Pictures from the 2014 Banana Festival,
Fulton, Kentucky / South Fulton, Tennessee
September 20, 2014


Logo of the 2014 Banana Festival, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN

Children's poster for the 2014 Banana Festival, Fulton KY - South Fulton TN    Children's poster for the 2014 Banana Festival, Fulton KY - South Fulton TN

2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton TN - S. Fulton KY    2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton TN - S. Fulton KY

A float in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN    A float in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN

Riley Davis, Miss South Fulton, 2014 Banana Festival Parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton TN    A float in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN

The Presidential float, 2014 Banana Festival, Fulton KY - S. Fulton TN    Secret Service agent draws his banana to protect President Banana, 2014 Banana Festival parade

President Banana and First Lady A-Peeling rock out to the hot tunes being played on the White House float, which was surrounded on all sides by dark-suited Secret Service personnel. In order to get a better picture of the float, your intrepid reporter and webmaster of 101Bananas made the mistake of stepping off the curb into the street and taking a few steps towards President Banana. A Secret Service agent instantly identified the threat and immediately drew his... uh... banana....

A float in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN    A float in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN

A float in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN    A float in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton, TN

A very strange character, 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton TN     A pink-spotted horse in the 2014 Banana Festival parade, Fulton KY - S. Fulton TN
I never saw a purple cow either....

One ton banana pudding float with the queen and her court, 2014 Banana Festival parade.
One ton banana pudding float, with the Banana Festival queen and her court.

One ton banana pudding is served, 2014 Banana Festival, Fulton KY - S. Fulton TN
One ton banana pudding is served, 2014 Banana Festival, Fulton KY - S. Fulton TN
What everyone’s been waiting for!

Enjoying the banana pudding at the 2014 Banana Festival in Fulton KY and S. Fulton TN

The parade route goes north along Broadway St. in South Fulton, Tennessee, and crosses E. State Line St. into Fulton, Kentucky, at which point Broadway becomes Commercial Ave. After the parade the banana pudding float circles back and parks in the middle of Commercial Ave. in front of Pontotoc park, a small city park. The prime seats for enjoying the general atmosphere and your serving of banana pudding are along the sidewalk and curb of Commercial Ave. where the pudding float parks, and across from Pontotoc park where the concert will be later. There is an old Hindu saying, roughly translated from the ancient Sanskrit, that says you have not truly lived, or lived well (translations differ on the exact meaning), until you have sat on a sidewalk curb in Fulton, Kentucky, consuming some delicious banana pudding as the sun goes down at the end of the Banana Festival.

Concert in the park ends the 2014 Banana Festival in Fulton KY - South Fulton TN    Concert in the park ends the 2014 Banana Festival in Fulton KY - South Fulton TN
After the parade, a concert in the park Saturday night ends the Banana Festival. Until next year....