My late mother and her friends contributed the information noted on my web site. Their project of documenting the first parade was done in 2001. My mother wanted me to make posters for my sister's children to carry in the parade the next year. Why Yo wanted the posters, I don't really know. Except that she was adamant they must say "Fran Florentino's First Glyndon Parade." I assume there were some claims being made, or stories circulating, that Yo wanted put right. That would have been like her.
I see from the dates on my computer files that I scanned the old black and white prints of the pictures of the first parade in August 2001, soon after the 2001 parade. Perhaps someone was talking at the parade and Yo wanted the 'zact words to be known. I enlarged the scan of the paraders in a line, and gave printouts to Yo, who circulated them among her friends. Eventually she returned me one, with a list of the paraders' names. It wasn't until June of 2002 that I finished creating the outline drawing identifier system and making the poster files.
In 2003 I adapted the computer files I had made for the posters to be used here on our Lovebunnies' web site. In 2004, when Yo passed away and we cleaned out 17 Bellview Avenue for sale, I took one of the posters to the post office for them to display. I hear that poster was been lost.
That's the story of the parade posters, and the identifying of the first paraders. I have no other proof of the date of the first parade than Yo's claim it was 1961. But I have no immediate reason to doubt that. I sure don't remember the year!
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