By Patrick Rice Wausau Daily Herald !
MARSHFIELD This was not your average parade with a marching band, a few floats and a few hundred spectators. This parade was a genuine whopper!
An estimated 15,000 people packed Marshfield's Central Avenue Saturday to watch the Dairyfest Parade. That's only a couple thousand fewer people than this city usually holds. And what a show they saw.
' Like clowns? The Dairyfest Parade had 'em in droves. Big ones, small ones, clowns on 15-foot-high bicycles, clowns in miniature cars. The parade even had a father-son team of clowns known as the "fast Eddies," walking on stilts. ;
How's about floats? They had 70 or 80. There was Garfield the Cat on the Land O Lakes dairy wagon. There was gigantic cheese, butter and milk cartons on the M&I Bank float. Miss Wisconsin Regina Marie Part sat upon her throne on one float, and Miss Dairyfest Ruth Liethen sat upon her throne on yet another.
Bands? Not one, not two, but 13 of them, including marching bands or drum and bugle corps from Marsh-field, Spencer, Colby, Appleton, Eau Claire, Green Bay and Neillsville. ,
Toss in a bunch of horses including a team of Belgians pulling a Calliope organ from Winona, Minn., a mess of tractors, some politicians, and numerous civic groups, and you've got a parade to be proud of.
,''We had about 150 units in all in the parade," said Marlin Landau, the chairman of the parade that is the centerpiece of the week-long Dairyfest celebration.
''This by far went off the best of any we've had. I'd say we had about 2,000 more people than last year."
Landau attributed part of the success to the weather the sky was a cloudless blue and the temperature hovered around 80 degrees. But Landau said the parade also attracts a crowd because of its size.
"This is the largest parade we've had by about 30 percent," Landau said. "That gets us a lot of notoriety. And it's reasonable entertainment because it doesn't cost anything. A family can spend a good time virtually for nothing."
This is the sixth year in a row Marshf ield has celebrated a Dairyfest, an appropriate party for the city that calls itself "Cheesetown, USA."
(from the Wausau Daily Herald, Sunday, June 7, 1987)
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