FIRST
FIRST WEEKEND IN DECEMBER WE THINK OF ONE THING. A HOLIDAY TRADITION IN DENVER
FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS.
LIKE MOST THINGS THOUGH.
TWENTY TWENTY THE NBCNEWS
PARADE OF LIGHTS WILL NOT LOOK
LIKE IT H IN YEARS PAST.
THE SPIRIT THOUGH IT'S STILL
GOING TO BE THERE.
SHARON ALTON WITH THE DOWNTOWN
DENVER PARTNERSHIP IS JOINING
US NOW.
SHARON, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE
YOU.
WE USUALLY HAVE OUR LITTLE
PARADE MEETING RIGHT ABOUT NOW
.
SO AS WE TALK ABOUT THIS, WHEN
DID YOU GUYS DECIDE WE GOT TO
PIVOT?
WE CAN'T DO THE TRADITIONAL
PARADE.
WE INITIALLY STARTED TALKING
ABOUT THIS BACK IN APRIL WHEN
WE WERE STILL IN QUARANTINE.
WE ACTUALLY MET OUR TEAM THAT
IS THE WITH OUR PARTNERSHIP MET
WITH NINE YEARS EARLY ON AND
SAID EVERYBODY'S GETTING
CANCELED OR MOVING VIRTUAL.
IS THERE ANY FORMAT THAT WE
COULD BRING SO THAT
THE COMMUNITY CAN STILL PARTAKE
IN THIS EXCITING EVENT THAT
THIS WILL BE OUR FORTY SIX YEAR
AND OVER THE LAST FORTY FIVE
YEARS WE'VE HELD A PARADE
THROUGH ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT
THINGS INCLUDING BLIZZARDS AND
FOUR FEET OF SNOW AND WE DIDN'T
WANT A PANDEMIC TO STOP US SO
WE NEEDED TO GET CREATIVE.
SO WE STARTED PLANNING BACK IN
APRIL.
YEAH THAT'S FUNNY.
YEAH.
YOU'VE ADAPTED TO ALL KINDS
OF CONDITIONS OVER THE YEARS.
THERE ARE STILL FLOATS THIS
YEAR.
IT'S JUST NOT GOING TO BE LIKE
TRADITIONALLY WHERE WE SEE THEM
DRIVE DOWN THE STREET.
SO HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO
MAINTAIN THAT PULL THAT OFF.
SO WHAT WE DECIDED TO DO WAS
WHEN WE LOOKED AT
THE COMPONENTS OF THE PARADE
OF LIGHTS, THE FLOATS WHICH WE
ARE WE DO HAVE NINE FLOATS IN
DOWNTOWN DENVER STARTING THIS
FRIDAY AND RUNNING THROUGH
DECEMBER THIRTY FIRST.
AND WHAT WE DECIDED TO STILL
KEEP AN CREATED LIGHTS BUT TO
MAKE IT LIKE A PARADE OF THE
PEOPLE.
SO WE HAD THE FLIP STATION
THROUGHOUT DIFFERENT PLAZAS
LIKE THE DENVERS PAVILIONS AND
UNION STATION, THE DAIRY BLACK
ALLEY, GARMET PARK AND SO THESE
ARE PROMINENT LOCATIONS IN
DOWNTOWN AND BECAUSE THESE ARE
GOING TO BE ON DISPLAY AND
LIGHT AT OVER FYOU PERIOD,
WE'RE INVITING THE COMMUNITY TO
DOWNLOAD THE PARADE OF LIKE APP
AND TAKE THEIR TIME.
THEY CAN COME IN A DAY OR COME
AT NIGHT AND JUST SIT WITH THEM
ON THEIR OWN TIME.
THEREFORE IT'S SAFE.
EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BE AT MASS
DOWNTOWN AND THERE'S NOT ONE
TIME OR PLACE THAT ARE GOING TO
BE GATHERED, YOU KNOW, AND
SOMETIMES DEPENDING ON WHERE
YOU ARE AND THE PARADE ROUTE
YOU WANT TO GET CLOSER TO ONE
THAT YOU CAN'T REALLY SEE ANY
WAY.
SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
THOSE FOLKS THAT SAY OK,
I REALLY STILL JUST WANT TO DO
THE DRIVE THE DRIVE BY BECAUSE
IT FEELS THE SAFEST TO ME.
IS THAT POSSIBLE TO DRIVE BY
THESE FLOATS FOR THE MOST PART?
IT IS.
AND SO AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE
AN BREED OF LIKE APP AND IF YOU
DOWNLOAD THAT YOU CAN SEE ON
ALL THE STREETS AND WHICH ONES
YOU CAN ACTUALLY DRIVE BY.
THERE ARE TWO LOCATIONS
INCLUDING THIRD WHICH IS
THE DENVERS MILE HIGH TREE
WHICH IS ALL PART OF JUST
THE WINTER AND THE CITY
FESTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE GOING
ON.
SO IF YOU NEVER WANT TO LEAVE
YOUR YOU CAN'T DRIVE BY ALL
OF THESE BEAUTIFULLY LIT FLOATS
DAY OR NIGHT AND WE ALSO HAVE
IT THAT APPEARANCE IS COMING
FROM SANTA PRESENTED BY CREDIT
UNION AND HE WILL BE SOCIALLY
DISTANT THAT HE'S UP ON TOP HIS
SLEIGH.
AND SO PEOPLE CAN COME AND TAKE
SELFIES WITH THEM WITH HIM BUT
THEY'RE A GOOD 30 FEET AWAY
FROM HIM.
PERFECT.
WELL, WE HAVE THE SHOW COMING
UP.
SO SHARON, THANK YOU AND WE
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN
PERSON AGAIN NEXT YEAR.
AND MAYBE IT'LL BE 60 DEGREES
TOO.
THANKS, GARMET.
I KNOW.
I'M EXCITED.
IT'LL BE GOOD.
WE'RE STUCK IN THAT PARADE.
THANK YOU.
A LOT OF US HAVE SOME GREAT
MEMORIES NBCNEWS PARADES
OF LIGHTS UP COUPLES HAVE
GOTTEN ENGAGED THERE AND MOST
RECENTLY LAST YEAR IN FACT AND
SOMETIMES THE MEMORIES WELLL
THEY JUST COME FROM
THE TEMPERATURE BECAUSE SOME
YEARS IT HAS BEEN BITTERLY COLD
.
TOM, WE'VE SEEN SOME SMILING
FACES ALONG THE ROUTE THOUGH AS
WELL.
OH YEAH.
SOME OF THEM ARE REALLY
SMILING.
LIKE IF YOU REMEMBER SOME NIGHT
NEWS PEOPLE ON THE FLOATS WHEN
THEY GO BY THEY SEEM REALLY
HAPPY WHERE THEY DO.
THEY ARE WHOLE HERE ON THEIR
OWN TIME.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE A GOOD TIME.
YEAH.
HAVING THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES
AS WEEKED OFTEN SAY.
BUT WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR
FAVORITE MEMORY FROM THE NIGHT
NEWS PARADE OF LIGHTS.
SO HERE'S THE DEAL.
GRAB YOUR PHONE OR CAMERA.
YOU CAN RECORD THAT MEMORY.
TELL US THE