This post documents my experience on June 8, 2013.
Still full on a banana split, I headed south on Park Street…
…to attend my last festival of the day.
And although it appeared kid-friendly at first…
…the Park Street Festival gave me a party vibe.
Sure, there were your family friendly festival booths…
…offering check-ins and phone charges (Yelp)…
…free vegetable snack chips (Green Giant)…
…and various gifts in a side section…
…where you could find jewelry (Valerie Long)…
…locally made comic books (2 Headed Monster Comics)…
…and some awesome T-Shirts (8 Bit Apparel).
But as I got deeper in…
…I noticed quite a few beer booths…
…a liquor booth…
…a Svedka (vodka) booth…
…which offered free T-shirts…
…plenty of open neighborhood bars…
…and even two pretty young girls who asked men for a snus (pronounced “snooze”)…
…and then lured them to this black van with a curtain door…
…for what turned out to be smokeless tobacco.
But the party feel was most strongly felt…
…when I stopped at one of the three stages…
…and started getting into the music (The Divide)…
…only to notice other people were who getting into it a little more…
…quite a bit more…
…and even too much.
Fortunately, all these people had the option of soaking up that booze…
…with a slice at Mikey’s…
…a burrito at Junior’s Tacos…
…or various grub from a ton of food trucks…
…with even more on the way.