San Francisco Giants Parade And Celebration Draws 1.7 Million To SF

The San Francisco Giants Parade day was an unofficial holiday that, according to a very good but unofficial source, drew 1.7 million people to San Francisco's Market Street and City Hall Plaza.

To put that in perspective, San Francisco's population is about 800,000 people (808,976 in 2008 according to the US Census); that means over double that was dumped onto the City's streets for a wonderful day.

People took the whole day off and, after the parade and celebration, stayed in San Francisco and walked along the Embarcadero, shopped, ate and drank. It would not be an unrealistic picture to assert a low estimate: that almost $105 million was spent in San Francisco, and on merchandise, food and drink, taxi cabs, and whatever miscellaneous items - that's just about $5 per person. That's it.

And it was a hot, hot day, with women wearing shorts, short-shorts, and in a few cases thongs.  It was a day when the smell of weed filled the air, and no one cared, (making this blogger think we need to split California into two states).

It was a day where everyone was happy.  Everyone.  You don't see that every day in your life.  It made the week of celebrating The San Francisco Giants World Series victory so much the better and fittingly added an exclamation point to the Monday bizarro World of celebrations:



Incredible.