The Neptune Parade - Images by Fabian Lewkowicz

King Neptune, portrayed by David Frison, with his Royal Court parade at Venice Beach and proclaim the start of summer on Saturday June 18, 2011.

Harre Krishna's hand-pulls three fully decorated, four-story chariots during the 34th Annual Festival of Chariots on Sunday, August 1, 2010. The parade commenced at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and traveled south on Main St., west on Rose Ave., south on the Venice Boardwalk and ended at the Ocean Front Walk Plaza in Venice. The Festival of the Chariots featured free feast for thousands, free entertainment, exhibits and booths all bringing together the finest in Indian culture. The festival celebrates Lord Jagannatha, the Lord of the Universe, and is put on by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). The Festival of the Chariots is now performed in every country across the world and dates back 5 thousand years to Jagannatha Puri, India.

The One Planet Parade march at Venice Beach during the Venice Eco Fest on Saturday, July 10, 2010. 

Patriots march down Main Street during the 4th Annual Fourth of July Parade in Santa Monica on Sunday, July 4, 2010. 

(1) Honorary Grand Marshal Santa Monica Fire Chief Jim Hone leads the Third Annual Fourth of July Parade down Main Street in Santa Monica on July 4, 2009. The hometown parade was presented by the Ocean Park Association. (2) Santa Monica Council Member Robert Holdbrook drives his Model T down Main Street with his wife Jean Ann and fellow Santa Monica Council Member Bobby Shriver during the Independence Day parade. (3) Participants from Liberty Tax Services represent the Statue of Liberty. (4) Members of the Lighthouse Church walk down Main Street during the Parade. (5) The Santa Monica High School Marching Band performs during the Parade. (6, 7) The SMPD Mounted Police Unit ride their horses down Main Street. (8,9) Kids ride scooters, skate boards and bicycles in the parade. (10) Art verge and his son from Westside Rentals wave to the crowd. (11) Mrs. California, Lisa McCumber Gandara waves to the crowd. (12) Spring de Haviland and Dr. Bernard Harris ride in a 1927 Bugatti. (13) Participants dress in patriotic red, white and blue. (14) Historian and Author Jim Harris, who wrote the book on the iconic Santa Monica Pier’s 100-year survival, carries a banner during the Third Annual Fourth of July Parade. (15) Children enjoy the parade.

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The world’s greenest procession of its kind, 74-All-Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles paraded south on Main Street in Santa Monica during the “Inaugural Parade West: Plug In, America!” on Saturday, January 17, 2009. The inaugural parade's mission is to jump start the nation’s presidential inaugural festivities with a message for Congress, Detroit and Barack Obama: America wants plug-in vehicles, the most fuel-efficient cars ever made.The clean-car parade, coming as gas prices begin their inevitable rise again, represents the largest assembly of its kind in history. It demonstrates the number and breadth of new plug-ins coming onto the market and the continued viability of those that have been on the road since 2002. The event’s all-electric vehicles, all of them freeway-capable, include more than two dozen Toyota RAV4 EVs—with tens of thousands of oil-free miles on each—three Tesla Roadsters, two Vectrix motor scooters, one Zero Motorcycle, two Phoenix SUTs and a prototype Mitsubishi iMiEV. The latter is undergoing testing at Southern California Edison, which also will provide a prototype Ford Escape plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. A 1971 Porsche 914 is among other EV conversions. Parade-vehicle owners and drivers range from Ed Miller, an engineer with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mars Science Lander Rover project, to Alexandra Paul, an actress and Plug In America board member, to green leader Ed Begley, Jr. Plug In America recently launched a campaign to encourage Detroit to build fuel-efficient vehicles with the billions in federal bailout dollars it has now begun to receive. The production of 10 million plug-in vehicles by 2016 by a retooled, electrified auto industry will create hundreds of thousands of new green jobs. Even when charged on today's electrical grid, plug-in cars are cleaner than the average gasoline car. They also run on domestic electricity, notes former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, a Plug In America supporter and clean-tech venture partner with the Silicon Valley’s VantagePoint. “Electric vehicles can deliver a deadly blow to our dependence on imported oil from hostile countries while addressing our environmental crisis,” Woolsey says. “A plug-in future is key to a sustainable America and a stable world.”

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Second-grader Luke Cramer, 7, drives his 'Open Wheel' (2 stroke, 50cc) race car south on Main Street during the Second Annual Santa Monica Fourth of July Parade on July 4, 2008. The parade was presented by the Ocean Park Association .

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