Avenida Rosa News Today

During San Clemente’s yearly Fourth of July tradition that is the Office Chair Races, neighborhood residents, friends and other spectators line the streets of Avenida Victoria and Avenida Rosa, where they launch water balloons at each other, but namely at those racing down the street. When the crowd clears to celebrate Independence Day elsewhere, the thousands of balloons used get left behind for the neighborhood to cleanup before they’re washed into the ocean.

Though the day got off to a gloomy start, Fourth of July in San Clemente carried on in traditional fashion with beach hangouts, barbecues and water balloon fights, and ended with the city’s fireworks display illuminating the skies above the beach and pier on Tuesday.