Riverside Trolley/Luminaria Schedule

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Bump.  A great way for both the neighborhood homies, and suburbinites alike to watch Luminaria... St Johns and Riverside Ave get backed up big time.

[L.P. Hovercraft]

To anyone who hasn't done it before, I highly recommend the Luminaria night bike ride--it's super fun and a great way to see the lights along with a couple hundred of your closest neighbors.  It's also great to see cars slow down and yield at least one night of the year to this great mass of blinking, honking, caroling velocipedes.

Starts at 6 pm Sunday night at City Cycle across from European Street Cafe on Park St.

http://www.riversideavondale.org/index.php?id=139

[mtraininjax]

To anyone who hasn't done it before, I highly recommend the Luminaria night bike ride

Enjoy the pelting of candy by kids who's parents encourage it.....

[Ernest Street]

Mtrain, You're baiting me to go on the ride just to find that family then double back and spend the rest of the Parade heckling them loudly from 5 feet behind them.
I hope the "RAP Candy chucking warning signs" have gotten the message across.
Too much Wild Turkey eggnog in the wrong skull is dangerous! ("Hey Kid! go get those leftover firecrackers from the fourth will ya!")

[north miami]

I hope the "RAP Candy chucking warning signs" have gotten the message across.
Too much Wild Turkey eggnog in the wrong skull is dangerous! ("Hey Kid! go get those leftover firecrackers from the fourth will ya!")

Indeed,the slightly ominous RAP candy warning signs,along with JSO among the parade in their neighborhood sized carts(our tax dollars at work!!) and other efforts created a decidedly subdued atmosphere.

A carvan participant motioned me to their display and presented candy by hand.DOTS in the yellow box !!!!- a treasure not worthy of tossing out to St Johns avenue and getting run over and covered in horse poop.

Ducked in to Towne whereby my wife proclaimed Towne the best for her taste in martini. Civil-ized.

[ChriswUfGator]

I too noticed the lack of candy-throwing this year, at least at the pedestrians. The vehicles and floats were still pelting each other back and forth, but if you were on the sidewalk then you pretty much got left alone. Major improvement from years past, when most people were well-behaved but every few minutes you'd get a bunch of rednecks going by in camoflague floats decorated like hunting blinds with a inflatable santa on top of a keg, and all of them pelting the sh!t out of you with jollyranchers and other hard candy. It's not kids that do it, it's teenagers and/or badly behaved adults.

This year was way more subdued than past years. Couple years ago I was walking on the sidewalk and got beaned in the side of my face, I actually got all pissed and started looking for who did it, but there were a million people around and naturally nobody was jumping up to take responsibility. It's one thing to toss candy to you, but certain vehicles would actually make a game out of taking you out with jollyranchers. But I couldn't get any of the vehicles except one to toss candy at the sidewalk this year, I think maybe we went too far in the other direction. The problem wasn't giving out candy, the problem was the small number a$$holes who ruined it.

[JeffreyS]

I like the putting an end to the candy throwing but JSO made us leave because we were not allowed to have people in a trailer. 10 straight years of doing the hay ride for the luminaries and they can not see it coming that people will be riding in trailers. Get the word out JSO if you are going to change the way you operate.

[ChriswUfGator]

I like the putting an end to the candy throwing but JSO made us leave because we were not allowed to have people in a trailer. 10 straight years of doing the hay ride for the luminaries and they can not see it coming that people will be riding in trailers. Get the word out JSO if you are going to change the way you operate.

That's ridiculous, there were tons of trailers, seriously several dozen or more. One family even had everybody riding in a trailered boat they had decorated for chistmas. I saw a couple off-duty cops pulling their own trailers full of people, at least judging by the FOP badges on the back of the two trucks I noticed. Sucks they hassled you. Merry Christmas!

[JeffreyS]

I wonder if it was just the one officer who did not know what was going on. We had been riding for about an hour anyway so we called it a night.

[ricker]

This was mad fun. again.
you all brought the party.
Maybe next year, AMA can provide snow blowers so 'the strip' can look more like a snowglobe!?YEAH

the LIVE nativity at the chimneyswift church was a definite eye catcher for new folks in attendance.

[Dog Walker]

This year RAP purchased 30,000 bags & candles and 14,000 pounds of sand!  Putting all that together into the kits is a serious effort that involved a lot of coordination and a lot of volunteer time.

Thanks people!

[north miami]

I remember my fist RAP Luminaria some years ago.

A surprise. My first full year at Riverside and Aberdeen-the cool apartments with balcony.

Unaware of Luminaria,I went out on the balcony at dusk and saw...........

It's become a bit industrialized and 'on stage' it seems.

[Ernest Street]

My friend was telling me today how several years back he found his mother had put out WWF "Ultimate Warrior" lunchbags for her display! Classic.

I never confirmed it, but my younger bro said several years back there was a float with a Bondaged Santa,being Disciplined by Mrs Claus.!

[Ocklawaha]

Too much Wild Turkey eggnog in the wrong skull is dangerous!

Ernest my man, it was SOCO!  HIC!

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