Party on Main Street planned this weekend
By Daily Press staff
The Main Street Merchants will sponsor their 2nd Annual Get Festive! Holiday Event, this weekend between Pico Boulevard and Marine Street.
All the music and activities are free.
The event includes live music, outdoor movies, children’s activities, community organizations. Activities will be in parking lots, vacant lots, on two closed streets, and courtyards all day.
Main Street merchants will be offering items on sale as part of the sidewalk sale, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, and merchants also will be having customer appreciation open house specials and activities, staying open later than usual.
On Saturday, three holiday movies will be shown at different locations between 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Samohi Choir Carolers will be strolling the street, singing before the movies start. (Tentatively scheduled movies and locations are: A Christmas Story, on Kinney Street near The Enterprise Fish Co.; Home Alone 2, location to be announced; and a series of shorts and cartoons at the Edgemar Courtyard, 2430 Main Street.)
On Sunday, from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. there will be a variety of music at several locations. (See below)
There also will be pony rides, a petting zoo, Rockie the Clown, and a tidepool touch tank for the kids. And Musclemag will sponsor several team contests including a tug of war.
Santa Monica Baykeeper, Coalition for Clean Air, the City of Santa Monica Sustainable Works Dept., the Santa Monica Police Department, and Treepeople will be among the community organization present at Norman Place, near the library.
Get Festive! is produced by the Main Street Merchants Association.
All day parking is available at the beach lots only two blocks away for only $6.
And there will be holiday trees again on the California Heritage Museum lawn (2612 Main Street), and the street will be decorated with the unique and popular Main Street Starfish, designed by local artist Esquire Joachem.
Sunday bands and activities scheduled:
Edgemar Courtyard:
WOOD/WIND, with flutist Cathy Larson and guitarist Bill Luke (classical repertoire, standards and pop tunes)
Norman Place:
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Joe Gaeta and Friends (jazz)
3 p.m.-5 p.m.: Shea Welsh (jazz)
First Federal Lot:
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Tom Nolan (rock)
3 p.m.-5p.m.: The Gary Gordon Band (folk and country rock)
Kinney Street:
12:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m.: Luca (rock)
3 p.m.- 5 p.m.: Neon Venus (Latin)
Petting zoo and pony rides at The “Urth Caffe” Lot, northeast corner of Hollister and Main, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday
Window On Our Waters touch tank and exhibit, Norman Place, Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Musclemag Team Contests including a Tug ‘o War, “The Scratch” lot, southeast corner of Main and Marine.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 7, 2002. Read the original PDF.