Fiesta Parade Floats, which has built award-winning floats for nearly 40 years, will shut down amid financial hardships and its inability to meet Tournament of Roses standards.
Antonio de Jesus Lopez made his way across the Fiesta Parade Floats warehouse in Irwindale, pushing a red dolly with two large signs from his first Rose Parade float in 2020. The warehouse around him was filled with the whir of buzz saws and the flashing sparks of welding tools as his coworkers dismantled floats from past years of the iconic Rose Parade.
'We look forward to another successful and award-winning float for the 2025 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade,' Chun said. Estes said he was still grappling with the closure of his company, which he founded in 1988. Building Rose Parade floats had been a childhood dream, he said. When he was 8, he helped decorate his first float, he said, and played around the floats with a friend. 'I've always enjoyed crawling through them as a kid,' he said.
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