Elks Annual Convention Parade
- Title of event
- Elks Annual Convention Parade
- Type of event
- Parade
- Address of event
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Happened Primarily at E 60th St & 5th Ave
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Happened Secondarily at E107th St & 5th Ave
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Location on path of event E 110th & 5th Ave
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Location on path of event W 110th & Lenox Ave
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Location on path of event W 125th St & Lenox Ave
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Location on path of event W 125th St & 7th Ave
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Location on path of event W 145th St & 7th Ave
- Report on event
- Elks Annual Convention Parade Main report referencing event Rain Drenches Paraders
- Start date / time
- August 23, 1927
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Afternoon)
- Description
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25, 000 male and female members of the Elks paraded up 5th Avenue and then through Harlem, up 7th Avenue, in pouring rain. Led by a platoon of mounted police, followed by car containing James Blondy Brown, grand marshal, and Casper Holstein, honorary chairman of the local entertaining committee and a second car containing the grand exalted ruler of the order. The first lodges were the hosts, the Manhattan, Imperial and Monarch Lodges. Twenty-eight bands marched in the parade, including four female bands. Quaker City Lodge of Philadelphia had the only female drum major. The procession disbanded at the New York Oval; the planned athletic events were abandoned due to the weather