Check out photos from the first parade.

In honor of this weekend’s Art Car Parade, we’ve loaded up a bunch of photos from 1988, back when the Fruitmobile was fresh and the event was but a small part of iFest. — Keith Plocek

This article appears in May 1-7, 2008.

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