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Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts’ 26th Annual Houston Art Car Parade, VIPit Party

5/31/2013 at 10:48am

WHERE
Heritage Society, May 11

ARTIST GRAND MARSHALS
John Alexander, Gertrude Barnstone, and The Art Guys (Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing)

FASHION STATEMENT
The Art Guys in tinsel-fringed suits and orange baseball caps

OVERHEARD
"I want to be in that big banana!"

315,000
Parade attendees

1,700
VIPit attendees

278
Art car entries; prize went to Kirk Strawn’s Big Red

—Marcy De Luna

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