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Doo Dah Parade Names Queen After Zany Try Outs

Published on Monday, October 24, 2016 | 5:21 am
 
Surrounded by 1998 Queen Taquila Mockingbird (on the left) and 2015 Queen Veronica MeowMeowzz (on the right), new Doo Dah Parade Queen Ruby Chard (Meg Cole, center) was named last Saturday. Image by Ann Erdman via Facebook

Singer and landscaper Meg Cole was selected as Queen of the 39th Occasional Doo Dah Parade which rolls onto Pasadena’s streets on November 20.

Cole, known Queen Ruby Chard, was selected during Saturday night’s raucous tryouts held at the American Legion on Vinedo Avenue. Cole combines her interests to front an ecology-themed band, Ruby Chard and the Funguys, and is no stranger to Doo Dah. She has been part of the parade since its first incarnation in 1978. Last year, she was second runner-up.

Among those Cole competed with were Count Smokula, the Swami from El Monte, Triplet Queens, Sabrina the Stimulus Package, Candy From Strangers, Mimi MarGO-GO, Mama “J”, and Miss Boy Frances.

Each Queen hopeful was given three minutes to convince the judges they have what it takes to reign over the 39th Doo Dah Parade.

Last year, Judges selected Veronika MeowMeowz, who wooed over 30 judges by performing a song from her former band Untoward Children.

At the tryouts, organizers also paid tribute to Scott Finnell, lead singer of the local rock band Snotty Scotty and the Hankies, which has ben an integral part of the Doo Dah parade since 1978. Finnell died last weekend after a long battle with cancer, a statement on the band’s Facebook page said. He was 65.

“Snotty Scotty touched many lives in many ways,” the statement read. “We welcome any stories, pictures, lies, tall tales of this legendary, larger than life performer.”

Tom Coston, president of the Light Bringer Foundation, which hosts the Doo Dah parade, announced that this year’s parade will be dedicated to the life and music and reveling of Snotty Scotty.

The new Queen Chard was a longtime friend of Finnell.

A group of Pasadena friends conceived the Doo Dah in 1978 as an irreverent alternative to the traditional and formal Pasadena Rose Parade. That year, January 1 fell on a Sunday, and the Rose Parade, which typically takes place on January 1, will not march on a Sunday. So they decided it would be fun to have an alternate parade on January 1 that year.

Some of the early participants were Ted Wright as first grand marshal, Snotty Scotty and the Hankies, the Lawn Mower Drill Team, the Briefcase Drill Team and General Hershy Bar, among others. It was the first Pasadena Doo Dah Parade.

Organizers staged the first Doo Dah Queen tryouts in 1998 at a Gothic house on stilts. It then moved to the famed Zorthian Ranch, in Altadena. This and other parodies of the Rose Parade have fueled Doo Dah’s colorful and controversial life on Colorado Boulevard.

The 39th Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade will be held on Sunday, November 20th, stepping off at 11 a.m. on the streets of East Pasadena.
To enter the parade, simply go to the website, www.pasadenadoodahparade.info, and fill out a form. You may also call (626) 590-1134 or the public information line, (626) 590-7596.

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