The Eldridge Hotel Old Fashioned Christmas Parade was held Saturday morning in downtown Lawrence, and traveled south along Massachusetts Street.

See live images from the 6News TowerCam updated every 15 seconds. The TowerCam, sponsored by Coldwell Banker McGrew Real Estate, captured images from the parade Saturday morning in downtown Lawrence.

The parade, which gave onlookers a chance to see what Lawrence’s streets might have been like 100 years ago, was started in 1993 in conjunction with the Lawrence Festival of Poinsettias. The parade is held the first Saturday of December each year.

The parade featured buggies, stage coaches, farm wagons, pony carts, conestoga wagons, show carts and many other varieties of horse-drawn vehicles, as well as a number of riding groups.

The first parade had 25 horse drawn vehicles and lasted approximately 11 minutes. The parade now has more than 100 entries each year and was approximately 40 minutes in length.

The Fort Riley Commanding General’s Mounted Color Guard leads the parade and Santa is the parade’s finale. The spectators in recent years has been estimated at 20,000.

The participants in the parade come from Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, and as far away as Dallas, Tex.

For more on the parade, pick up a copy of Sunday’s Journal-World and see Monday’s 6News reports at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Sunflower Broadband’s channel 6.