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No Ticket Stub or Pamphlet
June 11th, 2005
Harborfest is an annual event that takes place on the Oceanfront (Towne Point Park) of Norfolk, VA. Events include Live music from local bands, nationally known bands and other acts (comedy etc). Food is in abundance (seafood, corn, turkey legs, lemonade, smoothies, Indian Fry Bread... the works); artisans show their wares (jewelry, sea art, paintings, T-shirts all the standards) booths of local businesses (radio stations and tourism etc), sea cruises (Pirate Cruise, Spirit of Norfolk etc), Tug Boat shows, Parade of ships/boats, fireworks, face painting and people watching... This event flows right into the boardwalk boardwalk mall where it begins to the Nauticus Museum, where it ends. All events are FREE but you'll need plenty of money to shop and eat! Bring good walking shoes, sunscreen, sunglasses, a hat, and plenty of water to drink. Photos below: First Row: Ship, Ship, Geico Gecko, Crowds, Spirit of Norfolk, Center row: Spirit of Norfolk, Cool ship, Cool Pirate looking ship, Mast of Cool ship, cool ship again Bottom Row: Media taking crowd shots; and lastly, the Media is taking a photo of me taking a photo of him!
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June 11th, 2006
This is the second time we've been to Harborfest. Nothing more here than last time. Food was expensive (3.00 for Cotton Candy, 3.00 for a can of Diet Pepsi; 5.00 for French Fries etc.) We did take more photos. This year, we saw the Commodores. We did not stop for autographs.
Left to Right: Battleship. Commodores, Battleship and two more photos of the Commodores
Left to Right: Crowd scene, more crowds, Navy Statue, Dock and another group I don't know who they were (sung "Soul Train")
Left to Right: Ships, Harbor, Stilt walkers, Harbor, Coast Guard
Left to Right: Nauticus, Ship "American Rover" and Fire Rescue, Tall Ship, Group I don't know again and Masthead.
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June 6th, 2008
We didn't attend in 2007. We were going to go but something came up and the weather wasn't good. This year, it was HOT. VERY HOT. We only went because we wanted to see three of the actors from "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest". Two of them only showed. The third got a film and was unable to attend. But both actors there signed my poster and card (Isaac Singleton and Vince Lozano). I thought they were nice for being that miserable (It was sunny and muggy and in mid day so I'd be grouchy if it were me). But both were kind and signed. We saw the same things previous years. The parade of sails, the vendor booths (mostly jewelry, T-shirts, food of all kinds etc). There was an art show but it was small and all related to the sea. We snapped some photos of the mermaids I missed before. see my mermaid page here: Norfolk Mermaids. This year, there were more pirate related things (a man dressed up and some singers) and story tellers. The music I am not sure of, but one group was the Temptations (they weren't on when we were there). Other than the mermaids, the only photos were of the Pirates and I put below one of my autographs, but you can see all my autographs on my website: www.starwarsautographcollecting.com
1) Autographed Video Card 2) Isaac Singleton and Vince Lozano 3) Isaac Singleton and Vince Lozano again.
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No ticket or pamphlet
June 9th-12th, 2011
Well it appears we missed two more years of Harborfest. This was a free concert (no ticket and my pamphlet got soaked in the rain so we threw it out). It depends on the guests if we go. This year we went because the Temptations were there, but alas, it was super hot, super crowded, we got there just when it was starting meaning we got lousy seats and in the middle of the concert it started to downpour for HOURS and they closed the festival. I did mange to get a Lemonade, hear a couple songs and take some photos though. I know one of the members passed. Then the group fractured and started other bands. This is the group started by Dennis Edwards called "Temptation Review" Enjoy:
1) David Sea, Paul Williams and Mike Patillo 2) I do not know the back up band's names but this was the drummer 3) All five "Temptations" 4) Closer photo of all five current day members.
1) The whole band 2) Chris Arnold, Mike Patillo and Paul Williams 3) That's Dennis Edwards I think or Dave Sea I think... Not sure 4) The Brass section
1) Back up Band 2) The whole band 3) Security way up top of a bank building-I just thought this was an interesting photo 4) Looking down at the beginning of Harborfest (see where tent starts). It's long... can't see from here but it's a LOT of tents. DOZENS.
1) The Crowds and a vendor (tons of these truck vendors line the streets selling corndogs, lemonade, fried Twinkies, seafood and anything else you can imagine. Even lottery tickets 2) the crowd 3) the obligatory photo of the USS Wisconsin
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