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The 2011 Mummers Parade PHILADELPHIA MU mm ERS 2011 Pennsylvania DAILY 17th St. 16th St. Convention Liberty 15th St. Center Place Broad St. NEWS Here come the judges City J THE PEOPLE PAPER J 13th St. AN EDITION OF The 17 String Bands and the Comics Hall and Fancies face the judges at 15th J and Market streets. The Fancy 11th St. Brigades will be judged at the Market S Pennsylvania Convention Center Walnut- t. The 2011 beginning at 5 p.m. Chestnu Locust t St. Walnut Kimmel St. MUMMERS Party at the Kimmel Center Locust Duck into the Kimmel Center, Broad St. and Spruce streets, to warm up, have Spruce St a snack and enjoy family entertain- . Fancy Finale PARADE ment and crafts from 10:30 a.m. to Pine St. Lombard- The Pennsylvania 4 p.m. Refreshments available at the SEE OUR ONLINE COVERAGE: South Lombard Convention Center www.philly.com/mummers Peco Cafe. Or plan to have brunch at hosts the Fancy Brigade St the Kimmel. Reservations required: South St . finale with two shows: 215-670-2388. Fitzwater St. one at noon; the other, See it all here for judges, at 5 p.m. This Bainbridge St event goes on rain or If you’ve got six or more hours, you can see the shine, but you have to entire parade at Washington Avenue. Comic Catharine St . have a ticket. ($15-$20; clubs start marching here at 10 a.m.; the String Christian St . call 215-893-1999.) Bands perform for three hours, arriving at about 12:30 p.m. And the Fancy Brigades leave the Carpenter St. parade here. Washington Ave. Ellsworth- Federal Where the Wenches are Ellsworth St. Six Wench clubs — those rowdy guys in Federal St. Getting there dresses — will step off after the three Short march Comics divisions. They traipse through South Ten Fancy Brigades SEPTA runs subways every Philadelphia and enter from the east at Broad W 8-10 minutes beneath the harton St. leave from Oregon and Washington about 10:30 a.m. The lavish Avenue at 1:30 parade route. Elsewhere, it’s Fancy Division clubs enter Broad Street at p.m. and march to a Sunday/holiday schedule. Reed St. Moore, beginning at 10:30 a.m. Tasker- Washington Avenue, Rail lines, Market-Frankford Morris where buses take El and PATCO stop near the Dickinson St. them to be judged Center City route. Buses Other show-off spots at the Pennsylvania will be detoured, and traffic There are six designated per- Tasker St. Convention Center. and parking around City Hall formance areas for this year’s will be ugly anywhere near the parade. parade, although not all divi- Morris St. sions perform at each, with Weather or not the exception of Washington Moore St. Avenue. Other good places to If the weather turns bad, a view the show are Broad and marching decision will be Shunk, Broad and Ritner (near Mifflin St. made by 4 a.m. Saturday Thomas Jefferson University Snyder and broadcast on KYW Methodist Hospital Division), 1060 AM. If the parade is Broad and Washington, Broad McKean St. postponed, Mummers will and Pine, Broad and Sansom, march on Sunday. If the and the judging area near City Snyder Ave. weather is lousy Sunday, Hall. they’ll try again on Jan. 8. Jackson St. Do you like to watch? WPHL (Channel 17) will Wolf St. cover the Mummers from 9 a.m. Saturday, beginning with the special “Breakfast Ritner St. Methodist with the Mummers,” fol- Hospital lowed by live coverage of Porter St. the parade itself, in high- Oregon definition. From 8 to 10 p.m. the Fancy Brigade finale will Shunk St. String Bands be tape-delayed broadcast. at Marconi Plaza Oregon Ave. Marconi Fans get their first look at the String JESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff photographer PPark Bands here — at Broad Street between Oregon Avenue and Bigler Key: Transit Parade route Performance Judging Wenches Fancy and areas Street — as they assemble and Comics String concession rehearse before the parade begins. and Fancies Brigades Bands areas J The first band, Pennsport, steps off at 11 a.m. SEPTA PATCO JON SNYDER / Staff artist.
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