{"id":2159,"date":"2007-08-04T12:35:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:53:23","slug":"yonges-unofficial-caribana-parade-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/08\/04\/yonges-unofficial-caribana-parade-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Yonge&#8217;s Unofficial Caribana Parade Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/77\/153114542_159c2368a2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once a year Detroiters of a certain age get excited to drive, or watch, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodward_Dream_Cruise\">Woodward Dream Cruise<\/a> reenacting and reliving their glorious 1950s and 60s youth. It&#8217;s part of the boomer mythology the rest of us of slightly less age have endured for years. In Detroit, the cruise takes place along 16 miles of suburban Woodward, not the actual Detroit length where the American Graffiti\/Happy Days style cruising took place before white-flight and the riots put an end to it.. Today in Detroit, cruisers who are living in the present will take over Jefferson Avenue or do circuits of the Belle Isle park, causing traffic jams we would watch from the Windsor side of the river.<\/p>\n<p>Cruising culture isn&#8217;t as big in Canada (if it even exists at all &#8212; maybe in the small towns, or out in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Street_racing\">street racing<\/a> suburbs) &#8212; except on this weekend. On the Friday and Saturday nights of Caribana, Yonge Street becomes a gridlocked parking lot of slow moving Cadillac Escalades, Lincoln Navigators and a selection of other lesser Detroit auto power with Michigan and New York plates. In between the cars are thousands of people walking up and down Yonge in a massive public celebration of flirting: groups of dudes calling out to the girls, girls doing the same back, and maybe some other gazes being cast too (though certainly kept on the most down-lowest of lows &#8212; this is maximum old fashioned heterosexuality on display). It is absolutely something to see, a vestige of the Automobile Age that likely won&#8217;t be around for too much longer.<\/p>\n<p>Things start a little after dusk and continue till very late. When I biked through at 1:30AM last night, Yonge and College was packed, and cops were directing traffic. What I love about this parade is how unofficial it is &#8212; people intuitively know to go to Yonge Street. It&#8217;s a chameleon, able to accommodate disparate events like official pride parades or impromptu hockey celebrations and this weekend of old fashioned American cruising. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_05.31.07\/city\/news.php\">Yonge street is our living room<\/a>, but it belongs to everybody else too.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note, there seems to be a police convention in town, as there are TTC busses parked in front of TPS HQ on College, unloading herds of police officers from other jurisdictions, and OPP Vehicles parked in front of the Days Inn on Carlton, cordoned off with orange cones. Last night there were packs of uniformed OPP standing on the corner, wide-eyed, taking in the big city and Caribana. 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