The South Hills Memorial Day Parade completed another long run Monday morning.
The parade, consisting of more than 50 marching bands and mascots and other units, starts in the city’s Brookline neighborhood at its Memorial Cannon. It goes through the Brookline Boulevard business district, down Pioneer Avenue to West Liberty Avenue, and then all the way down West Liberty and Washington Road to Mt. Lebanon Cemetery.
It’s a distance of about 2 miles.
Having started in 1934, this was the 90th annual parade.
One participating group, Mt. Lebanon American Legion Post 156, noted in the program, “We encourage and support awareness and remembrance of the sacrifices of all those who are serving and have served.”
Correction: This story originally gave the wrong distance for the parade, as kindly pointed out by reader and Post 156 member Harvey Schoenman. “That’s me on the right,” he says of the selfie below.
Bob, a feature writer and editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, is currently on strike and serving as interim editor of the Pittsburgh Union Progress. Contact him at bbatz@unionprogress.com.
