Official Halloween kick off
Written by Glen Hughes on October 2nd, 2008 3 Comments
Tonight at 6:30 the official Haunted Happenings Grand Openings Parade will make its way through down town signaling that life as you know it is over for the next month.
If you are new to Salem or are just coming for a visit please note that most of the streets in the down town area will be on lock down tonight.
According to the Salem PD:
A parking ban will be in effect along the parade route streets beginning at 5pm and roads along the route will be closed from 6pm until 9pm.
On Thursday, October 2nd the Grand Opening Parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. The parade route is as follows: From Congress Street at Shetland Park, the parade will take a left onto Derby Street, a right onto Lafayette Street, a left onto Front St., a right onto Washington Street, a right onto the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall, a left onto Washington Square and into the Salem Common.A parking ban will be in effect on 10/2/08 on the following streets between 5pm and 9pm. Any vehicle parked in these areas will be towed.
Congress Street – both sides from Harbor St. to Derby St.
Derby Street – both sides between Congress St. and Lafayette St.
Lafayette Street – both sides between Derby St. and Front St.
Front Street – both sides.
Essex Street between Liberty St. and Hawthorne Blvd.
Washington Sq – both sides in front of the hotel.The following roads will be closed on 10/2/08 from 6pm until 9pm.
Congress Street will be closed from Harbor Street to Derby Street.
Derby Street will be closed from Congress Street to New Derby Street.
Commuters will not be able to use Route 1A between Dodge St. and Brown Street which includes Derby Street, Hawthorne Boulevard and Washington Square at the Common entrance.
Also closed to traffic will be New Derby Street, Front Street and Washington Street between New Derby Street and Church Street.
Essex Street will also be closed at Washington Street.
In other event news
Painting at Witch City Ink
Art Fusion at Witch City Ink
Friday night there will be a public event intended to increase awareness of the tattoo artist’s capacity for fine art. The night will offer insight into the nature of tattoo fine art for the general public and any viable media source. Tattoo Artist and Artists from all other mediums will be welcome to come and work in a creative open studio atmosphere every Friday night in October. So if you are an artist or just enjoy watching art happen, head on over to Witch City Ink.
Zombie Walk Salem T-Shirt
Zombie Walk
Sunday - As you may have heard the Zombie Walk is getting much attention by “the man” and event organizers are being strong-armed into paying for permits and having police details. This is changing from its original intent of being a spontaneous spooky happening to a disneyfied-official-in-the-guidebook event. While we are not too happy with city officials we still fully support Steve in his effort to do something fun and formerly free. If you would like to find out more info about Sundays Zombie Walk or support this effort by either buying a killer t-shirt or making a donation head over to their Zombie Walk Salem myspace page.
Tags: art · family · halloween
i’ve always wanted to do a zombie walk, and they’re usually in boston… and we usually don’t have enough notice about them to actually get there to participate from the North Country.
my favorite is when people show up with protest placcards that read “what part of dead don’t you zombies understand” and “keep your claws off my brain” and things like that.
we live kind of far from boston, but i work here in salem and we may come down for this one. zombies rule.
When is the zombie walk? - their myspace page has it for Nov 1st. or is that the 2nd one - no mention of the one thats suppose to be this Sunday? Is it still on? Time?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amusings/sets/72157607774248597/
it was amazing.