Grandstand bleacher seats are now on sale for the 92nd anniversary of The Hollywood Christmas Parade Supporting Marine Toys for Tots. Jeremy Renner has been named grand marshal of The Hollywood Christmas Parade Supporting Marine Toys for Tots. The parade will be hosted by Dean Cain and Laura McKenzie, with Montel Williams and Elizabeth Stanton. The parade will be presented in association with The City of Los Angeles on the streets of Hollywood on Sunday, Dec. 1 starting at 6 p.m. Grandstand bleacher seats will open at 4 p.m. and pre-parade entertainment will begin at 5:30 p.m. See the parade up close by purchasing grandstand bleacher seats at https://tinyurl.com/2wa8xrxz. Prices start at $120 (all-in pricing). 

The 92nd anniversary of The Hollywood Christmas Parade Supporting Marine Toys for Tots will kick off the holiday season with fanfare including movie cars, award-winning bands from around the country, equestrians, larger-than-life character balloons, colorful floats and humorous specialty acts culminating with the appearance Santa Claus and his reindeer.   

Fun history: The Hollywood Christmas Parade was originally called the Santa Claus Lane Parade. When the American performer Gene Autry, who was known as The Singing Cowboy, was riding on his horse down Hollywood Boulevard in the 1946 Santa Claus Lane Parade, he heard young parade spectators in the crowd exclaim, “Here comes Santa Claus!” This incident became the inspiration for Autry to compose the traditional perennial Christmas holiday song, “Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane),” which he co-wrote with Oakley Haldeman in 1949. Autry first recorded the song in 1947. The song was released as a single by Columbia Records and became a No. 5 country hit and No. 9 pop hit at the time.