on July 28, so without further ado…

Marcia Brunner Sweepstakes Trophy: The Seattle Chinese Community Girls Drill Team

Band Division:

• 1st Seattle Schools All City Marching Band
• 2nd Pacific Northwest (PNW) Drumline
• 3rd Salvation Army Temple band

Comic (Community) Division: 1st Worshipers in Action Puppeteers

Comic/Novelty Division:

• 1st Seattle Seafair Clowns
• 2nd Seattle Seafair Pirates
• 3rd Pirates of Treasure Island

Equestrian Division:

• 1st Charros Association of Washington (Mexican Dancing Horses)
• 2nd Skyriders Equestrian Drill Team

Float Division:

• 1st Seattle Seafair Commodores
• 2nd Quality Food Centers (QFC Holman Road)
• 3rd Big D Towing

Drill Team Jr Division:

• 1st Baby Dangerettes
• 2nd Baby Dolls Drill Team
• 3rd Electronetts Pretty Girls

Drill Team Sr. Division:

• 1st Dolls Drill Team
• 2nd Electronetts Hi Steppers Drill Team
• 3rd Lady Dangerettes Drill Team

Novelty (Community) Division:

• 1st Bitterlake Pea Patch
• 2nd Old English Sheepdog Club of Greater Seattle
• 3rd Sew Up Seattle

Wheeled Division:

• 1st Woodland Park Zoo
• 2nd View Ridge Fire Department
• 3rd Nix Auto Wrecking

We took over 100 photos at last night’s 60th annual Greenwood Seafair Parade and we wish we could post most of them, but that would eat up all our bandwith. So here are just a few of the many parade entries.

The Seattle Police Department motorcycle drill team led off the main parade.

Followed by the presentation of colors by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 40.

Mayor Mike McGinn, a Greenwood resident, waves to the crowd.

Two of the many clowns throughout the parade.

Parade Grand Marshals The Coats sing the national anthem in front of the judges’ stand.

The Greenwood Knights Car Club shows off their sweet rides.

Mexican Dancing Horses.

You write your own caption for this sheepdog and his owner.

This drill team is still smiling after marching for an hour.

The Pacific Northwest Drumline.

And here’ the cutest kid ever, working the crowd.

The parade was sponsored by the Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce and 27 local businesses (including PhinneyWood).

Thousands turned out to watch a continuous stream of dancers, marching bands, classic cars, clowns, pirates and more at the 60th annual Greenwood Seafair Parade today.

Here’s a clip of some of the action. We’ll post more photos and video tomorrow.

 

Here’s the stunningly coordinated (in dress and movement) Seattle Chinese Community Girl’s Drill Team performing in front of the review stand.

And the Seattle Schools All-City Band, which combined a dance number with a strong musical performance was a real crowd-pleaser too.

What did you like best about the parade?

The Greenwood Seafair Parade takes over a good portion of Greenwood tonight. The parade route starts at North 95th Street and runs down Greenwood Avenue North to North 85th Street, then turns west, before ending at NW 85th Street and 6th Avenue Northwest.

The entire parade route will be closed from 5:30 p.m. until after 8:30 p.m.  Seattle Police will direct traffic. Also, Greenwood Avenue North between North 95th Street and North 105th Street will be closed at 4:15 p.m. for staging.

Metro Transit bus routes 5, 48 and 355 will be rerouted from about 4-8:30 p.m. Click here for more information on the routes, or call Metro’s Customer Information Office at 206-553-3000. In a nutshell:

• Route 5 Express: Use stops south of North 79th Street or the temporary stop eastbound on North 80th Street & Greenwood Avenue North, from 5:15-8:30 p.m.
• Route 5 Local: Use stops north of North 105th Street or south of North 80th Street, or use the temporary stops along the reroute, from 4-8:30 p.m.
• Route 48: Use stops east of Linden Avenue or west of 8th Avenue NW, or the temporary stops along the route, from 5:15-8:30 p.m.
• Route 355: Use stops west of Linden Avenue or north of 105th on Greenwood, or the temporary stops along the route, from 4-8:30 p.m.

The grandstand will be set up in front of Bartell Drugs and Blockbuster. The parade announcer is Randy Rowland, voice of the Seahawks at Qwest Field and pastor at Sanctuary Church (which meets at Taproot Theatre and runs the Green Bean Coffeehouse).

About 100 floats, marching bands, drill teams, community and school groups, and the Seafair Pirates are in the parade. Grand Marshals are Seattle a capella group The Coats. The parade starts at 6 p.m. with the kids’ parade.

We’ll be there taking pictures and video and we’ll have a full report later tonight.

The biggest neighborhood event of the year is coming up Wednesday night. The Greenwood Seafair Parade draws about 10,000 people to downtown Greenwood to watch 100 floats, drill teams, marching bands, groups of cute kids, and of course, the Seafair Pirates.

One of the many drill teams in last year’s parade.

Sponsored by the Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce and a number of local businesses (including PhinneyWood), the 60th annual parade starts at 6 p.m. The parade route runs along Greenwood Avenue North from North 95th Street to North 85th Street, then turns west on 85th to 6th Avenue Northwest.

A float celebrating Leif Erikson at last year’s parade.

The theme of this year’s parade is “Greenwood’s Got Talent,” and features Grand Marshals The Coats, who starting singing on Seattle street corners and have shared the stage with The Beach Boys, Tricia Yearwood, and many other famous singers.

We’ll be at the parade taking plenty of pictures to post. If you’ve got some great shots you’d like to share, pleas email them to us. (Disclosure: PhinneyWood is a sponsor of the Seafair Parade.)