{"id":506133,"date":"2026-10-24T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506133\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:06:09","slug":"well-past-100-years-old-the-anaheim-fall-fest-remains-a-wholesome-hullabaloo-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506133\/","title":{"rendered":"Well past 100 years old, the Anaheim Fall Fest remains a wholesome hullabaloo \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

What to KnowAnaheim Fall Festival & Halloween ParadeFestival: Center Greens in Anaheim; Parade: The starting point is Anaheim Boulevard and BroadwaySaturday, Oct. 24, 2026Festival: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Parade: 7 p.m.FreeA classic car show is one focus during the festival; head to Center Street Promenade and admire the cool wheelsCostume contests for kids and pets are on the schedule, too, and a caboodle of art and cultural activities<\/p>\n

If a lot of your social media suggestions this October have focused on how to shop around your own home for a Halloween costume, taking inspiration from the vintage, on-the-fly ensembles people put together decades ago, you might simply need to gaze in the direction of Anaheim, where a famous fall festivity is still rocking the nostalgic and nifty get-ups.<\/p>\n

It’s the Anaheim Fall Festival and Halloween Parade<\/a>, a glad-and-gleeful gathering that started in the ’20s \u2014 that would be the 1920s \u2014 with plenty of community spirit in tow.<\/p>\n

That spirit still shines in the Orange County city each year when the two-parter starts to party, which will happen Saturday, Oct. 24.<\/p>\n

The Fall Festival begins first, at the Center Greens in Downtown Anaheim. There’s a costume competition for the youngsters from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and a pup-focused costume showdown from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. (prepare for every heartstring to be tugged).<\/p>\n

A caboodle of join-in activities, from a scavenger hunt to the making of origami butterflies to getting a chance to say “hey” to Wild Wing from the Anaheim Ducks, is on the festival roster; Davey B. Gravey’s Tiny Cinema will also flicker-flicker at the festivities.<\/p>\n

Be sure to check out the sweet wheels on view at the event’s car show, which will be parked near all of the festival action.<\/p>\n

Then, a little later in the day? The parade will proceed with pomp and plenty of pumpkin-tude, and fabulous floats that feel lovingly handmade and awesomely over-the-top, with several tried-and-true crowd-pleasers festooning the line-up.<\/p>\n

Andy Anaheim, the charming ant mascot long associated with the both the city and the charming event, has a way of popping up hither and yon, as do other characters such as a certain dapper pumpkin who is always seen in a smart hat and oversized bowtie. <\/p>\n

Space travelers decked out in futuristic silver get-ups, elegant D\u00eda de los Muertos Catrinas, and classic Halloween figures have also made parade appearances in the past.<\/p>\n

Eager to show your Anaheim autumn adoration all year long? There are several terrific tees<\/a> for sale in the shop, including a few featuring Andy Anaheim, cuuute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to KnowAnaheim Fall Festival & Halloween ParadeFestival: Center Greens in Anaheim; Parade: The starting point is Anaheim…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,585],"class_list":["post-506133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}