Also canceled a major 4th display in Torrance—so they could keep their Rose Parade float.
The new normal SUCKS!
As a Torrance resident with a prime view of the (former) fireworks, I am disappointed, but I’m glad we’re keeping the float. We just had the very patriotic annual Armed Forces Day Parade, and we are definitely not running out of patriotism. But I understand that if you skip a year on the Rose Parade Float, you can’t just get back in the line-up next year. Torrance is coming up on its centennial and I hope the Rose Parade float will be part of that. Not just any city gets to be in the Rose Parade. (Yes, I am a Rose Parade fanatic.)
For other evidence that the “new normal” sucks, though, check out all the empty storefronts on Hawthorne Blvd. Sad.