The Daisy Lane Parade brings back Christmas joy after 1-year hiatus

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  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade winds done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade winds done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade winds done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • District 7 Councilman Roberto Uranga rides connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 successful the Daisy Lane Christmas Parade passim the Wrigley vicinity of Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Peter Dacanay and his 4-year-old son, Lincoln, of Santa Barbara, bask escaped treats tossed from vehicles connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 during the Daisy Lane Christmas Parade successful Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Holly Johnson and her 3-year-old daughter, Eileen, get a close-up presumption of the 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade connected Saturday afternoon, Dec. 11, 2021 successful the Wrigley conception of Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Holly Johnson and her 3-year-old daughter, Eileen, ticker the 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade Saturday afternoon, Dec. 11, 2021 successful the Wrigley conception of Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • Holly Johnson and her 3-year-old daughter, Eileen, be the 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade Saturday afternoon, Dec. 11, 2021 successful the Wrigley conception of Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

  • The 67th yearly Daisy Lane Christmas Parade snakes done Wrigley vicinity streets connected Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021 allowing residents to presumption it from their Long Beach homes. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)

The Daisy Lane’s yearly Christmas contented returned Saturday, Dec. 11 — though with a non-traditional parade route.

The Daisy Lane Parade’s 67th twelvemonth marked a comeback aft a one-year coronavirus-induced hiatus. But alternatively of marching on the Daisy Lane meridian, similar usual, the parade went done the streets of Long Beach’s Wrigley Neighborhood truthful residents could spot the amusement from their homes.

The parade featured festively decorated cars and characters, who brought Christmas joyousness to those watching.

The Daisy Lane Parade started successful 1953 erstwhile Gertrude Whittle worked with the Long Beach City Council and Council of Churches to assistance decorate the writer median connected Daisy Avenue with a Christmas Village and nativity scene, according to the city.

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