List of Christmas parades

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This is a List of Christmas parades in the Birmingham area:

2022

Thursday, December 1

Saturday, December 3

2021

Thursday, December 2

Saturday, December 4

Thursday, December 9

Friday, December 10

Saturday, December 11

Sunday, December 12

  • Trussville: "Christmas Joy" theme (rescheduled from Saturday December 11)

Thursday, December 16

  • Pinson: "Grinch Who Stole Christmas" theme (rescheduled from Tuesday December 7)

Saturday, December 18

  • Bessemer (rescheduled from Saturday December 11)
  • Hueytown (rescheduled from Saturday December 11)

2020

The cities of Anniston, Bessemer, Birmingham, Cullman, Gadsden and Tuscaloosa all canceled their parades due to the ongoing 2020 Coronavirus pandemic.

Thursday, December 3

Saturday, December 5

Friday, December 11

Saturday, December 12

Sunday, December 13

  • Trussville (rescheduled from Saturday December 12)

Saturday, December 19

2019

Thursday, December 5

Thursday, December 7

Thursday, December 12

Saturday, December 14

Trussville parade, December 14,2019

2018

Thursday, December 6

Thursday, December 13

2017

Saturday, December 2

Sunday, December 3

Monday, December 4

Tuesday, December 5

Wednesday, December 6

  • Homewood: Rescheduled from December 5 due to weather.

Thursday, December 7

Friday, December 8

Saturday, December 9

Sunday, December 10

Saturday, December 14

Monday, December 16

2016

Thursday, December 1

Saturday, December 3

Thursday, December 8

Saturday, December 10

Thursday, December 15

2015

Thursday, December 3

Saturday, December 5

Thursday, December 10

Thursday, December 12

Thursday, December 17

2014

Thursday, December 4

Monday, December 8

Saturday, December 13

Thursday, December 18

2013

Thursday, December 5

Saturday, December 7

Thursday, December 12

Saturday, December 14

2012

Thursday, November 15

Friday, November 16

Saturday, December 1

Sunday, December 2

Thursday, December 6

Saturday, December 8

Sunday, December 9

Tuesday, December 11

Friday, December 14

Saturday, December 15

2011

Pleasant Grove canceled their 2011 parade. Some parade committee members homes were destroyed in the April 27, 2011 tornado outbreak and were still in the process of rebuilding, making parade planning difficult. Vestavia Hills moved its parade to the Liberty Park subdivision.

Thursday, November 17

Friday, November 18

Thursday, December 1

Saturday, December 3

Sunday, December 4

Thursday, December 8

Friday, December 9

Saturday, December 10

Sunday, December 11

Saturday, December 17

2010

Thursday, December 2

Saturday, December 4

Sunday, December 5

Thursday, December 9

Saturday, December 11

Sunday, December 12

2009

Thursday, November 19

Monday, November 30

Thursday, December 3

Saturday, December 5

Saturday, December 12

Saturday, December 19

2008

Saturday, December 6

Saturday, December 13

2007

Saturday, December 1

Thursday, December 6

Saturday, December 8

Thursday, December 13

Saturday, December 15

2006

Saturday, December 2

Tuesday, December 5

Saturday, December 9

Saturday, December 16

1969

Saturday, November 29: Birmingham's Christmas parade, the last balloon parade sponsored by the Downtown Action Committee, returned to an evening schedule, starting at 6:30 PM. The balloons secured for the event were knock-offs of well-known cartoon characters.

1968

Saturday, November 16: The third Downtown Action Committee balloon parade returned to a Saturday morning schedule, following the same route as the National Veterans Day Parade just five days prior. Its circus theme was enhanced with live elephants and other animals. The cost to rent the balloons themselves was reported as $5,500.

1967

  • The Downtown Action Committee held their second balloon parade on a Saturday morning, rather than a weekday evening. The parade had an Old Testament-heavy Biblical theme.

1966

Monday, November 28

  • Birmingham, 7:00 PM. The first Christmas parade sponsored by the Downtown Action Committee was held. The parade featured "animated balloons" mounted on rolling platforms escorted by costumed volunteers. The spectacle was intended to mimic the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, but the smaller balloons secured for the parade, loosely representing a "Fairyland" theme, were described as, "past their prime," and as having, "horrible expressions on their faces." Nevertheless as many as 100,000 viewers attended the event.

The parade started from Woodrow Wilson Park going south on 20th Street to 2nd Avenue North, went west one block, then returned north on 19th Street.

1935

Saturday, November 30 Birmingham: A parade held in concert with the Birmingham Christmas Carnival capped the first big shopping Saturday after Thanksgiving. It was led by "King Cheer I" Andrew Thomas and his Queen, Martine Comer on a royal float. Subsequent floats depicted "scenes of splendor from Christmas traditions and from fairy tails". American Legion Post No. 111's drum and bugle corps followed, leading seven other bands interspersed among the floats, including the "Little German Band" of Ensley Post No. 35, the Alabama Boys Industrial School, Phillips, Ramsay and Woodlawn High Schools, and the Avondale Mills band. 18 clowns under the direction of Bailey Waller and impersonating "well-known comic characters" dashed around the floats. The end of the parade featured Santa Claus on his sleigh pulled by reindeer, all "posed airily atop the final float."

The prize for best float went to the Pickwick Club for their depiction of Prince Charming fitting a glass slipper to the foot of Cinderella. Second prize went to a miniature cathedral with ringing chimes contributed by J. Blach & Sons, and third was claimed by a "Treasure Island" float sponsored by Pizitz. The Mickey Mouse Club float was ridden by costumed versions of Mickey and Donald Duck.

According to The Birmingham News, the crowd viewing the parade was "estimated from 100,000 to 225,000, but officially set at 150,000. Universal Newsreel photographers were on hand to capture the celebration.

Note

In 2013 and 2014, only parades covered in the North Jefferson News are listed on this page.

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