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Top 5 dead Mummer traditions
Things change all the time, even in Mummerdom
Like gender (for some) life is fluid, always changing.
The Mummers Parade is always changing. Here are the top five ways:
1- The Parade now marches down, not up, Broad Street.
2- Air horns. Once a raucous nuisance they have all but disappeared.
3- "Great taste, less filling." The Miller Lite call and counter chant across Broad and Market have disappeared.
4- Women barred from the Parade. Women have been shot through all the divisions starting in the '70s, if not earlier.
5- Mummers' kisses. Young(er) women used to compete to see how many different colors of greasepaint they could get on their cheeks by kissing Mummers in makeup.