By Donald B Kravitz
Ocean City welcomed spring with the annual Doo Dah Parade on Saturday, April 15.
The Doo Dah Parade is Ocean City’s season-opening celebration of all things humorous. The procession features marching bands, floats and a brigade of hundreds of basset hounds.
The First Ocean City Doo Dah Parade was held on April 19, 1986. It was based on the original Doo Dah Parade, a spoof of the Rose Bowl Parade, held in Pasadena, California. Ocean City’s event is always scheduled close to Tax Day, and it serves as a way to blow off steam after filing income taxes.
Philadelphia Phillies great Mickey Morandini was the grand marshal of the parade this year.
Some highlights included the Pleasantville High School Marching Band, the Hobo Band, the Jersey String Band, the Woodland String Band, Crescent Shriner’s Mini Cars, the Wildwood High School Marching Band and the Atlantic City Fire Department Sandpipers Band.
Photos by Donald B Kravitz
Donald B. Kravitz is an Entertainment & Special Events photographer for national publications including Getty Images & Miss America
