Public Appearances
November 1970
David, Danny and Susan participated in the WIXY-May Co. Parade on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland.
From David’s book "C'mon, Get Happy - Fear and Loathing on the Partridge Family Bus"
…..Susan, Danny, and I flew out to Cleveland to serve as grand marshals of that city’s Thanksgiving Day parade. We’d been booked as grand marshals before our TV show went on the air.
We got to downtown Cleveland and started in this parade, riding on a fire truck at the end of it. The event turned into sheer pandemonium. We had to get on our hands and knees and duck because people were trying to grab us. By the end, an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 kids were following us down the streets of Cleveland, screaming and yelling. No thought had been given to security, to how we were supposed to make our exit when the parade was over; no one had anticipated there’d be any fuss over our appearance. The kids loved Susan and Danny, too, of course. But they had David Cassidy posters. Ah, the power of television and records!
At the end, when we had to run twenty feet from this fire truck to a waiting room, it was really dangerous. People were nearly trampled.
David on a Painesville Twp fire truck in the May Co. Christmas Parade.
Newspaper article about the parade
Note: This event occured in late November 1970. In the local paper it was called a Yuletide parade. When David wrote his first autobiography in 1994 he may have remembered it was around Thanksgiving time, which was on November 26th in 1970, hence the difference in parade names.
