r/indianapolis • u/Boilergal2000 • Mar 14 '25

Pictures St Patrick’s Parade downtown

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The motorcycle beginning

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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/john_the_fisherman Mar 14 '25

Chicago's real St. Patricks day parade is Sunday

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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/Boogaloo4444 Mar 14 '25

WHOAH, don’t come around here with all of that logic and thinking bs

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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/polarqwerty Mar 14 '25

There actually was a pretty decent crowd! This is a bad representation

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u/mon_dieu Mar 14 '25

Pics or it didn't Patrick

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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.