Collage of Parade shots captured by LG @jayasimha78
It is great to see parades are back again in San Francisco, after a two years break due to pandemic. This is the second parade I attended in San Francisco in 2022. Check out my post on San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade 2022
This year St Patrick’s Day was on March 17th, however this parade was held weekend before that on March 12th. This parade has a long history, in fact this was 171st parade held in San Francisco.
Here is the Map of the Parade Route. Parade starts at 2nd and Market Street at 11.30AM and ends at Civic Center Plaza.
Generally there is also a festival, bar crawls are also part of the celebration. You can see many folks dressed in green during the parade. Parade participants include San Francisco Police and Fire Department, BART, several elected officials, including San Francisco Mayor and senator, along with various Irish community groups, Marching bands, and of course bagpiper group.
Parade starts with group of policemen on motorcycles as shown above and another group of Policemen in horses as shown below.
Below is a shot of Irish Pipers Bano group marching in the parade.
Below is a group of parade participants carrying various flags!
Here is another shot of the group carrying flags
This was followed by City officials parading in some classic cars, you can see San Francisco Ferry building in the background.
Here is a shot of spectators along the parade route and also a street vendor selling, Hats, flags etc for St Patrick’s day.
Here is a shot of San Franciso Mayor London Breed and her family participating in the parade.
There was a large representation from San Francisco Fire department, several fire trucks and fire men and women participated in the parade.
Another shot of a fire truck which was part of the parade.
Shot of group participating in the parade.
San Franciso Bay Area Rapid Transport (BART) was also part of the parade, in fact BART group participates in various San Francisco parades.
What is St Patrick’s day parade without some Iris dancers group. Here is a group of young kids group participating in the parade.
More parade groups…
Here is a group of Marching band.
Here is a group of folks members of Northern California Wolfhound Club, marching with Wolfhounds.
Here is a group carrying huge US Flag in the parade.
Group of young adults dressed in green for St Patrick’s day celebration!
If you want to checkout more pictures from the parade, check out this album
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