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Rain Fails To Dampen Grape FestivalBy DONNA IIAXLETTNAPLES — Huddled beneath lankels, sheets of plastic, and mbrebas Saturday afternoon, ome 40,000 persons watched the inlh annual Naples Grape Festival parade take place on Main Sired,Wet Ini I still filled wllh glamor and bringing excitement youthful viewers, the clowns, beautifully-decorated ami imaginative floats, horses and antiquecars, and bands from variotts.ar£a high schools traveled slow- j }y down Main Street. Nearly 100 ’ entries filled in the • liouivatul-a-half 'parade this year, according to William Dorbm, festival chairman.Some of the visitors at Ihc festival are sard io have sleptX ? r - y ■. '/Dn.lly Moaienpor PhotoA ROYAL WELCOME Is extended to some 40,0M‘persons by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hawkins, king and queen of the Ninth Annual Naples Grape Festival, as they ride a royal final down Main Street during the festival parade Saturday. It started to rain before til* hoiu-and a-lialf Darade started and continued all day.in their cars overnight. Other# brought chairs and made themselves reasonably comfortable during the early hours of the morning.It star Led to rain about 1:33 p.m., a half hour before the parade was to begin, and it drizzled until after dark.The firemen's torchlight parade lie Id on Friday night attracted some 15,000 persons, according to some reports. About 3D area fire companies brought their equipment and earried lanterns or flashlights. The torches, they found, were just not practical.Arts and crafts shows, flea markets, and concessions opened about 10 a.m. on Saturday.It wasn't long after that when visitors from the New England States, the mid-west, and from nil over New York Slate began Id make their way from hotel rooms, motels, and camping1 trailers to take in the sights of the village.Wet, but ■ still harmonious barbershop quartet groups delighted umbrella carrying - visitors after the festival parade Saturday. Street dancing and fireworks elimax'.d the day’s activities.Yesterday, traffic was bumper - Lo - bumper as sight - seer# traveled Route 21 to Naples to lake in the last of the annual weekend events.Skies cleared for the day and Naoles was again filled with visitors as the annual Grape Festival drew to an end.e WeatherIncreasing clouds tonight. Low In the 40s. Tuesday, mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and the lifgh tcni* jierature 65 to 70. Variable winds 5 to 10 in.p.fi. becoming southerly tonight and Increas*it»r to between 15 and lt;45 ni.p.b, Tuesday,
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Canandaigua Daily Messenger
Canandaigua, New York, US
Mon, Sep 29, 1969
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