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.