This weekend, the Adelaide Christmas Pageant is celebrating its 90th birthday with a parade of dozens of ornate and quirky floats, along with hundreds of performers who wind their way through the Adelaide CBD. 🎄 The annual event is the largest I Christmas Parade in the Southern Hemisphere. It regularly attracts more than 300,000 Adelaideans, who line the CBD streets, with another half a million tuning in to watch the nationally broadcast TV stream. This Channel 10 news story from 1993 celebrate

17K views · 95 reactions |  IT'S CHRISTMAS PAGEANT TIME!  This Saturday 9:30am Adelaide's city will be full with families celebrating. Here's some incredible footage looking at the history of the pageant. | ABC Adelaide | Facebook

Adelaide's Christmas Pageant 1967🎅#RetroFocus The history of the Adelaide event dates back to 1933 when it was first founded by Sir Edward Hayward of the John Martin's department store. Inspired by the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, it was a gift to the community during the Great Depression. This vision is from the ABC Archives taken in 1967. Get the news that matters to you straight from the source. Download the ABC NEWS app via the link in our bio. 🎥: ABC Archives 1967 #ABCNewsSA #Art #RetroFoc