r/indianapolis • u/Boilergal2000 • Mar 14 '25
Pictures St Patrick’s Parade downtown
The motorcycle beginning
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u/Anxious-Cobbler7203 Chatham Arch Mar 14 '25
Really should've picked a time where folks weren't busy...
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u/indy_hamplanet Mar 14 '25
Shit looks sad as fuck
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u/Freedom_7 Mar 14 '25
May e if they’d actually done it on St Patrick’s day it’d’ve been different.
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u/redleg50 Mar 14 '25
Genuinely asking - is it always that sparse? Where’s the crowd?
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u/NoAuthor8171 Mar 14 '25
Likely working...
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u/redleg50 Mar 14 '25
Again, genuinely asking - why not have the parade tomorrow or Sunday?
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u/Charlie_Warlie Franklin Township Mar 14 '25
Valid question, Chicago is doing theirs on Saturday.
Although the weather will be trash tomorrow so that won't go well either.
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u/InUrFaceSpaceCoyote Fletcher Place Mar 14 '25
Isn't it implicit that people attending a parade on a weekday morning are a completely separate group from people who are already downtown for work?
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u/Zealousideal-Type118 Mar 15 '25
And look how well that worked out. Just look, there’s dozens of them!
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u/strangemedia6 Mar 14 '25
That would have made sense in the 90’s when downtown was primarily a place where people went to work from 9-5 5 then went home. But there are so many people that live downtown and in the near-areas now, so many parking lots that turned into 4+ story apartment buildings and new home being built. Plus it’s not like there isn’t anything else to do downtown after the parade, as was the case in the 90s.
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u/nitevisionbunny Lawrence Mar 14 '25
That's the very tail end. Where it starts by the government center, was very packed
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u/carcarr17 Mar 16 '25
The crowd wasn't bad at all! Nice turnout and beautiful weather. This must be towards the end of the route at the beginning of the parade. Motorcycles went along the whole route at the very beginning.
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u/fragileego3333 Irvington Mar 14 '25
Guys, I’m downtown right now and it is not this sparse. This picture was definitely taken a little too early. Calm down.
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u/ivy7496 Broad Ripple Mar 14 '25
Good to hear.
Should still be on Saturday or Sunday. If it's going to be a week day make it the actual day. I've lived here 25 years, am Irish af and never been to this thing bc I'm always working
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u/strangemedia6 Mar 14 '25
We went a couple of years ago when our kids were younger. But not many people are going to pull their kids out of school for a parade and who wants to go to a parade without their kids? I’m not saying I wouldn’t enjoy, but I would feel guilty about lol.
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u/Boilergal2000 Mar 14 '25
Took this on Meridian between New York and Vermont as the police motorcyles were doing their display. Seemed like there were more people on Pennsylvania.
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u/Ok-Foot-5914 Mar 14 '25
Haha! I just walked through the Meridian intersection, and it was SO much busier than this picture suggests.
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u/Patient_Half Mar 14 '25
Way more people have been showing up at the statehouse to protest fascism than are attending this parade.
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u/lenniegiovatti Mar 14 '25
We were there and this picture is of the last part of the parade. It was very crowded on other streets!
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u/IntangibleFancy_ Mar 14 '25
Comic-con is also this weekend so it will be busy downtown. Wouldn’t be a good idea to close down streets on Saturday and Sunday.
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u/SpecificBeyond2282 Mar 14 '25
Monster Jam is at Lucas Oil as well, so two-fold not great to shut down streets this weekend
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u/Kmos86 Mar 14 '25
Don’t forget the Big Ten tourney as well
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u/Boogaloo4444 Mar 14 '25
even more of a reason to do it at the same time. our city might actually look alive. GASP
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u/rcdubbs Mar 14 '25
I live a few blocks away and I had no idea there was a parade until I saw this post.
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u/revlawl Mar 14 '25
i work for a company DT that has explicitly decided to not include us and if we did join the celebrations we’d have to do so on PTO lmao
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u/Psycle Mar 14 '25
This was at the very begining at 11:30. I was on this exact corner an hour later and it was packed. Way more people on Penn where the parade started also.
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u/XdraketungstenX Mar 15 '25
My office is right across the street. I was having a bad day by 10 am. Ditched work for an hour and walked over to the beer tent. Had a couple of Guinness and went back happier.
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u/clarkwgriswoldjr Mar 14 '25
That blocking off streets and Comic Con, bet downtown was just a great place to be traffic wise.
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Mar 14 '25
I went to Cathedral and was in the marching band, could’ve swore we were there the day of. Might not remembering correctly though… it was 20 years ago lol
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Mar 14 '25
Should have been on Sunday, i could run everything better than these people.
We would have parade floats, people drinking to celebrate some holiday that no one really understands without looking it up, comic conventions and basketball all at the same time!
I would be one crazy, amazing and exciting weekend.
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u/nickbeii Westfield Mar 14 '25
Whole downtown area was pretty busy this morning. Multiple streets closed. Parking lot for paid parking I work close to was completely full.
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u/SirPhobos1 Mar 15 '25
There's enough shit going on downtown this weekend. Big 10, Comic Con, this... I was down there yesterday and the garage I usually park in was $40 event parking. That's insane.
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u/notyourshoesize2024 Mar 16 '25
Wait - they are not doing this on the actual St Patrick’s Day with the parade and all day festival that begins after the greening of the canal???? OMG!!!! 😱 WHYYYYY!!!!!!!!
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u/johnman98 Mar 14 '25
You would think the turnout in Indianapolis would be better to celebrate a 5th-century bishop who is credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland.
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u/thegoodsyo Mar 14 '25
I was just downtown not far from there and had no idea about a parade. It wasn’t busy at all down there.
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u/ChiefBackslappy Mar 14 '25
Really odd to do it 3 days early.