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San Francisco CA: Monstrous Chinese New Year Parade


If your travel plans take you to the City by the Golden Gate, be sure to include this exciting event in your itinerary. Sponsored by Southwest Airlines, day long festivities will go on in the city’s venerable Chinatown, and a grand parade the night of Saturday, February 11.

First celebrated in the 1860s, San Francisco’s Chinese community has annually hosted the event. This is the year of the rooster, and many of the displays and parade floats will reflect that theme. Participating in the parade will be marching bands, ethnic dancers, fireworks, the traditional city-block-long Golden Dragon and 2017 Miss Chinatown U.S.A. For more details, go to www.chineseparade.com
Hollywood Forever: Ghostly Tour Of The Famous Dead PDF Print E-mail


If you live in the Los Angeles area or are traveling there during spooky season and beyond, you may want to pay homage to vintage stars of the silver screen in their final resting places. 

Each of three escorted tours costs $15 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA , 90038. Among the many famous grave sites are those of Rudolph Valentino, Jayne Mansfield, Cecil B. DeMille, Tyrone Power, Janet Gaynor,  John Huston, Nelson Eddy, Clifton Webb,  Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel  and many more.

This year-round tour is hosted by Karie Bible, who highlights the various historic tales, scandals and mysteries of Hollywood Forever. The three tours include Cemetery of the Stars, Hidden Hollywood and Jewish Heritage.

Tours occur nearly every Saturday and/or Sunday. For details and reservations, go to cemeterytour.com
 
 
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