Houston's Car Art Parade

HOUSTON
ART CAR PARADE

What clueless rube said there was no culture in Houston? After wandering around downtown Houston on foot---impressed with the buildings, impressed with many things---then driving out of downtown on an elevated freeway, able to look down on what looked to be a park with what looked to be unusual activity. So, at the first exit the hunt began to try and track back to the unusual sites that had been seen in passing. It did not take too many wrong turns to find the sprawling greenbelt/park area, where what you see in the following photos was assembled.

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Hordes of Houstonians gawk at the parading Art Cars.

How many times have you seen this in a parade?

Apparently this is an annual event. The parade of Art Cars. Or Car Art. Note the beautiful skyline of downtown Houston in the background.

Big Hair is an art form in Texas. Here you see Car Art combined with the Art of Big Hair.

This must be a symbolic representation of George W.'s ravaging of the environment as the George W. RV is shown plowing into innocent mermaids.

It seems you can not have an event in the South without Elvis being represented in some way. On this car the history of rock and roll is portrayed in sequins. Glued to a car.