Pie.Eating – Contestants stuff their faces with pie as the crowd looks on with amazement at the pie eating contest at the 50th Topanga Days Festival on Monday, May 26th, 2025. Ryan Fi (spelling?), the returning champion, who won the contest is wearing a grey shirt in the middle. Sarah Reisenbichler, who was close behind, is on his right. Photo by Ivan Kashinsky
Dance Contest Winners
Noble Webster, Maggie Collins
Three-legged Race
Satya Finch and Emma Farkas (four years in a row)
Pie-Eating Contest
Ryan Pickering, returning champion
Bubble Gum Blowing Contest
Crystal June Storey, returning champion
Limbo Winners
Aristea Cottereau, Sophia Bella Davis, P. Treya, and Ajah
Animal Imitation Champ
Koriander Dirschel. She imitated a crow.
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Bubble.Man- Dennis G Miller, who is dressed as what he calls, “The Greatest Whatever,” is surrounded by bubbles from the Mermaid Butterfly Plant Nursery Float before the start of the Topanga Days Parade at Pine Tree Circle on May 26th, 2025. Dennis came up from the San Fernando Valley for his 4th Topanga Days Parade. When asked what he thought about Topanga, he said, “Topanga is just plain beautiful.” Photo by Ivan Kashinsky
Naya Rose, 3, enjoying bubbles and song on the Love School float. Photo by Todd G. Levin
Topanga Days parade on a Pentax-MX with a 50mm lens on Kodak Tri-X 400 B&W film. He writes that the group photo is of the gathering of parade participants in Pine Tree Circle before the procession. Photo by Todd G. Levin
