Actress Madison Mooney participates connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Actress Rae Andrade and Brent Dennis of the Long Beach Parks Department relive a portion of section past connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Actors Madison Mooney, Dennis Kortheuer and Jesse Seann Atkinson relive section past connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Actors Madison Mooney, Jesse Seann Atkinson and Dennis Kortheuer represent humanities characters connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries invited visitors connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 for the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Visitors cheque retired a Dia de Los Muertos grounds connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach’s Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Actors Zadie Cannon and Henry Weaver bring to beingness 1920s and 30s musicians Sarah and Venson Holman connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Actors Noah Wagner and Harriet Whitmyer represent humanities characters connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Actors Noah Wagner and Harriet Whitmyer represent humanities characters connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Women dressed successful play pieces entertain and enlighten spectators connected Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 astatine the Long Beach Historical Society’s 25th Cemetery Tour successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Long Beach was a frightfully amusive spot to beryllium this weekend. Especially if you were a shade oregon a canine — oregon a shade dog.
A big of Halloween events took implicit the metropolis connected Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 30 and 31, a twelvemonth aft the spookiest time connected the calendar was subdued due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic.
But this year, immoderate of the city’s astir fashionable Halloween activities returned.
The Mad Hatter, portrayed by Bailey, a 16-year-old Yorkie, participates connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 successful the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Mary Caraway of Poway arsenic the Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter, played by Bailey, a 16-year-old Yorkie, enactment connected Sunday, Nov. 1, 2021 successful the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Jan Savage of Del Mar serves up Sir Ruffles Von Vicious, a 17-year-old schnauzer poodle mix, connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 astatine the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade astatine Marina Vista Park successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
Hundreds of costumed dogs, their owners and spectators came retired connected Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021 for the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
On Saturday, for example, the dormant roseate from their eternal slumbers astatine the Sunnyside and Municipal cemeteries to speech to archer the surviving what Long Beach was similar earlier they near the mortal coil. OK, the Historical Society of Long Beach didn’t truly employment ghosts for its 25th Cemetery Tour. They were conscionable actors pretending to beryllium existent radical of the past.
And then, connected Sunday, a coven of canines donned their creepiest, coolest oregon astir crystalline costumes — and strutted their stuff. It was each portion of the 20th Haute Dogs Howl’oween Dog Parade, enactment connected by Justin Rudd’s Community Action Team. More than 500 dogs and their owners enactment connected costumes and strolled down the — pardon the look — feline locomotion astatine Marina Vista Park.
In all, the play was each astir frightful amusive — whether you accidental “boo” oregon “bark.”
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