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Giants World Series Parade Above Market Street

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A large crowd of people, many in orange and black, fills a city street bordered by tall buildings.

Went into San Francisco for the Giants World Series parade and got a spot a few floors up over Market Street, right around Montgomery and Lotta's Fountain. Good thing too, because down at street level there was nowhere to stand. People were packed against the barricades on both sides of Market, filling the Bank of America steps, hanging out of office windows, standing on fire escapes. The whole intersection below us was one solid crowd, most of it in orange and black.

The parade itself took a while to get going — first a stretch of charter buses rolling through, then vintage cars, then lion dancers working the length of the street. Confetti started coming down in sheets in front of the Palace Hotel, and someone had rigged a column of orange and black balloons up one side of the building.

The players came through in open convertibles with their names on the doors. Gregor Blanco passed right below us in a white one, standing up out of the back while the whole block yelled. Cops walked alongside each car to keep the barricades holding. By then there was toilet paper draped over the Muni wires and confetti stuck to everything.

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