Memorial Day Weekend in Grants Pass, Oregon
BOATNIK 2008
 

Grants Pass Boatnik Parade
click here >> ^{for the} Boatnik Carnival at Riverside Park
^{for the} Tom Rice Memorial Day Hydroplane Races  << click here

This is the First of Four Photo Sets
followed by links to the other three

Ah yes, there's nothing like Scottish Bagpipes to get a celebration started!

The Annauser-Busch Clydesdales get one of the first parade slots because their cargo is needed at Riverside Park, and pronto!

A tip of the hat to Don Carter, current President of the Grants Pass Active Club,
Sponsors of BOATNIK since its inception in 1959!

If you ever need a Saturn V rocket towed out to your launch pad, Caveman Towing is who you ought to call!

Grants Pass High School's "Caveman Marching Band," the first of several, though the parade organizers kindly spread them out so they can be heard without cross interference.

Woo Hoo!  Here come the jetboats!

Wait!  There's more!
>> Next Photo Set >> 

If you're still around town for the first Friday in June, be sure to join us downtown from 6 to 9 pm for Grants Pass' First Friday Art Walk & Roving Gallery Artist's Party, co-sponsored by the Artists and Merchants of Grants Pass, Oregon! 
Click here for the current First Friday Art Night exhibition schedule.