Despite the icy breeze, cars and people lined South Summit Drive for Saturday's Holts Summit Christmas Parade.
The long parade passed the Holts Summit Fire Department building, where the fire trucks waited to join the end of the procession.
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Joe Baker stood nearby, wearing a Fire Protection District jacket, a knit Santa cap and his signature white beard.
"I'm Santa Joe," he said.
Baker took up the Santa mantle 29 years ago as a hobby and a second income source, wearing a Santa suit he found in a J.C. Penneys catalog.
"It gives me the enjoyment of making people smile and laugh," he said. "Just standing here, I've been asked 12 times 'Are you Santa today?'"
While he's been the official parade Santa several times, this year he's just there to watch.
"Until they decide they want me to be Santa again, I'll just stand here on the sidelines and have a good time," Baker said.
Kids swarmed in and out of the street, picking up the generous amount of candy tossed by passing floats.
"I like the motorcycles!" said Bryce Jackman, who goes to the parade yearly.
Delaney Jackman preferred watching the floats.
Their little sister, Paige, was most excited about watching the Girl Scouts walk past - because they gave out candy.
"We come every year," said Brenda Atkins, who was at the parade with her grandsons Luke and Tyler Atkins. "We grew up here and their parents grew up here."
As a kid, she marched in the bands in the parade.
"I always like the bands, but also the floats and the craftsmanship that goes into them And of course I appreciate the brave souls that march in it," Brenda said.