The Mummers Parade takes place annually in Philadelphia on New Year's Day and can be most likened to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. There are elaborate costumes, floats and different kinds of ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Preparations for Monday's Mummers Parade are underway in Center ... with their props, with their floats, trying to get their floor and footing down ...

Mummers, costumed individuals who march in ... Potomac Street to Howard Street in the South End. At the end of the parade, floats will turn by Rose Hill Cemetery. Other areas where parking will ...

Parade Chairman Jim McCleaf promised ... Scout units and those who operate and ride on floats. And then there are the mummers, costumed walkers who march alongside the others down Potomac Street ...

“We’ve never canceled our parade because of weather, unlike the Mummers. Our duct tape holds up better than their feathers,” said Schreppler, referring to the usually slapped-together floats ...