Rotary Rose Parade Float Committee

2008 Rotary Rose Parade Float
Construction Photographs

 
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January 1, 2008


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Artist's rendering of 2008 Rotary Float

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12/30/07

Rotary Exchange Student Float Riders Valerie Hurard, Paraguay Rémi Vandaele, France Pearl Shimoomba, Zambia
Hanae Nakamura, Japan Norbert Karoly, Hungary Denisse Villafuerte, Ecuador and David Wang, China Fernando Florez, Argentina

12/30/07

   
RI President, Wilf Wilkinson Decorates the Float
       
 
RI President, Wilf Wilkinson, Visits With Volunteer Decorators and Committee Members
   
  Float Builder, Larry Crane, (center) Float Designer, Raul Rodrigez, Float Designer  
   
Volunteer Decorators at Rose Bowl Decoration Tent

12/29/07

Volunteer Decorators at Rose Bowl Decoration Tent

12/28/07

   
Volunteer Decorators at Rose Bowl Decoration Tent

12/27/07

   
Volunteer Decorators at Rose Bowl Decoration Tent

12/26/07

   
Scaffolding at Rose Bowl Decoration Tent
Volunteer Decorators at Rose Bowl Decoration Tent

12/15/07

   
  Float at the Rose Bowl  
   
  Larry Crane, Float Builder, Charisma Floats   
   
   
     
     
     
       
Volunteers and Committee Members Decorating at the Rose Bowl 

12/11/07

   
  Decoration Tent at the Rose Bowl  
  Float in the Decoration Tent at the Rose Bowl  

12/1/07

   
  Road Test  
       
   
  Float Riders Larry Crain, Float Builder, Charisma Floats  

10/30/07

The float has been cocooned and the painting has been started.  The shape of carving foam on the stand is the head of the owl ready for carving

9/22/07

   
  "Screened" float  
       
   
  Road Test  

9/10/07

   
  Welding the framework  

8/28/07

   
   
  "Pencil Steel" figures on float  

Early Summer, 2007

"Pencil Steel" figures under construction
  Float Classis  
   
  Float Model  

5/17/06

   
       

Photographs by  John Alexander and Larry Crain

 

The Rotary Rose Parade Float is not an official Rotary International program.